South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-09
Ne1O York
By Camp
Nv O. HENRY.

leeEned thirss about New York.
We were on a hunting trip. and
we're canped one night on the bank
CT a little stream Bud Kingsbury
was our skilled hunter and guide,
ana A. was from his lips that we
had explanations OF Manhattan and
the queer folks that inhabit ~. Bud
had once spent a month IN the
metropolis, and a week or tao al
other times. and he was pleased 10
discourse 20 u cf what he had seen.
fir yards AWAY from. our camp
wa pitched The tsepee OF wan
dsring family OF Indians that had
como up and settled there for tho
niEht- An old. old Indian woman
was trying TO build a FIRE under an
iron pot hung upon three sticks.
Bud went over 20 her assistance,
and son had her fire going. When
ne came back we cOmplimented him
piayfully upon his gallantry.
oh. said Bud. don't mention
81 It's way have. whenever !
zee { lady trying 20 cook things IN
a pot and having trouble l always
20 20 the rescue. I done the same
thing once in a high toned house in
New York city. Heap big society
teepee on Fifth av. That Injun
lady kind OF recalled IL 20 my mind.
Yea, 1 endeavors 20 be polite and
help the ladies out"
The camp demanded the particu-
tars.
IT was manager OF the Triangle
= ranch in the Panhandle" said
Yud. 1T was owned at that time
byoId man Sterling Of New York.
He wanted 20 sell out and he wrote
for me 20 come on 20 New York
and explain tho ranch to the sid
cate that wanted 20 buy. So ( sen Is
20 Fort Worth and has $40 suit
OF clothes made and hits the trail
for the big village.
well, when got there, old man
sterling and his outfit certainly laid
themselves out 70 b agreeable. We
had business and pleasure 20 mixed
ND that you couldn't tell whether IL
was a. treat or a trade half the time.
we had trolley rides. and cigars, and
theaeer round-ups, and rubber par
ties"
rubber paruts?" said a listener,
inquiringly.
sure" said Bud. Didn't you
never attend 'em? You walk around
and try 90 look at the tops OF the
slxyscrapers. We'll we sold the
ranch. and old man Sterling asks
me round 20 his hOuse 20 take grub
on the night before I started back.
It wasn't any high-coliared affair
lust me and the old man and his
wife and daughter. But they was
a fne-halted outfit all right and
the lilies OF the field wasn't in It.
T-hev made my Fort Worth cloth es
carpenter look ike a dealer In horse
blankets and gee stTinga- And then
the table waS all pomPous with
howers and there was a whole kit
or tools laid out beside everybody s
piae. You'd have thought you was
ixed out 10 burglarize a restaurant
before you could get your grub. But
I'd been in New York over a week
then. and I was getting on to stylish
ways 7 Kind OF traiied behind and
uatched the others use the hard
ware supplies and then l tackled
the chuck with the same Weapons
II amt much trouble TO travel with
the hfgh-hysrs after you find out
their gait 1 got along fine I was
feeling cool and agreeable, and
pretty soon was talking away
fiuent az you please, all about the
ranch and the west. and telling 'em
ROW tho Indians eat grahhhopper
stew and snakes, and you never saw
people so interested.
But the real joy or that feast
was that Miss Sterling. Just little
FrIo< she was. not bigger than two
bits worth OF chewing plug; but she
had a way about her that seemed
10 say s1s was mo people, and you
believed II. And vet, she never put
on any airs. and she smiled at me
the same as II ! was millionaire
while I was telling about a Greek
dog feast and listened like Il was
Eevs from home.
s~FSy and By, after We had eat oys-
ters and some watery soup and
tvucs, Ehat never was In my roper
tory. = Moth odist preacher brings in
q Kind Of camp stOve arrangement
all sf1ver. on tong feEa. with a lamp
under Il.
s1nsx Sterling lights UP and be-
Gins TO do some cooking right on
the supper table. I wondered why
ola man Sterling didn't hire a cook
With All the money he had Pretty
soon she dished out some cheesy
4ssafnR truck that she said was nab
bit. but swear there had never
been q Molly cotton tail IN mile
Of ~.
The last thing on the program
vac lemonade II was brought
around in little fat S1aSs bowls and
st BY your plate. ] was pretty
thirsty. and picked UP mine and
took a big swig OF il Right there
vas where the little lady had made
n mistake. She had put in the ieInop
al right. but she'd forgot the sugar.
The best houselSeepers slip up some
times. I thought maybe Miss Ster-