The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-30

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Didn't 1 tell you wen 1 seen his
| name las night that Tn Musketeer
| 'ud waltz homer" asks a fellow who
| looks like a motorman on his day off
of another chap of the same genei al
! appearance.
Jaw, you toll nothin'," disgustedly
replied the latter. You're one o. these
here people that's always pickin' tn
| good things after they've got the ring
! around en- an are back in tn barn
coolin' out.
It's wunner you wouldn't try t
| pass II out that you picked tn win
| ner o mex years Suburban. L s'pose
you picked tn hull six of 'em t'-day,
hey?"
I don't see that you're none lop-
sided wit tn cash you killed tn book
les f'r. You toll me bout TIL Mus
keteer? Gwan."
The individual who. as he says, has
come out to the track to make a par
ley on his six selections with a $40
note, only to be touted off the horses
that he has burned the midnight gas
in doping and to see all of his picks
walk home after all, is always in evil
dence on the first train in. He no
sooner makes a car and gets settled
than he begins to figure with a pencil
on the back of the programme.
well. what dye think of thatn he
exclams, dismally. after ten minutes
of figuring. IF I'd We just showed
that twenty along as parley on the
hull six that 1 picked I'd We COPIED
out exactly sS14,392."
Then everybody on the car groans
heartrendingly in derision. and two or
three yell at the parleying- with the
pencil individual. Hey. stop talkin'
bout chicken feed" or. "Cut out eatin
tn blanket bout such junk"
The man who previous to the races
had tipped off a number of his COM
panions on a good thing that went
wrong during the running of the races
has a hard time of ii on the first in
train.
You and your good things!" they
growl at him as he sits gnawing his
nails and trying to explain that
the good thing had been short, 3"
or "lnterfered with or got
off bad, or something equally
futile You're about as good a thing
yourself as ever went to bed"
You're the plantation hoodoo, you
are; and I'll bet four and a half that
when l get home I'll find that my kids
have all got the whooping cough, or
that my fats been burned out. just be-
cause you cut my trail to-day.
THE next time you hand me a good
thing you've got to hit me with
beer mallet or a piece of lead pipe
frst"
A man who has hoped on board the
train from the 50-cent field and whose
shoes are a good deal broken at the
sides, gaZes out of the window of the
car by which he is seated and sees a
couple of well-known bookm1kers
whirling by on the road in a swagger
racing automobile.
There they CO." he mutters, hope
lessly. Look at 'em in that devil
wagon that tn little five an ten-spots
O. suckers like me an youse helped t.
buy FIR em After eatin' up all tn
Holsters out at tn track thell skate
into town an nibble at tn sure 'nough
| Holsters, swizzled down NIT tn flzzy
stuff until it comes out O. their lamps,
vile me an youse crawls t Hark tn
Hasher's an pass him a ardiuck
| spiel FIR tn ham and. Oh, it's a great
game, amt it?"
1T sure is replies his companion
with the battered hat, can that amt
| tn worst of it,, neither. Them two
bookies wot youse jes' seen strealxin
by in tn Pink Ghost is a-startin' FIR
| tn Sout' o Europe { gether at III
| windup o. tn Morris Park meetin'
| They're goin' t Algiers, an Con-
| stan'nople, an Cairo, an places like
them, an then they're goin' t ride up
an down tn Nile river, wit automatic
| harps a-playin' an sassy gilt-topped
booze all aroun' 'em, an they'll be
wearin pith helmets an wife duck
suits, son, vile us suckers back here
| is shovelin' snow.
| An in tn springtme, gentle Annie
| they'll come a-sailin' back and take
| their seats on their little OF stools, an
| me an youse,H be a-hockin our win
ter blankets in tn same oil way t
chase out Z tn Agueduct on tn first
| day an hand 'em tn dough. You bel
| it's a great game, Montmorency"
| Most of the women passengers or
board the first in-train appear to be
stunned to the point of despair during
| the early stages of the ride; but as the
train travels along they take up the
| querulous, petulant or explosive themes
of the hard losers in trousers.
"On'y to think" says a withered lit.
tie midde-aged woman in funny bon.
net and a faded coat, there was on'S
five horses in the race, and 1 played
four of EN- with a dollar on each So.
to be sure, and then the on'y othel
| horse in the race that / didn't PLAY
wins. Oh, my!" and she signs heavily
and counts over the silver coins in hel
shabby purse.
"Th' very idee O. Jim givin' me sucl
a bunch O. dead ones!" ominously NUT
tSiS d HuSe woman Wlth much f1aShy
jewelry. I'D jes' like to- think that h,
done it a-purpose! Come t. think of il
l seen a queer light in his eye WEI
he handed me them nags all writ on
on this list, and | wonder could ii ha
been that he was tryin' { throw me f.
some reason or other? Jes' wait till
see him, that's ALL" and the fire tina
creeps into her eyes as she makes thi
last remark makes 1t look bad for jim
at their next meeting
Il don't think much o. them tins
says a demonstrating little woman
whose gaudy garnet and imitation tur
quoise rings only serve to accentuat
the soiled state of her hands. %
bought 'em all comm out on the train
and / put dollar on ever one of 'en
too, and they was all just nosed out
and what I'm goin' to do I'm sure
don't know, cause l brought the fiat
rent out to-day, thinl<in sure I'd wi
enough to get a new hat and a coat,
and she gazed mournfully out of tn
car window to hide the tears that an
peared in her eyes.
Yes" says a feverish-l looking, poor
ly clad woman on whose cheeks Their
is baleful hectic flush and whose eve
are unnaturaTly bright. Il played Ma
Jrag'in-sure l did Put 81 on her 2
1000 to 1. OF course she finished last
but you mark my words some da
May J. II come out and win when she
at 1000 to l, and s'prise everybody, an
I'll be on her with a couple o. dollar,
too, when she does some day,' an
; she coughed distressingly and gaze
in fascinated sort of way at the de
spised May Us name on her fragile