The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-16
CPOKELEYS LOST
y GREASE REMOVER
Lapse From Strict Honesty That
Made Seven Men Sleep
In the Parks.
Said the pedler:

How'd get into this line1 1t was
epokeley done it, and I've been selling
things from door to door ever since, try
Ing to strike such run Of luck again.
there was seven of us in the boarding
house that wasn't working. That was
thirty-five a week that the landlady was
losing, and her only hope was we wouldn't
sat 80 much, seeing we wasn't exercising.
We're up in Dave Boorum's room, say
ing tell with work, and there ought to be
some easy grating around somewheres.
That's where Spokeley butts in.
He amt one Of us, but Is in the room
and is much shocked at our talk Of graft
ing He works in a store and is taking a
week of, because he wants to do some
experimenting in chemistry.
Grating don't pay! says this serious
spokeley, with his bald head and the spe cs
Of him. II you have the goods you can
always find a market for it; il you cheat
anybody that's a customer he won't come
back to you.
Go on says Stiff Looney. and he tells
how he done Western saloon keeper out
Of SIC.
.Spokeey is scandalized at this and says
again that honesty Is the best graft, but
you can see this loose talk has him fas-
cinated him serious and studious all his
life Some one else comes out with a story
that would land him in Jail did any Of us
write to the parties he mentioned. and
Spokeley is shaking his head over such
deviations from the straight and narrow.
Just the same, you can see how inter-
ested he Is, and he is neglecting his expert
ments while the rest Of us is saying honesty
be blame and we'll be grafters.
I guess I'll go taking something out
In the streets says Dave Boorum i
must get hold Of some good article. knife
sharpener or grease remover
What says Spokeley. 'You would
take grease remover out2 Why, have a
say It ever removed any grease, but it's
Is good as any grease remover ever run
across
81 can sell It for IS cents the bottle,
says Boorum. How much would 1t cost
you to put 1t upl'
Counting bottles and corks and printed
labels and the ingredients 1t would come
to seven cents says Spokeley.
There's one chemical in 1t comes pretty
expensive and there's another comes most
- high, but what's the matter with all OF
you taking out bottles, which Is better than
hanging arora nd here? Pay me ten bottle
and sell for fifteen, and every twenty you
sell there's dollar for you
Sounds all right says Boorum, but
I'm queer about that sort Of thing. II l
60 alone I amt got the nerve to explore
from stoop to stoop-can't face folks when
I'm alone
Like me- says Jimrne Wilkes. i
done that once with stove polish and didn't
have the nerve to 60 from door to door till
had lad named Wishonberry waiting
outside for me and saying he dass me to &C
In that house or that one. must have a
side partner with me-
Go ahead, Spokeley" says one OF us
Put up the goods, and the hull seven OF us
viii go around together disposing of it.
And it amt ten minutes later Spokeley
running out for bottles and corks and
ordering labels that reads: Alexander
epokeley, Manufacturing Chemist, Light
ming Grease mover
Aw. he couldn't remove the grease that