Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-11

after the store for a few days. SAID
the Doctor. Il promised TO take Mr..
Traylor over to Jack kelso's tonight
Couldn't you come along?"
"Goodl Wen have a story-tell1n
and get Jack to unlimber his guns,
said Abe.
Jack Kelso's cabin, one of two which
stood close together at the western
end of the village, was lighted by the
CHEEKY blaze of dry logs in its fire
place. There were guns on a rack
over the fireplace under a bucks head,
a powder horn hanging near them on
its string Topped over a nail. There
were wolf and deer and bear pelts on
the floor. The skins of foxes, rae
coOns and wildcats adorned the log
walls. Jack Kelso was a blond,
smooth-faced, ~good-looking, merry
hearted Scot, about forty years old,
of a rather slight build, some five
feet, eight inches tall. That is all
that any one knew of him save that
he spent most of his time hunting
and fishing and seemed to have all
the best things. which great men had
said or written, on the tip OF his
tongue.
"Welcome and here's the best seat
at the fireside," he said to Samson.
"My wife and daughter are away for
a visit and for two days I've had the
cabin to myself. Look, re ~worshipers
of fire. and see how fine 1t Is now!
The homely cabin is a place of beauty.
What a heaven it is when the flames
are leaping! Here is Hogarth's line
of beauty; nothing perpendicular or
horizontal"
He tool Abe's hand and went on:
"Here, We lovers of romance, Is one
of the Story-tellers of Ispahan who
has in him the wisdom of the wander
ing tribes. He can tell you a tale
that will draw children from their
play and old men from the chimney
corner. My boy, take a chair next
to Mr.. Traylor. Mr.. Traylor, you
stand up as proud and firm as a
big pine. I believe you're a Yankee"
$50 do l." said Samson. IF you
took all the Yankee III O. me I'd have
an empty skin"
Then Abe began to show the stran-
ger his peculiar art in these words:
stephen Nuckles used to say:
Gods grace embraces the isles O. the
sea an the uttermost parts o. the
earth. 1t takes in the Esquimaux IN
the Hottentots. Some go so fur to
say that 1t takes in the Yankees but
1 don't go so fur"
Samson Joined in the ~good-natured
laughter that followed.
"If you deal with some Yankees
you take your life in your hands, he
said. 'They can serve God or Nam
mon and l guess they have given the
devil some of his best ideas. He
seems to be getting a lot of Yankee
notions lately"
'There was a powerful prejudice
in Kentucky against the Yankees"
Abe went on. "Down there they used
to tell about a Yankee who sold his
hogs and was driving them to town.
On the way he decided that he had
sold them too cheap. He left them
with his drover in the road and went
on to town and told the buyer that he
would need help TO bring 'em In.
SHOWS that?' the buyer asked.
"Why they git away an go to run
min through the woods an fields an
we can't keep up with EN-
"T don't think I want EN- says
the buyer. "A speedy hog hasn't
much pork to carry. I'll give We
twenty bits to let me on"
II guess that Yankee had one more
hog than he'd counted" said Samson.
"Whatever prejudice you may find
here will soon vanish" said Kelso,
turning to the newcomer. 81 have
great respect for the sturdy sons OF
New England. l believe it was Theo-
dore Parker who said that the pine
was the symbol Of their character.
He was right. Its roots are deep In
the soil; 1t towers above the forest;
it has the strength Of tall masts and
the substance of the builder in its
body, music in its waving branches and
turpentine in its veins. l thought OF
this when 1 saw Webster and heard
him speak at Plymouth"
what kind of a looking man is
hef" Abe asked.
"A big erect, splendid figure Of a
man. He walked like a ram at the
head of his flock"
Abe who since his story had sat
with a sad face looking into the fire
now leaned forward. his elbows on his
knees, and shook his head with inter-
est while his gray eyes took on a
look of animation. The diary speaks
often of the well Of sadness on his
face.
HE is a very great man" Abe ex-
claimed.
'Have you learned that last noble
flight Of his in the reply to Haynes,
as you promsed7" Kelso asked.
81 have" said Abe, land the other