New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-29

him hot and then left TO cool His last name had
a splice in the middle OF it-'twas Catesby-
Everybody-that is most encyclopaedia him
Phil
Well. sir. Phil cottoned to Jonadab and me right
away. He'd get US on each wing and 20
through that house asking questions. He pumped
me and Jonadab dry about how we come TO be
there and told yarns than a few bout
Dnlaway. and how rich he was I remember he
said that he only wished he had the keys to the
cellar he could show the money bins Said
Ebenezer was SO just-well. rotten with money, as
you might say. that he kept II in bins down cellar
sans poor folks keep coaI-sold In one bin
silver half dollars in another quarters in another
and so on. When he needed any, he'd say to a
servant: James. fetch up a bod OF change"
This was only one OF the hsh yarns he told They
sounded kind OF scaly Jonadab and me- but II
we limited At such thing. he'd pull himself to-
gether and say: Fact, / you'' in a way
TO freeze your vitals. He seemed like such a good
Teller that didn't mind his telling a few big
ones; we'd known good fellers atore that TO lie
gunners and such like. they were mostly.
Somehow or mother Phil got Capn Jonadab
talking boat" and when Jonadab talks boat"
there amt no stopping him. He's the smartest
Teller In a catboat that handled a tiller and
he's won more races than any man on the Cape
cal'late. Phil asked him and me II we'd ever
sailed on an iceboat, and. when we said we
hadn't he asks If won't take a sail with him
on the river next morning. We didn't want To
put him to so much trouble our account but
he said: mot at all Pleasure'n be all mine. I
assure you" Well, twas his for a spell-but never
mind that now.
He introduced US to quite lot of the comp'ny-
men mostly. He'd a school of 'em in a corner
or under palm tree or somewheres and steer US
over In that direction and make US known TO all
hands. Then he begin to show off. so TO speak.
get Jonadab telling bout the boats he'd sailed or
something like it-and them feIIers would laugh
and heller, but Pills face wouldn't shake out a
reef; he looked solemn a fun'ral all the time
Jonadab and me begun to think We was making a
great hit Well was. but not the way we
thought remember of the gang gets Phil 10
one side after talk like this and whispers IN him
Laughing Ike fun Phil says 10 him "My dear boy
I've been 10 thousands OF these things waving
his hipper scornful around the premises-"and upon
honor they've all been alike Now that I've dis
covered something positively original let me enjoy
myself The entertainment by the Heavenly Twins
is only begun"
didn't know what he meant then; I do now
The marrying was done about o'clock and do,s
with all the trimmings All hands manned the
yards In the best parior. and Peter and Belle was
hitched. Then they went away In a swell turnout
not like the derelict hacks we'd seen stranded Inv
the Cashmere depot-and Jonadab pretty nigh took
the drivers larboard of with shoe Phil gave
him 10 heave after en-
After the wedding the folks was sitting undsr
the palms and bushes that growing in tubs all
over the house. and the stewards-there was
enough OF 'em TO a four-naster-yas cartinp
round punch and frozen victuaIs Everybody was
logged up till Jonadab and me. in our new cuta-
ways felt like couple OF moulting blackbirds al a
oiueJay camp meeting. Ebenezer was so busy fv-
ing round like puIlet with its head or that he'd
hardly spoke to sence we landed but phil
scarcely ever left Us, want lonesome Pretty
soon he comes back from Q beat into the next room,
and he says:
There's q Lady here that's just dying to know
you senusmen Her names CRANKY Tell her all
about the Cape; she'll like It. And, by the way
ny eAAx fallas' b whiapsu T. JouadAb IL You