Show HE HUNTS DOWN HIS PA N PARIS the greatest relief I 1 ever encee was getting off of that cattle ship which I 1 did somewhere in france because the chip had become so to il smelling that one had to stay on deck to breathe and there was ro moie fun to have cause the cers and chew got on to me and ever one exi acted to be blown up or el if they got near to me and the last three days they wouldn t let me eat in the cabin or sleep in my 1 amlock so I 1 had to go down with the cattle and eat hot bran mash and sleep in the hay gee but when you eat hot bran mash for a few days you never want to look at breakfast food again as long as yo i live I 1 traded my electric battery to a deck rial d for a suit case and so I 1 looked like a tourist because I 1 went to a hotel and got a sq lare meal and had a i orter paste some hotel ads on my suit case and I 1 took a train tor paris looking for pa cause I 1 knew he wouldn t be far away from the I 1 left my baggage at a hotel where we stoned when we were in paris before and the man who spoke shat english told me pa was room ing bit he was not around much because he was being enter tamed by the american residents and 1 ad son e great scheme that took him awai on secret expeditions often and they thought he was either an an aichast or grafter and since the as sass mation of the king and crown prince of portugal the police had over hai led h s baggage in his room sever al times but coulden couldn t find adyth ng incriminating so I 1 had my baggage sent to pas room and went out to find pa and p ck up something that would th ow s on him he showed any inclination to go back on me when I 1 found him it was getting along toward dark when I 1 walked down a bully vard where pa used to go when we were at newport and in florida and yachts and gold mines and she ild be the ideen of them all if she would only say the w rd and she was just goans to say the woid or something and had his tat p idge hand in both of hers and mas looking into his eyes with her liquid eyes and seemed ready to fall into his cairms when I 1 got up behind him and lighted a giant fie clacker and put it under his chair and just as the fuse was sputtering I 1 said pa ma wants ou at the hotel and I 1 tie fireworks went off the woman threw a fit and pa raised up out of the smoke and looked at me and said now where in blazes did ou come from just at tl is time and tl e head waiter took the woman into a p avate acm to bring her out of her fit the waiters opened the windows to let the smoke out and the crowd stampeded and the police came in to p ill the place an I 1 1 nd tie anarchists who threw the bomb and pa took me by the hard and we walked up the side walk to a corner a id when we got out of s of the crowd pa said hen deiy you na ailt here Is shea in a pitiful tone and I 1 said i she gasn wasn t along with me this trip and pa said hennery you make ire weary and we walked along to the hotel pa ask ing me so many q lest lons about home that it was a like a when we got to the hotel and went to I 1 a s room and I 1 told him what I 1 had ben doing since he abandoned me he said he was proud of me and now he had plenty of work and adaven ture tor me to keep him in he aid he had tried several air ships by having someone else go up up in ahm and that he was afraid to go up in one himself and be seemed glad that I 1 had been ballooning around home and he said he could use to good advantage I 1 askco him about the woman he was talking to about marriage and he said that was all guff that she had a up she went w th the inventor steer ng and pa hang ng on for dear life in paris before and as I 1 came to a cafe e there was a s agn english spoken 1 saw a odowd it on the sidewalk tables eating and drinking and there was one big table with about a dozen men and women americans frenchmen and othar foreigners 1 to an el berb man bragging about america an 1 I 1 saw it was pa but he was 0 o changed that but for his bald head and chin whiskers I 1 would not have known him he had on french clothes one of those french silk hats that had a flat bam and a bell crown and he had a moustache moL stache that was pointed at the ends and was waxed so it would p it your eyes out pa was telling them that all tl e men in america were millionaires and and that all of them cane abroad to spend money and marry tor ebin adis to take them back to america and mal e queens of them and 1 e looked at a french womb across the table with goo goo eyes and she said to the man next to her isn t he a dear and what a wonder he Is not married and pa smiled at her and i t his hand on 1 la w atch chain on which e h ing gold nuggets as big as walnuts and he fixed a big diamond in his scarf so the electric llant would hit it plenty rhey ate and biank and the party began to break up when pa and the beautiful woi an were alone at tl e table and they 1 up closer to gether and pa was tall ing s deft to her and telling her that all wives in america had special kraics on rail roads and palaces in new toik and husband who had invented a nav air shi and he was trying to get title to it for use in america for war pur poses and that the only way to get on the light side of these french worn en was to talk about marriage and money because tor money any 0 them wo ild leave their husbands on 15 minutes notice he said he had ar ranged for a trial of the airship the next day from a place out in the coun try and that I 1 could go up with the inventor ot the ship and see how it worked and report so we went to bed and I 1 slept better than I 1 had since I 1 shipped on the cattle ship in the coining while we were ta king baths and preparing for break fast I 1 feind that pa had been flying pretty high on government money and he had all kinds ol 01 gold and paper money and bonds and he made think he owned most of america pa asked me how the people at home looked upon his absence and it they advanced any theories as to the cause of his being abroad and I 1 told him that everybody from the dent doan to rockefeller Hocke feller knew about what ie vi as out looking after and that when I 1 left bob evans at fort res monroe lie told roe to tell pa to sei d i mess ot airships to him so he would meet them when he got to san francisco as he wanted to paralyze the japs if they got busy around tl e fleet pleased pa and he said jus tell tie people to wait and I 1 will giodice airships that can fight battles in the clouds but it will take time r then e ent out in thai country dt it a miles and met the in mentor and Us wife and the i filled i bl ball on that looked like a welner with gas that he made over a alre out in a alel 1 and the inventor and I 1 got on a bamboo fiame un ler the balloon and he turned on the gasoline tl at runs the wheel tor ind tl ey cut 1 er au and we went i p about 50 feet and sailed aio 11 d the country a halt a mile eith er wd and watched pa and the wife ot the inventor as they sat a atiee an 1 talked i e cine back aftel a wl he and pa ft as it old of r e for having so much nene ar 1 told him the government it hone was beca se pa dian didn t go ip in the ilesi irs cause they said he coulden couldn t 1 airships in unless he tried them out and that it he dian didn t look out they the fireworks went off 1 he woman threw a F t and pa raised out 0 the smoke would send some egiert out to tike his place and spend the mone and as we landed on the ground I 1 dared pa to get on the frame and go ip with us for a little spin and he was adral 1 the woman would think he was a cow ard if he dian didn t so he got up and straddled the ridge pole of the barn boo frame and said he would take a whirl at it it it killed him 1 he bal loon thing t quite lift all of ua so I 1 got off and give her a lift and up she went with the inventor oi steer ing and pa hanging on for dear life and saying now I 1 lay me down to sleep I 1 have seen some scared men in my ite but when the machine got up about as high as a house so pa could not get off and the bomin waved a handkerchief at pa he swallowed his adam s apple an 1 slid I 1 et hei go Galla feher and Galla glier ehg kiench man let her go ell you d a died to see the thing wobble and see pa cling on with his feet and hands for about a quarter of a mile she went queer like a duck that has been wing tipped and then she began to descend first she passed oyer a lot of cows that women were milking and the cows stampeded one way and the women the other way and the worn en were scared more than the cows cause when they got out under the ship they prayed but the cowa then the ship struck a field where about 40 women were piling onions on the ground and it just scattered worn en and onions all over the field and of all the yelling you ever headd that was the worst pa yelled to them that it he ever got off that hay rack alive he would pay the damages and they thought he was swearing at them then the worst thing possible happened the airship went up over a tree and pa was scared and he grabbed a limb and let go of the bamboo and there he was in the top of a thornapple thor napple atiee the balloon went over all right and the inventor steered it away to where it started from and the woman and I 1 watched pa the choins were about two inches long and more than a hun dred of them got into pa and he yelled all 1 ands of m arder and then the worn en who owned the tawa and onions the ship had wrecked surrounded the atiee with hoes and rakes and pitch forks and they made such a frantic noise that pa did not dare to come down it of the tree so a told ua to take the rain back to paris and send the american cons il and the po lice and a hook and ladder company to get him down and an hect him I 1 told pa I 1 dian didn t want to go ott and leae him to be killed by strange worn en and maybe eaten by wolves beaole morning but he said don t talk back to me you go and send that pa arol wagon and the hook and ladder trual and be quick about it or I 1 won t do a thing to yo i when I 1 catch you so we went and i ut the airship in a barn and went back 11 town and turned in a tolice and alre alarm to rescue pa the cl let said there was no use in going 0 t there in the coun try before morning because the worn en coulden couldn t get the thornal pie atiee and pa coulden couldn t get down so I 1 went to bed and dreamed about I 1 a all night and had a perfectly doiel time |