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Show TAKING LIFE EASY ON CANADA'S FRONTIER We sat about on the eots. . Jones picked up my copy of "Man and Superman," and curled himaelf up by the lamp. The Instrument Instru-ment man a picturesque figure in that flick-ering flick-ering light, with his looie, gray flannel shirt,'' his laced half-boots snd his boyish face and wistful eyes hauled out a soap box, con-, taining phonograph records, from under his cot. Burbank, the resident engineer, was half-heartedly -figuring at hie table. The very youthful rod man had effaced himself in a corner. And there, with the light wavering waver-ing over the sloping canvas and a Tate breeze rustling by outside, and a coyote yelping somewhere down the lake, we smoked ana grew dreamy-eyed while the sonorous voiee of the . gentlemanly announcer chopped - out the wordrt '"My Name Is Morgan, but It Ain't J. P-, sung by Br-r-r-r-scrape-er-r-r-T-rkl" It was a trivial little thing, a good eomie song spoiled -in the writing, about a young fellow named - Morgan and a young woman who showed a well-developed tendency to order more lee cream at a sitting th7 Mr. Morgan could conveniently pay for. - His protestations ' took the form of s vociferous vocifer-ous refrain, in the course of which he informed in-formed her that, while she had known him pretty long, she -had unmistakably got the initials wrong; for, while his name was admittedly ad-mittedly Morgan, he was ' not "J.' P.," a fact which he felt must be impressed kindly but firmly upon her consciousness. From what was not said, as we listened, I knew that at least three members of that ,. little party were back, in imagination, , in that Broadway where the lights twinkle at night by the tens of thousands, and the motor horns toot savagely, and the surface cars rumble and ring, and life Is light and merry and altogether an effervescent substance. And the coyote yelped through the lonelr night. Glancing out, I saw that the surface sur-face of the lake was wrinkling' a little under the breess. Samuel Merwfn in Success. Suc-cess. ..I |