The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-11-06
The Travelling Tinker.

| ISOple were very mucn aston
ished when instead of going uD The
Saguenay with the Celluloid Club
or joining young Dalton de Kay's
party 10 The White Mountains
Webster Hillard suddenly dropped
out If The lists.
Pm tired of what YOU call fun =
said he. ''lf could roll my self up
like cocoon and do absolutely
nothing, | should like it y
"Bul, | say" piped Young De
Kay, what are you going 10 do,
old chap z"
Pm going 10 vegetate,' was all
the answer that Hillard would
make.
II say, fellows, he's off his
head y said De Kay, staring help
les,ly around.
"Never had much 10 be off," OBJ
served Mr.. Gourlay, the president
Of the coaching club. PITY he
balks, though. He's got such a
deuced lot o money, and such a
far idea OF spending it,"
"Oh, he'll change his mind and
hook on TO us yet" said De Kay.
But Mr. llillard disappointed
them. lie went TO lonely lake
in Name, where bald eagles
screamed to one another from the
crest of dead trees and pine thick
els huddled together in funeral
looking crowds.
''lve got relations up this way"
he said. II looked over the tami-
ly pedigree last month. They are
named Buddiluve. wonder what
people are like who have always
lived on the Moosimunk | sup.
pose they speak the English lam
guage--and the weather is too
warm for them to wear turs. This
is new sensation. | suppose
Stanley lelt so when he was go,
ing 10 Albert .Nyanza."
Mrs. Buddllove and Miss Janeite
and her sister Elaine, however,
were painfully like the regulation
mammas and daughters, except
that they were a season or so be.
hind in the fashions, and spoke
slightly through their pretty noses
"We are 50. glad to welcome YOU,
Cousin Hillard," said Mrs. Buddl
love. "We've always longed 10
see our New York COUSINS
"Do you shoot - said Janetie
who was cut after The Di Vernon
rider.
There's a jolly lot OF Cunning
lp Moose mountain. Joe Sykest
'apped catamount IN Hook val
ey lasi week, too"
II am sure" murmnred silver
oned Elaine, "that you will enjoy
he grand soliiudes OF Nature,
)Gusin Webster"
1--WE are PLAIN people here" said
lrs. Buddilove, "bul our welcome
ONES from The heart. Nor is IT !
onined 10 the child of luxury.
10 poor man appeals in vain TO
Ills lnfeSnOlu.
''Ol course he knows that, ma ~
aid Janeite.
Our hearts are open to the plea
{ all humanity" added Mrs. Bud
llove, frowning al The Di Vernon
ariety of child.
80 good of you, I'm sure" said
Webster HIllard, realizing with a
heart that Mrs. Buddi-
I'VE and her two daughters were
oihing more than insipid types of
ie conImonest New York stratum
society. "But l thought had
noiher cousin here. The family
edigree' spoke of three Miss Bud
lloves.'
"He means Posy.7 said Janeite. I
"Mariposa Ann" corrected Mrs.
any husbands niece
'es, exactly She has left us.
his roof. was too humble for her
} dwell under"
I'VE have endured everything
ON Posy's ilI-temper and cap
ce," said Elaine. her smiling face
king on a decidedly vinegary as
ec'. ~And when, of her own free
i'll. she deliberately left Us, she '
Ired away with her venerable I
lative whose wits, alas were no
niger equal to deciding between '
ne friends and false"
~Ohl" said Mr. Hillard, per- j
living that ne had unwiltingly