The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-17
REVENGE or THE FOUR

There was a fervor in his speech. and an intense
Iook IN his face that it is to be feared the
niue thlng had never been favored with The Under
World makes love more less, does the Upper
in earnest when it makes money
bod CAST that SQUIRT of wheel anyhow. Soy.
You, behind there, when gOn' TO win? You got
hye O my dollars, an 1 amt onct'
Eady's voice was the in Ohio the slide
He better tool than stall" as the TTpper
World knew TO its sorrow but tools have no func-
ton IN suTe-thlng games and he was doing his best
Roll er again. I'll chance another: make or break
win or bust The old woman II dress me down. but
shucks! hard words don't lower the price eggs
time: the little pa iaEered ezzasperatineI, near 4b
blanks; Mr. Rem made a slight movement with his
foot the pea moved slowly toward the winning col
ors. The wheel stopped.
Here's your money, sir See if it's right before
you leave; ten hves an three tens Make room for
the pest sixteen TO one, gentemen-if you choose
the right colors. A mere charity I'm offern' you.
let the grass grow on your i7dz ~; CfrrI 5 eo
but once year. Don't push there Take you time.
tell you! You two fellows there in front Stop YOUR
Mr. Burras Mr.. Frood were leading the inno-
wait be led: they jostIed Eady aside before
made number OF turns by the time he broke through
the surging mob and made his way rear to
time" such the four celebrities had prayed for
The Hoosier pineth for eddication," Eady said
eager to learn by experience Dollars in silver and
paper were thrust into Mr. Renn's hands with a
rapdity which at times came very making him
grumbling among the losers, but faulty infinite
and inexhaustibe in the ranks behind the first,
the people in the elbOwed front them
aside their eloquent Rem. Six
teen in exchange for and every convinced
Vile did not come to its senses till few minutes be-
Then there were remarks more militant than con-
soling. Mob emf" cried indignant citizen who
had sowed dollars and reaDed wisdom and seornad t
The life of q celebrity is hard. There even
bers of the crowd who suggested and feathers.
But they reckoned without the Powers That Rule
Clear the way, here commanded the chief Of
police, at the head of imposing squad in
for the day No erOwdng-" The chief received 10
per cent of the proceeds
chorus.
And the chief whisked them aside
But Shief," screamed little German, I want
mein money back 1 loose two dollar. Dose fellows
IS sek 5oKa V o 70 ten YOU ora excited Take
around the ring with the baby elephant"
Bel Colt. 1 win do holdings Of de knt.
init n1it,i 9le?s
We're there to see IT, but ten who had lost heavily
agreed to accompany the German to the mayors Of
majority them were voters and mayor was
amenabIe to reason when reason took the form Of
DO you mean to say that they are running skin
games gambling-on the show grounds asked the
initiated mayor.
"Bei Colt dat's vat I tell you. Won man, he tell
I lose mein two dollar Ven beepIes lose money dot
is gampling. in Chermanny, in Amerika. bel Colt,
@Gentlernen, you surprise me. viii see that those
i
my attention to matter. I have thank you
the OF the city of CornviIIe. Good afternoon.
that every official who is interested in good gov
The afternoon entertainment of the Great and
Only drawing 70 its close The chariots
tearing around big ring last lap spec
tators were getting ready to leave performers
for the concert after the show" were peeking
through the curtains Of their dressing rooms to
how many had been persuaded to wait for them Edo
their stunts" The four celebrities and the gentle
in the full-jeweed regimentals Of sport-the
special officer" of the Great and Only'-were in
THE chief says the mayor has ordered the games
shut down., said the special officer Told me to tell
another turn. It's all off,
But we amt even got our fxin money back yet
objected Mr.. BUrras- wen be losers if we have
quit now He threw accent of really moral in
Losers in a pigs eye." exclaimed Mr.. Frood IF
officer dig in the ribs with his thumbve'u get our
dough back ten times over. How much commission
Seem how things runnin' I can't risk it under
win you square the hoHers?"
IF they don't holer too loud
1t was the crowd that was done" Mr. Eady
graciously consented to resume his Old role of tool
pockets song:
are three stalls.
Three jolly old stalls
We live like royal Turks;
We're the dip to win chuck
% with the works!
The band began to play, the flap Of the main en-
trance the big tent thrown open, the crowd
rushed out and the @our celebrities started Ito DO
business.
So long COnville lasts and "reminiscences
permissible the story the
will be told and retOld- 1t was revenge which has
become classic, even in blase gun circles As Mr..
Frood graphically put it. The crowd was simply
ripped open" When it had dispersed went
the grounds to clean FOR the rush and de-
parture the evening. the "weeded feathers" filed
TO Overlooking a bUshel basket The COTnville public
prints of the days issue estimated that $1,000
changed hands during the short space of time that
four active. There "beedng' galore.
but the Great and Only" folded tent and stole
away the night and the special officer squared
''hollers-'
The life in slide a height The
three ~darkies" stunning their guitars
vociforating in chorus. The fun of smoke,
the patrolman of the beat getting his eye
opener at back DOOR and the Salvation Army
lassie in full uniform ostentatiously vending
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