The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-24

On the morning of our hurried pack
/ up and get away from Luxor we lost
( Mr.. Peasley. 1t was a half hour be
/ fore the sailing of the boat, and we
were attempting TO lock trunks. call
in the DOrters. give directions as to
forwarding mail and tip everybody ex-
cept the proprietor all at the same
time.
: This eXcruciatiug crisis comes with
every departure. The fear OF missing
E the boat, the lurking suspicion that
: several articles have been left in lower
drawers or under the sofa. the dread
p Of overlooking some worthy mental
who IS entitled TO baksheesh, the un-
easy conviction that the bill contains
several Overcharges-all these combine
10 produce a mental condition about
halt way between plain ''rattIes'' and
female hysteria. And then, to add to
the horror of the situation, Mr.. Peas
ley had disappeared.
All hands were needed-One to boss
the pOrteTs, another TO round I'D the
tippees, another to audit the charges
for extras" another to make final
search for razor strOps and hot water
bags tOf which We had left a trail
from Chicago to Cairo. Instead of at
tending 10 these really important du-
ties we were Looping madly about the
hotel looking for PeGsIey. We asked
one another why we had invited him
10 join the party. We called him all
the names that we had invented on the
trip TO fit his unusual personality. One
Of these was a fiat headed fush''
don't know what flush" is. but the
more YOU study it and repeat it over
10 yourself the more horrible becomes
the full significance of the word Also
we called him ''SWOZZie - which
means a chump who has gone on and
on, exploring the fUrthermOst regions
cf idiocy. until even his most daring
companions are left far behind We
called Nj. Peasley a wall eyed spin
go the latter being q muIIet that has
lost all sense of shame. Ordinary abuse
and profanity became weak and inef-
fective when pitted against words of
this scathing nature
Reader, If you have a lifelong friend
and you feel reasonably sure that YOU
never could quarrel with him or be out
of patience with him or find fault with
any of his small peculiarities. 20 on a
long trip with him in foreign lands
You viii be together so much of the
time that finally each viii begin to
hate the sight of the other There viii
come off days. fTaught with petty an
uoyances- when each viii have a fret
full desire to hurI cameras and suit
cases at his beloved playmate. Sup
pose your lifelong friend has some lit
tie eccentTicity of manner or speech. /
some slight irTegularity Of behavior
at the table or q perverted and stub
born conviction which reveals itself in
every controversy. You may have over
looked this defect for years because you
met him only at intervals. but when
YOU begin to camp with MIN YOU dis
cover every one of his shining faults
And how they do get on your nerves, /
Next TO matrimOny, perhaps travelling
together is the most severe test Of COM
patibillty
We liked Mr.. PeasIey. Looking back
over the trip. we can well believe that
the expedition would have been rather /
tame If deprived OF his cheering pres /
euce- But he was so full of initiative
and SO given to discovering byways Of /
adventure that he was always breaking I
in on the programme and starting little I
excursions OF his own. He was very I
hard man to mobilize. If we had sol /
emily agreed TO get together for lunch I
con at l o'clock, three of Us would be 4
waiting at the food garage while Mr.. 4
PeaSley would b. a mile away. trying 4
to buy a 81 Abyssinian war shield for /
$40.
And where do you suppose ne was
on the morning we were making our
frenzied departure from LUXOR we /
found him i'm the barber shop. having /
his hair cut, A native stood alongside
of him, brushing away the flies. The
barber, a curly Italian. had ceased .
work when we came in. and encour-
aged by the questions of Mr. Peasley.
was describing the Bay of Naples.
pointing out Capri. Sorrento Vesuve
and other points Of interest. with a
comb in one hand and par Of scis-
sOrs in the other. This barber had made
an indelible impression on Mr.. Peas
ley, because of his name. which was
Signor Mosquito. Mr.. PeasIey said he
didn't see how any Cne With a name
like thai could live
We lined up in front OF Dir. PeasIey