The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-14
BE WAS REALLY HUNGRY.
Shrewd Citizen Thought BE Had
Cornered the CRATER.
(WashingtOn Star. J

"Hum-n-mi" calculated a gentleman
who was sitting on a Fourteenth street
car with a friend the other evening,
bound for his home. which is located on
one of the pleasantest peaks of Mt Pleas
ant.
/ The man had just finished a cursory
I the headlines OF the first and second
pages; had satisfied himself that there
would be plenty of weather for the next
few days. by reading the weather report
on the third page; had searched for his
wife's name in the society column and
landed on the eighth page. where the
heading, Hard Luck Stories" caught
his eye. After reading the story he gave
expression TO the exclamation noted
above From the peculiar intonatiOn
given that brief utterance his companion
knew that the Mt. Pleasant mans
thoughts were of a retrospective nature.
That story" said the gentleman,
pointing il out TO his friend, reminds me
of an experience had a short time ago.
you know my boy has been away TO
college and when he came back from
school he brought with him lot OF
books. and they weren't all text books,
either. / thought I'd like 10 take a peep
into some of the stuff the youngster had
been reading while out from under The
parental roof. so l glanced through the
| bunch at random, and found some OF
them good and some otherwise. One vol
ume in the young library that came TO
my notice was a collection Of short
stories.
zone Of the stories I read was about
wealthy young fellow giving money 10
tramp who said he wanted to get some
thing TO eat. According 20 the story, the
young man strolled aimlessly about in the
( locality for awhile, and presently he no
tieed the beggar standing in the same
spot where he had left him, so he decided
10 watch the CRATER.
In a short space of time he saw the
| fellow approach several other gentlemen
with the same old eut-and-dried hard
luck tale which had wrung money from
him.
"The young fellow didn't like the idea
OF being duped. so he thought he would
have a little fun out OF the tramp and
play even. He walked past the mendi-
cant again and when the fellow attempt
ed 10 make a second touch for money on
the plea of hunger the young man took
him along into a restaurant and made
him order a big meal and eat il. The
tramp, il seems. had already dined. and
he objected 10 going through the opera
ton a second time the same day, but the
young fellow made him do il and had
| lot OF fun watching the impostOr filling
up against his Will.
II thought il was real clever little
story and 1 chuckled right gleefully over
| it
We'll. the other evening I was mean
dering down + street, when a fellow
came up and politely begged my pardon
/ for accosting me and declared he was
| as hungry as a bunch OF prairie wolves
/ in winter and wanted me to give him
dime to help him relieve the strain of go
/ ing TO sleep with an empty stomach. He
! said he was stranger in town and broke.
and hadn't had a square meal for a week
/ He was fairly well dressed and / sized
! him up at once as a professional CRATER.
| Shortly before that l had finished
/ splendid dinner and was smoking an ex-