The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1913-02-20
A RAMBLE IN APHASlA
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! consider that ] am your patient EY'
erything Is in confidence now-profes-
slonal confidence"
''Of course" said DIR. Yolney.
got up from the couch. Some one
center table-a cluster OF white roses.
freshly sprinkled and fragrant
threw them far out Of the window. and
then l lay myself upon the couch
again.
at will be best. Bobby" I said. ito
have this cure happen suddenly. I'm
rather tired Of II all anyway. You
may 20 now and bring Marian in. But.
oh. Doc" said. with sigh as I kick
cd him on the shlns. good old Doc; It
was glorious"
I'VE were In the main dining room
and there was d fine dressed crowd
there
he gazed across the table at me
There was four square yards Of II
looking like the path Of a cyclone that
has wandered through a stockyard. a
poultry farm. vegetable garden and
an Irish linen mill Solly gets up and
comes around to me-
Luke says be. I'm pretty hungry
after our ride. ! thought you said they
had some beans here. I'm going out
and get something ! can eat. You can
stay and monkey with this artificial
layout of grub if you want to-.
WYATT a minute. says l.
81 called the waiter and slapped IS.
Mills on the back of the check for
$3.50.
what do you mean says 1. by
serving gentlemen with a lot Of truck
only suitable for deck hands on a
Mississippi steamboat? We're going
out to get something decent to eat
II walked up the street with the IN
happy plainsman. He saw a saddle
shop open. and some of the sadness
faded from his eyes. We went in. and
he ordered and paid for two more sad
dies.
Then he goes out and heads toward
the river. following his nose. In
little side street. where there was no
street and no sidewalks and no houses.
be finds what he Is looking for We
go into a shanty and sit on high stools
among stevedores and boatmen and eat
beans with tin spoons; yes. sir. beans
beans boiled with salt pork.
81 kind of thought we'd strike some
over this way says Solly.
when we had succumbed to the
beans | leads him out of the tarpaulin
steam under a Iamppost and pulls or:
a daily paper with the amusement col
umn folded out.
but now what ho for a merry
round Of pleasure, says 1. Here's one
Of Hall Gaines shows and stock
yard company in Hamlet
But what does this healthy. wealthy
and wise man do but reach his arms
up to the second story windows and
cape noisily.
Reckon I'll be going to bed says
be. It's about my time. st. Louis is
4 kind of quiet place. amt it,
"'Oh, yes says /; ever since the
railroads ran in here the towns been
ruined. Guess we might
Is well 20 to bed Wait till you see
though Shall we get tickets
,or the Big Breeze tomorrow?
D." 'Mought as WELL says Solly. J
reckon all these towns are about alike.
well, maybe the wise cicerone and
conductor didn't fall hard in |
Chicago! LoOlooville on the Lake is
to have one or two things in /
t calculated to keep the rural visitor |
wake after the curfew rings, but not |
,or the grass fed man of the pampas! |
tried him with theaterS. rides in auto |
mobiles. sails on the lake, champagne /
uppers and all those little inventions
hat hold the simple life in check, but
n vain. Solly grew sadder day by day. |
snd got fearful about my salary and
new l must play my trump card. So
mentioned New York to him and in
ormed him that these western towns
we're no more than gateways to the
,reat walled city Of the whirling der
fishes.
After l bought the tickets I missed
Jolly. / knew his habits by then. SO in
couple of hours found him in a sad
lie shop.
AT the depot l telegraphed cigar
tore man knew in New York 10 meet
1e at the Twenty-third street ferry
With list of all the saddle stores in
he city. | wanted to know where to
,ok for Solly when he got lost.
Now III tell you what happened in
lew York.
Il began with him like you'd feed a
tarving man. l showed him the horse
ars on Broadway and the Staten Is
ind ferryboats. And then l piled up
ne sensations on him. but always
eeping a lot of warmer ones up my
eeve.
AT the end of the third day he look
] like a composite picture OF 5000
-phans too late TO catch a picnic
and | was whiting down a
,llar every two hours wondering how
could please him and whether l was
ping TO get my thou.
"Once / thought had him. nailed
pair of cuffs on him one morning be-
re he was awake. and | dragged
m that evening to the palm cage OF
le Of the biggest hotels in the city
see the Johnnies and the Alice-Sit-
r-the- Hours. They were out in nu-
erous quantities. with the fat Of the