The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-26
y. You didn't run across

swGted T4E srS, man. You didn't run across
q didntiE" laid the other with deep feel
ing. lie was such Il nice dog that gave MN "a
Iierc of my oNcrcoHt 70 remtlio"r me Nv Nv
smile, with a piece Of tan cloth in the middle;'
"GucsS he swallowed the cloth anu the smile
and the tech AL Il. in "a 4 h ia no re Lrinf %arfa are
Well. said The Ir""klymitc. Tets call the
dog i%tSEt FSWF 6ia ANA mg 20 n"4&E;
'Oh ask III" something easy. There's no
use trying To- beat bucL. and there is an electric
lea on ahead. 50 ! guess we'd better point Tor
Heading for the beacon. the rair set out
Presently the, lost it altogether 9,nd the
denly gave a howl and jerurtc from sight
with remarkable pr"inp,ituh". Tn" next mo
lnent his voice sounded from. n sro' watch
seemed To- lie in the bowels of the earth.
'h!nst it a.! I'VE fallen dGwn q rre'l''re'
"" there 4 1 'V'' "am" to The memory Of Tmn
SCN man the Vision OF y black line across that
portion Of the local gergrInhy rurnnfting ~
disnorting. Il had struck him that The mark
probably meant something and here wa the
by thu man at the bottom Of The iror. =,
That's what it was THE SrS man ,so!iio-
'9"!ITf wifi. "T la%,r 4S1vy r itn a On E,r. %"" On, the
Brooklynitr. Have you got Il map Of this
49, N"p T'li' N'iih W. INV - '',,sN
planned to, him that the Map was over in New
York. hut h. positively refused to try. To climb
he said. was TO fall over that bank. and il his
companion didn't, care, TO try 1t. why he could
BROOKLYN or give him death.
Somewhere. the New Yorker thought. there
must be a road down. and, while H. was assid-
uously searching for il he ~alightel after a
brief aerial flight in somebody's back yard
upon a pile of odds and end apparently inhab.
ensued. An unpledsautly eruY voice proceeding
from II shanty near at band said something
place at best. aud when the fallen one stoppcl
running he had the electric light on u dead line
with him az the end q a very short street Tn
Decided to come, down after all. did you:
Well. this Is a road we're on now. and the city's
Far down in the direction in which he point
ed. a small. brilliant beetle crawled swiftly
s tfd!IeS t car. %n{ the dna h StraE'e of the lot ~ W Shec a
were cheered. but 1t LOOKED n long way off. and
II actually was Q much longer way than it
tcrnated between the sidewalk which. was a
dismal morqss, and the middle Of the road.
die. and as they went all the dogs in the sur
rounding yards came out and made angry or
contemptuous or querutous &C uron
them. according to the bent of each canine
mind, Some few threatened attack. In. the
with a large club, which he had picked IN, 1t
one point 50 many cur .olned in the chorus
that u window went W in a neishboring house
u'' =" WV NJ " lllI IL ENlllk VII. ! lie
wanderers replied that they were. and asked
to be favored With the hume Of the street on
which they were going. The voice responded
that it was the New York road, and grqtui-
tously added that 1t was 10 O'Clock and all hon
est folk were abed. after which it left the field
10 the "urS.
The very name OF the New York road had u
cheering effect. but New York wasn't in plain
sight yet. Neither was ANYTHING else except
vacant, lots. here and there vqriegated 10y a
dark house. Just as the pair were losing
courage and willing to believe that they were
bound in the wrong direction and that the
trolley car had been a mirage Of the night or
the fiction of overtaxed brains. they came upon
a church and a salo IN on opposite corners. and
they knew that they were saved. a church
alone may be the centre of a widely scattered
ponllace. aud Il sa Don may be n"uGht hut a
roal house. but. when the two are found to-
Ecthcr there Is civilization within the range OF
a lO-inch gun: Tn" church was closed. but the
other institution wasn't.
Trolley line" said the bartender. Sure.
Next corner but one. Why. we're right in the
heart Of tn" city here
Fifteen minutes later n trolley ear was TAX
Ing CITY ward two disreputable. tattered, be-
,nlred PATTERNS for u hobo stage makeup, each
last asleep in a conner.