Evening star., 1911-01-15

An, say, as soon as he finds out don't know what
he means, he gives the better thanthou stare and
says IAN Psychologist is who devotes his life to
the study of the antiquities of Egypt-her buildings,
monuments, tombs, and inscriptions. Why" he says,
Il guess you don't know who am! Already I've dis;
covered three tombs and I'm not thirty yet! Besides
he goes on, "my country allows to put A. A.
P. S. A. A. S., and A. A: S. S. after my name When
published my book on the Rosetta stone, England let
tag F. R. S."
yes, says I, and after all the kindness of America
an England I'm still in the dark about your
For all know that last might mean fried, raw, and
stewed. Now, I'm James ]. Flynn says l, "contrac
tor an builder Suppose an said J. ]. F., you'd
think was bughouse. What do you think care about
the names England gives you? What want to know
is the your father dubbed YOU
Well, Son, he turned away disgusted like; but when
he sees couple of ladies come up the terrace he
comes back and says "Mr Flynn there's such thing
honest misunderstanding when you can't look
through the other fellows eyes. Let's be pals. My
names Benjamin Miller; but I'm called Bunny, and
those letters are just the initials of scientific societies
belong to-"
'Shake, Bunny" says 1. "Now begin to see light .
"Good!' says he. Then, turnn' round an lookn'
@Thats her 30 you % know nov he12' S' 'ASs ns says
"Do know her!" says l. "Thats Ailecn Bailey an
her mother. They're from Chicago. They came over
from Brindisi on the same tub me- an, they got
sort O. dizzy sendin' SO many happy returns to the
fishes, had steady job walin EN- from their steamer
chairs to the ran' an back When they got well they
let loose family history to me. l know they re
all right says l. "They re the quiet tony kind But
if you want to get that girl you've got to get
There's big Englishnan after her, an he's goin'
up the Nile with in couple of days. But if you
want to make her Mrs. Miller says l. all you've got
to do is to show the sights in this town an come
along up the river and explain the budin's to Mumsy
Bailey. She's daffy about the monuments an those
what -you-callums."
"Hieroglyphics,' says Bunny, slapping me on the
back.
"Thats EN-" says I. 1.-THE Englishman doesn't
know any about 'em than l do
"Good!" says Bunny. I know every tomb and
temple down here to Wadi Halfa. I've been in them
hundreds of times"
will you go?" says I.
Sure" says he, sippin his tea. "I1l show you the
citadel she goes"
Say, just made Bunny's eyes bulge out when tells
him that all the felers the boat wild about
Aileen comm over. But when tells him that she calls
her mother Mumsy an how she played with the little
kids an when she got being seasick how kind she
to Singer Budin freak with empty sky parlor
Bunny ready to kneel at her feet. Then he gets
excited an wants to break the ice for him right off,
"Nohn don', says l, and he agrees to wait till we
start on our trip up the Nile.
W/ELL, he manages to get his tea down Just after
~ Aileen left the terrace, an then he says, Jim
So he gets couple of donkeys with saddles on them
an starts. But say, Son. felt pretty small with
me two hundred and fifty pounds amblin' along on a
beast not much bigger than goat an me feet knockin
against the stones at step. 1t shook up just
like riding in empty Fifth-ave autobus Then there
little black cub in Mighty whackn' an crackin
the donkey an yelin' every two minutes Good DON
key! Good donkey, boy! But just as we began to