The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-26

tuh woik it fr all it's woitt"
 The courtship of Miles sheehan was protract., affair.
 The fair Angelina proved perverse and hard ta woo; and, be it added, much harder to win. The other suitors, too. the envoy's successive ports unfo1ded, most importura and most liberal; and competition waxed ever keener.
 A pearl necklace and diamond tiara were added the captains gifts. to besuceeeded by other (and expensive) jewelry; while the of theatres. which the fair always escorted by the prototype of the ancient John, and of candy and flowers grew heavier and heavier.
 And Captain Sheehan spent hours thumb1ing the little gt-edged volume and wondering why it had before occurred him to follow up the line of thought what would have happened if the Priscilla therein mentioned had not been willing in- to accept the other Miles or the other John.
 At length, evening" the second day of the seventh week. he resolved to- his courage to the sticking point and interview his Hearts Desire for himself. @iF
 It required little effort, and less determine tion for the captain hiss6ourage that point and to make it stick. However, he at length suc- ceeded and lest his courage should become unioos- ened and slip far down and make the visit impossible of ul6llment. he quickly wggled into his tan driv ing-coat donned his silk hat and, haling cab. waited away toward where lay Wolf Tone Brady's East Nineteenth Street flat.
 sIt was glorious evening of early September The sun, which had dropped behind the dirty, serrated roofs of the Western skyline peeped at him coquet tishly adown the darkening depths of the streets.
 With rush and rattle and elevated train passed above him; the elanging gongs of the trolleys made music beside him.; and with them rose the mutter of many voices and the calls of playing children and sthe harsh, tinny music of hurdygur- dies.
 But these things had interest for Captain Since han, whose thoughts with his Hearts Desire and the last and most royal gift that he had given her-a French touring of the latest model.
 The cab, in which he spfei0Hsly reclined ratt!ed swiftly onward. All of a sHdds4p it neared side street. there the frantic dlpnking Of auto mobile horn and with it tbee axcited warning of passers-by; and, in another ha-instant big red automobile had struck the captains equpage, with harsh, tearing impact, two points off the port bow.
 The driver of the cab was spread faty out upon the top of his vehicle. The horse suddenly and sur prsingly sat down between the tracks. Then the captain. huge bulk in beautiful parabola and. soaring gracefully the dashboard of the cab. a1ighted in lump in the tonneau of the which. from momentary pause, now sped onward faster and faster, up the crowded thoroughfare, in human eagerness to get away from the excited l threats and angry yells of an excited populace- They had gone fifteen blocks the captain could find foothold upon the rocking floor. But at length he did; and cnging with frightened hands to the l robe-rai, he leaned forward to get look at his I captor.
 And his eyes bulged in fat surprise; for the man | who guiding the great along the jumbled. |
  love-courer, Dugan! For space he was able to do nothing but gasp. 1 for the shock and surprise had quite o'erwhelnned him; and his tongue found aught upon it to say they had turned down side street and had stopped before his own door.
 It was then that an asthmatic gasp brought him { to the attention of the chauffeur and Dugan took his hand from the emergency to find himself staring into the empurpled visage of Captain Sheehan.
 "Well I'll be dam'd!' he exclaimed; and there 1 <t,> e1;r hffh, he
 The captain wheezed with congested conversa- ton.
 "Wer" cried Dugan at length. "where you come 1 from?"
 q was in tn cab," returned the captain; and his vocabulary suddenly returned to him in a verbal l cloudburst. n
 But Dugan, with an nsoueant but authoritative I wave of the hand, interrupted him in the middle of his pet phrase; which, such was the captains prise,I that he stopped SO suddenly that he almost swallowed the last two sylables of the biggest word he knew.
 "Very pretty talk" said Dugan critically. "But aint got time tuh listen now, fir I've intuh tn reel estate wit tn money yuh give me- an check I'll be comin tuh yuh to-morrer But I got tuh go take some customers out in tn ottomo- beel tuh look piece O propty in tn Bronx How ever, before oishully 1eavin tn force, feelin that l oughter around an tell yuh that An gena Brady's been married fr seven years tuh guy who's drummer fir wholesale glue house an who don't get home but oncetHa month; so din waste none O my time none O your money there; an I'd advise you not tuh, neither So long" Whereat Dugan threw off, .athe emergency and threw in the clutch and vanished cl9nd of dust. The housekeeper. coming into ths eagtaip's study late that night in pursuance of her windsW-lockine obligations, found him sitting with hreeqparters of an unlghted cigar in his mouth. while. scattered all about him on the floor were the torn and tattered remains of little gilt-edged volume, the mutilated title-page of which bore, in tramplsd geld letters The Courtship of Miles Standish."
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