| Show A modern fable of the village apollo who left town written tor for the reporter once upon a time in a little 1908 1906 model county seat there dwelt under the roof of 0 las h a immediate paternal ancestor a gay and tely auth named ferd nand and ferdy a name bore ath w th it many tales of 0 evil for here be it known ferdy fit into an assignment of labor I 1 ke a two bun hun dred and twenty coir po ind damsel fits into a twenty four inch the village sages f aured ferdy as of 0 no account the business men wood ered just how long the old man aab s bank account would hold out and the young men secretly envied him and how he continued contin conti nied led to get by but the young ladies could see no alloy in ferd nani and whenever the folks referred to him as a synonym of shiftlessness thy arose to his de bense with the declaration that he was a perfectly devine dancer now dancing was berdys long suit his forte his strong point bounded an teri ally by the latest model haircut poster post cnally Lally by patent leather and bod ly by broadcloth ferdy was as n in ble as a fly on a plate glass window the palace prance the gander glide the serpentine sl p of any of the new gyrations that draw the shekels into the coffers of teachers of mod ern dancing were as easy for him as lying in bed until ten in the morn ing listening to the sound of his father fathers s axe dissecting logs into but one day ferdy s source of rev denue died after the funeral the ex learned that the sole heritage of the legatee consisted of two hun dred dollars in unpaid bills mostly of his own contraction and about seventeen dollars in real coin of the realm immediately the denizens be gun to see illusions illus ons they p stured ferd nand nana in overalls and exercise ng at real labor but ferdy had no such hallucinate ons I 1 immedi m m ed abely upon being informed of h his fl 11 caneal status he spent six bones fc for or a new pair of dancing kicks and that n wh ie le the city slept ferdy beat it A year passed and none of his cred igors heard from h in even the la dies aid had lost all interest in him when the bolt tell fell one morn ng as deacon simmons was secretly read ng the theatrical page of a c ty paper he saw ferdy a face sm ling at him and below the picture the type said brilliant young dancer S gns agns vaud eville contract at monstrous salary the reverend gentleman at once c r the news over the town al ways backing it up with the words I 1 always told you he would succeed moral you never can tell by the nose no se they make sometimes |
