Show have such larly charged house V family a to agent not to let that with children” anyone "Then "Great Scott! ejacu was that?" lated Col Ferguson Dodd lie had just linished shaving himself his and was brushing handsome iron like gray whiskers when a loud report the discharge of a small made cannon what rattle and the windows of his room o that he and startled him gave a lurch like a horse frightened knock a anort his ing shaving mug off the dresser with crash a shrill ky a ! juvenile throats bulging with Dodd the t sound was followed and laughter as from screams of core Col The window open with eyes looked and strode out exclamation that ha Then an guilty of using wauld never have been society he rushed door la polite to the ai chamber hie and "J it threw aeon! he open called excitedly Jason!" voice stentorian reverberating I la through the house like the roar of a here are” he fumed “Oh you as Uan colored kla the th of name of bed I than give I'll ’em teach I’ll a notice ’em me me my I this trample with on to help Here bring dis July of hat and eaue” "But de break fas’ bell ringin’ suh" be "Breakfast blowed!” thundered colonel the given house The those bite a I’ve till vacate to that forth sallying give battle to a and he Buffing growling left the house strode the and toward gate in the high stone wal that formed his premises line between the dividing and those of the Vernon Col Dodd' wrath was in a measure justifiable avoid the To distracting noise nerve-shattering which young America believes to essential man the of out city the July in there Is es the outrageous of celebration Have I town any for peace — dense lady any you had had stood shocked speak to but air he as with talked take the ome first left pardon honor of Col possibility in her Dodd that occurred “And him for "Is I — meeting you and how The imposed she Madge!" he himself as about to was and hand straightened up in truly this "Well great a he "How added happen you are all these of eourse bo to in for yours there Jason and “Tell fifty be fourteen from invitation sir of of cook he for Col Ferguson astonished the these hasty di and that ahq to W’n I'll he to cottage along wedding a two weeks don’t now stop the at from Vernor Hurrj to-day ask to ford g ion nrtnau an in DKStuxmtn! does I came quiet— to es always to enough the I city am the on no am greeted sooner with a annonading under window my very Who's responsible for this confounded aproar?” "’Spec’ Merciful there know 4 lea nex'do’ heaven child was a spot” this of cliillim dem it’s "Children! suli” didn’t I within five is dey suh " 'Deed more'n a bushel Dry's over darin Mistah Vernon's yahd an’ carryin’ hootin’ fiaheraekers on hke a passel o’ young goats in a balm Looks mons'ous like dey gwine keep it all p dav” Ferguson Col hands f and apoplectic an "And I of the Iiang! to lie The and then din pail to the of cheers ground and “Was July eelelirit Tommy ion a er big dem amid an childish cannon dJqunded ueaito tell the me colonel that the dey off " come "You Vernon taken house joy refuge day his in he where a Since it new a ideas his than house lie place so of the had not been a rude dream of temper en a less colonel this delightful had Dodd built The cottage been destroyed careful rent to "No sir “Oil then don 1 1 that presume tiow ly "But am the 1 I have find lifted He and was sir" afraid that his the I Mrs am Vernon hat to with move lady they should not remain it said "Madam" voice really lie to there Do’ H’H” peace I beg trusion calls ing and the colonel I walked toward for pardon your am not in the habit before breakfast comfort have been in her of but light h nut xtrht of FOLKTU Till hus art band” "1 for to "All a my stupidity but animal pardon clumsy not heard very had said of fear I I’m I indeed misfortune” your of the eourse Forgive "for I loss for me ful rioters fore But of your speaking of moment if ns be mingled face mak he in his in his HtTlIBLT TOCB “Did PXKDO crack! man"’’ you Hang1 there was and the were Col V a aiu ¥ Boom! of volley the youth than be more piercing did not Dodd even hear of itli expression an wonderment Madge is hang! whole shrieks took ing swallow throat" "Madge “I I husband a Markham" noise the had never Madge rack! This time explosives "I assailed It now see boom’ vexed or his confusion slie broke into a ripple of laughter she "You are indeed a blunderer” in my hav I She stared at him for a uncertain to whether amused Then much to stern this While cracker to it" the a ir mistake "I mean husband a an unlocked he as v he Clii Sight of cannon stooped ArTMK "You away il lit have — "Misfortune?" it and gate in the wall pushed open further Outlie side (lower a was gar and the first den person he saw ws a in pink lady a gown and an expansive hat garden bending over a pansy bed about ten paces from the wall !’ Fourth a honin' band?" court mil indignation of is Vernon sister Dorothy my ought to remember” you whom he is! "She deuce And ku your old but other month Full a 'responsible is Vernon not without children" and it his to separate from own premises by a stone wall eight feet high The Vernons had in possession but been a and Col few weeks Dodd had never met them hut lie was now determined that the in bast couple "quiet I joii White Then sisier' our "Mrs your par Too bad annoyed Mrs about said children t humbly beg made a mistake will 1 I—'” not am have should house?" better suited house to and convenience comfort original had So pleasant the Col to quiet than the man purchasing country country expected absolute of irascible quiet had an awakening from have tried would upon OBILLU triumph Bunker’s I Oat lot did? I success?" "1 the Hunkers guess so see doctors in called three already” cago Record up into the the house soar than dat see vbtent 1 little of window open yer Ocean An their turning ’ tiTH Don’t Inter jumped “an’ explained Jason put ’emynider de pail an’ tech ’em blifTdc ole pail go er scootin’ — children "But wScre do these from?” Chieago — higher nr-stlitting "I’ve to " pan tin good Tommy verge especially groaned men toward the drop werriWnt "besgot rarkeA” here two point a his up the on Johnny— down frying tartled eyes aw a battered ir threw be to fit came this” rape ut Dodd appeared with of and joy on Markham’ difficulty a his hand lump "The mum had Ids I it true?" all he asked refuse to huskily marry that went camion as he better w u a him put stummick is off nil biowin’ to nf a into lied filled with incident You it for I think powder!’’— To north Iianiegrs of the made his fourth a nfi’ht of ey and shy rocke ith Human candle 1 They after 4 have to going I tell them immediately here want o’eloek time here to a rousing 'em to celebrate show how I Fourth! And Jason web may a it that confidentially there you tell O nnd I 10 Spitxen on dollars' wort! hundred fireworks the and the order an evening Jason on is three down this me town to breakfast and morning And all Here going night of with wait to shall this Vernons not is I me dine for them and sister” mv off go Boyle th at rattled the to you said the mine" her lip "I brought them the city for a holiday at tb are all biting down tlm be of my supported have teaching” breakfast with the they will yosiref all voice rections: le can’t must just are pupils “There th by I years later Fifteen minutes Dodd appeared before calculation" they lady For children they her afterward approved she because myself you?" children "I de wo deceived and were both uncle upon by my designing disinherited because I refused me the of his marry choice and man decision the here? slie "I Dorothy lie enongii cruelly to have I not before?" told—” interrupted learned long was softening He Dodd" Mr really are I possi it me base demanded ?"-she him" “But I— "I know” exclaimed lie think you otherwise train "Hut nr do tested “Sir!" her girl you his but me with husband husband!" your "My abrupt might b she t her least that granted you surprise” world did ts hack before have "I think you replied composedly - - uid elaa one thread had h for it Vernon” m ilver Hindi — the stiffly him much the few scattered that black hair hood behind hr "I that had fallen my soul!” astonishment sudden ble had bless "Lord seize She embarrassed trim little hotly formed a neatly was and a fresh dark eye with large com it evident from plexion although was Mr not checked calm children” before helpless and seemingly contin madam" not aware was striving colonel ly gaze rieli blood beat into her cheeks positively looked beautiful colonel started did eyes the she hat "And the "that a her shrubbery "I ued and a there terrific then another Just was of wild burst explosion and another the huzzas from happy young people from by the view who were hidden the to Independence of observance had slipped proper dav he bo ahem!— to face Her could "Ifovv to quiet to to nov all here them safely absolute here am brought ” f "lie in The to of can mysel I all at blame and for the first time stopped looked squarely down into the woman's is ” ly dog mad the Fourth it? escaped ’em!” he was minute descending he clutching his cane as if next were eat notice people bliow I'll stairs the won’t “I I in and peace is cape the noise that in iriva one crazy Tourth of July— and aut what outrageous is know You for here town that all deuce Fourth to-day I desire I a object madam which to when cape the infer — racket incident smart people's of do I place defer to My house country a have a withdraw as it a the and coat think other of de — patience protest pitching came Jason "Now mean? Has his haste in room turbance on won’t have it! very minute on my rights my they raise to young’un Jason nary declared owning the stumbling man-servant himself aver lato got suppose regiment a here brats 1 1 invite and I have not most emphatic particu the "Diyain't Vernons ain’t” to I that? as W yrhich Burned the boy while they did not harm large hoea In ht fathei's pocket —Trot tv |