The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-05-16

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that had oEdsred. IL was fun weight
- ] fully realized before ! got il on
the wharf and into the skin. and cut
OF the akiH into the ice box on the
houseboaG Next tine. think / viii use
Clumsy Claude method and let IL melt
down TO something near my own
weight before tackling IL.
Also got The Pensacola Journal con
tanning account OF the second day Of
the war between Germany and the rest
81 Europe ] can imagine nothing more
foolish. Germany. the aggresaor sp-
arently, IL sure 20 lose the greater part
~ the magnificent merchant feet that
she has built up during the past hfteen
or twenty years, the greater part 81 her
navy. her outlying possessions. Alsace-
Lorraine. and. from the invading char
acter 81 her military operations. more
men than her opponents Will. I think
she viii be in great luck Il she gets
on this easily, and with the payment
% war indemnity that will make
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1879 look mighty small
Friday, Camp Walton.
We had expected to start for Gar
nier's Bayou about this time but
hard rain came I'D during the night
and recommended this morning ~
seven. Il is atill raining, but the signs
are good for clearing up b. eleven
o'clock.
The first and natural consequences o.
the precipitation was that the Missus
should set sore on yachting. She says.
with the Irishman. that the next time
she goes on q cruise, she viii stay 81
horne Dorothy demonstrated with her
and made a point Of the fact that the
Log Of the Peep O'Day would lack
literary balance without the Miasus'
lamentations. which. besides being
sinomre. assist Ia developing situations.
Dorothy knows a good deal more about
literary dos and don'ts than ! Do. 20 I
agreed with her.
Speaking Of the literary, feel
battered 70 learn that these people
up the Narrowa" DO not refer 60
..Laaya Walk" any MORT f.
sAIaiden's Walk" nov. Thus my little
literary venture has, IN q few months
time. changed the name Of a locality
and a legend that has stood Tor q
couple hundred years. or Haore.
Maiden's Walk Is . popular place
these moonlight nights, competing on
even terms with tho Tango. the Maxite.
the Texas Tommy. the Hesitation and
ttha worst % AID tbs Lame Duck,
danced nightly az the pavilion.
Ny n~st Wait % Maidsn'a Walk.
during the fun o the moon" was
twenty years ago: We saw. with our
own EYES. tao headissa ghosts, u
happened that we saw them before
they saw each other and thus We were
disillusionsd. ~ the ghosts were
heaalsss, Il aid not occur % us specta-
tors that they could see each other, but
they dld--and then enaued a most
wonderful race: Two headless bhostE
yelling bloody murder. and each trying
to get a. far from the other a. an
Island that Is only nfty miles long
would permit
II was long after the mystic mid
night hour before We captured both
ghosts and convinced each that IL chez
had merely seen another fool and not
q ghost
An, those happy days
Thinking q that wonderful vacation.
recalls 20 me that I vas the enly
young man in the party that knew the
waltz step. The waltz Was then re-
I EardeA BY staio people with scout the
same dlsfnvor that staid people nov
regard the Lame Duck. They felt that
/ the waltz. OF "rhs round dance" Was
\ but another device OF the Devil 60
trap the young and innocent
Notwithstanding this feeling ~ staid
4 people all % our young ladies. good
4 Methodist girls a. that, were crAEy %
learn the waits One - the young men
4 possessed q mouth-harp and knew =
4 few bars q tire Arkansas Traveller, ana
before the end 81 the two weeks I'll
~ tire girls had a working knowlsdEe
o. the wait1
Ara none q those Firis vent 70 the
Y Devil.
There e. a moral IN this little psrao-
Z raj recaliectien. for staid people. but !
Z hats 20 rncrafize. and iet e paHs
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