The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-02-28
A HERO.
Hopes Based on . Cheap bicycle scheme and
LarEe Purchascs OF Paint.

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Talk about your Cuban heroosi'' said q resi-
dent OF the suburbs. why, you ought to
rec tho way the fell ows down my way are buy
ing paint. Gallons and kegs and occans OF II.
Enough to paint their houses inside and out
and everything else in sight. And most Of
'en calculate to have fifteen or twenty dollars
left over for . carriage theatre party. Down
my way the biggest thing u man can do 10 10
have n carriage theatre party. Tie carriage
meets him at the station and he don't have TO
walk home through the mud In the dark. Come
and live down my way II you want to discover
what q blessing sidewalks are. Well. that's
what the fellows are calculating TO do: have q
carriage theatre party Wit. the money that's
lert over. And all thia time Brownsmith 10
walking a. clipper and unconcerned rs II the
fellows weren't plunRing recklessly into paint.
Maybe you don't know WIN all the fellows
should have happened TO think Of paint nj the
SAME time. Well. you would know II you
lived down my way q little while. Every fell
low seems to think that he could sell his house
quicker II he ONLY had . little more paint on
It. And now every oto OF those fellows 10
chuckling TO himself in his sleep all nigh. Ions
because he 10 dreaming that Just as soon As
the leaves are out and the grass 10 green and
the flowers arc blooming and everything Is
lovely and the raint IL dry. some cbump will
come along aud oier him half his asking price
for the house. And he hugs himself. as he
swim, he'll take him up 20 quick.
"What's that got TO do with hcroesi WHY,
Amt telling you about Brownsmltnr Nav,
for the houses, / toll you. Don't you know
Brownsmithi You would n you lived down
ways getting up some s.heme or oth,r and try.
Ing TO get you to go into It.. II was he who got
up that sixteen dollar bicycle club. You
you wouldn't have heard Of much else II you
had lived down my way. hes . sort OF mo
and all that sort OF thing. The plan .eetnei
all right on the face OF IL; but then that's
Brownsmith's business, TO put taings to you in
across a circular from n Wholesale dealer In the
various narts that. make up n hicycle-rims,
and he GOT a-ngnring aud made out that n full
let would cost him about Sl7.
""No:. Brownsmith 10 . practical kind Of
fellow in some ways. and be was Just shrewd
enough. not 10 commit himself before lao was
sure. IL lust shows how coonev he is when
and borrowed q friends. He TOOK ii ali apart
AID scattcred-the pieces about, and then tried
to See 4 T, he could ss Id, re, them ,9ssthe, riytt
that II Il didn't work he could say that the
smith. hasn't her it worked ali right. and he
wrote to tho denler TO send on ono full set of
s s.Isc'f II BROW Bl%osp. nIs a"s,e a d sso,. in S sS mann. s%d
$50 ~ = fA W "Ae
facturer ~ bicycles. and said that n 30 he
would be happy 10 AL sn order for . dozen sets
or more at 500 n dozen: but he wouldn't
send less than . iozen.
"Brownsmith was bound to have that b.
cycle for ST.. and he set TO thinkinQ. Then
he thought of tho IDEA OF that club. You
never lived down my way. 80 you don, know
how It Is with the fellows ali winter. II q
man goes In Tor literature. he talks Literature
all winter: and II 10 goes In for progressive
euchrr. It's progressive euchre all the time:
and II he rides n wheel. he don't think OF moth
Ing else but about buying a new model In tho
spring and sAves all his money TO have tho
prtce ready. Well. whom Brownsmith told
the fellows how he could buy bicycles in pieces
together for nothing. Just out Of friend ship.
ti.ey nearly had a nj. He was the mo. popu-
lar fellow round there. and they're thinking
OF ~electing him Mayor now.
The herot VIII. Brcwnsmith's the hero
Amt I been telling you how he's walking
around clipper and unconcerned. just as II
n,thirg VAS going 10 hAppenf Don't you SEQ
that he's got those fellows all worked no TO
thinking that they're going TO ave from
SIS. - 70 8 s3. ~ each on their new 1897 model
bicycles, and that they've been chucking tho
money they'"c saved on their new bic ycles into
paint. and that they're dreaming about sell
ing their houses with tho paintr Just think
what their disappointment and rage will be
when they find that he can't sSrew those BIZ
cycles together! Cau't he screw them tog .therp
or course he .can'tl Can you screw Q lot Of
i Rucss not.
''Tbey don't suspect nothing vet. buI when
they do I'd rather face Weyler than them. Yer
Brownsnith Is walking about as chiprer and
uncon cerned as ever. IL that Amt . hero, I'd
like u know what H."