The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-06-08

| bet that's the little lady from Duluth
singing for the sailing party"
swell"
Listen :"
Sweet and low. sweet and low.
Wind of the western sea-
Blow, blow, breezes blow.
Wind Of the western sea.
"Come on, let's Join in, Miss Fink"
81 don't know that"
Gee, l was raised on that lullaby"
Il know a swell lullaby song. It's a
swell trot, too"
When they play that ras-time lullaby
Lull--a-by-y-y-
Lull-a-by-y-y.
Say, l could die trotting that"
Lay STILL there, sister"
"Ain't you tired padding, Mr..
Prokes?"
Tired! I've padded twelve hours
straight up the Miami and not in such
good company neither At the last
convention at Bear Lake padded for
the Kansas City lodge cup, and won
it,"
You're sure some big frog in these
puddles out here"
He swung lightly about for the
homeward cut. Through the mist of
late evening the string of village lights
was without luster, like a giant lady's
necklace seen through the blur of her
giant tears.
n - lnnNT'S
Miss Fink-it's just like Gilly told
you; but, gee, this has been great,
padding you out here in the moon
light"
Say, bet you're the champion lady
killer of Miami"
Il amt called on a girl in six years,
that's how much of a lady-killer l
am"
That's what they all say"
you can ask anybody in our town.
| amt called oil Il girl III six years or
kept steady with young lady since
I used to sneak the horse out and take
Lizzie Watts buggy riding when L/was
seventeen and ought to have known
better"
You with New York twice year,
cuffs on your trousers and your name
at the top of the Red Trunk stationery
say"
you got me wrong, sister,"
81 can just see the girls in your
town begin to walk down High street
for their afternoon soda before you
got the wax ladies in your show win
dow and $16.50 serviceable suits I'M
covered for the day"
That's where you got me wrong
again, little one. I'm a funny sort of
fellow, am. After the old folks went
just lived along in the place with
black Mary same as ever"
"Honest?"
Sure enough-helpin' all the skirts
I went to school with fix it up with
the other fellow and stickin pretty
close to the store myself Lordy, sis
ter, got more god-children than Solo
mon had wives"
Look over there, will you, Mr..
Proxies? We're almost back again.
Say, wasn't that quick work?'
"Tll show you some real padding
the next time bring you out here"
Land swan out to meet them.
Houses and church steeples and the
hotel resumed their shapes, and in
| their nostrils the sudden and pungent
smell of pine needles.
"Ths was sure some ride, Mr..
| Proxies. l kinda feel like we'd just
| padded out of the world and left liv-
in behind us. Listen to her-say, amt
she some little warbler?"
1--WE amt left Twin behind, a-tall,
Miss Fink-this here Is the real kind
of living, peace and-well, just peace
Gee, amt life funny"
For a little lady like you it ought
| always to be as sweet as wistaria."
Its regular moving picture, amt
it?-one blooming thing after an
| other"
eve should worry"
1.-TWO nights ago this time I was
slttin' under gold leaf ceiling eat
ing italian spaghetti and listening to
a Hungarian band play the Broad
way Glide
81 know the kind-seventy-five cents
table d'hoty-with wine bottle Of
red ink thrown in. Out in Miami
we wouldn't use it for dye if we
wanted to color the Miami pink"
"And look, tonight I'm out here in
a canoe with man from a town that
sounds like patent medicine, so
close to the stars l could kiss 'em and
floating through the middle of night
that's got 1t all over the purple and
silver model 1 sold the day before l
left Gawd, how Maisie grudged me
| that sale!"
"And you're getting acquainted with
sky over your head that you never