Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-04-27
EASIER THAN PAYING

called Young Man-A iraid-Of-Bis-L
lady, and that's no fortlssimo hageolet
fantastic In f.
For the month was up-it had eX-
pired that is-and he wasn't there, nor
anywhere near 1t, with the 30 bucks for
his board and keep
The board and keep money was paya-
Bile semi-monthly in installments of $40,
but, two weeks before, Dontdig had sent
up the long moan.
Consequently It was now up to him 10
arrive at the front With the entire
months amount
He lay in bed listening to the milk
wagon crunching over the cold, cold
snow, and he figured how different
things might be had that pinhead not
held four miserable paltry deuces
against his king-full the night before.
Il wish could think out convincing
sparkling new one to push at her, he re-
hected dismally, as he pulled the bed
coverings up around his throbbing tenn
pies.
Il couldn't say was walking through
Lafayette square and got held up by
four out-of-work brigands from st.
Asaph-n-no. that's kind O. diaphonous,
and don't believe could get by with 1t.
Might say the disbursing officer of
the bureau forgot TO show up yesterday
to pay the hands OFF; but-er--I guess
that's fishy-sounding too, and these
Washington landladies must have had
that ladled out to EN- lot o. times be-
fore.
There's possibility that could say
/ lost Il, but It seems to me I passed her
that once before, a couple of years ago.
II fear me that she'd hand me the nay
nay-C Claudio if told her that I'd handed
my entire half months wages to a poor
woman who was perishing for the need
of an ermine scarf,
She'll be banging on the door in just
about eight minutes from now. | guess
I'm not in bad or nothin'."
Whereupon he turned over on the
other side and tried to go to sleepso that
he could dream that he had placed $50
on a 100 to / shot in handbook and that
the long one had walked In.
He couldn't get 70 sleep again, how
ever, so he jumped out Of bed and started
to dress. He had progressed as far as
the donning of his vest when there was
a short, sharp, business-like rap on his
door.
"Oh-ah-come in, dol" sung out the
young man, cheerily.
The landlady came In. Her face was
like marked-down bottle of mustard
chow-chow
Mr., Dontdig," she began, in tone
of such intense acidity that he involun-
tarily picked up his box of dyspepsia
tablets, seeing that you were not home
to dinner last night-that, indeed, you
did not get home until almost daylight
this morning. have reached the con-
clusion that you no longer care to occu-
by this"
"Oh, by the way, I'm glad you came
up" he broke in, picking up nail file
and beginning operations with it with
the insouciance of a leading Juvenile.
The little matter of the-er--Mrs. Cut
rations, wanted to see you about a mat
ter You've heard of Representative
Smokehouse, of course-member from
my district, you know. Well, l was out
with him last night and saw him off on
little trip he's making back home, and
he told me that he was tired of his board
ing house and was going to make a
change / recalled then, just in time,
that that superb second-story front of
yours happened to be vacant, and told
him about it, and what a really swell ta-
BILE you set, and so on. He'll be back in
about ten days, and I'm going to bring
him up to see you, and il don't land
him in your second-story front room,
why, theren be something in Denmark
that'll need fumigating"
The landladys sour frontispiece had
like plate of tea biscuits
before a harvest hired man.
Now, that was what / call real
on your part, Mr.. Dontdig,"
she said, amiably, land I'm sure hope
your member will like"
"Oh, he'll like it all right, interrupted
the young man, airily. He likes any
old thing want him to like, and inside
of ten days he'll be installed in that
room or Pm Hollander."
Here the young man smiled deprecat-
ingly as he adjusted his cuffs.
Hell be deuced lucky to get that
room, too" he went on. Hes the luck
lest man ever knew, anyhow. He was
just lucky enough to win my two weeks
pay in a little game we had before he
went away last night. He tried to give
the money back to me, of course, but I'm
not doing the baby act, and wouldn't
let him, although he's got money to in
cinerate. So. with reference to that lit
lie account of ours Mrs. Cutrations, I'll
have to ask you to wait till next pay
lay, when Tll-"
"Oh, that will be all right" replied the
landlady, beaming, making for the door.
IN just have that second-story front
fixed up before your member returns.
and"
Eyes, please do that said Dontdig,
and the landlady went out.
He made grimace at himself in the
glass.
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