Bisbee daily review., 1909-08-06

of them seemed to flock to our house--it was entirely un- explainable.
 Essemere is such a frightfully ex. elusive suburb that each new arrival runs a regular red Indian gantlet be- fore he is either admitted as real "belonger' or dropped.
 The first evening I met Dr. Bill conner I was impressed with his broad "a's"-one simply can't fail to be bit respectful when a new man says "cahn't" instead of cant" and does it as if he was in the habit of saying it always before breakfast instead of just saying it for evening-and it did not take more than ten minutes before he had very skillfully dragged in the fact that he was born and bred in Worcester, Mass, and that to him all the rest of the earth was composed of waste places.
 Just as if were hypnotized. l found myself murmuring that I could quite understand his feelings because my mother came from Boston. l stopped before I added that she was three years old when she left that subiimat ed city.
 Of course that remark led on to the subject of families. It seemed that he had a relative who was in the fla nous tea party. responded promptly with the story of my ancestor who killed a hundred men. more CT less, with one glance of his eye in the revo lution. couldn't recall that l had dragged out that great-grandparent before in years, but did it breath lessly for Dr. Billcomer's benefit. It was awful.
 The evening that I managed to mention the chancellor and then at his murmur to stop with little lift of my eyebrows to say that of course he wouldn't know-it was stupid of me but that my fathers uncle had been the lord high chancellor of that coun- try at the time of/which we were speaking, felt more set up than the time won the cup at golf.
 Afterward I sputtered to Griffith, my older brother. because had to get rid of my mental tumult somehow.
 sDr. Billcomer would be all right" told Grif, If he wasn't such fright ful snob, What is worse, he makes me be a snob, too, With other men can carry on a sustained conveTsa- tion on intelligent topics. but when he and talk all we do is try to cap each others boasting!
 hA fal ha same way and, what was more. all the other fellows did, too. In the pres. ence of Dr. Billcomer they lost their heads and tried to live up to him. Then behind his back they muttered defiantly that he was lobster and privately suffered under the conviction that they themselves were becoming Holsters also.
 There was. I discovered at last, a perfect epidemic of boasting in Esse- mere. We all grew more languid in our speech and resurrected all our good points in pedigree and accomplish ments. Above the tumult Dr. Bill comer's little song still rose tri- umphant, calling us on to still greater heights of snobbery. and we followed Each time was in his society hated myself worse-and otherwise he would have been so nice. Some weeks after Dr.! Billcomer be- gan to have this dreadful effect on Essemere Grin came to me one day with the light of a great discovery in his eyes. He looked happy. What do you think?" he said. "Biilcomer is all right! What we've suffered is nothing to him. We've | got rather chummy lately and he | confided tonight that never in his | life had he struck such snobbish | place as Essemere. Fight against ft as he would. he said. he had to go l the pace himself to keep his head above water. He said he had worn | himself out with boasting in order to | prove that he was on a par with the | supercilious residents-and he was \ dead tired of 1t and sick and ashamed | of himself!"
 | held my head down weakly while the light broke over me also. Then he hadn't meant in the least to have that effect on me-or any one else,
 He wasn't that way really at all! | was tn such hurry to start h all | over again and get acquainted with
 Dr. Bfllcomer normally that when 0riR added that he'd asked the doctor up to dinner realized afrssh how uss- saI . rsally intelligent bfUthsr can bs h the scheme of things.
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