New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12


$50 YOU re- the fellow" remarked the little
man. in awe. He placed the basket on the
floor II appeared % be filled with bromide
groceries such as the most subdued house
holder carries home.
(Which fellow" asked Nlagcc.
The fellow Elijah Qulmby told me
about. explained he Of the long, brown locks.
"thc fellow that's come up TO Baldpatc Inn
10 be alone with his thoughts
you're one OF the villagers, | take II,
guessed Nagcc.
~You'rc dead wrong. I'm no villagcr. My
instincts are all in the other direction, away
from the crowd. | live up near the top OF
R,rI,g,,. IN a little shack built myself.
Nv names Peters lake Peters in the
winter: but in the summer when the Inn
opcn. and the rel and white awnings are out,
and the band plays IN the casino every night
then I'm the Hermit Of Baldpatc Noun
tam. | come down here and sell picture
postcards Of myself 20 the ladies.
Mage appeared overcome with mrlh.
a professional hermit. by the gods, he
cried "Sav. didn't know Baldpatc Noun
tain was fitted up with all the modern I'M
provcmcnts. This is great luck! I'm an
amateur at the hermit business; you'll, have
lust between ourselves, I'm not a regular
hermit" said the plump, bewhiskcrcd ore.
sitting gngcrv on the edge of fraiI chair,
"not one Of these all for love OF d woman
hcrmits YOU read about in books. OF course
have 10 pretend am, in summer, IN order
10 sell the cards and do my whole duty by
the inn management. \ lot OF the women
ask me i'm soft tones about the great disap-
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and give 'cm various answers, according TO
how feel Speaking TO YOU as friend, and
considering the fact that its the dead of
winter, | may say there was little or no ro-
nance i'm my life. | married early, and
stayed married a long time. | came up here
for peace and quiet and because felt a man
ought TO read something besides timetables
and tradcsmcn'S bills. and have something
over his head besides first and second
mortgage"
Back to nature, in other words re-
marked Nagcc.
ayes, Sir back with a rush. ! was down
10 the village this morning for a few grocer
les. and stopped of at Qumbys, as |
often DO. He told me about YOU. | help
him lot around the inn, and we arranged
was to stop i'm and start your fire. and do
tllN bll'l HlblN 'llhlllN N'h l'llS''N ''''lN
done. | thought we ought TO get acquainted,
YOU and me, being rs we're both literary
men, after a manner OF speaking
"No," cried Magcc.
"Ycs,' said the Hermit of Baldpatc. 81
dip into that work little now and then.
Some Of my verses on the joys Of solitude
have appeared in print-on the postcards |
sell To the guests in the summer. But my
liicwork, rs YOU might call it, is a book I've
had under way for sometime It's called
simply Woman Just that one word-but
oh. the meaning in it, That book is going to
prove that all the trouble in the world, from
the beginning Of time, was caused by fc-
males. Not just say 50, mind YOU: prove it.
~ difficult task, I'm afraid, smiled
Magcc
Not difficult: long, corrected the hermit.
"Whcn started out four years ago thought
it would Just be case of a chapter on Eve.
and honorable mention for Cleopatra and
Helen of Troy and few more like that, and
the thing would be done; but as got into
the subject | was fairly buried under new
evidence. Then Carnegie came along and
gave Upper Asqucwan Falls library. It's
wonderful to think the great works that man
will be responsible for. I've dedicated
Woman to him Since the new library I've
dug up information about a thousand dis
asters | never dreamed of before, and con-
tend that if YOU go back a ways in anyone of
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