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This last-named means of transportation was a very ridiculous affair, but was strictly a "get-there" contrivance.
Blake and the child lived in a fair degree of comfort upon the mother's wages, but often the mother shuddered at thought of what might happen should she ever lose her position at the photographer's. Consumption had its hold on Busted Blake when he arrived in the mining-town called Get-there City, in Kansas, one evening.
Get-there City had not gotten there beyond a single straggling street of shanties. But it had acquired a saloon, although liquor-selling had already been forbidden in Kansas. Busted Blake, with ten cents in his clothes, entered the saloon and asked in an asthmatic voice for as much whiskey as that sum was good for.
Even to Uncle Jap, unversed in such high matters as finance, it seemed plain that Leveson & Company were to have the dollars, and that to him, the star-spangled epitome of Yankee grit and get-there were to be apportioned the cents. "Lemme see," he said, with the slow, puzzled intonation of the man who does not understand; "I own this yere oil " "Subject to the mortgage, Mr. Panel, I believe?"
I judge him to be a man of honor, high purpose, as my friend said, of the Cromwell type, inclined to preach, and who also has what the Americans call the "get-there" quality. In conversation Vice-President Roosevelt is hearty and open, a poor diplomat, but a talker who comes to the point. He says what he thinks, and asks no favor.
When Big Andy had returned to Get-there City, and related how he had performed his mission, he added: "I'd been such a lovely liar all through, it's a shame I had to go an' spoil the story by puttin' in some truth at the finish." They put up a wooden grave-mark where Blake was buried, and after his name they cut in the wood this testimonial: "A tenderfoot that was some good to his folks at last."
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