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,As Huckleberry Hollow grew, more and front-row-center at the Follies and went to
more people came to love old Uncle Mac. He the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He even
never hesitated to call on new folks. He would pinched a pretty little miss on the Riviera. He
just ring the bell and smile pleasantly. "Hello blushed for a day or two about that. In Germ-
there, I'm Uncle Mac the town judge, and I any he did the polka in Munich and saw all
just wanted to, welcome you. We're mighty the night clubs in Berlin. Uncle Mac didn't
proud to have you here in Huckleberry Hollow." forget his family or Huckleberry Hollow, how-
Uncle Mac never missed the chance for a ever.He took them right along with postcards
compliment. and delightful letters. All along the way, he
dreamed of the day when he was to reach
Every year the town turned out in full London and the high court of justice.
force to celebrate on Mac's birthday, but it
was on his eightieth that he was 'presented He arrived in the British capital on a warm
with the key to the city and an all-expense- sunny day. The hotel was right on the mall
paid trip to Europe. The people cheered with leading to Buckingham Palace, and the Court
glee as he held up the big golden key. He even of Justice was just a hop and a skip away.
jumped up and clicked his heels together. He He changed into fresh clothes and hurried off
was to sail from New York on the fifth of July at the rate of a college student at the end of a
for Italy. terribly long class. When he got across the
mall, there stood proudly the house of justice.
Uncl e Mac was just fourteen when he set His life-long desire was there at his finger
his heart on going to Europe one day. When tips. The small town judge spryly pushed open
he lost Molly and sent the children off to col- the heavy brass door and entered the stately
lege he felt sure that he would never get there. hall of marble. The tall pillars andsh in y white
What he wanted to do more than anythingin the floors looked better than any red carpet to
world was to visit the supreme court of Eng- Uncle Mac. On either side of him, the walls
land. Thesm all town judge had dreamed for held pictures of former justices proudly pos-
many a year of seeing the chief justice of the mg In their periwigs. His eyes twinkled with
highest court in the land in his periwig ruling glee.
over the country to which we owe our systems
of law-making and courts.' Perhaps the dream A young man with a cockney accent ap-
would soon be a reali ty no w. proached. "May I 'elp ye in some waiy?"
On the fourth of July streamers and rice Uncle Mac stood tall and answered in a
decked the station like an over-done Chri srmas definite tone of voice. "Yes, I'd like very
tree. Tears and laughter intermingled as Uncle much to see the high court if I may. Is it in
Mac waved from the train window. His ship session today?"
left the next day from New York, and he didn't
miss a trick. He dancer], played shuffle board, "Aye, sir. Your quite lucky, you, know.
swam and even won the cruise ping pong This 'ere is the last dai of their session.
championship. Everyone knew Uncle Mac be- We've just closed the doors, but I think we
fore the ship docked in Genoa. The last night can 'ave you sneak in."
on board he was even honored guest at the
captain's dinner table. "Thank you, my boy, thank you."
The tour was grand. He talked to the Pope The. court was more wonderful to him than
in Rome, rowed a Gondola in Venice, and went he had ever dreamed. The crystal chandelier
on the giant ferris wheel in Vienna. He sat
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