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In the county in which I lived when a boy, there was one vote polled for the first Abolitionist presidential ticket. The man who gave it did not try to hide his responsibility in fact, he seemed rather proud of his aloneness but he was mercilessly guyed on account of the smallness of his party.
"He a star! handles his sword like an apprentice brigand! he'll do for the country, may be, but he don't answer for the metropolis!" Glad was the contraband that had a seat in the pit at the Saturday matinee, and happy the Roman street-boy who ate his peanuts and guyed the gladiators from the dizzy gallery.
Thirty years ago, when Oscar Wilde was regarded seriously by some people, there were many who made a cult of estheticism. It was just as interesting when their leader Walked down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily In his medieval hand, or when Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan guyed him as Bunthorne in "Patience."
It was of a square form, containing about twenty cubic feet, and had the figures, or date, of 1808 simply cut upon it with a chisel. A derrick, or spar of timber, having been erected at the edge of the hole and guyed with ropes, the stone was then hooked to the tackle and lowered into its place, when the writer, attended by his assistants Mr. Peter Logan, Mr. Francis Watt, and Mr.
Honest, I was more leery on that point than about anything else; for you know how giddy they doll up at them joints, and while her taste in stained glass windows might be strictly up to date, when it comes to flossin' up for the Maison Maxixe well, no gray-and-white, back-number regalia would do there. If we wa'n't shut out, we'd be guyed to death.
"Behold," he said, "the one-man and no-horse farm where the farmer sits on the porch. Please imagine the porch." In the center of the field was a stout steel pole, at least twenty feet in height and guyed very low. From a drum on top of the pole a thin wire cable ran to the extreme edge of the field and was attached to the steering lever of a small gasoline tractor.
"I don't know what you mean in the least, but she came here knowing this to be my present address to ask me to protect her from a mysterious man who had followed her right from Charing Cross. She said he was down in the lobby, and naturally, I asked her to wait here whilst I went and sent him about his business." He laughed shortly. "I am over-old," he said, "to be guyed by a woman.
After the crowd had laughed at him and the small boys had "guyed" him till he was ready to quit, I stepped up briskly and said: "Mister, have you got either State or city license to act as an auctioneer, or to hawk goods upon the street at public sale?" He said he didn't need any.
In half a day I got the two topmasts aboard and the shears rigged and guyed as before. And that night I slept on board and on deck beside my work. Maud, who refused to stay alone ashore, slept in the forecastle. Wolf Larsen had sat about, listening to my repairing the windlass and talking with Maud and me upon indifferent subjects.
Those steps? Go straight up those steps. Those doors? Enter! Then, if you don't see the Bible College, maybe you'll see the janitor if he is there. But don't you fear! You may get lost, but you'll never get away!" The lad knew he was being guyed, but he didn't mind: what hurt him was that his Bible College should be treated with such levity. "Thank you," he said pleasantly but proudly.
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