Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1907-01-16
UNCLE PETER BINES THREATEN
TO RAISE SOMETHING

scribed evening regalia of gentlemen.
and yearning for the distinguished
effect OF its black and white elegance
upon himself
They went to their connecting rooms
and Billy Brue regretfully sought his
bed, marveling how free people in a
town like New York could ever bring
themselves to waste time In sleep. AS
he dozed off, he could hear the slow.
measured tread OF Uncle Peter pacing
the floor in the next room.
He was awakened by hearing his
name called. Uncle Peter stood in a
flood of light at the door of his room.
He was fully dressed
Awake, Billy?"
us it gittin'-up timer"
The old man came into the room and
lighted gas jet. He looked at his
watch.
No; only a quarter to four. I amt
been TO bed yet"
Billy Brue sat up and rubbed his
eyes.
Rheumatic again, Uncle Peter?"
No; 1 been thinkin Billy. How do
you like the game?"
He began to pace the floor again
from one room to the other.
What game?" Billy Brue had en-
countered a number in New York.
"This whole game-livin' in New
York"
Mr.. Brue became judicial.
ITS a good game as long as you
got money to buy chips Id hate like
darnation to go broke here. All the
pay-claims have been located. | guess"
Il doubt it's bein' a good game any
time, Billy. l been actin as kind of
lookout now fur about 40 days and
40 nights, and the chances is all in
favor Of the house. You don't even
get half your money on the high card
when the splits come"
Billy Brue pondered this sentiment.
1t was not his own.
The United States of America is all
right, Billy"
This was safe ground.
"Sure!" His mind reverted to the
evening just past. "Of course there
was couple of Clarences in high col
lars there tonight that made out like
they was THROWN it down; but they
amt the whole thing, not by a long
shot"
Yes, and that young shrimp that
was talkin' about vintages' and
'trouserings.' The old man paused
in his walk
what are 'trouserings,' Billy"
Mr.. Brue had not looked into shop
windows day after day without enlarg-
ing his knowledge.
Trouserings," he proclaimed. rather
| Importantly, lis the cloth they make
pants out Of"
oh! is that all? | didn't know but
1t might be some new kind of buds.
And that fellow don't ever get I'D till
IL o'clock a. m. don't reckon I
would myself IL didn't have anything
but trouserings and vintages to worry
about And that Van Arsdel BOY"
Say said Billy, with enthusiasm.
l never thought Id be even in the
same room with one Of that family
less | priced open the door with a
Jimmy"
We'll, who's he? My father knew
his grandfather when he KEEP tavern
over on the Raritan river, and his
grandmother!-this shrimp's grand
mother,-she tended bar"
"Gee."
Yes, they KEEP tavern, and the old
lady passed the rum bottle over the
bar, and took in the greasy money.
This here fellow, now, couldn't make
an honest Twin like that. I bet you.
Hes like a dog breeder would say
got the pedigree, but not the points"
Mr. Brue emitted a high, throaty
glgge.
But they amt all like that here.
| Uncle Peter. Say, you come out with
me some night jest in your workin'
clothes. l can show you people all
right that won't ask to sec your union
card. Say, on the dead, Uncle Peter.
1 wish you'd come. There's a lady
! perfessor I'm dime museum right
down here on Fourteenth street that
eats fire and juggle5 the big snakes
say she's got a complexion"
! There's enough like that kind
though interrupted Uncle Peter 81
could take a double-barrel shotgun I'D
10 that hotel and get nine with each
barrel around in them Railways: the
shot wouldn't have 10 be rammcd.
either, twouldn't have to scatter so
/ blamed much"
oh, well, them society sports
there's got to be some OF them"
Yes, and the way they make 'em
reminds me Of what Dial Mutzlg tells