The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-03-30

cone OF ashes tremDIed II tumblet
from his cigar down his waistcoat.
Il leave them things to the younl
ones, Gilly. What's az old one like mt
doing off on a party with marrieds and
a bunch of striplings? l been out hit
tin a new trail through the pines thai
I'll bet the original Indians hereabouts
amt too familiar with"
You ought to be able to find better
than scenery for company around here.
Proxies, get acquainted with Miss Fink,
q little girl from the big town"
"How-do-do."
'How-do-do."
"Gowann, get acquainted and show
each other a good time. Proxies is the
Grand Mogul of Miami on the Miami,
Birdie, and the Heap Big Chief of the
Southwest Order of the Well Fed
Bison"
Quit calm me names, Gilly."
HE says Miami on the Miami's got
the Moo York waterfront run clear off
the picture postcards and that the
only and original hayseeds are grown
between Battery and the Bronx. Get
together, you two, and femme referee
the game"
Miss Fink smiled, dangled her black
earrings against her white neck,
showed the CLEAN of her teeth behind
her lips and raised her narrow Shout
ders, with the open-work blouse show
ing the mystery of pink ribbon
through it.
"How-do-do, Mr.. Proxies; what I'm
trying to get at is this: if you're all
the things he says you are, what amt
your"
Mr.. Proxies extended a large, warm
hand; his sand-colored mustache re-
treated a bit to reveal the damaging
gold evidence of small town dentistry.
IL amt noticed you around here
before, Miss Fink"
Hes stringing you, Queenie. For
all he knows you might have been at
the door to welcome him when he
came last week. He's got about as
much interest in skirts as ! have In
Miami on the Miami"
IF this young lady had been around
here, I'd have seen her all right"
you can't jolly her, Prokes-she
comes from the town where they hand
1t out like trading stamps. This hand
some young man to my right, Queenie,
is as afraid of skirts as / am Of hay
ing to spend another summer west Of ]
Jersey" /
Don't you believe it, Miss Fink. A ]
fellow like me, when he gets to be fair, s
fat and nearly forty, knows it's time |
to take the flower out Of his button l
'
mot if it's a bachelor BUTTON
Quoth Mr.. Gilly, slapsticking repartee
a merciless whack. {
IF l thought stood a show next to
my slick young friend here, maybe I'd |
shake the road dust of Miami out Of I
eyes, answer a hair restoring adj |
vertisement, climb into a narroW-shoul-
dered, in-at-the-waist coat and twirl a =
bamboo I'M down Broadway
nyself"
Miss Fink glanced at Mr.. Proxies
With the upward sweetness of a Fra
Lippi virgin. !
"Say, maybe you're right about the !
hay meadows laying between =
,hirty-fourth and Forty-second I
but, honest, MI. Proxies
lonest, what is Miami, a breakfast :
God or a diseaseT" l
Mr.. Gilly ciapped his hand on his ,
thatch of black hair and =
eaned across the counter with his Ell :
planted on the register book. :
"That's right, go to it!' =
miami, Miss Fink, amt one of the :
breakfast foods that helped make the !
Broadway electric sign famous; it !
even an expensive disease like aIs ,
1endicitis or motoritis; it's a burg, =
Miss Fink, that amt even got a dot
lfter it on the map"
Thanks"
"a burg with grass growing be-
ween the bricks and story-and-a-half
cottages with pointy roofs like the toy
louses they manufacture in the Cis-
llpian Alps"
"Hear-hearl' p cried Mr.. Gilly, his
mouth turned upward in a crescent.
EVERY back porch in our town is
lsed for the two and sole purposes of
Tupportin' wistaria vines and coolin'
he famous pies that mother used to
nake-no vaudeville rural sketch is
complete without the cotton-back satin
wistaria vine or the papier /,
nache tree stump, center left" 3.
"No, we amt got a swimmin' hole, i
Mss Fink. the" ,
'sThat's right; keep vt dark =" I
"-the rivers rapid clear down as
ar as Hamilton, but the Y. NJ. c. A. F.,
a swell tank up in their rooms on
Iigh street-ten-foot concrete basin ,
nd water any temperature on the /
thermometer" ]
"Oh. you Miami I" $
"Come out OF the lake with me, !
fiss Fink, and I'll paddle you out to-