The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-06

Degenerates, I'd been nursing that jag. you
understand, for more than ak weeks and civ.
ing it about everything Il asked for. and hero I
and things in broad DAYLIGHT and, NO more
S SsSSore q il G was 3 bad PJ job, ftS Was y the Worstt
Job l over stacked M against; I ouinmed a
c { GsIctsp from from S Sns OF So the G snTs 70 % ths stsesSfs;
me nj. q little and kept me from having EN-
more cisarcttes from him in the sourse OF
tho two-snd-a: half- day trip, and smoked them
Sst.ioosi 1 Sa mSS } n t the s.eer sss 'S and i0t they
were a nerce-looking lot, too. / forgot TO say
that tRs isS SGw I h iS t had t 4 good % % 9Syr ggstsSi nsi' fG %ass
haye gone TO sleep Tor the hat I
e had g Snster I SH@e 70 ioo Sn the v Sqhs y9s Tne d senSs;
inside e Z That read MS;, 4; . %SPPl, Wien ii "a END a. /
mine while I silent must, have been some
broken-down sport from Vienna, The soberer
hobo that looked half so bad as looked. But
s ont. and Sp I d R3 Roi sec sS any ~ way y" out even ven az alter I
landed Ter En- 4 man that's Il pF bs SO SS3t DO d9 Q graft gr6nt
boat down to Jacksonville. but that was not to
be. The purser came posing AROUND the steer.
the Charleston wharf and he spotted me. My
face wasn't familiar to him;
DUOWhNuy, u Z SUI Ut W IuO. 1nby
vag stowaways in this town. my bucko. I'l.
turn gEp y9p over to the dock cop when we tie p
Here's a stone crusher for the chain gang
said the purser to the COP after he had taken
me oyer the gapgway. J., 49,
along the. pier shed to It's entrance on East Bay
street, think Il was, and turned me loose;
this a aters ! e .1 %ifIie. 9 sa iTR he oP To i @e. .ns B sSaep
hop one walked away down the street. ,
1T was a cold. late October morning and
raining hard. III there'S any RlOOmi0r place on
the map than ChaTleston on a cold. rainy day
II s the fall Idi ] ! S PsSer a sSY M II but sd ] sa sys tG w1 ms
pretty hard, and I had to walk. l was wet
through In three minutes and shivering. and
to stay Of. the rock pile. Say. dye know that
fact. 1 reflected. that when they knocked
81 Ho sa 90 at TO n nSs rs shfs %.r had as sS% aem n,p SIn d q 2
q shakedown to have a doss on. and an eat
coming g them right along l even figured On
they probably had around their wickiups, and
l certainly felt q heap lonesome trndGing
along there IN the cold ana wet outside the
~ don't like to think Of that day; Id.Snt.
/ erept up an sIiieywsy to the back door Of one
of the hotels. and struck a ~ with a white
Pspfast cap %.' on an IGr q 3 hs aR&e nut tS Ny o TiEi0S csS wss
thought ! might as vel, go to some station
eroas from from the the cold and the wet. Just Us as this
idea got into my head, though, I passed by the
In. 4 big. black dairy was firing the fur
naces. Iasked him II he'd lot me sleep in the
ii ooHsS at men me- Closely aefiyifs Tor "a a minute. They've sySe
got iHtpltiop: tho sep people Ipaed +, .vo,,,, .,,ro
N SST'hh e aS&'t y 70 "a Abs fsn DUN bin az putty HttS nigh idm coz Of
T. def up dat away mahsef.'
| newspapers to put under my head for a pillow.
and Ifell, down Into the corner he pointed out;
which 1 never enjoyed before or since: 1 slept
until 5 o'clock the next morning. and then the
6 Sstteyr b 1se moHin sh eS be foe q The a enr i0,a % came me-
d dot biS or my, my being sdngl in The he fuT pmSSh room T%ag might
and went out into the cold and wet again. for 1t
was still pouring down rain.
Il was trudging down East Bay street along
met a chap / had known In New York. He had
q ost The : widows widows e Of i fi'ef mann once %Sss af the n we eae
ern Union on Broadway when l knew him.
a aea be os T sSe t thsp sseIn Sf messages Es d fi &c KNOW Ht%;
HIee T pfee. a he l9 2on eou nt re- b drGm R him e al ths e.
him who l was. and he was ar right. too, that
chap He took me around to q feed shop-and got
S aHHsss al al fhe s1f he br naTSdi his his i SSnhs3z! BY Eain
Ing me to his dinIky. but warm. little hall room.
bacco. and the morning paper.-oh. he certainly
was good to mel He told me to wait till he got
Of his buds, After ! got shaved aud bathed up
and togged out In his No. ? suit began to feel
like y Thi @an msp to ! WIN R1 ous an. I h aver to ee ta sscs 2
the Jerome. Park races in the ;Ne,ss and Courier.
teiegraphing friend II there was a poolroom in
Charleston. He told me where one was run on
A two-spotll be enough.,,I told him. and
At tG 3 to / the se P %inl Il vent 4 Put th aas q II Of I p pnt the
SO on. Lamplighter. to win at 10 to I. That
went through; too; in in q cssnteF Then boz r
feel sure that Long Fellow, was going to win
the last race; no ma matter hoy long a price
anything in Il but Long Fellow. and ye,
at Shorter prices, 1 didn't make any side steps
about 1t. but just waited for the track, betting
a. sDS SQ Went In up t e IS. F TheH f / pisnto a. the fs s! SD (
William on him: 1t was. a mile and q furlone
race. Long Fellow didn't get SO much as q call
shoulders got scroonched down again. Then
It was, all OF a sudden Long Fellow in the
the windup. Long Fellow wins easy by Three
lengths, 60 ooo
They T paid Il to me M t Pretty reiSctantly. though
Ihinking, | suppose, that was o wire Taper
But / had It n my kick all the same; when the
you ought 70 have seen him look az me: -
Damn Charleston he said after a while
Tn going back to New York
Il waited In Charleston for o few days. unit
the Algonquin stopped there on her return triI
up to New York. and when, she got In, m,
for the cruise mp TO New York. / sat. durinI
the trip, at the right side OF the purser who hac
chucked me over the side. expecting me to b.
pinched for the rock pile. but he didn't know
It. That's the difference between q front ant
no 'front.'"
A Tale of Wong and Bun Tuck.