Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-02-13
THE SPENDERS
Copyright. by Lo.hrop Publishing Company.
X TALE OF THE THIRD GENERATION
By HARRY LEON WILSON


 "a well-knOwn man about town is something that wants to be done in moderation. and Henry didn't seem to know the meaning of the word. put up something like $1s0,00O for Hanks gliding last year. Not that grudged him the money. but it wasn't doing him any good. He was making mon key of himself with it. Henry was. A good bit of that hundred and eighty wen, into comic opera company that was one of the worst I ever did see. Henry had no judgment. He was too easy. We'll. along this summer he was on the point of making break that would-well, II says to him. says I: Hank, I'm no penny-squeezer; I like good stretchy legs myself I says; I like to see them elastic so they'll give a plenty when they're pulled; but, I says, If you take that step I says. if you declare yourself. then the rub Der in your legs I says. will just nat urally snap; you'll find you've over played the tension says. and there won't be any more stretch left in them.
 ''The secret is, Hank was being chased by whole family of wolves that's the gist of it-fortune hunters with tushes like the ravening lion in Aries gloomy jungle. They were not only cold. stone broke. mind you. but hyenas into the bargain-the fa- ther and the mother and the girl. too.
 They'd got their minds made up to marry the girl to good wad of money and they'll do it. too. sooner or later. because she's a corker for looks, all right-and they'd all made dead set for Hank; so, quick as saw how it was. I says. Here I says, is where I save my son and heir from passel of butchers. I says, before they have him scalded and dressed and hung up outside the shop for the holiday trade. : I says. with the red paper rosettes stuck in Henry's chest. says
 Are the New York girls so design lng?" asked Percival
 "Is Higbee's ham good to eat?" re- piled Higbee, oracularly.
 "So.' he continued. when made up my mind to put my foot down I just casually mentioned to the old lady say. she's got an eye that would make liquid air shiver-that cold blue like an army overcoat-well. I mentioned to her that Henry was a spendthrift and that he wasn't ever going to get another cent from me that he didn't earn just the same as if he wasn't any relation of mine made it plain. you bet: she found just where little Henry boy stood with his kind-hearted, lib- eral old father.
 Say, maybe Henry wasn't in cold storage with the whole family from that moment. l see those fellows in the laboratories are puttering around just now trying to get the absolute zero of temperature-say. Henry got is. and he don't know a thing about chem istry.
 Then I jounced Hank I proceeded to let him know he was up against 1t right close up against it. so you couldn't see daylight between 'em. 'You're 25. says. and you play the best game of pool. I'm told, of any Of the chappies in that Father-Made the-Money club you got into says: but I've looked it up, says. and there ain't really what you could call any great futurefor a pool champion I says. and if you're ever going to learn anything else. it's time you was at it. says. Now you go back home and tell the manager to set you to work says. and your wages won't be big enough to make you interesting 10 any skirt-dancer. either. says. And you make study of the hog from the ground up. Exhaust his possibili- ties just like your father done. and make a man of yourself. and then some time 1 says. you'll be able to give good medicine to a cub of your own when Ee needs it.
 And how did poor Henry take all that?"
 Well, Hank squealed at first like he was getting the knife; but finally when he see he was up against it. and especially when he see kpw this girl and her family throwed him down the elevator shaft from the tenth story. why. he come around beautifully. He's