The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-03-27
A FINE DISTINCTION.
A Little Story Showing the Difference Be-
tween "Cheek" and call"

A Little Story Showing the Difference Be-
tween Cheek" and "GaII."
"Now and then l hear some one declare
that a man has monumental gall, but
the fellow using the term has no concep-
ton of its significance. He simply means
it's case of extraordinary cheek"
1t was Cincinnati man stopping for a
day or two in Detroit who spoke as above,
and when asked what he knew about
monumental gall' he replied:
az was travelling in California during
the great boom and one day got around to
Los Angeles and met a chap who used to
be in the furniture business in my town.
He had arrived only the day before and
was fiat broke. AS he had put up at the
best hotel, thought that was case of
monumental gall, but he hadn't begun
to show his never yet.
CATER bit he came to me and wanted
to know if had any blank checks in east
| ern banks. i had checks on Cincinnati,
Chicago st. Louis and Toledo and gave
| him six or eight. Everybody was wild
over real estate, and this chap took a walk
around and got options on three different
| lots giving his check for about SIS, 900 in
each case Some one went up to the hotel
to ask about him, and he turned around
and took an option on the caravansary at
$3.50, 900 for 10 days. He wrote out
check for $685. as cool as you please,
and within the next "a hours had options
on the best bargains in town.
81 gave him a dozen checks in all, and
he filed 'em out for about 100000. II
any of the banks had been telegraphed to,
he would have been dished, but he had a
way with him which seemed to satisfy ev
erybody that he was heeled and was work
| tpsr f,,- tpr,e f,il II h
check for $50, 900 and shake it under the
nose of a man who had been offering a
nice bit of land for SAT- 900. He scared
the man half to death for a minute, and
then he rushed out and put the price at
s55, 00O."
"But he couldn't really buy any land2"
"He didn't want to. He was giving
that locality a specimen OF monumental
gall. The people were up on cheek, but
had never seen face of hammered brass
What dye think he did2 I'll tell you
straight, and I'll give you the names of
parties to write to if you doubt my word.
Before single one of his options expired
he sold them out to a new crowd, and in
eight days he had cleared S25, 900 in as
good gold as California ever mined. The
owner of the hotel gave him 81, 900 and his
worthless checks in my presence and felt
80 good over 1t that he opened the cham.
payne and brought out some cigars worth
81 EACH"
"And didn't you make anything"
"Not blamed red! Say, that cuss even
depended on me for his cent cigars for
four or five days, and 1 sat around like a
bump on log and saw him rake in fine
fortune He got out of the thing slick and
clean, without suspicion, while had to
| telegraph home for n misera BILE little 5000.
and the landlord had man watching me
for two or three days to see that didn I
jump my bill I've got cheek enough to
carry me along pretty comfortable, but
when 1t comes to monumental gall I'm
way down the hall. / used to mix the
terms, but don't any more. Any fool can
have cheek, but the other stuff is only
to be found in a chain lightning sort OF
man "-Detroit Free Press.