Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-07-24

comes along and that thing bowls at him,
you'll go tn Jail.
But BarGcr e, idently thought that was
all nonsense. He didn't care If it violated
the whole council series from to lizard.
He had got hold of an elegant thing and
was going to stick to it, and | was gay
sort Of man 70 recommend it to him Rnu
then advise him to give it up All this
time the photograph was talking in tone
of deep disgust to a heavy individual who
was pedaling along in "a leisurely way just
in front of Us, and who must have btcn
stone deaf or lie would certainly have
clambcrcd down and punched Bankers
head.
Then was initiated into the mysteries
of the thing and slw how, by pushing
small attachment down so that it rubbed
on the front wheel, the mechanism of the
monograph was made to revolve, and it
shouted out whatever was in 1T until the
clamp was released Barker said he had
talked into it half day, and it was evil
IDENTIFY we'll supplied with vocabulary.
BY the time we got to the club-for we
belong to club, both of us-Barker was
in Il state of hilarious delight, and half of
the dogs, children and old ladies in town
We're on the verge of frenzy. OF course all
the other fellows in the club had to learn
all about it, and Barker pushed his ma
chine around on the sidewalk and made
the monograph curse them and all their
relatives to the tenth generation, which
seemed to afford them the most unbounded
pleasure.
AS fitting conclusion to the evenings
entertainment we all went up stairs, and
l regret to say that Barker, after placing
the monograph carefully on table beside
him. got as drunk as lord and talked and
sang and shouted in IL very scandalous and
disgraceful way.
After it was all over l took him home
and put him to bed and while doing this
he informed me in IA maudlin and discOn-
nected 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 i'll the bank, and he wished
1 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 one.
He did not love her in an ordinary way,
either, but in IL way in which no one ever
had loved before.
Now | like Barker, and he is a friend of
mine, and as Il matter of course it was only
common charity to help him out in case
like that 80 gave him Il lot of good adj
vice about how to doctor his head in the
morning which he received with a very
bad grace, aLd Promised to be in the neigh
borhood of old Cutter the next evening
without TAIL
was IL little late getting off, and had
hardly got within sight Of the house on
the following night when | met the two
girls and Barker coming toward me. He
seemed to be in high spirits ana was par
ticularly jolly when they met me. l want
ed to ask him about the monograph, but
hesitatcd to do 50. 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 We're anxiously waiting for
something to get in the way 50 they could
give it trial. | aftcrward 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 li,,le one being in front and
the older Ai,, Gutter and myself in the
rear, when "A l.-i.n tried to cross the street in
front of Us
"lIoorly Gimme another drink said
the phouos :l.r IN in Il E..stly counterfeit of
BarNcr's Voc.
Tho man s..lcd at Us in astonishment
and tcll into tie gutter. Barl1cr'5 machine
wab,.led yi.l ,.itly. and | could sec that his
nerve had cruuliod, While l iclt a SILVER
alon.. my own slime as took ia the situa-
ton.
"Her golden hairwas hanging down her
-h-h-hic-bacl,. sang tAe wretched in
strumcnt in Barker well known treble.
Evidently the little one" couldn't loosen
the clanlp
Drops of sweat stood on Barker's brow,
and he tried 80 turn it OF as Il Joke.
"Funnv. amt it," said he Never can
tell what it viii say"
you're "a li.rl screamed the phono-
nranh "Coue long now and pass the
whisk."
could see the little one" turn pale,
and the elder Miss CutterNyns looIliul, DAG.
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