But that was the wrong way to hurt my feelings. That's all,
I think. Mother is so happy here that I tell her we ought to call it
the Happy Hunting Grounds, because no one hunts you, and there is
nothing to hunt; it just all comes to you. And so we live in peace,
mother sleeping all day in the sun, or behind the stove in the head-
groom's office, being fed twice a day regular by Nolan, and all the
day by the other grooms most irregular, And, as for me, I go hurrying
around the country to the bench-shows; winning money and cups for
Nolan, and taking the blue ribbons away from father.
A DERELICT
When the war-ships of a navy lie cleared for action outside a harbor,
and the war-ships of the country with which they are at war lie
cleared for action inside the harbor, there is likely to be trouble.
Trouble between war-ships is news, and wherever there is news there
is always a representative of the Consolidated Press.
As long as Sampson blockaded Havana and the army beat time back of
the Tampa Bay Hotel, the central office for news was at Key West, but
when Cervera slipped into Santiago Harbor and Sampson stationed his
battle-ships at its mouth, Key West lost her only excuse for
existence, and the press-boats burled their bows in the waters of the
Florida Straits and raced for the cable-station at Port Antonio.
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