Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-02-12

for me for that"
81 find it enough, too, " responded NJ.
Lamantin, with equal acerbity. "Think
you it's pleasure to own chimney that
makes us cry all day long2 One would
suppose we'd funeral in the house!'
''But your chimney, sir, was built by
, my PLAN said the architect; "that is to
say, it can not smoke"
"All the same, sir, the chimney
smokes"
"Because you burn coal in it. Burn
wood, sir, and wood entirely. You'll
get good, clear fire."
"Wood it shall be, then"
But the substitution of wood for coal
did not make the chimney draw Whit
the better. M. Lamantin, who was a
man of prompt measures, went himself
| to the best architect in Paris and begged
him to come and look into the matter.
The architect consented and the eX-
| animation made, was exceedingly frank
in the expression of his opinion.
"Who is the ass that built the thing,
anyway" said his.
'Mandelet, my architect"
$50 thought the donkey of donkeys
Extend the smokestack fifty centimetres
higher to increase the draught and it
will go all right"
'How simple"
"When one knows what to do-yes."
The smokestack was raised, the chin
ney still smoked and the great architects
bill was higher than the stack.
Disguised with architects, NJ Laman-
tin then addressed himself to chimney
doctors. The first one called in had
Just come down from Piedmont. No
chimney had ever resisted him. A thing
in sheet iron in the shape of serpent,
was attached in jiify to the top of the
already tall stack.
The drawing room was now bluer than
a country tap-room.
A second G. d. was called to attend it.
He, too, was from Piedmont, and he in
stantly directed that his colleagues sheet
iron serpent be replaced by little thing
of his own in the shape of helmet.
AT this juncture, happily for all con-
cerned, the concierge interposed.
"Monsieur is wrong to be so discour-
aged, said he. 81 was talking while
ago to one of the locataires-oh, none of
the locataires that monsieur knows =
and he told me, this small rent payer,
that he could fix monsieur's chimney in
} less than five minutes"
''Bring him here, then, Immediately
Immediately, say-or Ill notice him to
get out"
And quick as lightning Passereaud-
for Passereaud it was-was down from
his lofty height at NJ. Lamantin's bid
ding.
He found the proprietor stamping with
rage and blowing his fingers in his freez,
: ing drawing-room.
: "Oh, it's you, is it," said he, "'tha
: makes bold to cure in five minutes an in
e curable chimney? No matter. Go on
< have try. | want to see you do it."
! "Five minutes is rather brief. wan
an hour"
"Then an hour you shall have. Here.
> a chimney that all the architects and doc
, tors in town have given up as hopeless
If you can cure it, that is, make it sent
the smoke to the sky instead of into m
apartments, I'll give you-well, whateve
IL you choose. Pm out of all patience-il
I no mood for haggling. Name you
price!'
+ Monsieur" answered Passereaud
c with dignity, "you will give me til
$ hand of Mile. Valentine! That is m
price, to be paid only after success"
"For chimney You are crazy, man
crazy as a loon!"
'For a chimney monsieur, no; fol
that chimney, yes. Call in GARNER, i
, you like, the builder of the Opera House
give him, to back him, picked gang o
architects, chimney doctors or academi-
clans, and if the whole of them can do il
three months time what am going tc
do in one hour, namely, keep this and all
C other chimneys in the condition of this
e one, from smoking, | consent that you
y call me..knave and fool both"
h eyes, yes, l know; but the hand Of
S my daughter is a pretty steep price
/ Anyhow, a secret such as you say yo,
f possess should be worth to you pot o
4 money"
n Gas you say, the secret is, sir, but
= don't care to part with it. For that rea
5 son you will allow me to shut mysel
S alone in the drawing room for the stipu
lated hour, and moreover give me you
word of honor not to peep through th
keyhole. | work only on that under
standing"
"Agreed. But why haven't you go
t out patent2 1t would spare you all sucf
} childish precautions
''Lack of money for the annual fee."
'Borrow it and pay from the profits.
81 don't fancy loans"
$50 be it; have your way. I'm off
Do your little Vaccinations in peace and
quiet"
"No peeps through the keyhole2"
81 swear it,
"And ifI succeed I've your promise
Z Valentines hand"
+ Come, come! my locataire, begin
your work; no knife to my throat, please
all the same, I'm man of Justice"
But once alone Passearaud, instead ot
obeying and beginning his work, begal
losing his time in idle trifing highly in
appropriate to the gravity of the situa
ton. An attentive observer--but Pas
7 sereaud, remember, had shut out all OBJ
b servers-would have heard him murmur.
ing as he fitted about:
1T is here, and here, and also here,
that my adored one brcathesm
And that same observer would have
been greatly amazed to see him skiI
Il from one seat to another, now lying a
+, length upon velvet couch-as Valentine
C doubtless had once lain-then doubling
himself into low chair for precisely tn,
c same reason--that Valentine had certain
lc ~ sat there-and then madly throwing
N N KISSES to the pictured face of a girl OF
II the wall-oh! such pretty face, too
and strangely like the face fho+ vrd bov,