The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1903-06-19

will pay me for some of my life'S
joys; and that Chinese pigboat for in
stance, when we eat bread and jam fol
every meal because Ho Wang wouldn't
allow us anything better, and it all
tasted of pig-Chinese pig. I've work
ed for this, I've sweated and I've starry.
ed for this, line on line and month aft.
err month, and now I've got it 1 am
going to make the most of it while il
lasts. Let them pay. They've nc
knowledge"
"What does your majesty please to
want? You can't smoke more than
you do, you won't drink, you're a gross
feeder and you dress in the dark, by
the look of you. You wouldn't keep a
horse the other day when l suggested
because, you said, it might fall lame
and whenever you cross the street you
take hanson. Even you are not fool
tsh enough to suppose that theaters
and all the live things you can buy
thereabout mean life. What earthly
need have you for money!
"It's there, bless its golden heart y
said Dick. ''It's there all the time
Providence has sent me nuts while
have teeth to crack 'em with. haven't
yet found the nut l wish to crack, but
I'm keeping my teeth filed. Perhaps
some day you and will go for walk
round the wide earth"
with no work to do, nobody to wor
~ us and nobody to compete with, you
would be unfit to speak to in a week
Besides, 1 shouldn't go. l don't care
to profit by the price of mans soul
for that's what it would mean. Dick
it's no use arguing. You're fool.''
"Don't see it. When l was on that
Chinese pigboat, our captain got enor
nous credit for saving about 25,OOC
very seasick little pigs, when our ole
tramp of steamer fell foul Of a tim
Der junk. Now, taking those pigs as q
parallel
ooh, confound your parallels! When
ever l try to improve your soul you
always drag in some irrelevant anec
dote from your very shady past. Pigs
aren't the British public. Credit OIL
the high seas isn't credit here, and sell
respect is self respect all the world
over. Go out for a walk and try tc
catch some self respect. And, say, il
the Nilghai comes up this evening car
! show him your diggingsY
Surely. You'll be asking whether
you must knock at my door next" An6
Dick departed to take counsel will
himself in the rapidly gathering Lon
don fog.
Half an hour after he had left, the
Nilghai labored up the staircase. He
was the chiefest as he was the huges
Of the war correspondents, and his ex
periences dated from the birth of thu
needle gun. Saving only his ally
Keneu the Great War Eagle, there wa:
no man mightier in the craft than he
and he always opened his conversation
with the news that there would be
trouble in the Balkans in the spring
Torpenhow laughed as he entered.
"Never mind the trouble in the Bal
kans. Those little states are always
screeching. You've heard about Dick:
luck?"
eyes. He has been called up to no
toriety, hasn't he? l hope you keel
him properly humble. He wants sup
pressing from time to time"
"He does. He's beginning to take
liberties with what he thinks is his
reputation"
ALREADY? By Jove. he has cheek
don't know about his reputation, but
he'll come a cropper if he tries thai
sort of thing"
$50 1 told him. don't think he be.
neves it."
''They never do when they first start
off. What's that wreck on the ground
there"
Specimen of his latest impertinence
Torpenhow thrust the torn edges OF
the canvas together and showed the
well groomed picture to the Nilghai
who looked at it for a moment and
then whistled.
Its a chrome said he-"a chrome
ELECTROMAGNETIC fake! What pos
sessed him to do it? And yet how thor
oughly he has caught the note that
catches public who think with their
boots and read with their elbows. The
cold blooded insolence of the work al