The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
UNCERTAIN ARE THE
y WATERS TIPS.
Three Suppers ia an Albright Res
taurant With a Surprise at the
End of Each.

SO often lately that I'm beginning TO wonder
whether l can tell the difference between
plain shine and searchlight any more,
remarked in his hour of ease waiter in
Sixth avenue all-night restaur ant, most
of the patrons of which are members Of
the New York Sleep Duckers' Association.
They're not running to the dope any
more for me, and I've made myself feel
like piece Of frontage de bre quite some
few merous times lately over the bum way
my handicaps have shown up at the wire.
Il used to be able to pipe the producer
and tho pikcr through haf-closed lids
out Of the starboard corner Of my off-lamp
in a raging snowstorm, but now it's getting
so that / have to duck behind screen
and give EN- the gaze through field glass
for four minutes before / can feel bunch
whether they're right or not, and even
at that I'm getting the colors mixed and
going in wrong as often as twice out of
the five.
"Only last night rffled the charts wrong
two times in row and I'm dizzy yet.
"A tallow-topped tinker, with cottony
eyebrows and IA S.. is blue serge suit, smoked
in with a couple of girls, lockers. who
seemed as if they were nursing the sneaky
fear that it was going to be the ham sand
witch and the malt for theirs. The flaxen
flash made sou sou east edge tow ard
one of my tables with the two girls and |
breathed real hard.
Shoe clerk from Yonkers,' says to
myself, with four and half in his watch
pocket that he's going to spread out over
Garn Nt.rlf h. 1,
corn shucks in a stone pipe for three
months to get hunk for this recklessness
"The more looked him over, before
edging up to the table, the more he looked
to me like a lightning bug in a well
While the girls peeked through the nenu
he was giving the gappy glance around,
and every time he took pipe at the pair
of girls with him--they were swell pat
terms, sure enough-his chest sort o. went
out and he looked like he was saying to
himself. Look at the dolls I've trapped
al wonder, says l to myself, why the
drum major doing head waiter work here
is getting into the habit of passing along
to me these quick lunchers? Wonder what
I've been doing that he shoves on to me
these Frankies that save up two million
cigarette coupons 10 snag out prize picture
frameH
Then crept over to the table, putting
on that hurt, busy look that we sometimes
frame up TO fan the Schenectadyites out
into the open air.
"'Order, please says I to the tallow-
top, ard l said 1t like a salesgirl behind
the soap counter Of department store
when you've hiked along for a cake just
at the minute hen she's due to turn a hand
spring for the lunch-room
Well the rebate that that tow-head
handed me made me feel as if somebody
was trying to put rings in my ears.
"'Y' don't want TO take it to heart so
much, George was what he sung while
] stood there feeling like a moll-buzzer
that's pinched a wrist bag with nothing
but two cents. a latch-key and a car-ticket
in it. "You want to wait till you get stung
before you drill for Camp Crouch. Dye
think you'd like to sep little food and
drink at this stall, or are you real mad2
And then | knew that l had got away
from the post on the wrong foot, When
he unwindnd that piece of tape, wise as Il
left handed sheet writer on the dead
myself | wal ched for the flash of the
bunting like the boy on the favorite in a
maiden Jock race, and ! guess maybe
didn't g"' Clcs" tn the ground with my
hcel.ard-toc work
He knew more about ordering dinner
than Eddie Burke. which IN the full cup
distance The keyston" OF the feed was
a steak Ia Rordela.e the size of "A small
trunk with mushrooms petted in a cellar
for triinmers. and then he spun ahead and
named the rest of il like the instament
man telling YOU you've got TO make good
next "Wednesday or stand for Il writ of
replcvin
And it was me to proceed to juggle china
and Bohemian glassware as fast as a roof
garden push of restidigitators, in a try
To wipe ont tlat first impression Of me
in he mind Of as next II kanoozer of old
wines, right eating and the real katinkas
in the way of dolls as ever got hungry and
thirsty at two O'Clock in the morning.
After the three of 'em had presto'd
out Of view forty-three dollars worth of
the eats and H." drinks, the ow-head
gave me the beCkon finger,
LIT is all over now, Giuseppe, said he,
throwing Inc the funny leer. and you have
atoned real well, 20 you have, for being SO
angry with me when first slid in here for "A
hand-out. But you don't want to forget
what | told you, pal. Never swell up with
n puff-adder's sting until you're dead sure
you've had the fangs. Some of us just
nachully can't help looking like book
binders apprentices on their day off
Then he snagged out of his kick a roll
Of the sepia papers the size of round
bundle Of Christmas cigars, skinned of
IA fifty. and told me 10 stake myself to pair
Of roller skates with the change-which
left me just seven dollars to the nice on the
sprint.
AS the tallow-top creased out, herding
up his brace of diked-out dolls, gave the
under poke to a bookie at one of the tables
whose slate / fall up against when ! drop
out to the track.
81 thought he was tinsmith from
TunkhannocS,' said to the bookie, giving
the point to the fax conk and he's, got
me trimmed all around the edges on that.
Who is heY
"Oh, nobody, except the guy that owns
the Rocky Mountains, that = all, the bookie
told me-. He came on with the Western
push TO bet a few billion on McChesney
on that race with Waterboy that didn't
come off. Then he mentioned the name
of n Denver sport that I'd been reading
about for years and that I'd ha' given four
dollars TO ride in the same street car with
if they made mo stand on my head on the
front platform
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