The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-21
IMAGINATION OF THEs
| TATTOOED MAN.
Battle of the Dragon and the Lion
on altman Louvre in a
Dime Museum.

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on altman Louvre in a
Dime Museum.
NO mora tattooed men for minef' said
the dime museum manager. 4They make
good enough attractions It amt that.
tie tho pesly srt1sticuess Of their terppera-
meats. T6o much Imagination. 1t makes
EN- hard % handle.
why, + had tho finest tattooed man in
the business, and just as I'd doomed him
UP and got him on paying basis he has
70 worry himself into the hospital.
you've surely heard OF him If you fol-
low TIE fine srta at all. The Human Louvre
was bis stage alias. discovered him
myself.
'outside Of the finest bunch Of needle
and ink skstches that artist ever put On
cua6le, that guy had a chest expansion that
needed an elastic skin to hold It all.
and he used chat same expansion to
good eject In exhibiting the two chef
d'nuVres that adorned his manly chest.
'One OF these masterpieces was mag
nihcent specimen Of Chinese dragon in red,
yellow and blue; the other, splendid red,
blue and green South African lion, ram.
pant and rcaTtn'.
@The two were pictured facing each other
with their heads about four inches apart,
BY sharply expandin' and contractin' his
CHEST the Human Louvre could give tho
dragon and lion the appearance Of sprngin'
at each other In a way that inspired our
patrons with min gled anxiety, awe and
admiration 'f2
Marvellous, you say2 Never anything
like 1t. But just as the worlds greatest
savants, philosophers and litterateurs were
about to take notice, Daisy the Fat Lady
had to come along and butt in.
Nov, what under the sun an art anna
tour like the Human Louvre ever saw Ia
Daisy the Fat Lady beats me. She was OF
a shallow, superficial nature incapable OF
appfeciatin' art in any form. and she had
q figure that took ffty-seven seconds to
pass given point.
"I3tit fall In love with her he did. She,
az might be expected, took violent fancy
to the glass eater, shiftless, good for
nothing sort Of cuss.
well, that started the Human Louvre
on his downward course. He took to
moonin and sullin until he actually began
to worry himself thin.
he grew more peaked and tired lookin'
every day until finally at the end Of the
week he came to me end said:
| kO99, N In u Duo way.
sDb, never mind Daisy says I; enoour-
agin like. You're too good for her any
way
...Tain't Daisy. says he. Tn gettin'
50 darn thin that
Forget IT,, says I. What II you are
falln' OF bit3 Look at the Twin skele-
ton, he's happy
It amt the gettin thin 80 much; boss.
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dragon and the lion on my chest latelyp
They used to be a good four inches apart
but I've been losin' flesh 80 that there's
only two inches between EN- now.
Nov, It may be just imagination but
somehow Il seems to me that the dragons
fang - c,tfied tighter and that the lions
mouth. 4. open Just little wider than it
II know they re only pictures and all
that; hut can't help worryin' good deal
about Il Just the same. Supposin' should
got 60 awful thin that them beasts would
n on Of 9Te ab boss a sos sfs 70
when e.. thintin about It in the middle
OF tie night Il just strings cold sweat beads
ali up and down my backbone
Nov what DO yon tnink OF tnas fGr ,o ths
him to take cod liver oil and to drink plenty
Of az and that before he knew it he would
have % much chest that that lion and
CAtneee dragon would be baSkin n Into 9o each
But he kept right on wor1yin' and worry
in and III splte Of the cod liver oil and ale
he worried himself 80 thin hat the week
followin', when he took his seat on the plat
form, there was hardly quarter OF an inch
space between the dragons head and the
All durin' the lectures that day he seemed
to be actin strangely Every once in 9
while he start suddenly as though terrlhed
A. plnnca
Next mornin' he didn't show up.
turned the lecturin' over to my assistans
and went to zee him He was SICK ar ped
difficulty. His landlady was sittin' at the
bedside. -,
He complained of sharp pains in his
chest early this mornin' she told me:
you're Coin' to be with him few minutes
I'll 60 down and snatch bite to eat
when she had gone the poor old Human
Louvre beokoned to me to come close.
Say he said in a hoarse, whisper, 'doo
you think you d have sharp pains If you had
such a rough house on your chest?.
with a sickly smile he ,nbuttoned his
nightshirt and barred his chest.
II gave one look and drew back aghast'.
'The lion had the dragons head in its
mouth and-it may have been due to the
patients labored breathin but it GER
tainly seemed a. II that ion was slowly
chewn' up that dragon. =.
:" Pneumonia Maybe. But whatever 10
il they'll have to keep his mind from. wor-
ryin' and fatten him up enough to pull
them beasts apart again. If they don't that
lion will get that Chinese dragon and tho
poor old Human Louvre with it,.
what became of Daisy the Fat Lady,
Oh, She married the glass eater. But they
hadn't been housekeepin' three days before
he kicked OH her cookin' and ate up her
ruby necklace and nibbled most Of the set
good and right, too
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