Evening star., 1919-01-05

50. the marshes and had the feud that
was wound up in France when Scott
kinney's boy went out reckless and
dragged back Cousin Tubby, who'd been
plugged in two places.
u Course, 1t didn't take any sharp
shootin' to hit Tubby. he being built
so wide. But to snake him back from
machine gun outpost and into first
aid dugout under tire--well 1 should
nave wanted nothing less than truck,
and a mighty speedy one at that. No
wonder they hung medal on Corp.
Buck Kinney and put his name in the
papers Also l leave it to you if doin's
ike That wasn't enough to put crimp
In the best little family row ever work.
cd up.
But that's all old stuff now. Let's go.
hou remember this war business, and
naVih naVih ms boy made a corporal, spruced
ocott Kinney up quite bit. Instead
OF siouchin around in wadin' boots,
doln little tishin' and clammin' when
ne felt like it and loaiin' around Cos
tello's road house the rest of the
slme' scott proceeds to get shipyard
JOB. cuts down the booze and gives a
1alr imitation of an industrious citi-
zen.
thought it was going to last. too.
~ seems though. that having hero
In the family was just one too many
for Scott, ] believe he staggered
along under the honor for nearly two
weeks, and then one Saturday night
ne makes wild leap from the water
wagon, Joins his old gang at Cos
tello's and irrigates his parched an
atomy gay and careless. Well, you
could hardly expect any one with
Scott $ record to make sudden shift
like that without havin' his foot slip
- OF I,a IL
fairly. reg'lar, only knockin' off now
ana then to celebrate some important
event, such as the taking of St Quen-
tin or the fall of Jerusalem
AS he explains to me one Monday
morning when 1 meets him navigatin'
wobbly down the Post road and
roasts him for droppin' back into his
old ways: 'Tha's zawrf Shorty, but
Buck Kinney. / am And he
straightens up dignified to pound him
self on the chest.
"Admittin' all that" says T. II can't
by gettin' lickered above the ears"
"Gar-r-r-r!' says Scott, wavin' an
imaginary flag. "Ain't we got tn
bushes on tn rum"
you've got yourself on the tobog-
gan" says I. Course. l don't blame
you for being proud of Bucky But
how proud do you think he'll be OF
you when he comes homer"
That seems to penetrate through the
scratches his I grizzlea s9 hair "s1 rha's sn" so
he admits. "Sumpin' in that"
you bet there is says l. $50 why
act like you thought you'd swallowed
Hindenburg and could drown him. in
front of Costello's bar?"
AS rule such advice don't do much
good, but in this case / handed my
self decision that maybe it had.
Anyway, I didn't hear of Scott Kin
ney celebratin' any more victories so
ostentatious and. / had reports that
he was workin' reg'lar. Why shouldn't
he, at six per day? Why, he didn't
average that much week in the old
\ days Didn't even seem to know
how to get rid of it until I got after
bond proposition. So he must have
salted down quite bit. ::
When the war came to finish there
so sudden last fall though, and they
Scott was one of the first to, quit.
There were plenty of other Jobs he
might have had, at fairly good money.
Three different times tried to place
him. But there was nothing doing.
TITS all over. amt it? We've busted
that autocracy business. plumb wreck
ed it. Me and Bucky. j guess helped
some. Now I'm goin' to lay oif'
s,a Youd Ss lof sesides eGiesr With vii these
high prices, your savings won't last
long. What's the idea, anyway"
"Tm kind Of waitin' around for Buck
to come home" says he.
"That may be months says l.
you'll be goin' hungry first thing you
know" .,u
goy'nment wouldn't stand for that.
Uncle sam amt goin to let the father
Of a. hero like Buck Kinney want for
food. Look what I've done for my
country. I've give a son who's shed
his blood on the field of honor. He's
got a medal to prove it. Now IT'S up to
IN country to take care of u.s.
"That's grand little program OF
vonrs-if 1T works out" says I.
- He's a pig-headed old pirate. too:
And then. a life of leisure came natu-
raj for him. It's in the Kinney blood,
I expect. He did go back to his
founder fishin' an clammin' by spells.
hut mostly he puts in the time loafin'
around the village, joinin' in loud on
aii the things he and his Bucky had
1nne TO Germany and Turkey and how
tn settle things in Russia. They were
a mighty bloodthirsty lot, them bench
Farmers. but none of 'em had any
thing on Scott when 1t came to- sug-
1aatin, ingenious and unpleasant ways
81 making the kaiser and crown
nrince-as-was wish they hadn't start
Z "a ANYTHING. Slicin' their ears off and
Savn' 'em walk barefoot on barbed