Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05
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WALLACE MORGAN.

WALLACE MORGAN.
HAVE noticed that many Of the Northern
New England people seem to take salts
faction in keeping their troubles to them
selves but when we Midlanders are In
perplexity or distress we always want 70
tell somebody about 1t.
So it is with by friend, Mr.. Massey Of Logans-
Vile Ill When his mind Is under pressure ne
relieves himself by coming over to talk on the
veranda of my secluded cottage at Cobble Reef,
somes miles distant from Marys Neck, where he
has his Summer residence. I perform the
Office of listener strictly and afternoon last
August he emptied himself upon theme OF
such universal concern that now repeat his
narrative almost precisely think, as heard
1t from him.
Over at Marys Neck (Ndr. Massey said) we've
been having kind of an outbreak. The whole
percentage of our resort has worked itself up
to a rampage, as you might call II, ana
considerable amount of bad feeling has got
so engendered that quite a number OF parents
over there have quit speaking to other parents,
and it looks to me right now as If everything
Is going to get lot worse before 1t gets better,
If it ever does.
It seems to me the whole disturbance began
with Eddie Bullfnch. Eddie's about the age
Of my younger daughter. Enid-somewhere near
lust barely 18-and he's a long, stringy sort
Of boy with childish nose some sandyish hair
that is always sprung couple OF inches at a
place on the top of his head not far in advance
Of his back cowlick. When he's in our house
he's dangerous to Mrs. Massey's antiques, be-
cause he's always thinking of something else,
most likely how to persuade his father to let
him take two automobiles apart and then stick
the parts together so as to make one car thatu
be 40 miles an hour faster than either Of the
original cars was.
Well, one afternoon about month ago was
20 koHo in frOn m.
mock but couldn't because of what thought
was the singular conduct Of an airplane. 1t
would hum a while and then go plop and STOP
and I'd think GLORY! It's fallen!" and almost
browse Off and then it would begin again and
get me all wide awake. SO after a while got
up and walked down to our harbor. It's
mighty pretty little harbor, as you know, mostly
with green banks around it and not more
than three or four hundred yards across, even
at high water. Quite a number OF the Necks
Summer colony live there in right pleasant
cottages and there's little old wharf where
liked to sit on pile of weather-beaten planks
and watch the little sailboatS, mostly with
children In them, skimming around over this
safe and quiet stretch of water.
pUT that day couldn't sit on the pile of
- planks because all the sitting space was
occupied by boys between the ages Of and
16, mainly cottagers' offspring, and all OF them
interested In something Eddie Bullhnch was
doing Eddie and Enid were IN little fat
bottomed boat that Enid was holding to the
wharf Eddie was in the stern, working at a
contraption he'd fastened behind the back seat
It looked to me something like clothes wringer
made of metal with thick disk On top and a
little propeller that you could see just under
the water, and I learned later he'd made it
principally out of an old motorcycle engine and
some odd parts.
He was Juggling at the disk, trying to make
1t turn, when suddenly it began to spin and
most terrible uproar broke out from the clothes
wringer. The boat shot away and began to
scoot round and round the harbor With a kind
Of Topping motion and as much noise as the
loudest airplane could make. and Of course all
those boys on the wharf were pretty excited
and enviouS.
Little Paulie Timberlake was the most so,
although Paulie's only years old. I knew
Paulie pretty well and he's an interesting child.
but he's got an eye that disturbs me. When
he looks at me he always seems to be saying
to himself, Now what could do to this old
Sob that would entertain me?" When Eddie
Bulifnchs improvised motorboat went scooting
OF around the haFbor little Paulie began to
jump up and down.
"I'm goin' to have one Of those myself" he
squeaiad. "You can buy 'el4&iHes fifty times
: batter than that readymade and I'm goin' to
make my mother order me one this very
minnit! III have me one thatn 60 60 miles