The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-06-12

lessly, and occasionally one OF them
would lean back and gaze sieepily out
at the walls and roofs and the distant
ribbon of lake, now dotted here and
there with moving sperks.
"A man ought to be pinchedl for work.
in day like thi=," Artie finally OBJ
served.
isn't it delightfulqr said Miller.
This is the time OF year when a man
feels like getting out into the country. .
THAT amt no lie, either. You don't
see very many Johnny -jump-ups grow.
in along Dearborn street, do you?"
DO you expect to get away from
town often this summer?"
Gee, can't go very far. Since I've
started plantin' my stuff in the bank
and plunkin' in few cases every month
on the buildin' and loan game. I'VE got
to play purity close tony bosom. IN
tell you those. Night before last,
though, l was fixin' 1t up with Name to
take little run over to st. Joe or I'M to
Milwaukee on the boat. When they let
you ride all day on the boat for dollar
a throw, why, That's where / cut in
freely. But they don't get my game
at any o them summer resorts where
they set you back five big, elegant
bucks a day for room about as big as
that telephone box over there. Then II
you want anything to chew you've got
to square the waiter every time YOU 90
in the dining-room. Invent up against
one o them places last summer. COM
menced OWN money to that hotel be-
fore got off the train
III I'm going to take vacat ton. $ said
Miller, I'D rather get right out into the
country. Don't you like it in the coun-
try?"
We'll. I amt dead sure about TINT.
s'pose the country's all right to man
that's lived there, but you take some
wise boy that was brought up in town
and You throw him out on a farm and
he's the worst ever. You've seen them
boys around the union station comm
In with their red-topped boots and high
hats and paper grips-well, when YOU
see them fallin' into coalholes and bein'
snaked ont by fake hotel-runners. YOU
think they're purity new, don't you?
Well, say, there amt one of them that's
half the horrible mark that some Chi
cago dub is when he goes up against
That farm game. II he don't look like
q yellow clarinet in 81 hours YOU can
mark me down for sucker. They
can't spring none o. that happy-child-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. business
on me. I've been next, III tell you"
Il didn't know that you were ever on
farm" said Miller, laughing"
u was there once, NIL right, an / got
IT throwed into me so hard that j was
good and sore, TOO. -Four years ago
thissummer-tha beforemv father
vdied-my Uncle Matt. that's got a farm
little way from Galesburg, wrote for
me to come down and visit ,em. The
old gentleman asked me IL ] wanted
togo, and ] said: Sure thing. In min.
ute I'd been readin' them con story.
books about piclin' flowers and goin'
tishin' and dublin around the woods
out in the country, an thinks to my
self: This is cinch. Tllgo down there
and dazzle them jays So l went down
there, and cousin o mine, Spencer
Blanchard, met me at the train with a
buggy and drove me out. 1 got there
in time for supper, and they all gave
me the glad hand and jollied me up,
and kind O. thought that first night
that I'd be warm proposition out
there. Well, holy smoke, about the
time they got the dishes washed up
the uncle says tome: Tguess we'd bet
ter turn in What do you mean%
says; 'goto bed?' Sure thing, says he.