The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-05-23

What's the matter, Blls you've lac
the captain upset all day. you ough.
to be happy-hear him kfckfn' now
Yes says Bill, but he's gettin' about
$40 q minute for kickin''
IF We ever had long stuck-up Job.
Bill got so cantankerous there vas
hardly any lIvfn' with him One after
noon the captain was gone and We
was workin' along al peaceful, and
suddenly Bin stopped his work and
fairly roared at me: What does be
know about trouble! He never had
any
"T didn't know what he was thinktn'
about in particular. but It wouldn't
have made any difference IL had.
COS Bill had on sort Of q blanket
grouch-it covered everything. So
says TO him: You don't know what
you're taIkin' about heard the cap
tain teliin' a man this morning what
an awful time he had piayin' golf yes
terday. lie said he got In a highly
critical place-them are his words
and he couldn't tell for the life OF him
what golf stick to use. He could re-
member just exactly how the play
ought to be made. but he couldn't re-
member what TO do 1t with. First he
thought twas the driver-then he
thought 'twasn't. It kind of seemed
like twas the brassie, and then al
lowed twas the mid-iron; then he felt
positive twas the putter. I didn't hap
pen to hear what the right one was,
but judgin' from some of the language
heard him use after he specified, he
didn't get it,
"Now, Bill says, that's trouble
| and It's just as bad trouble as you
have when you can't tell what tool to
use, and after you've tried everything
| from a rabbit plane to a gouge, find
| out you've fooled the door jamb.
Them woes are alike says, and you
ought to be more considerable. But
| Bill was little short on good COM
| mon sense at times.
There was something about Bill
you couldn't help likin', but If anybody
else d had his notions I would O. been
all put out with them. OF course,
didn't like 'em in Bill, but somehow I
always felt he wasn't so bad-just
young and little misguided.
"Once he come in where was, just
as forlorn. didn't stop work. just
said 'Well?'
"fWhat chance have I got with
them college fellows?' he demanded.
"'Oh, shucks,' says I, because he did
try my patience lot at times. IF you
want somebody else's chance, pick on
chap your own size
| eft seems he drove a nail more than
he'd intended to; he'd made up his
mind to do JUS so much that day, and
he got to thinkin' about his wrongs
| and forgot and went right on workin'.
He said If you went to college they
taught you to concentrate, and if he
could have concentrated on not doin'
the work as he'd figured, it would O.
been all right.
.'Wen, I was sick for a spell and
Bill kind of drifted away from me.
| He fell in love with a girl who was
pretty ambitious and she liked him,
| too, but she saw his faults. He was
ratin' around one day about capital
and plutocrats and tellin' what ought
to happen to them, and I tell you
Sodom and Gomorrah got it light COM
pared to what Bill was goin' to hand
out Hit it easy, Bill she says, as
smart man as you ought to be a
plutocrat himself some day; maybe
you're only plannin suicide
That made Bill awful mad, but I
guess on due deliberation he seen
things little different. He never let
on, though, for long time. She went
out west and got the second prize in
land DRAWN. He tried to hate her
because she wasn't poor and down
trodden any more, but she just laugh
ed at him.
'"They got married and went out to
live on the ranch. Out O doors seem
ed to do Bill lot of good, and things
kept comm their way right along.
He made lot Of money on sheep, and
guess by this time he's rich. The
last heard about him he was goin' at
a pretty rapid clip and 1ookin' over
airship catalogues.
calf Simmons stopped to see hfm
when he was out west. He says Bill
sent me a special invitation to come
an visit him. ALT says I ought to go;
says he's just as sociable as can be
and amt changed bit toward the old
crowd. He says, though, that Bill has
acquired ravenous appetite for a lot
Of things he used to think was poison.
His last fad was fancy hens, and
ALI said when he was a-goin' through
the henhouSe he saw q dull mahogany
frame with dozen solid pearl push
buttons in it; that every time a hen
lays an egg she has to press button
so Bil1'll be advised right up to date
calf told me how nice he was livin':
told me all about his house, mahogany
, trimmin's all through, and everything
nice. OF course I know he was Just
havfn' little fun with me about them
hens, but would like to know IL Bill
I really eot Tiffsnv windows In his