Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04
THE DUDES STORY.

just how he came to be called Mid
get, / am not able to explain. l rather
fancy it was bit OF joke on the part
of some chap at Oxford for he stood
six feet four and three-quarters, as tho
record OF his class crew shows, and
weighed over twO-and-twenty stun, or
more than three hundred and eight
pounds. as we would say in this coun-
try. Midget he was called, at any
rate, so it does not matter a rap why.
His right name was Lawrence Rocka-
weigh MeadswbroOke, and at the clubs
here the men who are not sufficiently
chummy with him to call him Midget
mostly call him Lawrie. for he is such
tremendously jolly, good sort OF an
old chap, that even comparative
strangers find themselves calling him
Lawrie, after a day or Sc of Mr..
Meadow brooke to lead off with, plain
Meadow brooke to follow, and then
Lawrie, as the natural climax to the
sense OF geOd-fellowship that he sheds
about him wherever he goes among
men of his own class.
have known him from tie time we
rode ponies together. with my govern
or's heaa-gro0m as our riding
so when that fellow at Christ Church
dubbed him Midget, dropped Lawrie,
and have called him Midget ever since,
for you see it is rather clever bit of
humor. for he is as big as house. and
when chap is as big as house it is
rather ridiculous to call him Midget,
and always have been doosid fond OF
bit of fun.
/ have said. l fancy, fve-and-twen-
ty times. that would write the story
of what happened to Mldget-dear old
Midget--big as a house and called
Midget-to Midget and me when we
were together in London last; but l
have never had really good chance
till now. for such lots of things are
always cropping up. and L hate writ
ing-simply detest it
was telling the story to fellow
know who is in stocks down town, and
he laughed and said Il say, Van
Assume. you should scribble that off
and send it to the Century, or Harper's
or some OF those fellows. Why, it's
out of sight"
/ told him had said five-and-twen-
ty times would write it. but that
simply loathed writing. and then no
said: "0h. pshaw! that's all rot.
Why. all you've got to do Is to como
down to my Office and dictate the thing
to my typewriter, and she'll hand it
over to you as clear as a trout-brook.
Then you have only to send it to one
of those editor fellows and it'll make
you famous. A man should get in the
magazines now; it's capital form to get
in the magazines" Rather cheeky in
him to tell me what was good form. /
thought-but then what's the use of
a fellow bristling up over that? Why.
just no use at all. as l told a man at
the club. and he said: Quite right
old boy; just no use at all.
1t is rather the thing to be in the
magazines now, and to write books.
Mr.. Astor does it, and two or three Of
the women / know do it. and lots of
fellows tell me they are going to write
something.
l took the broker chaps idea about
the typewriter. however, and had it
done by the girl at the Fifth Avenue
the one who sits in little boxed-in
place in the newsmans room-the
room where you get theatre-seats from
Tyson.
She was an awfully clever sort OF a
girl, and it is quite remarkable how
she ratified along on that typewriter
thing. She did it so nicely that told
it to her twice, just to see her rattle it
of SO smartly. L did not fancy girls
were so doosid clever. She enjoyed
the story. too. and was quite the
thoroughbred about it, only just
smiled the least bit as told it to her,
but laughed heartily after l had
finished.
heard her laughing and probably
telling it to another girl, who came in
and joined her, while / was talking to
Tyson's man about some seats for
1.-The Labor OF Lost Love" or some
thing like that at Days that / had
promised to take some people from
Philadelphia to see. They had had
me over TO one of their assemblies,
and / met them on the avenue. and |
had to do something. so l thought 1
would take them Co Days.
Dear old Midget how he will curse
me when he finds that | have told that
story in a magazine, and how the fell
lows at the club will chaff him, be-
cause he hates magazines. and says
they are rubbish. | have been in Lon
don twice since then; since the night
that Midget had it happen to him, but
Il did not seem the same place. OF
course / will go again. for one runs
over and back now without any more
feeling of novelty than in going to
Ders and / have been twice without
any more idea OF going day or so be-
fore I sailed than-than-well. than
anything.
The last time, just asked fellow
at the club II he knew where man
COLL get decent pair Of bags IN Now