The San Francisco call., 1905-06-18
wTELsH RABBITS are not good for little

vyTTELSH RABBITS are not good for little
NJ boys; hence and therefore, they are
w never allowed to eat them Thus very
few bows concern themselves about this strange
delcacy which is served to the old folks long after
the children have gone to BED and deep in the
shades of Dreamland.
I fancy many boy and girl imagines that
Welsh rabbit is merely variety of the common
animal which all have seen-with long ears, short
tail and a silly yet serious expression But no; 1t
is vastly different. 1t is a mess of melted cheese,
blistcring hot, poured over piece of toast, and
even old folks who eat il the late hours of the
night Will confess that they often dream of weird
and awful things when they get to sleep. Once,
after l had eaten two plates of this remarkable
dish, l dreamed that l was chased for miles by
train of cars like great serpent that ran swiftly
along the tops of fences, over barns and churches
and rivers, until, just 1t about to seize me,
awoke trembling with fright.
Now. very few boys curious to know what
such things are and how they made, but there
was a boy in our town, named Roger Coverly, who
had perfect passion for discovering things. When
anything unknown TO him mentioned Roger
began to ask questions, and, strange to say, he al
ways remembered the answers, also. Thus, when
he heard Dan Trout boasting of eating plates
of Welsh rabbit sitting, Roger curious to
know what sort of animal 1t was and how 1t
was cooked. What he learned remained in his
memory and long afterward the means of ex-
Treating a whole party of cAlpwrecked mariners,
travellers and missionaries from an awful fate.
Roger took a keen delight in searching for the
causes of things. He tracked the four-footed
beasts and the birds whenever he went abroad; he
read every story of wood lore and each tale of de-
tective's cunning with eager interest; in fact,
he ambitious TO become a Sherlock Holmes and
be able. by merely glancing at a footprint the
smuGge Of q bloody hand the wall, to say who
had committed the awful crime People often said,
must confess right here at the start, that he
3 pryirg nuisance at times, butting into matters
that didn't concern him at all IN his eagerness to
play the part of detective; yet more than once he
showed that IN him the making of real won
der if nothing adverse happened. 1t certain to
everybody in Riverside that he possessed of
fund Of general information far superior to that
of any boy in the village, and even the teacher
compelled to admit that he mighty smart for
his age" which was 13. He was often quoted in
the neghborhood for his cleverness Thus he gained
quite a reputation for smartness, which, after all
was but the result of studying things and remem-
bering what he saw.
Uncle Nose johnson used to tell with awe how
the boy had without a moments rejection, given
him an answer puzzling question. Uncle Nose
was an old colored man who weighed about three
hundred pounds and who made his living by carting
ashes. One day he stepped out doors TO find Roger
Coverly sitting a stone and staring at his little
frame cottage.
"'Mawnin', mawnin'," said the old man "Ain't
ye bin up purity early dis mawnin'!"