on the beat Wilbur rushes me up the plank and into the outfit.  Honest, it was bigger than any of the Coney Island boats.  I was under the impression for the nonce that it was the night boat up the Hudson but I didn’t see a steward I knew.

“A guy who had enough gilt on to be a Major-General in the National Guard came floundering up and Wilbur gave him his real name and the wop said, ’This way, please, threw us into a young elevator and we went up a couple of stories and along a hall until we came to a door which the gee threw open and said, ’This is your stateroom.’

“Honest, I never saw such a drum.  A great big room with a real bed instead of those shelve things and off of the room a bath, and we were only to be on the water five days.  Can you beat it?  I was the one surprised pup and as soon as I hung my ’Merry Widow’ on the gas jet I asked Wilbur about it.

“He says, ’Kid, we are on the ferry to Europe and we are going to spend our honeymoon across the pond.’  I says, ’not for little Sabrina; you don’t get her out of sight of New York,’ and made a stab for the rail.  By the time I got to it we were in the middle of the creek and nothing in sight but a flock of tugboats and a bunch of yaps waving their mitts on the dock.  Take it from me, if I hadn’t been a bride I would have cut up something scandalous, but it was too early in the matrimonial game to start any lumpy work.  So all I did was to sit and pout, ’cause I know I can always make a hit when I flash the pouting number.

“Gee, what could I do?  Out there in the middle of the water with a long, slushy walk back to the dock.  So I did the next best thing and gave the high sign to the steward to kick in with a few refreshments, which he very graciously did.

“Say, party, I can’t tell you how I felt to see little old New York slip away in the distance.  That old town is a great old burg, and as I was going to kick into some other country that I wasn’t hep to I naturally felt kind of bumly.

“We went busting by the Statue of Liberty and then on out past the Hook, and, take it from me, if that steward hadn’t come across with the refreshments just at that moment I would have burst into tears.  As it was I could only address Wilbur in a few terse adjectives, and tell him what I thought of a person that would pull off such a low down deal on an unsuspecting fluff.  I want to state right now that though I was but a bride I called him good and proper.

“The next morning we went down to breakfast.  Say, they have about ten meals a day on one of these scows and I’ve gained about twenty pounds already.  There was a bunch of show people going over on the same boat and Wilbur and I naturally cottoned to them.  We didn’t do a thing all day but sit on the deck and read, or walk around or sing in the music room.  Sure, they got a real live music room