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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1912)
THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, POBTLAND, MARCH 3, 1912. HE UMPURS Drawins by WM H.LOOMI5 AVhen Lent came 'round, JIM JUMP-UP smiled: "Now for a quiet IifeP Rut other Dlans were set on foot by GENEVIEVE, his wife. MNo dinners, balls, or pale pink teas!" he cheered, "on me encroaching!" Bat GENEVIEVE cried, "Tut, my boy! We'll now go in for coaching 2 The Smart Set always take that up in Lent, my dear, and Oh! Young JACK VAN GILDING tools this year the Ardsley tally-ho!" - - . . . j.i J She booked two places boushrpytop.then, one day, we find her 3N JIM - she fluttcred with delight, "See, there's the Fuller-Doughs, Outside the coaching office, wither faithful JIM behind her. Q RichIeySt and a ,ot of swelIs Iike those! Y 1 a nA ;ntf th'mW wp'U rirle with them rie-ht uo the Avenue! And, just to think! we'll ride with them right up the Avenue! Oh, JIM, do promise to behave so I II be proud of you! i fj p I - - - - 1 i . i.tl f 1 1- i f-V S FN lit. 4-Just then came news. VAN GILDING had been taken ill, they said There stood the coach! But no man dared to tool it in nis sieau. When suddenly cried GENEVIEVE: "My husband volunteers! You'll find that he's the finest whip you've seen in many years. 5 "Who! Me? gasped JIM. "I never druv a horse in all my life!'1 -You must!' insisted GENEVIEVE, "or you don't love your wife!" She shoved poor JIM up on the box the reins thrust in his hand Ta ra! ta ra! and off they went, a sight exceeding grand. 7-. 6 Poor JIM drove on, too scared to speak, and up the road they flew, While GENEVIEVE received the thanks the coachers thought were d They seemed so glad to meet her. and they said "How nice!'' of JIM. "At last," she thought, "he's made a hit if Lock will stand by him! Alas! thev reached a corner, and he had to try to turn! He didn't know which rein to pulL His face began to burn. A sway! A crunch! A grand collapse! Shrieks! Words no tongue should utter And over went the coach and all, and landed in the gutter! 8 The coachers glared at luckless JIM, and left him with the wreck, "I'm so ashamed!" sobbed GENEVIEVE, and drooped upon his neck. I wish I was in Timbuctoo, or some far place like that!" Vd be content JIM murmured, "with our old-time, four-room flat! ue.