The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-29
RAPFLB TRUSTO OF The EX.TANK
no. fPS SCHEME ron COMING
HONE LIKE SANTA CLAUS.
In Chicago. Thanksgiving Day and He
Had - Which He Promptly spent
-~saloonkecpers Are Tempted and
Diamond Rings Are Distributed.

| the Harlem Club OF Former Alcoholic De-
generates, rising suddenly during a lull
In the proceedings, Il just asked the man
TO let me have q tray full Of diamond rings
and he did. and II was all right, and that's
how | got back for Christmas that time.
Then ex-Tank No. IA sat down again and
looked meditative, IA IL the whole thing
had been unreeled. Ex-Tank No. Z, the
parliamentarian and kicker. Systematically
inquired IL Fourteen hadn't got his kline
toscope slides into the machine backward.
These Chinese narratives" Nc. z started
10 add. that hike along from right to left
and hand you an eiplo,.le before you've
had a chance to rubber at the preface may
be three baggers when spelled before the
| Omar Khayyam and Oriental societies,
but they give me congestion Of the tym-
panum and a whole lot Of il. n if"
Twas the month before Christmas,
when I blew the whole house" began
ex-Tank No. IA, once more suddenly rising
| with the determined air Of a man who in
tends TO grease the skids and get going
right, when the chief ex-Ta nix. foreseeinR
trouble, whacked the table with the new
stein CAV el and remarked:
Fourteen, in the interest Of harmony
WIFI CUT ol Alc FNliAbblN a hi'NiA'' 80
will likewise quit flashing the wireless
letter 81 on the club from a great distance
Signals, running around the ends. and the
anchor nurse are barred here, No take-of
allo wed for charter members. Fourteen,
being a charter member. will either spin
from a standing start or sit down. .,
Thus adiured a. to the rules ex-Iank
No. IL, looking a bit aggrieved, vent on:
when ! remarked a moment ago that II
was a month before Christmas, | was breath
ing in circular numbers. II wasn't ex-
actly a month. II was on Thanksgiving
Day that ! blew the whole house.
This rashness was premeditated and
deliberate. ! had only 81, and what was
81, oven in Chicago, where they pass you
a tureen OF il as deep as a stationary wash
tub ACCOMPANIED by two pounds oil ESQ
teric sausage. for a nickel' II was nothing
J Away with 81. said | to myself, and j
| called EN- all up, which set me back just
Si.s5, which pleased me greatly.
Il regarded IL a. being better with none
of il al all than with such a marked-down
| piece of bum increment az y. Twas moved
10 such depths of emotion by The reflection
/ that Christmas was such a little distance
/ hence and thai ! was still In Chicago with
nothing but the fatal gift of beauty and
some car faro tina i beckCned EN- all w
! again AMI sent another SIS to the dump.
which left me just 20 cents worth and no
rebate in sight.
However. | disposed Of the 30 cents
With that sum | purchased postage stamps
and wrote TO 'en all back here. ! Informed
them that the strain Of overwork Oh various
important deals was beginning to tell on
me. and that my one compensation was
that ! was stacking up the dough fast.
Il wrote the folks how sorry | was that
the imperative and pressing character
Of my business made II necessary Tor me
to absent myself from the Thanksgiving
dinner, but that I'd have my sandals under
the grOaning Sab for a Clnch OH Christmas
DAY. 1 wrote to Auntic Carrie To tell al
the kids in the family that I'd be there witt
the goods for the regular Christ mas dish
out such rs they we're used TO from their
unkie. and asked her TO write me out a
detailed list Of what each one Of EN- wanted
for their stockings.
Then ] hailed the bunch up and down
the line here that | was gathering in 70
much of the ker-tisn that I'd soon have
a list to s~tarboard or port II | didn't Jettlscn
and thai I'd do the jettisoning In New York
Z notified 'eIn to stand by tor my hreak-ii
just \ little before Christmas, when ! hope
10 stand 'cm all On their a ana SIiI
'em around ike hum-tops
Il don't suppose the | nited states mail
were over Clut,ered up with such q stacl
7 Of dead op-u-Mnd-shut hluf communion
/ tiou- ~ Colpp-'~Ud the bunch ! WTrt" ~ ~
gang ~ this 'eeuchy little burg on tina
Thanksgiving Day In Chicago. whom, all.
/ tlNllE lIf NldiilI. W. I'rl f'Hs ''''''
have bought an egg shampoo II touSorla
composition had shaved t'- rate ipr IN
same - two cents. Wlli state, as a chaser
that I always found II n desirable thin'
70 hgrl ms diCrr into Va" ring ~ this manner
~ caused NO :. stir uy fho SIva ash Wiggl
nern.saIv Vi"-evith 20 MIKE good ]
gavo ~" alupthiug 10 climb FOR. ! trus
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ton iu aiding hat, m C~oIH"0g"uc". J al
way mau" . -'i"k and got ih" hat OUT 4"
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