Wichita eagle., 1888-06-14

log now, Go put this system 60 ave1y
day uss, supposing your wife gave you
letter to post"
"You may as well suppose something
probable while your at It. She wouldn't
90 it. She knows I'd forget it.
well, I'm just surprising case. You
remember that you have forgotten what
your wife told you to do. You say wife
that reminds you Of expense-expense re-
calls cash-cash means money-sime is
money So you think of tirne-time makes
you think of a smuggling match
'sWhat's that2"
'Why fight where they call time. >
The match suggests betting. There you
are at bet Betting is against the law,
so you have law But betting is only
against the letter of the law. the statute
is not enforced, so you have letter and
then you go and post it,
Wonderful. Still 1t seems to me that
it would be easier to remember the letter
itself than go through all that"
so it would If you were not victim
Of this system. but once that gets hold
on you you can't remember anything IN
less you corral the words. That's how
came to lose my situation"
''Oh! low did that happen?"
''Wen, man by the name of-of"-
here he murInured lot of words to him
self and then frightening up, said:
''Smith-by the name Of Smith, tele-
phoned me to tell my boss as soon as he
came in, to call him up. There is the tele-
phone. That suggested ring. ring natur
ally brought to my mind aldermen -
''How is that? l don't see that"
"Why the aldermen always form rings
and the fellow who wants to get anything
has to pay the ring
you don't tell me?''
''Fact. Well, ring shows that man is
fool who expects things to be otherwise;
fool suggests idiot; idiot suggests asylum;
asylum, prison; prison Is workshop; a
workshop must have blacksmith shop;
such shop must have smith, and there
you are. Well, when the boss came in l
went up to him working on the corral
and said n-fool-idiot'-
but before got to prison was kicked
into the street"
''That was unfortunate. Why didn't
you go back and explainy'
IL have often started out to do so, but
/ always forgot it before l could get
there"
'fAnd suppose that because you lost
your situation you lost your girl"
ooh, no. l had forgotten about that.
Glad you reminded me. No. that was
case Of good corral going wrong. It
sometimes does that. / went over to see
her and was working the corral for all it
was worth When got there I ran it
this way: Girl - dress - dressmaker-
sewing-thread = needle pins-pinafore
Josephine"
II don't see how you get that last
word"
why Josephine is the principal char
acter IN 'Pinafore' you know. Well,
when met her said, Hello, Josephine
and she thought | was thinking of an
other girl, and then it was all day with
me. You see, l should have gone on
'spools' from thread and instead of that
l went on needles and then. of course,
when man gets on needles you can't tell
at which girl you viii bring up
WELL am sorry for You. l have been
very much interested in your case. l
never knew there were any memory sys-
tens in existence. Here is half a dollar
for your trouble"
81 am very much obliged to you, as
sure you Won't you come out and have
something's"
mo, thank you. never drink"
''Oh, that's so. Neither do l. l had
forgotten. You see 1 forget everything"
That's ell right; good BY"
noticed on looking out of the window
that he didn't forget to go into the saloon
on the corner.-Luke Sharp in Detroit
Free Press.