Show WOW DILLON DID J 11 fet mo toll you the story of that pair of pants I tore in 1874 as a boy is possessed of audit 400 times ns much feeling ashe la generally credit cd with having Once upon a time in those days when 1 was studying between the lines of my geography how to corner two men with three upon the checkerboard I needed a pair of rants I Knew I needed them and I became so positive that they were produced In a hurry from countrystore cloth I dont suppose that 10 would havo purchased In this country at that time an outfit equal In value to some of the 5 combination suits for boys now sold everywhere but honey is as pure today as In the days of Samson The next morning on my way to that geography lesson I fell I dont know why or how but when I got up there was a fiveInch opening In the knee of the left leg of these pants The sky grew dark life became painful my countenance disturbed the dining room group that evening so much that they voted the cloth no good and that I was blameless Those pants produced such a desert of woe that years of memory on clothing are blighted all around that lamentable date At that stage of American history a suit with an extra pair of pants was as undeveloped as an international silver dollar But speaking of checkers makes me think of Dillon Dillon had just one rule for playing checkers and that was Play to beat When Ilnel me Ion I thought I knew how is checkers After beating my to and father and Erastus Hatha ran up against Mr M POwers pulntor It took me about six m to conquer Mr Powers and It w dozen years after that I met I and I was never able to beat though a book was purchase checkers and how to play the p i Still Dillon would let mo have I ono game In twenty just to enco me The embarrassing part 01 whole experience consisted In th that Dillon was over ninety year and continued to play his rulo to for years after that He was II 1 onehundredth year when he said i bye to the visible world Another uncomfortable part of experience with the board betwe was that I got a rubber manufai to sit beside me and try to hell out but together we were not to corner Dillon when he really s eel to get out of a close place never thought any the less of hh his beating me so severely be he was one of the youngest and cheerful of elderly men Hadl known how to use honey meat and cereals and exe systematically I might have h clearer head In those days I lowed a great deal of foolish Dillon was a careful and small e He always quit when he had en The HoneyMoney Stories |