The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-28

\ entertainment we all went up stairs, and
| regret to say that BARKER after placing
the photograph carefully Oh table beside
him, got as drunk as lord and talked and
sang and shouted in very scandalous and
disgraceful way.
After it was all over / took him home
and put him to bed, and while doing this
he informed me in nlaudlin and discon-
nocted way that he was going out riding
the next evening with the two Cutter girls,
daughters of old man Coupon Cutter, one
of the directors in the bank, and he wished
would happen to drop around and ride
with the big one, so he could talk to the
little one He said that / was his only
friend, and that he loved the little ono.
He did not love her in an ordinary way,
either, but in way in which no one ever
had loved before.
Now l like Barker and he is friend of
mine and as u matter of course it was only
common charity to help him out in case
like that. So | gave him u lot of good ad-
vice about how to doctor his head In the
morning, which he received with very
bad grace, and promised to DO in the neigh.
borhood of old Cutters the next event
without fail
was little late getting off, and had
hardly got within sight Of the house Oh
the foil flowing night when met the two
girls and Barker coming toward me- He
seemed to be in high spirits. and was par
ticularly jolly when they met me. / want
ed to ask him about the monograph, but
hesitated to do So He Immediately men
TONED the matter himself, however, and
explained that the youngest Miss Cutter
was infatuated with the thing and had in
sisted on having it put on her bicycle, and
that they all were anxiously waiting for
something to get in the way SO they could
give it Il trial. I afterward discovered that
Barker had represented to them that the
whole thing was his own idea, and they
had declared that he was wonderfully in
genious
We had gone about three blocks, Barker
and 'the little one" being in front and
the elder Miss Cutter and myself in the
rear, when man tried to cross the street in
front of us.
"Hooray! Gimme another drink' said
the monograph in ghastly counterfeit Of
Barker's voice
The man gazcd at us in establishment
and fell into the gutter, Barker's machine
wabbled violently, and l could see that his
nerve had crumbled, while felt SILVER
along my own spine as took in the situa-
ton.
"Her golden hair was hanging down her
-h-h-hic-back" sang the wrctched in
strument in Barker's well known treble
Evidently "the little one' couldn't loosen
the clamp
Drops of sweat stood on Bnrkers brow,
and he tried to turn it off as Joke
Funny, amt it," said he Never can
tell what it will say"
you're liar.' screamed the phono-
graph. Come long now and pass the
whisk."
could see "the little one' turn pale,
and the elder Miss Cutter was looking dag
gers ut Barker.
"rra Ia la, ira Ia Ia WOW, WOW, WOW,
whoopee" said the phonogmph
"Shay," it continued in confidential
whisper, "Im struck on thc-hic-prctti-
"1ake it off, growled Barker, making
II lunge at the instrument but his cquilib-
rum was gone, and he fell into an igno-
minio,is heap on the pavement.
"Ho! no! you're drunkr' shriekcd tho !
machine derisively as We started on and
left him.
''Mr, Perkins" said the elder Miss Cut
ter, disnounting and pointing imperiously
in the direction of her sister wheel, take
that thing OFF,
I obeyed her with the utmost alacrity
and cast it at the dark spot where its own
Ut was reposing.
"Now," said the elder Miss Cutter,
take us home, sir. "
And so did, and when old man Cutter
looked at me in an inquirng way over the
Top of his glasses felt as guilty as man
who had robbed bank aud strangled the
lanltor
They didn't ask me to come in, and so |
vent off to hunt up Barker. l found him
sitting on the curbstone pounding at some
hing with brick.
"What s that" said l.
x never saw II man who could ask so
many foolish questions, said he sulkily,
md then he climbed Up on his bicycle and
ode away, and now understand that the
,oard of directors have become economical
nd cut down his salary.-New Orleans
'imes-Dcmocrat.