A fragmentary meal. Great rival displays of fireworks getting ready in the shrubbery of all the resort houses around the lake. Nobody caring about eating.

Oatmeal (2 cents.)

Cold veal (8 slices, charged at dinner.)

Fried liver (10 cents.)

Beefsteak (1 pound flank, 13 cents.)

Codfish in cream (5 cents.)

Potatoes baked (3 cents.)

Smearkase (No. 388 - of 2 qts. milk,

8 cents.)

French rolls (45, 20 cents.)

Cake (12 cents.)

Butter (1 lb. creamery, 25 cents.)

Milk and cream, (22 cents.)

Coffee, sugar, etc. (10 cents.) $1 30; 22 persons, 6 cents a plate.

"Alter the Fourth," says the resort proprietor, "we must begin and get ready for the rush."

"Will there be a rush?'-"

"Oh, the people have to come sometime - they always do."

"There has nobody come yet - seems to be getting late."

"No, this isn't late, it is early. I never looked for anybody to come until after the Fourth."

"No?"

"They cannot; the schools don't close till now, the weather is cool at their homes all through June; the Government employes do not take their vacation till now and so many people will not leave their homes for fear they may be burned up on the Fourth, or be entered by roughs."

"And yet Black's Hotel over here, has had, so they say, ninety boarders for a week or two past."

"Oh, well, the people he gets would, not come here, anyway, and they that will come here would not go there. He lets them fiddle and dance all night if they wish to, and drink beer, and row boats and sail and fish on Sundays."

"They would not stay here a minute"

"I suppose not."

"Ana sail they pay Black about nine hundred dollars a week

"Well, I don't expect this thing to make any money, but if it pays its own expenses and keeps me and my family pleasantly I shall be satisfied."

"I'm afraid your profits will never compare with Black's profits,"

"Well, well; we will be virtuous and we shall be happy."