The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-07-08
CHAPTER XI-Continued
Copyright by Irving Bachelor
(WNU service)


If it hadn't been for the DOCTOR" Shad
answered.
ITS good thing for boy to know
how to pick out his friends" Bunny
declared
Saturday morning Shad went up to
the Dam for the mail and needed pro-
visions. He received a letter from
Colonel Blake which said:
my dear boy: / have some good
news. You look for me Sunday about
one O'Clock at Browns Cove for an
other dinner with you and Bumpy.
Tell him that have not forgotten the
Elysium of peace and joy I found I'M
der his roof. Go and buy good fat
turkey and whatever else you may
need and charge the cost to me. Don't
worry about the Commentaries You
are young yet for that kind of food"
Fowls were every day coming down
from the hills to market. Shad found
one to his liking at Smithers' store.
That done, he went to the doctors
house. The learned man in his great
coonskin coat stood by his cutter at
the door. He was about to begin his
rounds in the country. He called the
boy aside and said:
"The young woman is getting bet
ter. She has promised to commit to
me important revelations. I may get
them on my next visit. Say nothing
of this to any one. / don't want her
to be harried by lawyers. She is not
yet out of danger. A moment Of I'M
due excitement might be fatal to her
and to the hope have Of serving JUS
tice. We must be patient"
With that the doctor shook the boys
hand, got into his waiting cutter and
drove away.
Shad returned to the store and, with
well-filled basket in one hand and a
kerosene can in the other, set out for
Browns cove. He had intended to in
vite Bony down to dinner but with.
Cononel Blake coming for a talk his
; young friend would be in the way.
However, the prospect of seeing his
beloved chief allayed his disappoint-
ment.
Bumpy was elated by the colonel's
compliment and the prospect of having
the distinguished lawyer at his table
again. "Talk about 'lysiums That's
long jump ahead o. me, but I'm a-goin'
to cook him turkey that'll make the
hair grow on his bald head"
Bunny had peculiar way of stor-
ing his meat In winter. There was
pulley in the roof-beam under the over
hang outside the front door. The tur-
key, well wrapped in cheese cloth and
fast to the end of cord, was hauled
Up to the peak, where it hung through
the night beyond the reach of coons
or foxes.
After supper that night they sat un-
der the evening lamp and went on
with the adventures of Pip in the hum
BILE home Of Joe Gargery until bed
time.
Next morning Bumpy prepared the
turkey for the oven, stuffing 1t with
sage dressing and basting its breast
and sides with strips Of well-cured
bacon. When the oven was judged to
be hot enough the PANIED turkey was
showed into it and the doors closed.
At that moment he began to look SOL
emn and refused to talk or to allow
any interference in the matter of keep
ing the fire right.
''Now don't talk to me none," he
would say. "This job has got to be
done right. You run down to War
ner's an git a pint O. cream. Hurry
up"
Shad returned with the pitcher of
cream.
'.Now set the table an keep an eye
out for Colonel Blake" Bumpy COM
manded. 81 don't want to be took by
surprise. If he don't come on time
we'll hang him without trial."
The table set, Shad stood by the
window watching the trail. The tur-
key was hauled out of the oven.
Bumpy peeled his potatoes. He put
them in the spider and mashed and
stirred them, adding cream and butter
and salt and pepper with cunning
hand.
"Here he comes |" the boy called.
@Throw open them doors-quick,"
Bumpy commanded. "Theres leetle
too much dinner in the air O. this
ROOM"
He showed his turkey into the cooled
oven and closed its doors to protect 1t
from the draft.
"Hello!" the colonel shouted as he
came in. II hope that the dinner is
as ready as l am"
eve was scared for fear it would
be too ready" Bumpy answered. "a
-~good dinner loses its temper if it has
/. TO wait. 1t gifts kind O. disagreeable.'
The old man stirred the fire little
and put his coffee on the stove
''Watch 1t now an don't let it bile
he said to Shad. I'm goin' to gil
some cider fer the colonel that has 9
razor edge on it."
He was especially careful in the
making of coffee with fixed rule a:
to quantities and temperature. The
second 1t began to bubble the pot was
set In pan Of hot water, there to re