The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-08-20
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/ tant hills, ana When IL comes up
again | shall be miles away" OBJ.
served the bill clerk,
is that meant to be poetry in
quired the cashier. Distant hills
sounds poetic, but comes up again
falls a trine fiat If you said arises
in its dawn OF eastern splendor' or
something like that, 1t would sort OF
sustain the sentiment. You're lit
tie weak on poetry, Johnny Your
expressions. as a rule, are not so
felicitous as they might be- I'd let
it alone If | were you and stick to the
vsrnacuar. | suppose you mean that
you'll be starting for Bullhead pond
tomorrow morning"
Bass lake." corrected the bill
clerk. That's what I'll be on my
way and you'll be here in this swell
tering old hole wishing you were
along"
Il really do wish could go with
you, Johnny" said the cashier. "Of
course, the Office will be more toler.
able in certain respects after you've
gone but I'm not selfish and | feel
( that 1t would be we'll for you to have
me accompany you. Were you ever
at a summer resort before? Or per-
haps this isn't strictly what would
4 be called a summer resort
Perhaps it isn't" said the bill
4 clerk Perhaps the crystalline va
/ ters Of the lake don't mirror one Of
I the finest summer hotels on the con
tlnent and a water tobogsan slide.
Maybe there amt galaxy or two OF
nectarines from the proudest and
| palatialest homes in Chicago punched
I'D there for the summer. Maybe
/ there's no such thing as a lovers
lane in the neighborhood Oh, guess
Us squalid around there and there
won't be anything doing when ar
rive"
! Il fear me there will, That's why |
/ feel sorry for you said the cashier.
pityingly. Il know what fond visions
you're entertaining and | know what
! you are going up against as You
| would say. You're going 10 find n
yeranda full of maidens pining for
male society who will shoot arch,
| coquettish glances at YOU.
Then the struggle begins-the
/ struggle between the young women,
of course. They sit around you on
/ camp stools, while you lie in a ham
mock, tanning the mosquitoes away
/ from you But there is one who holds
aloOf from the throng. She is simply
gowned in some soft white stuff and
wears rose in her dusky cOronal OF
hair. You are slightly piqued by her
apparent indifference and, finding her
alone in a bosky dell in the course Of
one of your morning rambles, you en-
gage her in conversation You ply
her with gay badlnage, but she seems
| 10 object to that. You know | do
| myself very often. so perhaps 1t isn't
so much OF a surprise to You But
she thinks that you ought to have a
more serious, earnest role in life than
that of a mere society butterfly,
she discovers qualities in you that
should make you great and famous
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as Indifferent to you as she has
seemed and Is minutes later, after
she has promised to be yours, you
find that she is the idolized and only
daughter of Billkins the inhibition
are. That's your programme, isn't
il, Johnny"
Well, stranger things have hap
pened," said the bill clerk. III
proposition like that was pushed al
me | don't say that ! would pass i
up-not without giving it little
thought To be square with you,
don't believe thai there's any one q
the bevy down there that's due t.
corner more than few hundred thou
sand. If | was dead sure ! could ge
out a little lady with that sized bunch
though, / think I'd send in my resig
nation to the office
Well, hold on to it for awhile,
. advised the cashier. You're goin
down there to find that you had bee
mislnformed about the rates and tina
the best they can do for you for
cot under the shingles is 81 per dier
and the genial landlord will act a
, / If he'd much rather you didn't accet
( lis liberal offer. You'll wander on
A on the veranda and you'll have
poorer opinion of your IS outing SUI
almost Immediately. The girls vi
be there, but they won't know ths
, you are there because they will b
. too busy with some gilded youths wh
seem TO think they own the earth an
R, are, moreover, disgustingly fresh an
. absolutely idiotic, There will be
, schoolmaam. 80 years Of age, sta,
, ing there with her mamma and
three days you'll consider yourse
privileged il YOU are allowed to tai
the ladies boat riding and buy Il
b, cream for them in the village drJ
:, store"
" THAT settles it" said the bill cler
- Il won't go
81 was only Joking, Johnny" pr
tested the cashier Maybe 1t WOE
be so bad as all that"
Maybe It won't if YOU say So
said the bill clerk. Perhaps, a.
said. there isn't a giddy whirl dow