Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-09-18
BOB VISITS THE CITY
A Thrilling Account Of His Adven-
lures Told in the style of
Billy Baxter
BuFFA1o. N. Y. Mon ]. 1aOl.

Well, here am back again at the
old stand. You know I wrote you
some time ago. I expected to take a
run to New York to see the old
''gang." Well, / did, and l must
say they are the warmest collection
Of gilt edge sliders on the may. To
start of with, most Of the boys had
something on the evening 1 arrived
as they did not know just when to
expect me but after looking in at a
few Of the old places / ran across Jim
Stevens and 1 can tell you that he is
one Of the best, and of course right
away Jim had a racket up his sleeve,
80 after having several high balls at
Sullivans and other joints we started
to take in the show at uIkoster &
Bials." Well, Sir, ii would have
done you good if you could have seen
Dime Overweight and his friend,
with a couple of the best that ever
came over the pike, in Box No. 13,
and l knew right away something
was going to happen. Well at the
intermission we took a stroll up
stairs and got the boys to join us in
drink and of course in return they
invited US to join the party, and the
trouble started. Now 1 must say
that the fillies they had looked like
couple Of good goers and of course
the pace was set at rather a fast clip.
Now Jack you know how the old
man is built; why we hadent been
running more than quarter before
second bottle of Mumm was torn to
pieces and the treat being on me
reached for my roll to pay for the
same, and the minute the little dears
saw the real stuff it was a one to
three shot, we had them landed.
Well, old man after talking matters
over a little while and giving them
the same old story of how glad we
were to meet them, ETC., they began
to sway and a derrick couldent have
drawn them away from Jim and Your
Uncle Dudley. Now, of course, Jim
was bit thirsty about that time so
placed the order for large cold
bottle and at once started in to make
the running as near the limit as
possible but as far as we could see it
was simply case of cant loose me
Charlie so we made up our minds to
see the fun out or bust for we
certainly had struck'a running tide
that would have made the Kaiser
Wilhelm de Crosse look like a cheap
Hoboken tug boat in a high sea.
Then one Of the girls started in to tell
me all about herself and wanted me
to promise that / would never leave
her. OF course about that time
began to feel rather sorry for poor
old Dime who was beginning to get
rather hot around the collar and at
the same time did not forget to
inform US that we ought to break
away but Jim, as 1 told you before,
is one of those high bred colts who
could see nothing else but the winning
post and of course I had to stick to
him and by the way have forgotten
to mtntion anything about Dimes
friend, Charlie Goodboy, who was
jolly good Sort of a fellow from
Williams College and a dead game
sport and / am sure that the girls
were very fond of them both, that is
at the start, but as soon as they got
their lockers on our rolls why the
band started to play 'pll Leave my
Happy Home for You" Now Jack
I would like to tell you all about the
show at Rosters but the truth is 1
don't think that any Of the push could
see the stage so / will have to let that
part OF 1t slide. Now after working
up one Of those ''I don't care what
becomes Of me'' sort of feelings we
started for 'shanleys" to fill our
faces which certainly started the
trouble. After ordering everything
on the menu to eat and about 20
different kinds Of drinks, Kittie, for
that was Dimes own began to think
that she saw queer things moving
around the place and Of course
everybody had to see what it was
when we discovered that one Of the
walters had been making eyes at
Kittie and Of course being a lady OF
quality she was insulted. So my boy
the only real thing we could see in
sight was Jail and that certainly
looked large and beautiful, for by
this time one Of our Angels pets had
taken his coat Off and started to put
the place on the bum. OF course we
opened a very large argument which
in time would have made a high
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