The San Francisco call., 1908-12-20

recognize my ski
'Isrie! interrupted Miss James. with severity,
there gentlemen present"
can't get out of my head" said Joey. begin
ming paint renewed ardor. Poor little devil.
10 ought the park with skating head
foremost into grownup breadbaskets and making the
piercing noises of happy infancy It's all darned
wrong, I'm going become anarchists red.
hairy reviling, maniaca bomb throwing Through
the-smoke-in the act of-escaping anarchist"
a little lost dog who had followed Of
them home Boy Bright could not have snugged more
contentedly the lives Of these four people. His
boyish. hungry heart craved Affection he had been
long out the cold long nobodys boy, that
fairly weed with love- like miniature gusher
of the Standard oil company. Miss Mile James was
his first favorte, OF CONSEQUENTLY. long limbed.
vevety James with the whimsical. tender
smile and the lovely blue that meltingly
soft-though keen too about such matters as little
boys Ears and Necks and Sticky. Cherub mouths
There nothing Boy Bright wouldn't have done for
Miss James, to drowning In and water.
which II she had stipulated for kughthood test
would of certainty have been her choice.
And Joey? The jolly. irrepressible light hearted.
always laughing Joey whose pictures looked just as
well side right side. and were named
whistlers. perhaps from the amount Of whistiing
that went into the composition of them-oh, how he
loved joey and how many miles he walked with him
carrying Whistler. under his little arm very
offended. standonsh people shops who. as
Joey said couldn't Joke! For nobody bought
whstlers, and in his heart of hearts Boy Bright
sometimes thought 1t firing Joke for
Little Legs and wondered why Joey didn't stick al
together painting Miss James a pretended motor
which. when he condescended to do 1t, could
always be sold for $40 each--quite small ones-and
accumulate enough to buy suit of clothes and a
hair cut He used to speak to Joey seriously about It,
but do wit Joey
Miss James-and you had to love him just he was
which, In Boy Bright's awful lot
1t took longer get acquainted with the major who
fat grun and grown up. spoke such a
sptty hissy. foreign kind OF way you
quite alarmed when attracted his attention. The
major like joey a joker too. though fierce ex-
plosive joker that it took time courage get
Once he made Boy Bright cry. roaring
terrible, their friendship really
gan for the major caught him his knee and
silly Cherman fool and petted him
and wiped the tears and said it only "vun
Mein Gott vun, child! in vun!" CIV
ing him knife with three blades out
bought him little overcoat with velver
collar three marked down shirts After that there
question about loving the major too who altered
much from first appearances talways deceitfu
tod) could often be induced play
about the door all fours, and DO shot with
pistolihis cultural accent and spitty way
ing being wonderfully effective-for bears.
And there Miss Jupe who such subdued
little thing. and quiet and demure that ages
you she awful tease though her
quality that Of Unsuitable ksse much
discovered. Not she kissed anybody but Boy
Bright except perhaps parents Jersey City but
she just used to cat Boy Bright up and had such a
pouncing way doing It that she reminded him of
embarrassing little tiger, she quick sudden
And she could make the most outrageous about
Boy Bright and tell them with serious face
that it wonder the floor didn't open and swallow
her up-not speak Of her giving him bits of board
made UP to look like chocolate assoing him with
typewriter ribbon dropping paper fasteners down
the back of his neck Yes, an awful tease, spite OF
her innocent wide open eyes and the innocent
pussycat way she'd say, With pleasure Miss James
or Shall copies, major?"
Boy Bright as much at home though he
known them his life and OH how he loved
every of them. and how they loved him, how
jolly 1t the dingy old rooms. and how
rang with laughter and fun! He came into them like
streak of sunshine with his adorable face and pretty
winning ways and his gay bubblng augh-and il he
wasn't utterly spoiled suppose it because he was
perception kept him nice under
ocaton degenerate into brat
In time, being inquring we'll old fashioned, he
learned to know why Joey had referred despond-
emily to the Monthly Intelligencer (usually
called the General though 1t Grant or 8
Sherman as a sinking ship Originally founded In
1858 by Erasmus Trotter the abolitionist 1t had
been real monthly, with real circulation and stand
Ing in the van of civilization had appealed to man and
heaven to strike the shacklss from the musty