The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-22
ssAND WENT DOWN THE BEACH FLYING"

.AND WENT DOWN THE BEACH FLYING
the knees, give him lift, pitch, and
a whirl all in one, and I bet he hit the
ground hardin N I did when Johnnie
Mack s Jersey bull tossed me over the
fence last summer. $780,
: "iWhat! Didn It you hear Of that
timef I Oh, [ ), forget 1 crossed a;a ai ny
and and neither Of us did, e or ~ you would
know all about it, but she s married
now, and it don't count, SO I'll tell
you Who's she? Why Miss Birchem,
the schoolma am. The pretty one, don It
5syou remember her? Same one that
Billy tried to fool by putting on his
baseball pants hindsidebefore, and she
caught on and made him, well never
mind what She made him do
s. The Kid is rather startling in his
frankness at tiufes; suffice it to say
that Miss Birehem saw toF it that the
application of justice was unimpeded
by the artful hindrance devised by
sWen, you remember that she had
beaux till you ean1tsrest. The dry goods
man, the lawyer, one Of the ministers,
and whole lot more town fellows was
after her, and she played the whole
mob for suckers and married that fel-,
low that went with. me and shot the.
storya A No. gst{ng J assag aoa q ay
and I'll put you wise to thea whole,
thing. !
You know last summer there was
a whole 'lot of town folks out to John
ME Mack $ place at Big Lake, and
Miss Birchem she stopped there for a
while before she went home where she
lives, I forget the name Of the place,
and every two or three nights in the
crowd Of fellows out there from town,
all Of 'em pretending they come out to
fish, or row on the lake, or any old ex-
cuse they could think of, but all Of
them after her like. bees after, honey.
She played 'em all to the queen 8 taste,
too, and got enough candy and truck
from that gang to set up confection-
l,ery. Say! Do you think a girl can eat
more candy than a circus elephant
Il III bet one can and never half try, Ell
Sther. But there was one fellow stop.
ping at Johnnie's right along, and he
got ahead of the town push all right
all right. He could play all kinds OF
sissy games like golf and tennis and
such foolishness, and he had different
clothes to play each one Of .em in, but
he was so green some ways it's won
der the cows didn It eat him.
But he was onto his job with girls
you bet, and it wasn't long before the
town crowd tumbled to that, and when
they did they was seheming right along
to put UP a Job on him that would make
the girls give him the laugh. But they
WASH It smart enough to make the riff
fe, so they. come to me and Billy anc
offered us FIVE apiece if we would put
it all over the strange chap SO s. he ID be
'shamed right out of the place. They
said we were the very boys could do i
up brown, and we would, too, hadn't
been for the darndest luck you ever
SheaTd of. You know the big, high dock
Johnnie IS got at the lake front, SO big
he can run his boats under it and take
wind. Well, this fellow and Mis-
Birchem they got to going down there
evenings and making a bluff at fishing
off the dock. in about three feet Of wa
ter. They never caught anything, anC
any fool'd know they couldn t., bu
they kept at 1T. all the same, and that
give Billy an idea.-
He went to town and got a. whalin
big dried Goldfish and fetched it out, AMI
ing trunks, and got under the dock be
fore they come down to fish, takin
the cod fish with him, while I put thu
other fellows on to- come down and may
be there'd be some fun. Sure enough
Y the two got to fshin' as usual, and thel
down come all the rest of the folks, AM
then ] stamped three times on the docl
to let Billy know it was time to ge
busy. The city. fellow WASH It paying
much attention to his line just then
and Billy easy drew it to him
forked stick, and hooked on the Goldfish
Then he give a tug on the line, an,
danced and jumped about like ther
was a regular whale hooked. The MAJ
reeled away for dear life, and playe'
IL Billy very scientific, and Vefythin'
would have worked all right, Blu