The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-11

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,rJ U.ttr actuioacod Mira Mcneil
g%sr.,t .n lniln and smoothing Gnotglo's
.ir nI.. f.nIly 't,w could Uepfaic ErI
tI.n N s.tt bach from the Office In The
evening # ,o tl wont away"
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4 . ~ Il your agr with q keyl' OK.
c-im.I Nrs Mcneil aghaat Not til
you,a grown up, Georgia william.
bayr y.i r,u"mhernd to put In the fan
rs.1 SIS t,I-n ia pretty FAR north. YOU
krov Don't forget your overcoat, william.
and your bedroom slippers, And for
msrrr -.t.-. William, remember your
medicine 'uno Here are some cigars |
bought f., you to-day, but remember, only
three q day And try to make room for this
boltio 0f belfast ginger ale /"
'Gol d.rg Dt'' said Uncle Billy. i've only
room moss for Some rheumatic medicine
want - get down on Fulton street. For
heaven axe. don't lift that shirt he cried
with alarm. A. Mrs. Mcneil approached the
vahs, And when the danger had passed
and Uncle Billy sqnk back in his chair fan
ming himself fev'rishly he explained tina I
be had the shirt just in the right place and
didn't want TO pack all over again.
Uncle Billy said good-by to his family
and his contracting business on Wednss-
day morning and got on the cars for SYRIA
cuse in safety. What hlppened to him
in Syracuse after hat is vague. Their,
was not a ripple in the home atmosphere
Of Brooklyn. however, till rumors relched
Hawthorne street that Uncle Billy Ind
been elected an honorary emb Of thu
Bachelor Maids Club of Syracuse and
that the initiation consisted of allopathic
doses of osculltion.
Honorary, eh?" shifted Mrs. Mcneil
when a dear friend and neighbor brought
In the news Sure it wasn't o%rnery?"
Now, if Uncle Billy had merely kissed
bis niece, the bride, perhaps his absence
In the New York papers. But Uncle Billy
went further, He kissed Ethel Burt Pelrl
Cole, Mae Cole, Mary Gallagher, Thirza
Rsville, Gertrude Reville, Elizabeth Regan,
Minnie Smithler, Laura Edwards. Dolly
Denorest, Beulah Shattuck, Carrie Kinney,
Elsie Villains, Lulu Lee, Evangeline Hickey
and Mae Chamberlin.
Then he kissed Mae Chamberlin, Evange-
line Hickey, Lulu Lee, Elsie Williams,
Carrie Kinney, and so on back over the
List till he came to the head Of the line again.
Early yesterday morning Mrs. Mcneil took
Der station on the front porch and waited.
When Uncle Billy arrived n skipped
gayly up the front steps just filled with
parts Of the news Of the wedding his wife
was rocking gently back and forth, her
hands calmly crossed on her lap.
Welcome to our city, Bill, said George
with feeling-he told the reporter yester-
day that he always calls his father Bill TO
make him feel he is still one Of the boys
and he clasped Uncle Billy's hand in adj
miration. I've heard Of your work, Bill,
III dill pOlu IL a a III VIA .
the fare to SyracuseP"
Mrs. Mcneil rocked gently.
I'll always have a secret borrow, the
greatest grief of my life-the fact that ]
didn't go to Cousin Ethel's wedding with
Bill, continued George while Uncle Billy's
smile slowly sputtered and went out. why
don't you let mother and me see your Pache-
br Club pin, Bill? Lose it on the train?
Cap'n Hobson, please permit me to present
Mrs. William Mcneil George concluded
o. he retired up stage.
Mrs. Mcneil slowly rose from her chair.
Out on a hot corner OF the porch the Their
mometer was climbing high and higher.
but Uncle Billy was beginning to feel 6
daught.
I'm charmed to meet, you, captain
began Mrs. Mcneil evenly. Wont you
step inside and be seated? George will
wait out here on the porch And as Mrs.
Mcneil began to unroll a clipping from a
morning pc per, dated Syracuse, and led
Uncle Billy toward the dining room. in which
there is a door that opens on a path to the
wooishei, George silently clasped Uncle
BUY hand as who would say, i've been
there. old man. I've been there"
What was said inside the house during
the next h,lf hour will never be known.
Mrs. Mcneil would not tell and all George
could make out YVES that one one within
vas clrrying on a soprano monologue,
George might have learned later from
Uncle Billy. but q few minutes after the
nonologue came to an end Uncle Billy
remembered th.t he had simply a powerful
lot Of business to look after around Brook
En yesterd " and left the house hurriedly.
Uncle Billy returned about half past
o'clock. George and his mother had
expected him to sneak in the back way
and go up the kitchen stairs to bed, but
instead he came spr5ly in the front gate
end announced that his springy step was
que partly to youth but principally be-
Cause Of several doses OF ~rheumatiz medi-
ane he had had during the day. He he'd
tot his crestfallen look, much to Georges
dAppointment.
It's on me, Bill" George exclaimed to
MS father. "An this stuff we told you this
morning was just a little stunt ! cooked
" and then coached mother up in her lines.
" course mother doesn't care becau se you
PISSED a lot Of girls we've known all our
ives. I'd do it myself, Bill, II it killed
neIthough a boy OF my age doesn't care
70 be kissed by a bunch Of girls. Forget
H. 1t was only a joke"
Georgie's admonition to forget 1t was
intreIy unnecessary, as Uncle Billy was
M most happy frame Of MIND.
boy many reporters were here to.
oSay'' asked Uncle Billy "Ten? Hooray!
veorge, skin over and ask the Jenkinses
Snd the Millses and Mike Mulvey and the
nnelingtons-no, they're prohibition-the
uampbells and tell 'em l am about to open
spmething. just tonight I remembered
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