The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18

Harry pretty quick he would start In to
demolIsb the furniture. His companions
were in q quandary, until one thought of
the telephone, and succeeded IN
eating with the wanted member of the
party. who was employed at night In q
downtown office. In the course OF ten
minutes Harry appeared. The drunken
man greeted him With very marked demon
rough and tumble hugs. Finally 10 asked:
Working all night" replied Harry.
know dsr shp better. Shooksh gang.
LET us t' minutes go"
Haven't seen you before tonight or any
of the rest of the boys"
The drunken individual looked dazed for
moment. rubbed his mouth with the back
of his hand, and then got indignant. He
was under the firm impression that the
whole party was trying 30 impose on him.
and began laying about him IN q lively
manner. He WAS finally gotten out by his
friends, aud his last audible words were:
Can foo me. Shooksh gang"
In one Of the downtown restaurants
there stands at it's rear end, c~oncealing
the door which lesds to the kitchen, o
mirror. which is probably about eight feet
square. At either side Of the door and ex-
tending to the walls are similar ones. max
ing the end of the room solid glass. 1t
has been the cause Of many l~aushabls mis-
taxes. but it fell to the lot of the new
driver of the bake-wsgon TO overtop them
all He was . youth with . suspicion of
coming hirsute adjournment, and of bashful
mien, but energetic IN the extreme. Tho
cracker-Darrel sat in one OF the corners,
partially concealed by q table, and. on the
occasion Of his first visit. he was told by
the restaurants proprietor that he had
better 90 back and see whether it needed
ftl1nD Al ba advanced foUord thA
ylase he began TO shy out To-
ward the right, to avoid . man
who. he thought. was coming toward
him. but which was IN reality his own re-
Election. When he saw that il moved In
the same direction as himself. he hesitated.
feetered on one foot and started around to
the left. He saw the man initiate his ac-
tioD, and be stopped short, giving Q sort of
Rlsugh and saying: Guess I'll git around
yer after q bit.r
Meanwhile. the young women who are
employed at the restaurants 70 convey
edibles and look as nice as they car,
began to litter as young women will.
This embarrassed the bakers boy. and he
made Q straight shoot for the barrel. stop
ping beside it only 10 find his nemesis di-
rectly in front of him. A tray sat on the
barrel, and he picked il up. He also saw
the man pick mp another from the same
see watts in this here barl."he calculated.
reaching il out. He saw the man reach o
tray toward him. and. thinking to
elide his own on TO 1t. be let go. of 1T.
IL fell with q ~resounding claeh. and
s sni Tsi Soy ~a. ia dslsS. H 6s'i loohsd f rome
the fallen tray TO his vis-s-sis. and sud-
denly the situation dawned on him. With
out q word. bus With q flaming face. he
walked straight out TO his cart and drove
away. Another man came around TO see
II any crackers were needed.
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did you aver eat horse msatf' vas the
question put to n well-known citizen
whose varied experiences and unfailing
fund of entertaining "reminiscences have led
20 q calculation by some of his associates
that his age is about 10. The calculation
is incorrect; he has not reached that age by
az least twenty or thirty years. and his
memory 10 still clear.
did / ever eat horsei Well, you bet! i
lived on IL for . month once. lie was down
in Nicaragua at the siege of Granada, In
the Walker campaign. We were shut up
there and couldn't get any supplies. so we
had to depend on the horses
ard mules or starve. 'Toughp well
1 should say so, and in every sense OF the
word. i see D society has been formed up
In Chicago for encouraging and cultival-
awaited II yon get 10. now tell you. Takes
time. too. i hadn't acquired it after Q
month. but may be / might il / had kept on
lon4 enough. AS the fellow said after the
late lamented election, i kin eat crow, but
1 don't banker after IT i kin eat horse
ats better than n~othing-but it's not deli
catessen'-not by 0 jugfull. Those Chicago
fellows say you cannot tell the difference
between horse-mest and good beef. That's
not 90. When cooked it il red like corned-
beef but 10 SO c0afse-grained, and 10 me-,
at least, has an entirely different
taste-a strong flavor. May be
there was q Little sentiment about il. and
because l knew It Was horse IL went down
hard; bat / think no n with their wits