Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-05-18

lest Gerald hear him.
He used the tone of that inspiring
song, my Dads the Engineer" which,
If I recall rightly, was contemporane
u with 'The Baggage Coach Ahead
Somewhere in the park a band was
playing Casey JONES'" with staccato
on the bars.
We're goin' to reach Frisco.
But We'll all be dead.
"Have no fear" repeated the fond
father. Gerald possesses all the eau
ton which has been linked with the
name of Forbish for generations"
1 had not known that the name of
Forbish had been linked with anything
for any time. The word link always
reminds me Of sausage, and then my
thoughts wander to Chicago, where
pork and other ingredients are incorpo-
rated into frankfurters and other va
rieties of sausage.
Mrs. Forbish broke in on this pleas.
mi line of thought.
Say, rather" she remarked firmly,
that Gerald inherits the GOODNESS and
self possession of the McGintys, famed
throughout Kildare for these quail
ties"
/ had not known that Mrs. Forbish
was a McGinty, but now. like a wal
correspondent, l smelled the battle
from afar.
"a Forbish is a Forbish," said the
husband with Scotch fnality, land
Gerald is one from every point of
-t4xr 7 xrieh W, ., .ak h1;,J NTr
Glow. so that you might study Gerald's
head. 1t is not necessary to see the
face to glimpse the Forbish in every
line of the heads contour"
Mr.. Forbish rested his case, II
seemed, but Mrs. Forbish did not let
1t go to jury.
"If you knew anything about phre-
nology, Peter she said, 'and If you
were not as blind through s~tubbornness
as Mr.. Glow is through his ailment,
you would realize that the dominant
qualities of Gerald are inherited from
his grandfather on the distaff side."
Meaning Mike McGinty, who took
the excursion to Tasmania" queried
Mr.. Forbish with sly brutality.
81 did not refer to him." said Mrs.
Forbish, "but now that you bring the
matter up, please remember that it took
eight British constables, half of them
probably Scotch, to put that same Nc
Ginty on the ship. His blood may be
responsible in some degree for Ger
AIDS bump of combativeness, which is
so plainly to be seen alongside of each
ear"
"'Then perhaps" suggested Mr.. For
bish, "you referred to old Edward
Halloran."
1.-THE same" said Mrs. Forbish. "He
was a great man, none greater in xii
dare. Through me from him have de
scended to Gerald the inestimable
qualities of veneration, conjugality, pa.
rental love, friendship and inhabitive-
ness"
"That last one," said I, doesn't
that mean staying in One placer" The
hind wheels of the car had just slew
ed in a tremendous arc.
ooh. not in that sense" replied Mrs.
Forbish sweetly, retrieving herself
from my lap. "In %phrenology it means
love of country"
There's nothing In that p%hrenology
stuff said Mr.. Forbish. Its the
general makeup of the head that
counts. Nature doesn't find it neces-
sary in making the perfect head to
cover it with knobs like a Malay war
club
l wished at the moment that I could
hoist the bandage long enough to see
whether Gerald had such a knobby
poll as his sire's remark suggested.
But Mrs. Forbish came to the rescue.
"Gerald's head is perfectly symmet-
rical,' she declared hotly.
"Of course it u.s." replied Mr.. For
Dish. "Having all the Forbish quail
tiles, how could it be otherwise? On
1t is written all the determination and
self sacrifice of the Scots wha haze wi
Wallace bled.'"
"a set of haggis fed hirelings," said
Mrs. Forbish. Sometimes when !
get to thinking about the Scotch l
wish I had married a Mecklenburger."
eve are just passing the reptile
house, remarked Mr.. Forbish with
some evident wish to change the sub
ject. "Have you ever seen the collec-
tionT"
Eyes, said I, land the sight there
always filed me with wonder as to the
purpose of the Creator. Why, for In
stance, do such horrible creatures ex-
ist as ella monsters?"
"'They make Scotchmen bearable by
comparison" sighed Mrs. Forbish. l
could see that she had her eye on the
ball and was batting 800.
And Forbish saw it, too, for when
we passed the primate house a minute
later q know the parks geography
even when blindfolded), he did not
utter a peep about it. 1t would have
been tossing a ball straight into the
batter's groove.