New-York tribune., 1909-05-09

backer and war for'ard coiling the throat hal
yard. All at once I heard rafting and
turned my head: what I see made me let out yen
like siren whistle
There was that everlasting poet in the skiR-you
remember we'd been towing 1t astern-and he was
lest cutting the painter with his jackknife- Next
minute he'd picked up the oars and was heading
for the wharf doubling up and stretching out Ike
a frog swimming, and with his curls streaming IN
the wind like a ROSTERS tail in a hurricane He
had long start fore Jonadab and me woke up
enough to think of chasing him.
But we woke up in'lly, and the way we flew
round that catboat caution laid into them
haIyards and 1 had the mainsail up to the peak
afore Jonadab got the anchor clear Of the bottom
Then l jumped TO the tiller, and the patience NJ
took after that skif like pup after tomcat We
run alongside the wharf just as Booth Hank
climbed the stringpiece.
Get after him. BarzillaE' hollers Cap Jona-
dab. "IH make her fast
Well, I hadn't took more'n three steps when
see twas goin to be long chase Montague IN
furled them thin legs of his and got over the
ground something wonderful. All you could see
was a pile OF dust and coat tails tapping
Up on the wharf went and round the corner
into a straggIy kind OF road with old fashioned
houses on both sides OF It, Nobody in the yards
nobody at the windows; quiet as could be. except
that off ahead. somewheres. there was music play
ing
That road was quarter OF mile long. but We
gaIloped through IT SO fast that the scenery was
nothing but blur. Booth was gaining all the
time. but I stuck to it like a good one We took
a short cut through yard piled over fence and
come out into another road, and up at the head OF
It was crowd of folks-men and women and chill
dren and dogs
stop thief" I hollers. and way astern I heard
Jonadab bellering: stop thief"
Montague dives headfirst for the crowd He fell
over a baby carriage. and I gained tack fore he
got UP. He want mOre'n ten yards ahead when
come busting through, upsetting children aid old
women, and landed in what guess was the main
street of the place and right abreast Of a parade
that was marching down the middle of il
First there was the band four fellers footing and
banging like 'fomast hands a fishing smack IN
a fog Then there vas big darky tOtng ban
ner with 'Jenkinss Unparalleled Double Uncle
Toms Cabin Company, No. 2" on 1t in big letters
Behind him was a boy leading two great, savage
looking dogs -bloOdhounds. 1 found out afterward-
by chains Then come a pony cart with Little Eva
and Eliza's child IN it; Eva was ali gold hair and
beautlfuness. And astern Of her was Marks the
Lawyer on his donkey. There lots more be
hind him, but these was all had time TO see Just
then.
Now there vas but one way for Booth Hank 70
get across that street. and that was to bust
through the procession. And, as luck would have
It, the place he picked out 10 cross was just ahead
of the bIoodhounds. And the first thing knew.
them dogs stretched out their noses and took a
long sniff and then bust ont bowling Ike all pos
sessed. The boy he trieG to hold 'em. but twas
no go They yanked the chains out OF his hands
ard took after that poet as II he owed 'em some
thing And every one Of the four million other
dogs that was In the crowd on the sidewalks fell
into line, and such bowling and yappins and
scampering and screaming you never heard
Well. twas mixed up mess. That was the end
of the parade. Next minute I was racing across
country with the whole town and the Uncle Tome
ers astern of me- and Il string OF dogs stretched out
ahead fur's you could Way up in the lead
was Booth Montague and the bloodhOunds and