The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-03
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way; the drop; or the rise; would be interim,
nable. Come to reason it out. you would
likely change places with your shadow In
the wet and die among tho fish.
Some Of the girls get lonesome In . canoe
alone: also, some are afraid and have to be
held in; and there are others-well. as
said We have taken to the writing OF linn
ericks here In the Adirondacks this
summer
There was young gin whom eanoe'ng
Impressed ~ thing not worth doias'
She thought II was stupid
Till along came Dan Cupid
And taught her 10 make II canoodlingl
With ordinary care on girls part there e
no place on earth more favored by Cupid
than an Adirondack camp. fellow may
have futtered around her at . ball In town
like a moth around q candle, but here IN
the woods he nies right into the flame
There's nothing that a smart. New York
girl wouldn't do short OF cutting her bead
of rather than be seen 'spooning. She
avoids tete-A-tAtes in q shadow on town
occasions. She. never sits with man at
the dark end OF hotel veranda in the
country. She wouldn't admit that she
know a coy corner II she fell into one.
Such things are not for such girl as she
However, the Adirondacks are the cozy
corner OF the earth.
Adirondack guides hides. as far as have
seen, are tanned to leather, and not such
piable leather as our slippers are made OF,
but like that which Is put into the soles OF
brogans. Whatever expression one OF
these fellows faces settles into In the proc
ess of tanning, It becomes fxed for life.
1t may be frown, 1t may be smile-it
may be in accord with the mans disposition,
but whatever it's he can't modify 1t, 30 he
has to scowl at weddings, grin at funerals
and everywhere wear unalterably the grim
ace that has hardened into rigidity. So
you have to guess, for. you can't know,
what one OF those weatherbeaten guides
, is thinking. y fancy that We amuse them,
and that after showing US in the summer
E.how to fish and In the autumn how to hunt
| they form winter orioles around red hot
stoves and tell one another bout tn burned
GURUS things they've seed us do. But they
seldom betray surprise or curiosity at the
| time.
.straddle bugs. b'gosh!' the usually silent
| old Bob Bann CALCULATED.
| The sight that startled him was horse
back party in which there were girls, but
| no side saddles.
DON'T imagine because Tell you mat tne
girls mount horses just like men-whioh is
to say astrideL that they arc thereby ex-
plotting themselves. No. They are not
even doing an exclusively smart set thing.
The straddle bugs, as old Bob Bann called
the first party Of us he saw on both sides Of
our horses, are become. too numerous to
astonish the natives. Taking it from old
Bob's nickname. an equestfienne trip is
now called straddle bugging. The bellies
Of the hotels, too, have taken to divided
skirts for horseback. and the fashion is
already 30 general In the Adirondacks
that at most Of the livery stables 1t Is hard
to hire horse with side s4ddle-the own
ers being glad to rid their horses of the
hard work Of carrying unbalanced burdens.
OF course 1t Is q sensible change, but it
feels odd at first not to hang to q saddle
by hitching one knee over peg. But
There was an old horse named Skedaddle
Who owned that he mourned the side saddle:
For" said he, II can't tell
n It's beau or belle.
Since girls now all ride astride -straddle."