The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-06

why, you don't smoke said I, still
reaching for the cigar he held behind
Me? Oh, what you givin' me-"
Come, let me have it, l said sharp
~; drawing a case fuom my pocket and
taking out another cigar.
oh You want a light he said.
handing me the stub and watching me
wistfully. Couldn't give US a fresh
| cigar. could you, Cap7''
Il don't know" said l. as though
deloerating on the matter What
was 1T you were going to tell me Just
now? You started to tell me what a
lovely sucker I'd have been had you
met me this morning. How did you
| mean?"
Give me cigar and I'll tell you.
on, come, now. Cap: give me smoker
ard III give you the whole game. 1
viii, now honestI"
held out the open case.
Nothin' mean about you, is they?'
ne SAID eagerly taking a fresh cigar in
one hand and the stub in the other. "A
ten-center, too-oh, / guess not,'' but.
10 my surprise, he took the stub be-
tween his lips and began opening his
coat Guess I'll jist fat this daisy.
and save 'er up for Christmas. No. /
won eether,' he broke in suddenly.
with bright, keen flash of second
thought Tell you what I'll do" hold
IN up the cigar and gazing at it ad-
she?'' an
nodded.
amt she?"
Every cent of it," 7 repeated.
Then give me a nickel, and she's
yourn-cause if you can afford to give
this TO re fer nothin'. looks like ort
fer Ielf
as laughingly dropped the nickel in
ms hand he concluded, And they's
nothin' mean about me neether,''
now, go on with your story" said
l. How about that game YOU were
giving this morning.
wen, I'll tell you. cap Us fellers
mas got to lay fer every nickel 'eauss
none of US is bondholders! and thev's
days and days together when we don't
make enough to even stalve on What
mean is. we on'y make enough to nav
Ter agServatin' our appetites with list
ABOUT enough chuck to keep us starvin'
hungry. SO, YOU see when a Teller
amt got nothin' else 20 do. and his
appetite won't sleep in the same bunk
with him. he's bound TO git onto some
pm crooked and git up all sorts o.
lodges TO git along. Some gives 'em
one thing, and some another, but YOU
Oct they got TO be mighty slick now
cause people won't have orphans. and
nts. and 'crippIes,' and drunk faith
ers. and mothers that eats morphine >
and white swellin'.' and Consumption.
and all that sort o. taffyi Got TO git 'er
down finer'n that But / been a-efttfr'
in my work all the same. don't you fer
git. You won't ever blow now?''
How could / blow and what if I
did? 1 don't live here replied.
Wen, you better never blow. any
how; cause If ever US buffers would git
onto it you'd be spilled OYSTER
Go on" said I, with an assuring
tone.
The lay I'm on list now" he con-
tinued, dropipag his voice and looking
cautiously around. lis a-hidin' nv box
and a-rushin' in, sUddent-like. where
they's q crowd o. nobs a-talkin' politics
er somepin'. and a jist startin' in. and
fore they know what's a-conain' I'm
a-tiashin' up a nickel er a dime, and
a-tellin' EN- If only had enough more
10 make 80 cents 1 could buy a blackin'
Dox. and wouldn't have TO asst no boot
o. my grandmother And two minutes
chinnin' does il. don't you see. cause
they don't know nothin' bout blackin'
boxes; they're list as soft as you air.
They got an Idly maybe, that bIackin'
boxes comes all the way from Chinv
with cokeynut whiskers packed round
EN-: and I make it solid by a-savin'
I'm on'y goin' to git second hand box
seer But that amt the pint-it's the
Mr.. Nickel I already got. Obi it'n pa
ralyze EN- ever time, Sometimes fel-
lers'll make up IS cents er a dollar. an
tell me 10 git new box, and go into
the business right That's thing that
always rattles me. Now. If fhev'd or,,v
growl little and look like they was
jist a-puttin' up cause the first one
did, 1 can stand 1t; but when they go
10 pattin' me on the head and a-teIlin'
me that's right, and not TO be afeard
o work and III come out all right
and at lin me TO git good subsIan-