New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-22


,ot only one order when | should have had tour
or five and that was supposed to be prize territory
, and some Of the fellows at the home Office seemed
f. envy, nv having it. 70 cap the climax the weather
was misty gray and chill. Things have to be gong
nrcttv smoothly to make days like those bearaD.e'
I'll resign as soon as get back thouSH' ID 9''
IN the train I'm about sick OF this business anyway
losing sleep lodging about after trains at all hours
any old kind Of meals etc I'll get white man work
TRAVELLING IS all very well until YOU try making Nv
mo at il: then it is-wcl, anything but heavenly.
Il was at this point that | glanced across to me
scat opposite into the most wonderful par Oh eyes no
ever secn.-decp brown long dashed, with smile
,l,ntcd down deep in them somewhere and one 10
match it on the rosy mouth. Somehow ieIt Woi1ct-
f,1v cbecrcd Involuntariy smiled back and winkcd'
and got the drocst wink in return you ever saw. 6
dn't tell me YOU thought it was a girl. boy just
, yc. lad not more than six with face that radiated
Sunshine and happiness, and-thc pity OF IT, cTl?-
plcd twisted little fOrm,-a cheruD lace ." q J0'0
body.
After awhile got seat beside him and became
acoraintcd with his father. Robbie had been a grippe
since year after his birth They had spent hunireH
for treatment at home in vain, and now as last nope
wcr, taking him to institution IN 81 LOUIS ''9
ocstcd STAYING with Robbie while the father went OUT
10 have a smoke. | hadn't talked more tH'' i've "''
ME, TO that voungstcr until was heartily ashamed OIL
,,,. late ocssimstic thoughts. Me. with my two gooa
lees and robust health giving up like spinclcss coward
while this poor mite with every reason under the sun
fr being forlorn and utterly hopeless, was the most
thoroughly optimistic soul had ever met
~O course. he said 4 just hated to leave Mama ana
Blossom (shc's the baby you know; but no" can
ncc, TO get well less 60 to St. Louis: guess 1t $
GOING 70 hurt Forgetting WELL mean Mama S'nd II
might; but if can walk | won't mind that not very
much. +
He stopped to look out Of the window, and remarked
about the gloom outside.
~Wbv. | like a day like this, he replied, because
then the sun looks 50 much brighter when 1t SHINES
Daddy says so, and 1t does.
$50 Daddy is an optimst too: sad.
H.. looked at me in a puzzled way for moment
then. sob. no. Sir. he isn't: he's a Presbyterian
had to laugh at this, and Bobby joined me; al
,ho,qf | know he Just did to keep me company rs
b did not in the least suspect the cause OF my mirth
H. told me all abolt his Christmas,-what wonderful
things Old Santa had brought him, and the way Santa
had kissed Blossom and himself goodby, and lett SCOT
marks on their faces; how they all marched down to see
the big tree. , 80
~Of course | didn't 'xactly march, he sad; "but
Daddy, marched and was his arins-and tllat al
mos, the, same as marching" He wanted 10 know all
.i,or, nv travels And DO YOU go on trains every
dv," Ills voic, filed with at the wonder OF IT,
~Tl,at must be lust grand" he said when told nm
YES All interest. he wanted to look at my grips and
SAMPLES. wanted details Of my wonderful he. men,
~Wbcn get big like YOU and Daddy, want to be a
salesman too: that is, he quickly corrected, III get
all we'll"
I'm no, much given to sentiment; but When l rs
tened o that childish voice. full Of hope, and then