The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-30
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stick to soft drinks you can keep about as ooo1 here as you can fin the country. Hang ht vhsn you come to think of it, there's nothing much C the country anyhow. You get tired and sdn- burned and lonesome; and you have to ct say old thing that the cook dishes up to yoa!"
 "It makes a difference. doesn't ft7" said
 Tt certainly does Now, found some vhfts. bait yesterday at Maurices, with . new ssacs that beats anything in the trout line ever tasts1s "1t makes difference. doesn't ft7" saiA.
 "Immense. The sauce is the main Ghfng vfxA whitebait."
 Tt makes a difference, doesn't f7" ssksd. looking him straight in the eye. He undsrstosl Look here. Bob," he said, T was going to ss,i you. I couldn't help 1t. I'll play fair with ysu, but I'm going in to win. She is the one part1su lar for me-"
 "Au right" said l. "Its a fair Aeid. There srs no rights for you to encroach upon"
 On Thursday afternoon Miss Ashton invited North and myself to have tea in her apartment He was devoted, and she was more charming than usual By avoiding the subject of caps managed to get word two into and out of tho talk Miss Ashton asked in makeconversational tone something about the next seasons tour
 "Oh," said l. T don't know about that I'm not going to be with Binkley & Bing next season" "why, thought" said she. that they were to- ing to put the Number One road company xndsr your charge. thought you told mo 70"
 They were" said l. put they won't III Sesi you what I'm going to do. I'm going to the south shore of Long Island and buy small cottage know there on the edge of the bay. And I'll buy a catboat and a rowboat and shotgun ana yellow dog. I've got money enough to do f. And I'll smell the salt wind all day when H blows from the sea, and the pine odor when 1t blows from the land. And, of course. I'll write plays until I have trunk full of 'em on hand. i. And the next thing and the biggest thing I'll do will ha fo n,rv hat duc people understand ducks. can watch 'em for hours. They march better than any company in the National Guard, and they can play follow my leader better than the entire Democratic party. Their voices don't amount to much, but like to hear 'em. They wake you up dozen times . night but there's a homely sound about thsfr quacking that is musical to ne than the cry of Fresh strawber-rees under your window in the morning when you want to sleep.
 And" went on, enthusiastically, "do you know the value of ducks besides their beauty and intelligence and order and sweetness Of vo1csE Picking their feathers gives you an unfaiiing and never ceasing income On farm that know, the feathers sold for $400 in ono year. Think ot snIppcd to tue market VIII bring in money than that. Yes, am for the ducks and the salt breeze coming over the bay. think I shall get Chinaman cook, and with him and the dog and the sunsets for company shall do we'll. No more of this dull, baking, senssless, roaring city for me-"
 Miss Ashton looked surprised. North laughed
 q am going to begin of my plays tonight I said "so must be going" And with that took my. departure
 few days later Miss Ashton telephored to me, asking me to call at four in the afternoon cid. You have been very good to me- she said, hesitatingly, "and thought I would tell you. am going to leave the stage.
 "Yes," said l. T suppose you will They usually
 
 There Is no money" she said, "or very little. Our money fig almost gone"
 But am told." said I, "that he has something like two or ten thirty millions-I have forgottsn which,"
 T know what you mean," she said. T VIII nes