The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-01-29
MY ROOMMATE
Imparts More News, Sings Me
a Song and Takes Ne to
Church.

My roommate was greatly surprised
to- see synopsis of one Of his talks"
in last Sundays BAzoo, and took me
TO task about it.
When | explained to him that my
livelihood was made in writing for the
press, be seemed to relent, regained
his usual good humor and said /;
"Well, as long as you didn't call
me by my right name and described
me so poorly that even my best girl
thought the article referred to Frank
Frazer, 1 don't care. Speaking of
Frazer, he has more nerve than any
man ever saw. You see he clerks
for a rival hotel, and if he don't make
it a point to come up to cur place
every day of his life and scan our
register to see how much business we
are doing, you can shoot ME for
goat. Franks not bad boy, though,
but he has a little the best appetite of
anyone / ever saw. You should see
him put away food under
that belt of his. Why, he
eats more than a dozen men,
and to look at him you would hardly
think that he could eat as much at a
meal as a canary bird does"
s.s
The first evening l took possession
of my new room | noticed under the
bed large paper box shaped like a
coffin. l disliked very much to ask
Jake what it contained for fear that
he might think | was inquisitive,
but as l had dreamed of nothing but
skulls and shrouds for several nights
in succession, concluded that the only
way to flash such dreams would be
to find out the contents of the mys-
terious box. ia a few we'll chosen
words l finally mustered up courage
to ask Jake, and gave him my reasons
for so doing.
He replied "why haven't you seen
my disbursement, and without
waiting for an answer he dropped on
his knees, reached under the bed,
hauled out the box, opened same and
took therefrom little the
TOUGHEST LOOKING GUTTER
| ever saw. That, said Jake" ia
the best bargain | ever bought in my
life. How much do you
suppose [ paid for it? /
examined the cracked concern for g
moment and guessed what L thought
would be an outside price-S3.00.
"Three dollars" shrieked Jake,
"why man, that amount
wouldn't pay for the strings, evidently
you don't know anything about guitars
Dave Suhler sold, or gave me the
instrument rather, for Spills. Dave
told me the man that left it sin soak"
with him paid $3.50 for it, but was
unable to redeem it. Dave says il is
a genuine Martin, and Dave never
lies"
Xxx
From the injured tone that nv
room mate had adopted [ saw that
his feelings were hurt and to make
atonement ! asked him to sing for me.
Had | known then what | now know
| would have apologized outright. AS
it was my rusa had the desired effect,
his face was wreathed in smiles as he
replied "why certainly Eli favor
you"
"Do you know" he added, as he
tuned CO the instrument of torture,
"do you know that | have secured in
Prof. Chance splendid teacher. He
tells me / possess a
VERY PECULIAR
voice. and says it is a
Mezza Shreiko. He says there is not
another voice like it in the city, if in
the state. But here goes for the song"
and throwing his head well back, my
warbler began.
"O!O!O!Ol On !OlOh Oh!
The monkey married the baboon's
sis-s-a-ter. He married his wife and
then he kis-ter. Kissed her so hard
it raised blister. An she set up a
HOWELL FL"
interrupted Jake here and told
him that | had most violent head
ache and asked him if he would not
finish the remaining nine verses at
some future time. He looked ct me
as much as to say knew you could
not appreciate fine singing and said,
"Why certainly"
"a
One evening last week Jake who