The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-04

there was in that corner a funnel shaped
cavity, showing where the sand had run out.
And this driver got down and fastened his
tailboard, and then he drove on"
The tailboard stories seem to be kline o.
peterin' out" said the fourth man, and I
guess I'd better tell something different:
Driver going along Battery place with a
big double truck loaded with something in
packing cases piled up very high, and going
under the elevated road where it crosses
pretty low there-the top case was caught
by one of the beams and raked of the load,
and when it fell and split open it scattered
around about it four dozen straw hats.
That's all. don't pretend this is much
of a story, but still it did look sort of funny
to see all those straw hats lying around
there on the ground SO early in the spring"
I'll tell you something a little different
still, the fifth man said. Il saw going up
West street yesterday a truckload of barrels
OF whiskey.
Always a jam in West street, you know,
greatest street in New York for Jams, and in
a minute this driver with the truckload Of
whiskey was held up in a crush. Driver
as soon as he could, but not quite quick
enough, and the pole of his truck brought up
against one of those barrels of whiskey,
not so very hard, either, but somehow so
that ii started a stave in this barrel and made
a c%revice, through which a little thin narrow
jet OF whiskey Spurted out.
Man with the whiskey couldn't move:
couldn't anybody back of him or aroun him
move, and there was that little whiskey jet
coming steadily out of the barrel, and men
began to drop down from trucks around or
come over to it from the sidewalk and hold
their hands under the little cascade of
whiskey and fill their palms with it and then
drink.
There was n newsboy walking along the
side walk and he slung his kit over his shoul-
! der and Pl mo ont and tried f0 ger GOmp
but one of the men pushed him away and
wouldn't let him get any, saying to him;
good for boys
Very true" said the ,h and last man
a leaky hogshead of molasses.
when ! saw this driver with the leaky
hogshead he was going along a block up
town with that molasses running down the
floor of the truck and running of the tail
OF it in a little steady stream. Asmall boy
that discovered it capered out and held
his finger in the molasses, and then put it
up to his mouth and licked it.
1.-TWO more small boys ran out with
thrown away milk cans and held them I'M
der the stream, taking turns, and a trampy
looking man that was walking along the
block got an empty tomato can out OF q
garbage box and held that under 1t. And
along about the middle OF the block a v woman
who had been working in a basement
and who saw the truck going by and saw
what was going on came out with a dishpan.
When she held this under the stream,
Madam says the tramp, very politely,
we are not doing a wholesale business here;
strictly retail
But she didn't pay any attention to him
She got about a quarter OF a dishpan OF
molasses before she turned away. And
the last / saw of the truck was when it
turned a corner, with that little stream Of
molasses still trickling down from it,"
'Ye-es, " said the coal story man.. And
it's still trickling, you think, and
unless by this time, maybe, the hogshead
is empty"
And with that-they had all finished eat
ing by this ~time-they all got up together
and forgot their story tellin and went
back TO work.