The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-10

thing that has been perpleSing ME ali
the afternoon. And you are also right in
supposing that one means a good many
with me. although / hope my extern or
doesn't placard that fact, as II seems to
have done to you. | haven't had a drink
in nine months. | was wondering a mo-
ment ago whether I'd better eat or take a
drink. If | drink, won't want to eat
perhaps for a couple Of weeks. If | eat
l won't want to drink
That place across the way said &c
him, pointing 10 the restaurant on the
other side. has got some broed shad to-day
that would make a fillillo birds teeth leak
. Has it, he asked, Frightening up.
Believe I'll go over and get some-thanks,
and out he Went and over TO the restaurant.
i saw him come out of there about an
hour later. munching toothpick and look
ing contented all over. IL pleases me to
think that | kept that solid looking man
away from whizz that would have wound
up with the ccrise zebras. for he was the
dip all over in look and manner.
But it's mighty rare that l gong In like
that, for I'm here to sell goods and not TO
keep patients out Of the tizzy- why wards
where the purple bugs walk with legs down
ward on the ceilings. It's a cinch that the
dips wont get together TO put pansies on
the sod I'm lying under.
"One of the dips who wasn't 30 hesitating
by several road-wagon records as the one
I've been telling about came rompinyg in
one afternoon last week. | knew him.
He's chief clerk for big brokerage house.
and he mixes war medicine about once
every six months. always winding UP in a
cute little softly-papered room by himself,
with muscular male nurse lowering around
his hammock
when he came Looping through the swing
doors, breathless and painting. knew that
he was due again. and knew there was no
use in saying anything to him. either. He
made the bar in two jumps.
Gimme" he said, hoarsely, to the head
barkeep.
SURE said the head barkeep. but
Blast 1t, anything. 40 it's quick" said
the hurry-up-and-get- "a bun dip. 'Jiggle
me mp an absinthe frappe In a hurry, will
you?'
"You see. he had his mind all made up
before he started for this palace where
he always slides of the aqua vehicle-and
so he busted for here as soon as he got out
of his office. sos he wouldn't have chance
TO think 1t over. The rum banker was
burning such holes In him that he couldn't
have stopped to take think about it if he'd
wanted to-. saw him with his shoes poked
out of n hanson cab front uptown last
night, and he's about ready for his cunning
title private insect pavilion now.
Blu. most Of the dips. before they connect
with the first one. are all up on a kite about
it. even when they get to within eight feet
of the place where the goods for which
they hanl,er are resting. The most un-
decided one Of the lot that I'd capped n
lamp on fora long while zephyred in late
one afternoon in March
He was big, good-natured looking chap
Of forty or 40, but for all that ! could sec
that the booze-hank was strong upon him.
Got any dicc?' Re inquired OF me and
handed him over the box.
"Hc shook poker dice with himself for
four or five passes, and lost all Of them.
which caused him to look displeased. He
wanted the dice to tell him that he could
call for his'n In the way OF the wet stuff
but the dice were on the side Of his wife
and family.
Got q pack Of cardsf' hs asked me