The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16

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Il slipped over to the 1887 and fraction
boys table. placed both mitts over the
port side Of my shirt front, handed him
the eyerything-f- s-yours grin, and In
clined my ear
Tim said he to me. sparring of with
the merry string, are you right sure that
you know how to wait on table, and, II so,
where's your references?'
Crowned heads and princes says |
to him, and the more l looked him over
the more kept on counting the money.
Regard me-
Well he said, still kidding, with his
head on one side, you look as il you might
know how to serve ninety-two dollars worth
OF nam and eggs TO pair OF just back
blue jackets that d been on the China station
for four years-but do you know how to
spread out real food and the damps out OF
ha4gons'
-, can make stab to butt into the first
three at the wire, says I. and then he began
to rifle the bill Of fare and TO order
He was an orderer out Of Order by Orme
and member Of the Buyers League, and
was thinking about hiring clerk and a
shorthand writer before he got through
unreeling the names of the things that he
and the pair Of squeens thought they needed
for q lit lie $40 A. NJ. snack.
The boy with the shares in the De Beers
Trust oiled me along while was doing the
ground-and. lofty around his table until /
began to think that he probably intended,
by the time l passed the finger-bowls, to
hand me the deed to three or four acres of
improved lots over on Hoboken Heights.
You're. the queen Of the May, all right,
Butch he'd remark when spread some
thing on the table sheet that made a hit
with him, and I'd give you the top weight
in the Pantry Grabbers' stakes any time
,.A oh, sir, am so undeserving. says to
Nttnf %, h., s-s.~ \
along toward the time when the cars began
TO rattle by real quick and the squeak kids
were getting their newsstands ready, it got
to settling-up time.
Il spraddled out the change OF his fifty
on the tray all in bills, making the smallest
one two-dinker.
Got any change for this, Eddie?' says
buckers. i want to drop some chickenfeed
into the Fresh Air Fund box at the desk
as circle out
IL changed the two-spot into a dollar
bill hal, and two quarters.
Oh, such wistful money changing"
said the shine 10 me then, and he pushed
me over a quarter, two-b bits. That for
YOU says he, and if you blow it all at once
you'll still have something to pay your fine.
Am not the fairy gran'pa? Tush, Maud
and Mabel, 1t grows late, or early, and
Ph9bus shows in the Orient st-let us
move to the caloosh,' and with that the
glim two-stepped out, pushing me the
George W. Childs grin as he went,
What good dye suppose the past per-
Torrance sheets were 10 ne In case like
that2 l had picked two of en- dead wrar
right in row. and when got home that
morning | was so arr Dyed, so | was, that
felt like giving me dope book real hard
slap on the covers ard reproving 1t So
yerely.
koo r 4,
kinkier shred-out than either of these two.
A fellow that I'd rever taken a peek at
before, but who didn't have any shir o
look about him, zephyred in early one morn
irg with a pair of the parokeets and found
lodgings at ore Of my tables.
Bud he said to me when he called
me over, we haven't eaten in all Of forty
minutes, nor have we had an amphora
of suds in fully quarter of an hour. Con-
sequently, we are in great hurry to get
busy with everything that there il to eat
ard drink on file In the works. Can you
dc. the six furlongs in as good as i:Is?'
They never enter me In anything
except tn. spirits nowadays said to
him, ard then he pulled out stack of the
saffron -colored boys big enough TO clog
the old farmhouse caves leading to the
rain barrel
AN right. James, says he to me, ard
he pulled a tenner from the bunch--ard,
at that. he had to hurt lorg time to get
such piker's ILL as that If you're goirg
to be right nice ard sudden az d not rude,
YOU get the other half Of this ter dir ker
when il il all over Maize ard with that
he pulled 81 al! pair of pocket scissors
out ard cut the ten-spot square in two,
harding me ore of tho pieces ard p0kirg
the other separately into one of his vest
kicks
at looked good enough to me, that rig
out went after the other half of that
piece Of paper charge like Bronx goat
tearing on the remains oF the spring circus
posters ard il was pretty close 10 being
mi'e when something cave OF.
A duck passing out said something that
my boy took as crack at one Of his two
picture-hatted bahy-starers, and Just three
seconds later on you'd have thought that
all the dishware that was ever made was
passing back and forth in the plant II was
O'Clock In the morning, and all hands were
pretty sudsy, and they all cantered in and
took one or the other end of it,
1t was the hottest fricassee I'd ever seen
in the old place, and I've done mix in lot
of them. and the works had to be closed
down for while for repairs. My half of
the double was stiiY on my hands as a
result of the scrap, for the duck with the
other half Of it had belted his man all the
way to the door and halfway down to Herald
Square before the pair Of en- were pinched.
work, saw the holder of the other half
of that ten-bucker standing in front OF
Broadway booze bazaar, with his head done
up in much lint and faraway gaze IN his
batting eve. He looked to me as If he'd
got all through with his swing, and didn't
see any chance to cop out the other half of
the ten-size piece Of paper change, but I
passed the hour of the evening with him.
at that, as ] swirled by.
Hello, there, Bill he said, his lamp
brighter ing. Got your piece of that thing
with you now|
Il showed it to him,
Well, I guess you're not a chicken
coop to hang onto in an angry sea, bo,'
said he. I'm all in-got pinched, and then,
when was turned loose, got rolled for tie
relics of the bundle and all OF the shiny
rocks. besides. Now I'm looking for one
foot-high of wheat cakes and chicory as a
chaser. Here's my piece, and he produced
the half of the ten that he had cut in two.
Let's splice EN-, and Wen make cut of
it,, hey2'
Il felt sorry for the duck, and the fi'muth
was better for mine than the half-a-ten ttat
was no use He pasted the two pieces OF
the ten together, got two fives for il, handed
me mine, and then darted into sudden
feed shack with as happy CLEAN out of
his orbs as if he hadn't been blowing about
a hundred a minute only n few DAYS
before
Or. WOODRUFF DERRICK.
II Has Pulled SO Horses and Many other