The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01
HIS ESCAPE FROM ST. LOUIS.
Dx-TAEK NO. 1913 BOUT HITH LAMP
CHIMNEY CLEANERS.
had Points OF 81. Louis for Man H"bnoh-
bling with Pink Giraffes-Adrenture OF
tho Three Fox Terriers Gratitude Of a
Man who Knows n Good Thing.

Ex-Tank No ~ oil tue llaflein Nluo VI r"'hc'
Alcoholic Degcnerates, maybe I'd bo trying
70 sell patent lamp chimney cleaners from d""r
70 door in 81 Louis yet
Well Il takes dogs TO win races in st Louis,
for a fact" said the Chief EX Tank with
noxpinsoont expression IN his eye
Correct you are" cut In Ex-Tank No. o, who
once made d book for a period extending over
ono hour and a half on the old Roby track and
who has been sore ali the country lying west
Of the Allegheny Mountains ever since And
n csuldnt make any ordinary pair OF crabs
htchod to a crosstowu car beat any a. arago
Western stake horse at any distance from four
fuIlongs up 10 four miles, why I'd" &c
This bunch Of dogs that won me out VI ST
Louis though" interrupted No 10. "didn happen
TO BIO that kind Of dogs. They were real dogs,
dog dogs with oneAnch tails, enough VI the
rubbeqneck strain mixed with their thorough
bred blood to supply the population Of an up
State village and likewise the destructiveness
Of streot-oar strikers. That is to say they were
fox terrier pups three Of EN- in row, the hand
soonest ever saw, before since, aud no one
Of EN- bettern the other when II came to cute
Hovilishness. found them"
Lucky chap aren't your" broke in No. Z, the
parliamentaIian and kicker, sarcastically. You
wore always finding something at Just the right
minute whom you up against 1t, weren't
your But say. when you try 10 heave 1t into
Us that you found three thoroughbred fox-terrer
pups altogether In a bunch, why you'll Just ex
ouse me, for one. IL u
Il found thom, OF as good as found them" calmly
resumed No 10 They Just fell my way. |
happoned on EN-. drew them. They dropped
TO me. l won EN- Any old way, for peace and
n ouiet life And seeing that, up 10 the win out
Of which that incident was the beginning, never
got anything out of St Louis except large green
stack Of uncashAble tickets. and, after that.
must Job peddling patent lamp chimney cleaners
from shack to shack, taking a chance on boiling
water and rolling pins right along, maybe Sovenl
Let me get away with my statement about those
pups"
IF Scvon cuts in again he'll do threequarters
ofan hour In the folding bath said the Chief
ExJrank. sternly.
Il took S7o0 and a two-euded high ball skate
with me into ST. Louis that time, resumed No.
10, after having been real good up in Chicago
Sor four months When l got through with the
East St Louis game-it only oook me ten days
20 get through with I'll had the bundle OF green
tickets all ready for framing. most of EN- at TO
on or thereabouts, and several pink graiEcs fol
lowing me around and beating me out by necks
at ovary stage OF the route Not having the
price Of q rest in bug ward at twenty five per,
with the soothing music Of the chapel organ play
Ing down below. and being opposed for reasons
which will hero be apprehcnded 10 the no-pay bug
wards, got enough on my other suit TO buy
Hay-cent. per room for week Then laid down
and had IL out with the pink giraies all by my
lonesome That's only a bad memory now, but
a. x.s hI.cl tragedy while il was going an Al
A.. ~ - ,or, da,,s 7 ,,ot IN hough, n tvocont
n,ns, and looked over the Helm Wanted column
7 d;dn,t lnov then that nohodv ever wants onv
bs,n in 81 Iouia e,cept strangers who % nm
against the town. and the most of these only
want transportation out The only thing | saw
,h,, ,,a. . a, for ma or ,pvthir,, lilo II uss
the n...nt I.mn ohimney cleaner / took - bunch
NJ ,em ont with the understanding that | was
IN ost n dime for every one of them sold sold
tva,ve Tho first dev after irving EN- IN AT about
oOo di6s,snt rxicl,ieuns and then at. and r,cIj
tatsd Hanged IN sen,rate myself from 81 Loo
hut thcv watch tho freight Yards pretty closely
,h.,. and tina ma, who gc,s out M that town
on a hind baggape ia a four plv baby and a won.
dor % 7 tool lin the trudpe with my ormfuj
~ n.t.nt lamn cbimnav cleaners b,i,rt and os,,,,
Tho mart mornpv with the ideo ,f selling enough
NJ than to buv A 80 ticket to any old Mace I
vaa WALKING along Fourtb avenu, wondc,;pg
What the old gang In New Work wou,d ,hi,l, -,
me n thev cnu,d sea m. ringing basement door
bs,,a and pe,tinp the ouick chase fran LipEy
basd.d bssbsp noers whom 7 hoard n cham .ps of :,
coming from a domwav The street WINS nre,tv
vel, t,,rongad--foy St Jouis-but Looked around
% see whence the sound procceded 7 SOW o
.h.,nS.oed q,.vn,oust,ched seedv. Iool.ipo, cha
standing o
and noddinr me toward him, He had three swclI
Ut,ls fo1-teIrI.y nuns tied bv three strinys 7
w.s Annarsnt,v the man bs wanted in, no g,inned
o.rvous,v 40 7 welked ovsr toward hi,,
"r cough, hv vour lo,Ls ,,ou mich, ho, b,or
ALAG vas IN. no,its wav he Addressed m. .and
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"p.rbans sone of Won fellows dom l,nou, he,
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otb.r., attention
avon ov,rwbe,m me with your co,6danc.
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