The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-05
Our Daily Sbcri Story


 al, aoout. You might ring for a servant"
 Then he went down to the river and
 wssheo up his pans. after which he gather
 ee tosetner . lot of boughs over which he
 ,nrsw blanket. Soon he was snoring
 ,1nuly ua while Ethel was sobbing passionateiy. naroio was swearing violently and Mrs. Bertrand was sitting dazed.
 the morning when Dennison arose he
 hoteo with chuckle that they were all -stp usAe svA suL f'auspIseId sV2 Ao asleep on piles of boushs and leaves. He took his rod and soon brought back
 mess of fine fish and proceeded to cook his breakfast. after which he took his gun and went into the forest When he return ed about noon. with a half dozen wild ducks, he saw that another fire had been
 Also that the tents were spread out and
 an effort apparently had been made to pitch them.
 Nobody spoke to him. He fixed fire, picked and cleaned one of his birds. cooked and ate it. Then he lighted his pipe and lay down under the trees.
 Harold presently came from the river with 8 couple Of fish and Ethsl bestirred l herself to make a fire. Pm tired of fish," complained Harold. Try a duck" sang out Dennison. point ing to his game.
 Harold looked eager but Ethel repressed him and nobody spoke to him. She cleaned the fish and put them in the spider He could smell them burning and when they tried to eat them Dennison could hear their loud complaining.
 Later in the afternoon while Dennison still lay on the grass reading a novel, Ethel came to him with red eyes that told | of weeping
 "wili you help us put up a tent please7" | she said with scarlet cheeks. We don't know how"
 He Ieaped to his feet and in a few mo | ments two tents were pitched and Dennison had fixed up two comfortable beds in each. As he worked he rattled along talking cheerfully.
 "I got a fine wild turkey this morning" !" | he said as they finished their work. If you ladies will clean 1t and Harold will fix
 fire will roast it and make some bis | cults"
 | Ethel started to refuse hotly tut the piti- | full expressions on the faces of her mother
 and brother caused her to reconsider and l she went meekiy to work picking feathers | out of the turkey.
 | same only the party worked more and more ] in harmony until they had everything thoroughly organized and everybody's du- ties defined and attended to- As soon as the others showed a disposition to be fair. Dennison went to work with a Will and they l lived on the fat of the land. It was ten days after they landed that Peters broke in on the spirit of their dreams with wagons to take them back. To Dennisons scoidng he said that he had fol- lowed the boat for two days and then 1t took him four days to get back to Pine Hill | and then when he started out he lost the way Hawkins had done. When they broke camp Ethel came to Dennison and said: T have had the best time of my life and have learned a great iesson-that nothing | Is SO sweet as that which you work for yourself. was an awful prig when we I came here. want to thank you for show | ing 1t to me"
 Dennison looked very innocent and ex- postulated that she did herself an injus- | tice. hut when he came to pay Peters and | Hawkins he doubled the amount and whis- | pered exultantly:
 l Tt worked like a charm" Then he cursed them roundly and loudly | for incompetent blunderers until Ethel 1 came to plead for them.