The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-11-24

of your boyhood are imprisoned in your
wrinkled old heart. Now, WON'T you
give that boy holiday"
Mr. Putancall wavered, recovered
himself, then hesitated again, and when
he looked into the frank, good humored
eyes that were watching him, he yield
ed completely. He was experienced
enough in the world to know that their
honesty was unmistakable Grasping
the proffered hand, he wrung it with
the hearty enthusiasm of youth.
"Good r. exclaimed the Young Man.
Now, let me use your telephone for a
few minutes, and will order dinner
then we will go to the football match.
81 have only $780, said Mr. Putan-
call while the young man was waiting
for central to answer.
THAT more than enough, he re-
piled. 1--WE can have the time Of our
lives on that. Hellol Is that the Del
dorf? Tell the head waiter to come to
the phone. 1t is always better to order
dinner like this ahead. = he observed
to Mr.. Putancall, who had put on his
street coat by this time
"Hellol Is that you, Jean? Yes;
want you to get up Thanksgiving din
ner for two to be served in one of the
private rooms at sharp. No, sir, you
can t have carte blanche know just
what want Now take down what
tell you First / want two orders of
clams-oysters are superstition, he
remarked aside. SCOT that? Then some
thing really good in clear soup. You
may decide on that yourself. Next we
want Lake Ontario whitefsh What's
that? The close season for them, you
say? know it is but that shouldn' t
trouble you. Oh, you think you know
where you can get one? All right, and
this is the way you are to cook it: Dress
in kettle of cold water. AS soon as the
water comes to boil take it off, and
the fish will be DONE Notice if theH Hesh
cracks open at the back Of the neck, and
you can tell if it is done exactly right.
Then you are to serve it with egg sauce.
Next we want roast turkey-a turkey
hen, remember, not muscular gobbler
and you are to stuff it with old fash
ioned country dressing of onion and
Eread crumbs. Then we want apples,
nuts and such things. Besides, you are
to send down to that little old liquor
store on Chambers street for couple Of
bottles of hard cider-the special brand
that the farmers put white wheat in
and favor with sassafras. Got it down
all right? And be sure to have dinner
ready to serve at o'clock Goodby."
"Now,'' exclaimed the Young Man,
1--WE must hurry if we want to be in
time for the football match.
''Are we going there?" asked Mr..
Putancall, with mingled surprise and
nneasiness.
Certainly we are. What would
Thanksgiving day be without taking in
the football match? We just have time
TO catch the next IL express if we
rush. -
While they hurried along the street
and then raced up town on the express
the Young Mans tone changed gradual
~. While still retaining his frankness
and gayety, he skillfully led Mr.. Putan-
call to talk of the matters with which
he was familiar until he regained his
self possession and habitual air of COM
mand. When they reached the Polo
grounds, the fnancier was SO complete
iy himself that he began to feel it was
( he who was doing everything, and when
/ they met a speculator who had tickets
to sell he pushed forward with the re-
mark:
"Now you must let me buy the tick
cts. .
The Young Man smiled, for it was
evident that be had succeeded complete
4 ly. The millionaire had practically for
gotten all the unpleasant features of the
talk in his office and was buying the
tickets as if the idea of buying them
had just occurred to him as an act Of
friendship.
At first Mr.. Putancall felt trifie out
Of place and confused, but his young
friend was SO attentive In explaining