The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-19

MRAlAH red of face, sat camP-stool staring E&1AR He was a heavy-1ooking young man. Es4 HH broad of face and broad of shoulder Hg&&&3 He had fair mustache grotesquely H One by one, as the heat from the fire zm7mnG increased the other officers had drawn -- s- back till only Tubbetts remained, deep in troubled thought, his big hands nervously dget- Suddenly above the babe of talk and light laugh ter, Callingtons voice rose harsh1y.
 Tubs, draw back from that fre-vhat the devil Tubbetts jumped up as if he had been shot; then shufaedd awkwardly back, rnuttering an apology. handsome face. George org Bfackett, seventh baronet said @ under r's his breath. N ~ = - ~ ~ again to-day-seems to lose his head the moment nuEgher's rife goes .pop.-Tum bird, Tub. gloweIing. disrespectfuly in the direction of his most things he was sensitive to disapproval and Lord Calngton's disapprova1 was the most evident He stood for moment, then taking the steamine tin that servant handed him he s1ouched over Eve jolly good mind he muttered, then Steady your leaders. Tubs." George drowned which Major Sir George Bracket stood by general aee:ssPtatio.n :ss on in 9. loco @ parents, Ih1.a don't be an ass: The old man will put you under This isn't my game" said Lieutenant Tubbetts The major. etuctled softly, and the ghost of a smile hovered about the of Carslsy's mouth You're an unfortunate .l soul Tubs" said Sir If your father wasn't banker, and if you hadn't of honest weatB you would not have been in the Guards. you would not have come to South Africa, found yourself bit of wet weld being ragged @The fact is. Tub'-carsley leaned over and laid with the Ninth. There was that business of the "T don't believe in wasting money" said the other doggedg fa beqw has thirty thousand h;s sSoa doesn't f0li0" that he must chuck his money
 hdy Sy go m f hth si ha a sd th iSbssSs ohsr things" Tub went on but I've been taught that poundGS f'''N' -0-N' pU'Ns 'eiS GGarsley turned away with frank rudeness. word he envied claud carsey with his splendid face ing of amateur riders, holding the breath
 Mason on aesd 6nt horse refused Over Valentines Brook .Kink's $ nearly the top of him
 As the rain increased Tubs waited irresolute1y The ejaculation was the colone1's, and his relief Poor old Tubsi' smiled Brackett
 white the If he poo 6s e sGSldn have d seen the Geqrgel E he's iutely useless here:
 ~Badl Weren't you there?-No you were on the other side of the kopje. He had half-company on he would have boled; only Providence put his foot in meerlat'S hole and there he sprawled yelling to T wouldn't mind that so much" said the second in command. Amy Is liable to lose his head but old Tubs is such careful beggar; he cheeks the mess stewards accounts twice over and gets per been exaggerated into i've. z'-Fe
 Tubbetts lying in his shelter tent listening the pattering of rain the canvas, the end Unless he was remarkably careful, he told himself line in the Army List:
 Retirement:
 Ninth Guards.-Lieutenant A1gernon James Tub betts- (The King having further for hi services)
 9-I wish to heaven" reflected the young man a he turned preparatory to sleeping, "that De We the bottom of the and the whole bushes of wiped If there Is an fighting tomorrow. I'm pretty to make a mes of it Soldering is not my game. "a. .''
 Lord Cal1ington swung into a ereaking saddle an his horse spun around
 George Bracket put down his glasses and turne to his chief
 ~There's Iaager there, and it looks if they stand" sr
 The little column had halted
 @Send the Victorians on. said Callington
 An officer ga1loping to the right.
 sWay back with the infantry Tubs paced nervous up and down before his half-company-
 Cars1ey, watching him furtively. the tellta lips But he sympathetic, for there n1uc of the in the composition of this handson
 
 He stro1led casually toward his junior.
 "'Hot Tubs?" he asked, care1ess1y.
 Tubbetts nodded.
 He did not remove his eyes from the distant b line of hills
 si arsiey's voice sharper, and the younger ma '"Inse IYes sir" he said i3:5Sf stJ5iy.