New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-13

rsrs.lv imaginary. I End. since I've used up my
cold cream. but yet sufficiently present at the time
TO make it not diffcalt to recall stolen bath IN
a stream dangerously the civilization OF
o,,oee some iraprudent gulps OF water from under
rocks and a badly timed rest after Quogue found
me seven miles from Good Ground at shutdown,
well nigh smbitionless and prore TO quick eXclala
ton BY easy stages l made Good Ground before
startime-thirty miles since morning or ninety
miles for the three days.
There l found a good bed-Long Island is full
Of good beds IL you can't muster strength 10 hunt
FOR the Jumps in them. Charges are dow, even II
you do leave not immodest pile Of sand and
specimens Of the rock formation which you pour
from your shoes before retiring
The fourth and last day. at peace with my
stomach-tbough with slight drumming. at first.
in the smallest Of my Les muscles-I breakfasted by
choice in the kitchen at with the proprietor and
his wife before their children had descended
Error led me 10 believe I had only twenty-four
miles to go With the dawning Of thirty-four
miles as my real distance Montauk l waived all
objection TO track walking. stepped between dew
snlashed rails and limited my entire range OF
thought TO the furthest. straight ahead horizon.
became unouly serious predisposed 70 pesslnlsIn
and combatiye Luckily, my legs ATTENDED TO ous ,i
ness. A stun western vino got up Dehind me- neu-
Trailing a hot sun. A blister that had done its
share OF clamoring the day before became less
aggressive under the Impetus Of freshened blood;
Crossing the canal in the sand hills, past the
sionaries. and the weatherbeaten hguEehead Of the
warship Ohio, the Peconic Bay on ne Iett III
cock dunes following suit
More and more sturdv blew the west wind
until a raised umbrella made more satisfactory
stin the fascination OF the going. A lone golf
PLAYER sliced his hail in his efforts TO
The exact spotentiality Of that umbrella. It's as
sigtance was marvellous. and. I have no fear will
not be disallowed in the consciences Of all fair
minded sportsnen-
.sSoythampton's radiance nearly decided to
tack shin. Not that Southampton folk would have
risen as a unit open its gates at such last maj
hour 10 receive without my celluloid collar
lint the town has its odtme heroes, II nothing
else But my nearest kin were miles behind
train going to Montauk. and / had no intention of
meeting relief parties from that point coming in
,sIVater Mil Bridgehampton. Sagaponack and
Wairecott dropped alec before / rehoolzed my UNI
brella 10 nv belt IL the poetry OF notion
but nv arm was tired. I had done twenty miles.
AT 'Easthamptoa ! should have had luncheon
with friends but friends abjured. An old cOlored
woman equipped me with a boiled dinner. After
AmaRansett came fourteen miles OF sombre sand
dunes with heat wells topping the SUBMITS. with
no moving air, no absence OF mosquitoes and a
footing that had variety and small comfort.
Higher wooded ground promised wind. but the
ocean a stones throw my right, pounded
ONO its beaches Of it's own momentum and not
FROM any announcement OF longed-for cooling
winds
At times felt I'm duty bound to instruct with
undue force OF tongue and blows the ethics of the
road 20 a chatty group Of experienced mosquitoes.
hut nv efforts proving barren of important re-
suits. / fell back on another pet theory OF giving