Show A YOUTHS ADVENTURES Which Whether Truth or Fiction Are D < cldJlr Intertitlnc When riding In lho tram car through tho wildest parts of Peckham Rye writes a contributor to the London News with a friend wo were bound ou a journalistic errand a bronzed young man of marino appearance jumped jump-ed into tho car and at once recognized my companion Before wo had gone very far I was deep in ono of the oddest family histories This now arrival it seems when a boy of 14 had been pos seeped by tho fear of consumption that fell disease having carried all his brother and threatening his father and mother Accordingly ho lead every book that lie I could lay his lianda on dealing with Ibo subject and as tile result of his reading read-ing ran away to Bournemouth to bo near tho pines Having no funds lie engaged lilniclf to a local fishmonger carrying lila masters flab to the various customers When tho days work was dono he thonldered n hammock which ho hid brought with him and camped among Homo of home pines for which that southern health resort la I famous Ono night it cciflcman sauntering along fmbking a Cigar noticed him unit being amazed at this nl fresco bed entered into conversation with him Why I know vim you nro I exclaimed ex-claimed tho consumptive youth nt last Youro Mr Louis Stovcn ou tho man who wrote Treasure Island How do you know raid tho gentleman Because I deliver you fish Yon live nt Skorryvoro So I do replied Stevenson for ho it w as suro enough lint you dont talk like n fishmongers boy No moral do replled the hay nnd ho then poured his Etraugo secret into tho noiclists car which was sym pathetic enough ou may be sure Tho result of this odd meeting vas an invitation breakfast Oh and I did cat saId the young mm Ho told tho ctory to loudl that tho wholo train laughed And tile ronatits couldnt mako It out at all to Fro tho distill guMicd imthor entertaining poor me Then ho vent to Paris nnd I never saw him again for T long while Tho pines not proving strong enough tho strange youth was seized with n yearnIng yearn-ing for tile eccnt of the eucalyptus and perenndcd his friends to Bond him to men When lia reached Sydney ho hoI M his outllt and ran nwuy into the bah and lived in tho open with eucalyptus galore Theme rafter maiir mhenturtD ho sailed for the south seas and abodo by reef and palm for many n long year Ono day whin cruising as supercargo among the Gilbert Islands I think a I European swell lit beuntiful whlto duck u great red bash and u ppreadlng panania hot with n peacocks feather In it camo aboard the schooner Good morning Mr Stovenon aid tile so pcrcargo Mr Stevenson looked and wondered who knew him ill these aroff scan I dont know ran ho said < shaking bis head But I know yon Dont ran remember tho fishmongers boy who ate such a big breakfast at Skcrryi 01 e So I do Well tho w orld is Email indeed And no doubt tho two had iiegs and tlffinor wlmtorr they call ouch things In tlio islands together to-gether What a strange small world it is I indeed I Veil one succumbed to tho dread disease tho other is as hearty n fellow na ever I haNy It was nqmiiit grim fancy to go dodging phthisis allover all-over tho world London News |