New-York tribune., 1906-04-29
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two rounds more you're welcome to win ont
1t worth the money
And Just as / gets this notion in nv nut
he cuts loose with a bunch of rapid-fire labs
that had wonderin' where I'd be if one
landed Just right. | amt got ii mapped out
yet Just how II happened, for about tnen the
ladies lets go lot OF squeals; but remembers
stoppln' a taCer that showed me pir-wheels, an
then quits fancy boXin'.
We roughln 1t all over the ring, and
Swiftly an the Gorilla yellin' things an
SlatteTY was yellIn back al them and the
musS was as pretty as any ten-dollar-a-head
crowd ever paid TO see, when all Of a sudden
arvlS misses a swing, and | throws all | had
into upper cut. 1t connected with MS
chin dimple like a hammer on a nut The
next things | knows Swiftly has the elbow-lock
on me from behind and Mike IS standin over
Mr.. Jarvis maxim the count.
Well. there Wa n I anv Cheerin' and shoutin'
didn't have to shake hands with anv crazy
bunch. or be toted off TO the dressin room
on their shoulders When | gets so | can
look straight | sees mother keeled over in her
char. and sister fannin her with the chocolate
box. And say, telt like lead quarter. Next
takes a squint at Lady Evelyn. She was
standIn up as stiff a tin soldier on parade
with her eyes snappin and her fingers clinched.
lust one Of them looks was enough for me
gets busy with = pail, and goes to work on
Jarvis. He was clean out, OF course, but
reStin as easy as a baby. We was bringin' him
round all right, when | feels push that shoves
me to one side, and in rushes Lady EVELYN.
She gets one arm under his neck lust as he
opens his eyes with that kind of What s the
matter now" way they has OF comm back.
Course, it don't last long that why feein
and there ain I any hurt to speak of afterward
but ! reckon Lady Evelyn don't know much
about knOck-outs The way she hugs him up
You d thought he d been half killed. We was all
iookin foolish and useless guess, when the
lady turns TO me and snaps out
Brute hope you re satisfied
Say, 1t wouldn't have been worse If d been
caught robbin' a poor box. =" Thank VI u,
ma am, >" says |, and fades into the background.
Go away, all Of YOU says she.
SO Swiftly and the other two comes taggn
along behind, and we had little reunion in
the dressin room.
"On the dead, now" says Slattery, what
was the foul2'
Who's clai1nin' fouls says Swiftly, bristln
Why, the lady gives it to Shorty straight,
says he.
All go dream about it," says Swiftly.
" She don't know foul from body waop.
See here" says !, you can talk all that
over while you re hoofin' it back to the station
and you're due to be on your way in just
four minutes by the clock; so chuck it :"
Il amt heard no step-lively call" says
Slattery. " Besides, likes the place"
Well, 1t don't like you" says |. Mr..
Jarvis and me have had enough of your rough
house society to last a time and half. Now
bunky-doodlel"
They was a sore-head trio for fair, after
that; but when I'd paid EN- off, with fiver
extra for luck, they drops out of a window
onto the lawn and pixies off like squad of
jail-breakers. / was some easier IN my mind
then, but ! wa mt joyful, at that.
You see, Mr.. Jarvis had treated me SO
white and he was such nice, decent chap,
that was feelin' mighty cut up about givin'
him the quick exit right before the girl he
gone on. Sure, he'd played for it; but | could
see ] shouldn't have done it. knOck-Outs ain
in nv line any more anyway; but TO spring
one right before women folks, and in a swell
ioint like Blenmont-say, 1t made feel
like a last years straw hat on the first OF June.
Shorty" SAYS |, you're a throw-baCk-
You better quit travelin' with real gents, and
commence eatin' with your knife again. Here's
Mr. Jarvis gets you to help him out in little
society affair, and you Overdoes II so bad he
can't square himself in a hundred years.
Back to the junction for yours"
Well. was that grouchy | wouldn't look at
myself in the glass. But rubs down and gets
into nv Rialto wardrobe that I'd brought
along in a suitcase. Then waits for Jarvis.
Oh | didn't want to see him, but II was up
to me to say my little piece.
1t was near an hour before he shows up,
wearin' his bathrobe, an loOkin' as gay as
flower-shop window.