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"He'll turn out in a minute."

I wondered how the driver knew. But he did know, be-
cause he knew the man and where he lived. He knows
everybody. The man did turn out.

The houses and roofs are like the white frosting or
icing on a cake.

At Sea

Went to sea at 4 P.M. A doctor aboard has an in-
fallible remedy for seasickness—is going from lady to
lady on upper deck administering it and saying it never
fails. This as we go out over a reef.

7 P.M. All the ladies are seasick and gone to bed, ex-
cept a Scotchman's wife.

7:30. The Scotchman's wife has "caved."

8 P.M. The doctor is emptying himself over the side.
So much for infallible preventives of seasickness.

Mark Twain went to Bermuda, as he declared
later, purely for pleasure, but he wrote three
articles about it: "Rambling Notes of an Idle
Excursion," published in the Atlantic, and today
in his collected works. He always loved Bermuda,
and during his later years made frequent trips
there, his final visit ending a little more than a
week before his death in 1910.

Indians at dinner with whites. One ate spoonful of
mustard; another one said: "What crying about?"

"Thinking about the good old chief that died."

Number two ate a spoonful of mustard—number one
asked:

"What you crying about?"

"Thinking what a pity you didn't die when the old
chief did."

Political parties who accuse the one in power of gob-

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