Show HI Andle A pretty story which has moreover the merit of being true ia told of a certain professional singer he had a bean ticul tenor voice of which he was apt to take the best of care so that when he was crossing the atlantic one summer with a party of friends they were not surprised to find that he disappeared from view every evening at just about the same time afraid of the night air said one with a slight smile afraid well ask him to sing probably said another but no one questioned him as he was known to be quite immovable from his own way but when the last night on board came a delegation descended to his stateroom to beg for a song or two and discovered that he was not there they looked for him in vain until at last the captain who had evidently kept the secret as in the direction of the engine room 1 I think find him down there where hes pone every evening sure enough when the delegation arrived atthe engina room they heard tha bound of a guitar and a voice and there lolling against the wall was the recreant henory singing his best for the delight of the smokers stokers sto kers whom he had entertained luthis way for more than an hour every evening during the voyage youths companion |