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low Johnny, and you wanted to see me on shore." "Why! Bobby you wanted Ito shoot your dear little Bess did you? What a naughty boy, pull down your panLlegs and run along to bed," and other like soothing words to these manly young men. Oh it was bitter. But Ducklegs came to the res 4ue as usual. How he fixed it with the guard, I never knew for we had all left with our girls for Mrs. Banks' as soon as we landed. We allowed that old Buck and Ducklegs could fix it some way, and they must have done so for Duck and Connie wasn'it far behind us when we reached our start ing point. Right here one of the stratgest things happened in our trip. Just as we were coming up to old Mrs. Banks' some smart Aleck had formed aline or two of that old detestable refrain about "I lay five dollars down" and the boys were singing it with a shout, "We love these girls of Rocketts, we love them fit to kill, We could eat <them up by piece and not have -half a fill, And I y five dollars down, etc." Old Mrs. Banks had a rooster in a coop, right in the ehomney jem under her window, and she said she heard him crow just as the storm from the Kitty Floyd was coming up. That's what she called our singing, a storm. When she came down to let the girls in, she -looked in the coop and lo and behold, the rooster was gone. She charged us with the theft right before the girls and raised a fearful rucus about it. But gracious, we didn't take her chicken and I will swear that on a itaek of Bibles in three inches of heaven. Well, yes, the negroes, they were there, but they didn't take it, for I asked old Jess only a fdw days ago, to tell me the truth about it, and he says, "Before guard boss, we did n't take that rooster. Why, we were so wor Qut and bunged up on dat boat, dat we wouldn't took even a pullet, if we saw it in the road.'' And now the parting came, the good I byes forever. While we were all tired and needed rest and sleep still all seemed to feel a sadness at the thought of parting, one long, eternal farewell. Hot Spurand Dixie had ceas edito talk of battles,anddrum beats, and werepartingin whispers. Dell and (Hester kept up thespitefulbieker'ns. She told Dell that the next time he came to leave his manners behind and borrow someone's else, that would be more agreeable, the latter cutting baek, that he hoped she had gotten her full growth in height, wished her father would not Tie unkind to her for wearing his Sunday shoes. Ducklegs and Connie still talked of stars and constellations, of Venus and the Ple jades, but I don't believe Connie knew a bit more of what he was talk ing ithem lies,-well all but me. I were ranged about in thie old balcony, talking <to their girls, no doubt tell ing them lies,-well all but one. I was letting the truth fly for once. When my little blue eyed innocence stood before me, her *h9nds toying with the brass buttons on my coat, raising occasionally those long droop ing lashes that. covered those eyes of iheavenly blue, she 'said: "I have a presentiment, St. Luke, that this is to be the end of it all.'' I assured her with all the vehe mence of rey verdant youth, that as long as I was on t'op of the earth,. and the sun, the moon and s:ars eon tinued to shine, and all that kind of stuff. you know, we parted and pass ed out of each other's life as quietly and as easily as we had come imto it. When we go.: away a little distance they jollied us good, told us to call again and if they were not at home to leave our cards. Maggie called after me: "Take good care of your p)recious self. St. Luke, don't get killed if vou can help it. When in battle lay close >to the groand, or get behind a tree." Well, I think I must have followed her sage advice. else I would not be here today to tell this story. We all went staggering back to camp, more dead than alive, after this strenuous night of revelry. Just as we were nearing our pickets we heard the drumtmer getting ready to beat the reveille and availed ourselves of a soldier's privilege from jume im memorial to curse the dI!rumer at night. for beating too late and in the morning for beating too soon. ,Some swore it was nearer three o eclock than four, but we go.t into camp and fell in our tents to rise no more that day. Nlow the next morning, that is the second morning after our frolic, we were standing in a group in front of headquarters tent, discussing the event and settling up mnatter3 eon neted wit'. our trip to old Model Fam - We heard .:hose devils wor' shof)ps, the ne.wsbJo.v. comning down h st reet, one iiu either side. (.lunah (lnl **(e ir paper. "RicKinou)d I i pah. m CinelW.' an Eamn ' alat ewst f~Srom theC front.' --all about ~the seven girls that danced at. the -man Fwi'; and then they would sn a stanza wAth tlat infernal. sou a-acking refrain. "And I lay five dollars down I lay it is no harm, I lay it for the seven girls That danced at the Model Farm." We heard the men yelling and laughing, as the boys would touch us and the girls off. Why man alive, there were thirty verses of it and that fool poet, oh. the was a villian, hadn't left one of us out. And those little satanic majesties, the newsboys, sung it with a relish. We could see up the line, men standing in groups ond one reading aloud, then up would go the paper and a shout followed. Every man in camp knew us by our nic-names, and this song was good fodder under their tongues. Just as they came opposite our gang, they leit out. "Ducklegs is a buster, that everybody knows He stole Miss Banks' rooster and hid it in ihis clothes And I lay five dollars down I lay it is no harm. I lay it for the seven girls That danced at the Model Farm." The End. DR. COO1 REITERATES CLIM OF DISCOVERY EPLIES TO PEARY'S DENIAL OF HONOR. Explorer Wishes to Produce Evidence of His Eskimo Companions. Says He Will Not Enter into Any Controversy. London, Sept. 8.-The Reuter Tele gram compawv has received- the fol lowing cablegram from Commander Peary, dated Indian Harbor, Labra dor: "Cook's story should not be ta ken too seriously. The Eskimos who accompanied him say he went no dis tance north and not out of sight of land. Other men of the tribe corrob orate their statement." Copenhagen, Sept. 8.-''I have been to the North Pole. As I said last night when I heard of Commander Peary's success, if he says he has been to the pole I believe him. "I am willing to place facts, fig ures and worked-out observations be fore a joint tribunal of the scientifie bodies of the world. In due course I shall be prepared to make publie an annoneement that will effectually dispel any doubt, if there can be such, of the fact that I have reached the pole. But, knowing that I am right and that right must prevail, I will submit at the proper time my full story to the court of last resort -the people of the world. "4 will not enter into any contro versy over the subject with Command er Feary, further than to say that if he says I have taken his Eskimos, my reply is that Eskimos are nomads. They are owned by nobody, and are no private' property of either Corn mander Peary or myself. "The Eskimos engaged by me were paid ten times what they agreed to ac.company me for. Meets Charge With Charge. "As to the story that Commander Peary says I took provisions stored by him, my reply is that Peary took my provisions, obtaining ;them from the custodian on the plea that I had been so long absent that .he was go ing to organize a relief station for me in case I should ,be alive. For this I have documentary proof.'' This is Dr. Frederick A. Cook's rply to Commander Peary. Cming so quickly upon other dra matic ineidents of ~the week, Comn mander Peary's dispatch denying that Dr. Cook had achieved the tri umph for which he <has been feted and honored in Copenhgaen beyond the lot of any other private person, has been read here with feelings of amaze ment and concern. But Dr. Cook him self seems in no wise distuirbed. He wvas perfectly cool and apparently un mlovedl when confronted to-night with telegrams from t.1e United States say in that Commander Peary had de nouned him as. an imp)o5'or. lis de meanr1 has no: changed in the slight est from the day he landed in Copen Abides by Decision. Dr. Cook's friends had urged him to their utmost to make any state ment possible for the public. but he iad said repeal:edly that all he had to say for the present was that 'he Possessed proofs that he had visited he North Pole on April 21, 1908. hoe proofs were convincing and in ue time wou-ld be given to the world. m 1en it wVaS su~ggestedl to him that he Q ruie( unl.ess he mlade astif O' st atemem imediately. he smiled his usual q;uie1 smile and asked how could a man be ruined by popular clam c.allin him an impostor when !I( tad pro t a wmic n cnm and would be pablislied. as he had often times repeated, w-hen they were in proper form to be given ouit. Regarding the controversy over his alleged taking of Peary's stores, Dr. Cook asserts that he had written and other satisfactory evidence that Peary took his stores, perhaps believing him dead. "Harry Whitney is personally ae quainted with all the facts and per haps what he has to say when he re turns may be interesting," added the explorer. Wants Dispute Minimized Then Cook remarked quietly: "Make as little as you can of this and don't say anything disagreesble about Peary." Dr. Cook told Capt. Sverdrop and another friend the day after he had landed here that he hoped there would be no unpleasantness over sap plies wit>h the Peary paiity; that he had found some of Peary's men in possession of one of his depots and had turned them out unceremoniously. 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