The masque of the muses . g thespectators, many of whom were pious women andtender children. Jule and Grandad had a compara-tively clear street back to the tavern, and they seemedto have arrived at a pleasant, mutual understanding. The landlord was the only spectator who did notenjoy the exhibition, and as soon as the fight wasover he had crept sullenly back behind his bar,where he stood with lowering brows when the crowdre-entered. Jule, with a confirmed sense of his superiority,though his looks indicated that he had the worst ofthe battle, as he led in his late antagonist, yelledout: — Landl
The masque of the muses . g thespectators, many of whom were pious women andtender children. Jule and Grandad had a compara-tively clear street back to the tavern, and they seemedto have arrived at a pleasant, mutual understanding. The landlord was the only spectator who did notenjoy the exhibition, and as soon as the fight wasover he had crept sullenly back behind his bar,where he stood with lowering brows when the crowdre-entered. Jule, with a confirmed sense of his superiority,though his looks indicated that he had the worst ofthe battle, as he led in his late antagonist, yelledout: — Landlord, a gin cocktail! What! A man cantlick a monkey? All smiled ; even the landlord smiled ; he couldnthelp it. Grandad evidently understood that the affair 324 THE MASQUE OF THE MUSES. was over; went to his post, and solemn, dignified,supremely respectable, took his seat on the chair,with one good eye left, winking and blinking andwise. For aught I know he is sitting there still,drawing custom. So ended the HALF-PAST FIVE IN THE MORNING. yT was late in June in the factory village of Glen-M Ryddle in Pennsylvanias oldest county — thec) oldest from the fact that on the river edge of it^ Penn first set foot in his New World domain. A dashing stream leaps and runs in and out amongthe woods and hills and rocks, apparently looking forsomething to do, until finally, tired of its race, itwallows in the marshes of the Delaware, and, fallenasleep among the reeds, is gathered up in the armsof the tides and carried off. Early settlers took its babbling suggestion of water power, and it became a mill stream. At several turns of its course they caught and heldit between the hills, and when it had done their mill-ing they set it free in foaming, flashing cascades,soon to be caught and enslaved again after its wildbound for liberty. So they alternately checked andaccelerated its course down the narrow glen it hadfound from its birth spring to the billowy bosom ofmother ocean.
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