The age-herald., 1900-02-18
 a FOR 2 LITTLE . FOL%4So E MARI JoLLY
 

and Ed Royster had had our experience, the Kappa society would never have gotten either to take the affirmative in that old debate"
 "Wen" continued Jim. "after a reasona lble time father and MT. and Mrs. Bruce and Wlburt's mother all consented W3th an endless number of conditions and pro visos, which, in our delight, l am afraid We scarcely heard, and we started. It was great fun for several days. As long as we were in Alabama we had pretty good roads, and country folks are always good in Ala bama, even If some of them do not carry WeSster's Unabridged dn their vest pock- cts, or other convenient place, and though they do fai4 to know the latest Parisian fad, they know how to treat a hungry boy. Why, some days we bought for nickel enough buttermilk for all three Of us that's no small quantity-and had some dett to throw away"
 And such biscuits." put in Bruce. "Myi one biscuit was nearly enough for me; and cornbread, oh dear! never have l eaten corI.oread beforei It actually was better than Mrs. Cummings angel food cake!'
 We did eat-there's no mistake about that! People were good to us at nearly every place. You see, in the little towns my c. D. badge was kind of introduction, and Bruce had Y M c. A. ticket, and between us we managed to get the authori- ties to believe Wipburt was O. K, add ed jestingly.
 AM right about that" returned Wilburt; tits we'll enough you couuld do so, for II had not been along I am afraid you would have turned back before ever you reached the Tennessee line. You would have tele- graphed Mir Joy, I sure, in snort time after we broke down had l not been there'
 Jim laughed. "You see," he proceeded to narrate father made us promise II we broke down we'd telegraph back to him for money to come home on, but we had no intention of doing so. Finally our wheels were so bad that it looked as II punctures and blow-ups were to occur every alternate mile and we were forced either to buy new tires or give them up. We de- cided to leave them and to walk Don't look so mortified, Eleanor. We were quite respectable tramps, l assure you. We paid for all we ate, and the luxuries of the toi- let were never once omitted when We reached town. It is true, on several oc- casions the rivers and springs were our only resources; but a spring is a first-rate mirror. Ever try it?' he asked, teasngly.
 Well, pretty soon our feet were worse off than the rubber tires on our bicycles wheels. Big Bin,' our tough old Bruce Wilson, actually walked off the soles of his feet, as well as succeeded in getting off the soles of his shoes.
 Tt was pretty hard, I tell you We all went to a shoe shop at one place for re- pairs, but all the old fellow could do was to put good soles on our shoes. He could do nothing to relieve our poor, suffering feet.
 lucky thing happened We were getting so shabby that we felt disinclined, to pre- sent ourselves at the hotel for lodging"
 I've wanted ito wait till we reached Knoxville to buy new clothes and shoes" said Wilburt, who was a little ashamed of ndf tt. t,. ,Yat, plight. You see, our washing had been done in country places, and we didn't feel very fine"
 Washing, indeed! You are trying to make the impression that we had our Saratoga trunks on our bicycles, I pre- sume. The fact is, Eleanor, we only had a very small bundle tied on our wheels.
 Come, captain, you know it was not so bad as that. We had a trunk expressed ahead to the principal stopping places, Ele- amor, and only carried our budgets till we reach these places each time, where we freshened up till the next point"
 "Any way,' continued Jim, i've did not care about presenting ourselves at a first class place, and we wouldn't go to any other kind we were sitting down on the platform of the little station feeling pretty blue when we struck up chat with an engineer. We told him what we were doing and he enjoyed the joke. Declared if he were twenty years younger he would join us. We also communicated our little di- lfmma about sleeping place and he laugh ed heartily over the affair
 Why" he said, "I tell you what. See that old boxcar sidetracked over there? Climb in and imagine you have room at the Morris. Tired as you boys are you won't miss pillow or so or know whether you sleep on linen sheet or the pile of sacks with which I can provide you.
 We climbed in as he suggested and pret- ty soon we were all three sleeping like the dead, though there was noise enough of coupling and uncoupling cars and whistling from the engines to have kept less tired mortals wide awake
 (To be continued.l