The Washington herald., 1915-02-27
A MIDSUMMER MASQUERADE
By O. HENRY.
Another One Of the Clever Short Stories Which Won Fame for
Thi. Brilliant American Author

Satan" When
Dr. Watts St Paul other dagnoscan He always finds
somebody for idle hands do
partner Andy Tucker
layof but
work followed wherever we
Now, preacher He responsible
ties and himself On the May he netting and
tin foil around the pulpit grabs his nbek e and fishing pole and
hikes for Lake Como Atlantic City according the the loudncs
with which he has been called by his And for three
months he don't have think business hunt around
and Proverbs and Timothy find and excu
such little midsummer dropping couple OF oo door
rouge teaching a Presbyterian widow to SWIM
But tell about mine and Ands vacation
all ingenuity
Andy whose brain rarely stopped working make
says play pnoh Merry give
knouting to the tenants my Taown estates or do monologe
Chuauqua picnic kits something and outside the line
OF routine sand-baggng
"'Patience. L. You'll climb
fore the laurcl the footprints
of industry Now what I'd like Andy, would be
sojoun mountain village far from larceny labor and
capitalization I'm tired and month lessne ought leave
the fall
ANDY once, general
where should the
his day. when he said The Lord made the earth in and all
good he hadn't idea what the
mer hotels would pagarize from him later
booklets perceived the United
States from Padkeg Me- to Ell Paso and from skagway to Key
a paradise glorious peaks
golf girls cooling breeze rides plumbing and
tennis; and all within two hours ride
so books back window
and the o'clock Tortoise Flyer Grow Knob kind
the line Tennessee North Carolina
1--WE directed kind of called Woodehuck Inn, and
ther and Andy bent and almost broke footsteps the rocks and
The Inn set back from the road in big OF trees and
looked fine with its broad poh and lot of white dresses
rocking
scenery a angle of forty FIVE degrees and a wekn
Well when to the gate who do down
best painless dentist and electric liver pad fake the Southwest
"old smoke'emout dressed eecorural and has the mingled OF
landlord claim jumper Which he corroboa by telling
m nd NC t Inc b "~,' 1s , b m will CO. d m i
leads kind of house the yard the and
took up the harp life his mighty right
"Gents' he glad you you help
I'm getting work. leased this
emporium would Two before
signed Lieut. Teary and from the Duke
Marlborough each board for of the
Wl know what big thing obscure huery
would gentlemen whose famous
cebcgs the Cobus So lot OF hand
bills that Woodehuc Inn would shelter these distinguished
board during the places where leaked and sends
land look there the porch gents Smoke
and the Lieutenant The house packed from ers cellar with
There's four normal school teachers and two abnora there's three
high graduates oywo
old maids and one that can write society and
bunking
and I've the hay loft the cook and the society dress OF the
Chattanooga Opera Glass You sec how names draw, gents
that to be biting thumbs at
good luck? You didn't to be that way
T amt through yesterday the day for the
advent OF the down the depot welcome
apparently substances off the trai both
bags full croque puhbutton
compares the
reckon the mistake due eyesight In
stead being daisy explorer
Levi T. Py soda clerk Ascvi And
Marlborough turned be Theo Drake Of
a What did do? kicked EN- both back
watch EN- 70 the lowland, the low
the FIX I'm gents, Smokemou Smth
had
that made like
deceived every yard
natural waved switch the house will pack and leave
It's hardd DEAL old Smoke'em-out
Andy touching the old the aesophgu. why
jeremad the and the portals of Benh
hand prosperity hamarked silver av We have
arrived!
light breaks OUT on Smoke face
gents? he asks Could do it? Could the
polar and ladies'? Will do
Andy with his old laundering the oral
That vocabulary about
when they
Andy old Smokeem-ou Can do it? You behold
explorers and lost but Jeff