The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-18
THE EVENING yTOR r
1vhen Bunny was Bnnped.
(By Leslie Train.)

III
Bunny Travers was not bad fellow.
On the contrary, everybody liked him
and everybody said it was TOO bad that
he had money and had spent six
months in London to learn the ways OF
an ass One day when the subject of
the up-to-date girl was on the carpet
Bunny listened for awhile with a
bored air and then observed:
Its all theory. She cawn't be
found. We knaw. They are the same
old languishtng lot. Just lot of gurls,
with their giggle and twaddle and
waiting for a proposal. AS may have
remarked before. they bore me-bore
me dWeadfully. WEAKLY, but I think
shall have to cut the whole lot OF
then.''
Among those who regarded Bunny
as an asinine good fellow was Burt
Galbraith, the young partner in a
downtown brokerage firm. He had a
wife and home on the north shore of
Long Island, and his sister, Nettie,
lived with them. AS he listened to
Bunny's observations a smile lowered
around his mouth, and that night
when he got home he said to the sis
ter:
''Say, Net, we've got a Teller in the
Clipper club that needs humping, and
he needs it bad. I am going to invite
him down to stay for a week."
What for2" was asked.
so that you can bump him. He
doesn't believe there's an up-to-date
girl in America
Bunny baked a little when invited
down to the Island home. He was at
last prevailed upon, however, and one
Monday afternoon he was safely land
ed at Rayensrest. Half an hour later
Miss Ncttie was dressed for a spin in
her brothers auto and informed the
visitor that a twenty mile ride was on
thu cards. If it would bore him
why"
mot in the least. me deah. CURL.
rawther fawncy the thing, doncher
knaw. or think I should If there was
any speed in it. If you can assure me
of twenty miles an hour I shall be
positively chawmed.'
He was quietly assured, and after the
machine got well started he found the
assurance well founded. Bunny began
to get nervous after the speed exceeded
fifteen miles an hour, but he managed
to restrain himself until it had reached
twenty-five. Then his hat blew off, his
hair stood up and there was a culver
to his voice as he turned to the girl and
said:
+ ss.Oh, now. but I thought we came out
to see the landscape doncher knaw."
Farmers began to yell, dogs to bark
and drivers of teams to draw out to the
fences as the speed was raised to thir-
ty- miles an hour, and Bunny Travers
confessed to himself that for the first
time In two years he wasn't bored. The
pace went to thirty-five and then to
forty, and he finally judged that it had
gone to a hundred and the auto was fly
ing above the trees. Then it slackened
as they entered village and the girl
steered the machine up one streot and
down another and finally halted before
the office of a justice of the peace. A
benign looking old gentleman came out
and the girl handed him five dollars.
Now, then, what's all this?" asked
Bunny as Miss Nettie was turning the
machine about. a--
ooh, whenever I exceed the speed
limit stop and pay a fine. They don
have to arrest me and have witnesses
and a trial. Saves time and carries out
the. letter of the law. you know. Little
Invention, Of my own, and am think
ing OF taking out a patent. III try 7for
a mile a minute going back"
Bunny groaned. To his utter amaze
ment. he was not in the least bored
On the contrary ne was anxious to sug-
gest that Miss Nettie accept a check for
one thousand dollars for the benefit OF
charity and allow him to walk homa-
Before he could state the case, however,
the machine was under way. w men
thew reached home the girl found
bundle of clothes in the seat beside
her. After a while Bunny Travers
emerged from the bundle ana SAID thae
he was a changed man.
An hour after breakfast next morn
ing. when Bunny had finished his ell
wouldn't like to have bout with the
fotls. He smiled incredulously, put
she asked him to follow her to the Dill
lard room and there produced a PAIR
of foils Here was his opportunity to
get even with her for the scare of the
day before. He would disarm her
three or four times and wound her
vanity It was Bunny, however, who
was pinked and disarmed and driven
around the room and made to look
"a Cd farnnnT7
rainy and Miss Nettie proposed Dill
lizards and pool Bunny began by Civ
ing her twenty on billiards and -FOUR
balls on pool, and in the course OF
three hours found that she could give
him all that and then win every game
Newt morning he got up to wonder
what was coming. He soon found out
There was a cracking good salIlng
breeze and the whitecaps We're run
ming on the Sound. When MISS Nettle
proposed a sail in her catDoat sunny
looked at those whftecaps for long
minute and shivers ran up his back.
He followed her down to the Doal
landing, however, and did his pest 10
appear Indifferent. The girl ho1Sted the
saii took q reef in it, and then shipped
the tfller. and the visitor was asked to
sit arnidship and trim the craft When
half a mile out and just after the fifth
barrel of spray had struck him IN the
back he said som ething about having
an important engagement IN the CITY
but the boat did not cease to bounce
nor the spray to fly for nearly an hour
later. Miss Nettie was also sopping
wet and her hair flying, but she was
humping Bunny. On approaching the
landing she rounded into the wind.
held fast to the sheet and yelled out as
-, = hoa+ turned turtle. She was along
side Of him as he came up, sputtering
and gasping, and as she reached out
! hand and drew him to the over
turned boat she said:
Hang on here and we shaH be
;. bath while we are about it. Hope
YOU are enjoying yourself"
When Bunny went to his room for
the night he was almost ready to ad-