The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-05

but before I could get that mar set down.
with a Beg pardon, madam he bounces
into the bathroom and there be washed his
face and oombed his hair and actually o
sns to to oi SsIts sis neE ! ns ans r opssia pep 5sr
beaks. When he oome In all he ssid was,
Y was really 90 nanty, don't you know
and I never said . word, and Popper said,
'Wil you have meat cpd potatoesP which
I'm here to state he did.
~i .S slhi s the nis e e. %R'SNR orshw rsBpss y xsas
and found out Il wasn't no Irish dream
about his having work; and the long and
short Of It was that man etayed at Our house
eating and sleeping. and my Pepper peid
and ans G paid Tor him him a s{ hair cut and to get shaved
svs wss sorts sorter liz this: After we Kept him
a week we both Of US really liked him, and
he didn't havea cent. and II we'd turned him
and aIUfi Il VIZ We held held onto him til after pay day.
why Pepper could make him cough up.
He was soeiably inclined ana always
seemed real pleased to talk. ]. never In
ail my life seen man, woman. child. Or
f did. th as r sssSsd h T. q; !. s' ssss .li l!' h'
gosh, II I liked water that we'll I'd try to
get a Job to stand under that metal um-
brella with. that little necked baby In
On Gar me al fs shs anne ana "a and Z f L tho W y 1t i l was
that dirty I'd ohug, myself in the weeks
wash, get sent to the laundry and come
back With the rough dry clothes -.
YES ohimed In bis wife, b never set
hands through six waters, AND Il Pepper
had "a planked down the cash I do believe
that guy would a. shaved every day. He
always farsked' II he could go n the bawth'
and be called washing himself Tubing
nnd h0r 4 o ne q sG1Sea na sS'r Z Elk RisH With M .
the way he did.
aHe come home every night as regular
IS Pepper did, never had a. breath on him,
didn't smoke, and I heard him use q
telling US something he'd say Ell Gad,''
but that nobody could call strong; and
look at the way my Pepper filings language.
/ liked to hear bin talk, myself. and 20
did Popper-didn't you dearis2' Pepper
He was a cussln'. queer sort Of chap,
that guy was. Curious thing, he never
would stay in the house alone. II the Kid
and me went out he took his lid and went
somewherss and stayed tl we got back
he did a thing that may be etiquette In
England but Il amt etiquette over here
that I know OF. II ever We had company
he'd 60 In his room, slick up apd o1pe
you'd a. thought It was his company
and his house, and yet he didn't seem to
be butting In not at all. He was quiet and
we'll behaved, didn't pretend to be nothing
and yet always had something to say.
1T knocked me OF the Christmas tree the
first time he done It. ! looked at the Kid
and she looked ct ma, but that dad burn
son Of q teacup Just talked on. I've seen
queer dghts In old Chicago, but for a plum
curiosity that Englisher topk the cakei
His breeches, Kidd you remember them
breeches OF hist They was "a Wide at the
bottom as they wa at the top-it bangs
me how he knew which end Of 'em to get
EAto and It wouldn't a. nasde Q bit OF differ.
enoe in the way they looked
. yes broke In his wife, hut they were
rood cloth, and his underwear was silk,
and his pajsmas-he didn't hsve but one
pair-were Just swell. bet they cost him
tan dollars II they cost him q CENT
Il bet they didn't cost Q oent-not him.
he mighty quick noticed the difference
between his pants and the other mems, and
borrowed money from Pepper to get 'em
fixed.
my m and Hat-Hat's my hest
friend-hdded me all the time about my
star boarder and said we'd wake up some
morning dead, but we never. One day
afeer he had been here four weeks, why he
told my Pepper that his wife was. coming
Yea. siri That she would bring soms
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