The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-13
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 a.No, thanks replied o'Connell. @1 haven't taken drink In ten years. and I'm in hurry anyhow. I want to go out and pick fight with my brake man. cap lick him. 7
 sYou'n have something, won't you 2'' asked Benssy of WaIlfngford, who was producing two crisp hundred dollar bfIls from a long red pocketbook.
 with pleasure, replied WallinE- ford Losing a bet is always dry work for me- and he handed a bill each to Hickey Saunders and to Regi- nald de Puyster Haugh, with smiles that made them vote him good game loser.
 Shamaauka, upon order, replaced the table in the center of the apartment, brought bottles and glasses and six chairs, and the moment came for which WaI1ingford had longed. His acute nostrfIs had detected stsportin' money in this crowd The first thing Co do, de course, was to make himself agreeable, and he did this to such good efect that within fifteen minutes his host had asked him to remain to din ner. He sat among them in smiling ease a gentleman of experience, a world traveller, an all round good feI- low, one who knew the vintage of wines by the taste and told rare stories with rarer discretion. Also he appre- ciated the pretty little paeteboard house when it was accidentally brought to his attention
 Rippin' fine thing. it is" Hickey Saunders boasted. .'Benssy's the archi- tect and builder because he's such a clever chap with his fingers ernbroid- CTS the n2onograms on his own under wear and all that sort of thing, you know-but we're all in on the 1nven- tin'.'
 trip we conte1n plate, young Falls mod estIy explained The goT'nor's open ing mp a strip of land through upper Wisconsin and Michigan which is full of small virgin lakes, and he's given us permission to fish them out before his construction gangs go through
 WaIlingford w1nced He knew, that strip of land quite well. He had once owned it, and it's loss to Falls senior was the one big blot upon his own financial escutcheon. Falls had been a bigger thief and had stolen WalIing-
 
 And so ID. H. was going to build a road through there, after al1l He would make mental note of tha.
 "And so you're building a wind proof, dustproof, ratnproof and snow proof portable house7'' he suggested
 sAlso heat and cold proof,,' ? added Hickey @You see, we couldn't find a good, portable house, so we invented one on our way back from inspecting the happy hunting grounds Stunning, the amount of brains we found in the crown Benssy Invented the hollow walls, air space and that sort of thing, you know. Reggie figured out how to turn the table and benches into cots with real spring mattresses in them. Reggie's long on eating and sleeping. Humpsey, who is no end of a clever mechanic, devised the simplest sort of a collapsible cook stove with a te1e- scoping pipe Cash discovered the method of making the roof ridge wa tertight, and worked out a fancy clamp to bind the corners together. But, after all, the real rippin' brains of the thing is Benssyss. The hollow wall idea was hta-cane to him just in a flash. Never wasted moment of thought on it.
 Benssy colored slightly. 'tvery ordi- nary idea. I'm sure, he said with be coming modesty, the Gimples appear ing for just an instant, then coyIy van ishing. "Any one could have thought of 1t''
 ssCleYer scheme" declared Walling ford, admiring the really good mode with the practised eye of a born me chanic, as Benssy deftIy took 1t apart and demonstrated how it was to be packed and shipped and reassembled. ssQuite clever, indeed!' The opening for which be had been groping came in a flash, as inspired as that which had brought to Benssy Balls the stunning device of the hollow walls sSThis is more than clever, gentlemen" he went on, his tone changing to one of grave earnestness that commanded instant attention, ~It is worthy of serious commercial consideration. 1t would be a pity to allow so perfect an arti- cle of. manufacture to go to waste" !"
 "Wen, of course, you know, none of us is in trade, and we wouldn't care for that sort of thing announced Reggie Haugh loftily, with shrinking thought of the original thick Tipped