The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-19
p. HuCkLEBACK.
Rgger and HORSEPOWER

Rsser and Housemover.
1t was with an evil eve that p. Hucklsbaci'
regarded this unofending sign.
Hang it, muttered he, there amt no
money In this business-not no more. Folks
moves into house and out Of a house. but
they won't move the house itself"
His uncongenial reverie was disturbed
by something that huttered through the
window and struck him in the face. He
caught passing glimpse OF one Of Uncle
Sans public servants and he maligned
him in q manner entirely satisfact DRY to
himself.
The postman merely laughed and re-
torted Ia kind. Mr.. Huckleback finally
stopped over and picked the letter up.
1t bore an English stamp.
Some double-derned demand from some
O. my old creditors. s'pose. he muttered.
Thank the Lord I'm over here. instead
o. there"
Then he opened the enclosure, and stopped
short. for there was that In 1t that took
his breath away. What may have been
by . perusal Of the issue Of any Bellport
paper Ol JUNO D, IoU<. All cxtIdct iTOul
the Bvgie will be sufficient:
osE-LEG GETS LEGACY.
Huckleback, the house-hustler, is the
lucky man. He gets cold 100000 from
rich English relative by will
There's the whole story. Make II
$1,000 instead OF 500. 900 and it will be in
strict accordance with the fact.
Strike out the will, also, for no living
man or woman-or dead one either-would
think OF leaving $4,000. or even $40, to Mr.
Huckleback. Substitute for the will the
fact that the decedent had inadvertently
forgotten TO make q will and cut OF Mr..
Huckleback, who had swindled hi m out OF
. few hundred pounds some yean before
and there you are.
The letter was one from q firm Of London
solicitors, who begged to advise P. Huckle-
back that one Chaddeus Huckleback had
a distant relative. Of Chaplain. London, s.
W.. had departed this life, without other
relatives than Mr.. P. Huckleback, and that
they would be charmed. II agreeable to him.
to act As his attorneys. for the trifiing sum
Of Goo to be retained by them out OF the
small fortune due him.
Mr.. Huckleback. little knowing that all
the solicitors did to earn their money con-
STATED Of tho very arduous labor In writing
to him. readily assented, and waited pa.
tiently for his money. 1t came afterward
some months. and amounted In all to
the sum Of So.2ssoe.
Now, $1,000 il not . fortune, but 1t has
within II the making Of . fortune. Mr..
Huckleback. though an Englishman by
birth. was Yankee at heart. So day after
day, up to the time that the crisp English
three.lesged chair contemplating his future
by George he would exclaim hope
fully. there's money to be made In this
business, there Is. and legitimate, too. Folks
needn't come TO me TO move houses II they
an move 1t, see II don't
In great cities the beggar lives next
door to the baron-the palace looks upon
the howell. This was true to some extent
Of Bellport, q city, which often admitted
second place. But there was no residences
district In Bellport that was immaculate.
There is no Landowner or more fashion
able district In the world than Chestnut
Square in Bellport. There was nothing
poor or. mean within half a mile. Even the
no unsightly signs For Sale"
Mr.. Huckleback, the house mover, when
he had changed his English into American
money. and had safely banked II, went
down to look at vacant lots In Chestnut
Square. There was q small lot fifty feet
wide that took his eye, 1t lay between
the handsome residences Of p. d. Hag-
gerty, the silk man, and Mrs. Cradlebaugh,
the relict Of the railroad man-both of them
millionaires.
Mr.. Huckleback found that 1t could be
bought for some $4,000. He figured that
he could get II for about % 900. or even less.
He employed one agent, who employed
another agent, who employed very high
toned agent, who finally secured the prop
erty at about that price.
But Mr.. Huckleback did not lose sight Of
the fact that he was still a house mover.
As nobody employed him to move house,
he proceeded to move one Of his own.
And II was after one particularly dark,
damp. foggy night, that Millionaire Hag-
gerry rose from his couch and rubbed his
eyes and gazed out upon the vacant lot next
door. And 1t was upon the same morning
that Mrs. Cradlebaugh did much the very
same thing.
The vacant lot was there all right-it
was all there, and something more besides.
That something was the house that Mr..
Huckleback had moved upon the lot that
he had purchased.
It was not q large house. 1t was, per-
haps. one story high, no more. There was
no attempt at style. 1t was Just q plain,
simple, ordinary everyday affair. And
upon the front Of Il, Just above the door,
there hung Q simple. unassuming sign: