The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-07-16

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TO do. OF course. was to make himself
agreeable, and he did this to such good
effect that within fifteen minutes his
host had asked him to remain to din
FER. He sat among them in smiling
ease. gentleman Of experience. a
world traveller. an all round good fel-
low. one who knew the vintage of
wines by the taste and told rare stories
with rarer discretion. Also he appre-
siated the pretty little pasteboard
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-embroid-
ers the monographs on his own under
wear and all that sort of thing. you
knOw-but we're all in on the inven-
tin"
Its a portable house for a fishing
trip we contemplate" young Falls mod
estly explained. THE govnor's OPEN
ing up 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"
Wallingford WINGED. He knew that
strip Of land quite we'll. He had once
owned it. and its loss to Falls senior
was the one big blot upon his own
financial escutcheon. Falls had been
bigger thief and had stolen Walling-
ford's swag-that was the answer
And so e. H. was going to build a
road through there, after all! He
would make mental note of that.
"And so you're building wind
proof, dustproof. rainproof and snow
proof portable house?' he suggested.
"Also heat and cold proof" added
Hickey. You see, we couldn't find
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
crowd! 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 clever
mechanic, devised the simplest sort OF
collapsible cook stove with tele-
scoping pipe. Cash discovered the
method OF making the roof ridge wa
tertight, and l worked out fancy
clamp to bind the corners together.
But. after all. the real rippin' brains
Of the thing is Benssy's. The hollow
wall idea was his-came to him just in
fash. Never wasted moment Of
thought on it,
Benssy colored slightly. Every ordi-
nary idea. I'm sure" be said with be-
coming modesty. the dimpIes appear
ing for just an instant. then coyly van
fishing. ANY one could have thought
Of it."
"Clever scheme" declared Walling-
ford. admiring the really good model
with the practised eye Of born me-
chanic. as Benssy deftly took 1t apart
and demonstrated how 1t was to be
packed and shipped and reassembled.
quite clever. indeed The opening.
for which he had been cropping came in
a fash, as inspired as that which had
brought to Benssy Falls the stunning
device Of the hollow walls. This is
more than clever. gentlemen" he went
on. his tone changing to one of grave
that commanded instant
attention. 1T is worthy of serious
commercial consideration. 1t would
be pity to allow so perfect an arti-
Gle of manufacture to go to waste"
"Well, 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 Il shrinking
thought of the original thick Tipped
Haw.
81 don't know, old chap" unused
Benssy. why wouldn't it be rip
ping good novelty for us all to go into
trade? We've tried everything else"
'Thats what call sportin'." stated
Hickey Saunders enthusiastically. "I'm
for anything Benssy starts"