Nothing there but lonesome
sections of fence.
"Why," I says, "here's an open-minded couple. And it's an energetic
couple. Where in the nation did it go to?"
Then I saw Andrew McCulloch coming down from the front door to the
gate, but he turned to the right at the gate, and went stumping away
up the street, and Madge and Billy Corliss got up from crouching
beside the fence, and Madge says:
"Let's go in and get warm."
And I says to myself, "It's a couple that's got good sense, too,"
for Andrew's fence was chilly.
We went in the house and sat down by the stove.
"As to hotel keeping," I says, "I've talked that over with
Pemberton, and Stevey Todd, who was the man that run the emigrant
hotel with me, and Pemberton's agreeable, and Stevey Todd don't argue
against it. I've been thinking of building on to Pemberton's, and
making a big summer hotel. It stands in sight of the sea, and it's a
likely spot. Now," I says, "hotel keeping is a combination of
hospitality and profit. The secret of it is advertising and a
peaceable mind to take things as they come. A good hotel keeper is a
moderate man. He sees folks coming and going from day to day, and how
many does he see as comfortable as himself? Hotel keeping is a good
life, you can take my word.
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