The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-17

breakfast drove them almost mad with
hunger.
The farmer, after one sad experience,
decided to raise the price of meals at
his hotel, and refused to give them
breakfast for less than 20 cents a piece.
You fel1ers eat like a passed. of
bosses" he said, your parents must
be either millionaires or bankrupts.'
The boys, after some bargaining, con-
sented to pay Is cents for light break
fast, and he consented, especially after
they all solemnly assured him that they
never cared for much to eat the first
thing in the morning. They did not
believe it was good for them.
So all each of them had was three
fried eggs, with a few slices of ham,
half-dozen biscuits, few doughnuts,
some pie and stewed rhubarb and
hardly more than a quart of warm
| milk. with a few other trif1es on the
side-on the inside.
Then they took up their burden
some boats and started away with
them, scraping from the grass a dew
that seemed almost heavy enough to
float the canoes. AS they went along
the road, they met a farmer driving a
sleepy looking team. At the sight of
them the horses proceeded to go into
commissions.
The farmer after spending some
time getting his quadrupeds back on
all fours, called after the Lakerimmers:
well, in all my born days I've never
saw SIGH foolishness. Toting boats
along dry land! 1 guess I'll have to
pick up my old wagon and go wading
in the lake, just to keep in style"
Various other teamsters made various
other remarks. but one of them said:
They was a boy goin' along here
the other day, with a cap like what
you fellers have got 1t had the same
kind of a feather and the letters L. A.
c. suppose that means Luny as
Cats"
The boys didn't mind the last re-
mark, but the first cheered them huge
ly.
1t was a long. tiresome journey that
two miles cost them, and before they
reached the end Sleepy complained:
II don't believe there Is any water
| on this side Of the world. I'll bet we
are walking into the desert of Sahara"
At last they reached the stream.
And such a stream! 1t was hardly
deeper than the dew on the grass. but
1t made fuss enough for a Niagara
river, and 1t twisted and turned like
an auger. No boat, except such a light,
shallow canoe as theirs. could have
| Travelled such a stream. But any kind
| of water was good enough for these
weary porters, and they set their
canoes gingerly on the stream and got
aboard 1t took three men to keep His
| try from falling into the water, and
| the wabbling of the canoe made him
nearly seasick. They had not gone far
when Tug, who was in the bow, called
| out:
Back wateri" It was just in time,
for in a moment more they would have
ripped the canoe open on a barb-wire
fence that wandered across the stream.
Heady and Reddy, the two military
men of the club, remembered the
Rough Riders in Cuba. and. after ruin
| ing three OF four jack~knives, they
managed to cut the fence.
This did not please certain farmers
who threw after them hard words and
harder rocks But the rocks were bad
ly aimed, and the words made no
! bruises. So on they went spinning,
thanking the stream for taking sharp
| and sudden turn that took them out Of
sight OF the farmers.
They were not 20 pleased with certain
other sudden turns the water took, and
/ they had not gone many miles w"'~
| With A duick. sha~~ och. f~t r7