Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-05-21
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HOW OLD DANIEL GOT OUT OF DATE

New Manchester would speak to him"
1t was in December that they start.
ed. The village band and the Capp.
vile Marching Club escorted Mayor
Jephson and his father to the depot.
There were cheers for the young man
as the train pulled out, and the old
men. leaning on his sons arm, could
not forbear a gentle pressure as he
whispered:
Just wait, Daniel. till we get to
New Manchester bet four bits the
Hawginses. the Doleses, the Fittses
and all the best, old families o New
Manchester'll be down to the deepo II
they know I'm coming. | wouldn't be
s'prised-by ging! Ill BET old jim.
kins :. be thar. He don't like me none
too Wexford. how put it over him
in that last spelling bee-but. by ging
I'll bet If old Jinkins knows I'm com.
ing hell let bygones be bygones and
come down to the deepo. and he'll give
me the right royal hand o welcome.
that's what he'll do. that's what
, they'll ALI. do when they know Dan.
iel Jcphson is coming back for a visit. Do
| So young Daniel sent ahead a tele.
gram TO the Gazette announcing that
Daniel Jephson. one Of the old.timc.
eminent men Of New Manchester,
WOMB arrive at 10 a. III. on the fast
mail train from Cappville and the
West. It took the train nearly TWEEN.
| ty.four hours to get into a fix to whis
ne tor New Manchester. and by that
tune the old fellow was getting ner-
vous about the speech he meant to
make when he skipped off the train
into the arms of the enthusiastic pop.
ulaCc.
do you think I'll have TO make a
speech. too" asked young Daniel
when the train began to slow down.
Speech! YOU?" laughed the faith.
er. why, Dan. they won't even no.
tice YOU. Just remember, son, that
while you may be .rg man out West,
you got to stand aside for ME in New
Manchester"
And the good old soul. cheered and
inflated with the prospect Of meeting
a hundred of his old friends and ad.
mirers. laughed again at the Crestfall.
en- discontinue OF his boy.
At last the train slowed down for
New Manchester, the old fellow put
on the gayest manner he had worn for
years and cursed the porter as he had
not done within the memory of the
son.
Il don't see the band" he murmur.
ed. craning his neck as the porter
struggled with the vestibule door
Guess it's up u How's opery House
waiting for u.s."
And so they swung off the car stood
alone-all alone on the platform-and
looked about. There was no band. nc
crowd. no cheers. no welcome. The
station agent was coming back from
tie express car. and New Manchester
was seeming very small and squalid
to the younger Jephson, when the old
man stopped the agent, waited for the
train TO thunder out of hearing and
said:
Friend. I'm Daniel Jephson I'm"
We'll. what of it," growled the
young man, opening his receipt book
and ElanCing over Il
where's the 'bus2" said the poor
) old fellow. looking around.
THEY amt no bus for this train,
said the agent. 1T don't generally
stop here lessen flag It,"
We'll, do we have to walk"
You sin run you're stuck on a
slow track" suggested the agent
pointing downward along the muddy
road.
And so they trudged away toward
sal dthe agent. 1T don't generally
the town.
Let's drop in on old man Hawkins, II
suggested the father. as they reached
Main street. u know right where
that is. It's the drug store right over
yonder." And he pointed across the
square.
] Daniel saw the sign above the drug
store long before his father saw It.
and his heart smote him as he read
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