Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-23
TaEsREPUBIIcAN 1owA FEBRUARY 49,

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Edwin demanded. "Granser's set upon
having snack"
Again 0ranser's eyes burned with
greediness 90 1 large crab was handed
to him. It was q shell with legs and
all complete, but the meat had long
since departed. With shaky fingers
and babblings Of anticipation, the old
man broke OF leg and found it filled
with emptiness.
THE crabs. Hoo-Hoo?" he walled.
THE crabs?v
II was fooling. Granser. They amt
no crabs. never found one"
The boys were overwhelmed with de-
light at sight OF the tears Of senile dis.
appointment that dribbled down the
old mans cheeks. Then. unnoticed,
Hoo-Hoo replaced the empty shell with
a fresh cooked crab Already dismem-
bered from the cracked legs the white
meat sent forth q small cloud Of saw
ory steam. This attracted the old
mans nostrils, and he looked down in
amazement- The change # his mood
to one of JOY was immediate. He
snuffled and muttered and mumbled.
making almost {. Groom of delight, as
he began to eat. OF this the boys took
little notice, for 1t was an accustomed
spectacle. Nor did they notice his oc.
casional EXPLANATIONS and utterances
of phrases which meant nothing to
them, as, for instance, when he
smacked his lips and champed his
gums while muttering: "Mayonnaise!
Just think-mayonnaise! And it's sixty
years since the last was ever made!
Two generations and never smell OF
It! Why, in those days 1t was served
in every restaurant with crab"
When he could eat no more. the old
man sighed, wiped his hands on his
naked legs, ard gazed out over the sea-
With the cortent Of full stomach. he
waxed reminiscent.
ITO think of It! I've seen this beach
alive with men, women and children
on a pleasant Sunday. And there
weren't any bears to eat them up.
either. And right up there on the Cliff
was big restaurant where you could
get anything you wanted to eat. -Four
million people lived in San Francisco
then. And now, in the whole city and
county there aren't forty all told. And
out there on the sea were ships and
ships always to be seen. going in for
the Golden Gate or coming out And
airships in the air-dirigibles and fly.
ing machines. They could travel two
hundred miles an hour. Mail contracts
with the New York and San Francisco
Limited demanded that for the mini.
mum. There was a chap, French.
man, forget his name, who succeeded
in making three hundred; but the thing
was too risky for conservative per
sons. But he was on the right clue.
and he would have managed it If it
hadn't been for the great plague.
When was a boy there were men who
remembered the coming of the first
aeroplanes, and now l have lived to
see the last of them, and that sixty
years ago."
But there weren't many crabs N
those days." the old man wandered on.
"They we're fished out, and they were
great delicacies. The open season was
only month long, too. And now
crabs are accessible the whole year
around. Think Of it-cftching all the
crabs you want, any time you want. in
the surf OF the Cliff house beach,"
A sudden commotion among the
goats brought the boys to their feet.
The dogs about the fire rushed to Join
$bo;r ep n rl;,, - follou, u,Io o,,o ri od thu
goats, while the goats themselves
stampeded in the direction of their
human protectors. A half dozen forms.
lean and gray, glided about on the
sand hillocks or faced the bristling
dogs. Edwin arched an arrow that
fell short. But Hare-Lip, with a sling.
such as David carried into battle
against Goliath. hurled stone through
the air that whistled from the speed Of
its flight. 1t fell squarely among the
wolves and caused them to stink away
toward the dark depths of the eucalyp-
tus forest.
The boys laughed and lay down
again in the sand, while Granser
sighed ponderously. He had eaten too
much, and with hands clasped on his
paunch, the fingers interlaced, he re.
sumed his maunderings.
1.-The feeting systems lapse like
foam,'" he mumbled what was evil
IDENTIFY a quotation. That's it-foam,
and fleeting. All mans toll upon the
planet was just SO much foam. He
domesticated the serviceable animals.
destroyed the hostile ones, and cleared
the land of its wild vegetation. And
then he passed. the food Of primordial
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