Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-04-30

IOTL. NNA I ms sOuE uTSI 1 .
visit 10 the Cape?"
yves hardly know why I'm here
NV have been with the cable COM
,..,v nj their New York experimental
cation for some years, and the other
dsv the general manager called me into
bis office and told me l was expected
~ take the position of electrician here.
thought it might add to my expe-
rleuce. so / accepted"
.Humph! Did he say anything about
tho general liveliness of things around
the stauou|
Mr.. Hazeltine laughed. "Why.y he
answered. now that you speak of it. /
remember that ne began by asking me
n had any marked objection to pre-
mature burial"
Tho captain. chuckled. "The outer
beach in winter amt exactly a camp
meeting for sociableness," he said.
and the idea of that Bartlett boy tell
i'm you how to walk therew
us he a specimen of your Cape Cod
youngsters
mot exactly. He's a new shipment
from New York. Granddaughter of a
messmate of mine, Cap'n Perez RYDER.
| Perez. he's a bachelor, but his sisters
daughter married Teller named Bart
lett. Maybe you knew him. He used
to run tugboat in the sound"
MIR. HaZeltine, much amused, denied
the acquaintance.
well, spose you wouldn't, nat'ral-
w." continued the captain. Anyhow,
Perez's niece's husband died, and the
boy sort of run loose, as you might say.
Went to school when he had to and
raised Ned when he didn't near's l can
find out 'Lizabeth, that's his ma, died
last spring, and she made Perez prom
ise-he being the only relation the
youngster had-to fetch the boy down
here and sort of bring him up. Perez
knows as much about bringn' up
boy as a hen does about the Ten Com
mandments, and 'Lizabeth made him
promise not to lick the youngster and
a whole lot more foolishness. School
, don't commence here till October, so
, we got him job with Lem Mullett at
the liv'ry stable He's bOardin' with
| Lem till school opens. He amt reel
bad boy, but he knows too much bout
, some things and not ha'f enough bout
, others. You've seen fellers like that,
r maybe?"
q Hazeltine nodded. There are good
3 many of that kind in New York, I'm
afraid" he said
o Captain Fri smiled. II shouldn't
wonder" he observed. 1.-THE boys dowr
here think Josiahs the whole crew, anG
! the girls amt fur behind. There's beer
more deviltry in this village sence h'
landed than there ever was afore. III
II needs somethin', and needs it bad, blu
1 amt decided jest what it is yit. AR
:, you a married MANI"
= NO.
= "Same here. Never had the disease
Perez, he's had symptoms every once
> In awhile, but nothin' lastin'. Jerry's
the only one Of us three that's beer
:, through the mill. His wife dice
:, twenty year ago. 1 don't know as
= told you, but Jerry and Perez and m
. are keepin' house down by the shore
that is, we call it keepin' house, butt
Here the captain broke off an
seemed to mediate.
Ralph Hazeltine forbore to interrup
" and occupied himself by scrutinizin
Z the building that they were passin,
d They were nearing the center of II
nj town now, and the houses were close
" together than they had been on tt
/, depot road" but never so close as
AL be in the least crowded. There was
SN occasional shop, too, with signs iii
"A Cape Cod Variety Store" or Ell
Boston Dry Goods Emporium ov
their doors. On the platform of OF
IA a small crowd was gathered, and fro
III the interior came shouts Of Taught
ID and the sound of a tin-panny piano.
"That's the billiard saloon" volu
M teered Captain Fri, suddenly wakil
I'd from his trance. PLAY pool, Mr.. II
"A Eeltine?"
81 Sometimes
~ what dye play it with?"
M f'Why, with cue, generally spea
ing"
" THAT SO! Most of the fellers in the
not play it with their mouths Miss a 81
ght. and then spend the rest of the even
rgot tellin' how it happened Parker play
utter it considerable
city Il judge that your opinion of !
predecessor isn't high one."
ont "Who? Oh, Parker! He was
right in, his way. Good many 70
an in this town swore by him. l und
,use. stand the fellers over at the stat
D in thought he was about the ticket"
Iitin' Mr.. Langley included?''
ouse "Oh, Mr.. Langley, bein' manae
you had his own ideas, 1 spose! Lang
find don't play pool much, not at "
is" Saunders place anyhow. We turn
| set here"
They rolled up a long driveway, v
"Pm dark and Overgrown with trees, &
said. drew up at the back door of Ag
me-" sized TWO story house. There wa!
tain. light In the kitchen window.
flip Whoa, Dan1e' commanded the c
,nlr' tain. Then he began to shout IS
COM ahoyF' at the top of his lungs.
The Kitchen door 1vonoJ o~5 =, =,