The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-12
RFHoMsoN's vACATIoN.
Series OF Varied and Neg Very
Pleasant Episodes
REom the chicago Daily New


From the Chicago Daily News)
Hello. Thompson, when did yoc get
back2 You look as If you had 4 high old
time"
.-oh. do. do u Well. Il look any
thing like ! feel the copper over there's
arrest me for assault"
why. what's up? I thought you had a
fine time on your vacation YOu went
hunting, 1 understand"
"Hunting2 Say. Iemme tell you what I
did You know my wife's mother. don't
your
Yes"
We'll. at the last minute. lei her per
suade ne 10 go east to their silver we'd
ding. She said there vas great shootin'
about forty miles from their place, an
after I'd stood for the celebration 1 was
to be set down in the woods with my gun
an ten days rations. That was good
enough for me an I stood for it. sent
word to the fellows at the club that I'd
changed my plans and wouldn't go with
them They went up TO Wisconsin
You bet they did They set two tim
Der wolves six or eight muskrats an
some other game. to say nothin' of fish
an small birds Phillips bagged an eagle
I thoaght you were one Of the party,
sure
Say no more. man; don't tell me or I'll
faint. Think Of all I've missed"
"oh. well, wouldn't feel so bad about
it il / were you"
You wouldn't? Wait till you hear. We
were three hours out Of Chicago when the
train ran amuck of a sandbank 1 lost
every cent had about me and had to tele-
graph hack from Lansing fo1 more money.
Ny wife lost $500 worth of ieweIFy and
the So silver urn We were taking her
mother"
Wei. that was a share
AN that wasn't all OF IL We got down
to Port Huron and found our trunks mix
ed up with somebody eIse's, an I had to
pay SO duty on stun that didn't belong to
me or submit TO detention OF arrest By
customs officers
AN that wasn't all By and by went
to claim my dog in the baggage car an
somebody got him.
Yes, my retriever, an left snobby lit
tie pug instead
.'An' that wasn't all Ny brother-in-
laws an expert vheeIman and cauoeist.
The Gay after got down to his house he
went for a spin. He'd never had an acel-
dent since he began to ride. six years ago
an, by GeorgeI we got out about twenty
miles from nowhere and his tire exploded
an we had to hire farm wagon back K
town. Next day he took ne canoeing on
| the St. Clair River, struck a rock he'd
lodged forty times before an sl9ve in ths
j bow of his $50 canoe An that H,ssn't all
After the getaway On the &c. 2bration
| tumbled that was hoodoo and proposed Il
my wife that We run down to Providence
where I had an aunt living. From there
| thought we'd run up to New York by boat
| We were to be back IN ten days. when
was to accompany her brother up tht
{ woods for q shoot We got to Providenc,
! ali right an started for New York. Would
/ you believe it. that boat took uTe all '..ec
| to be beached before they got the fire out
/ an then we waited three days for tug!
| from New York to pub US off. An tha
wasn't all
CT saw I couldn't distance my hood o
| SO we put back to Detroit. I got thsrs
| Just the day before the new game Isv
+ went into effect. went out an pawnsd
my gun an gave the ticket to a gamin-
We'll that certainly beats all IL,
/ yarns I've heard. -
Doesn't it?'
! That's a particularly fine buttor
you're wearing TomsoR-somethins
/ new?''
yes, it's pretty fine. The morning w
IefI town my wife gave me the set fol
my birthday. They're moonstones an
this only thing I didn't lose in tina
| wreck.
..Moonstones. They're opaIs.''