Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-01
TALKED SOME HIMSELF

The two men swung on board the open
car at the same time and slid into seats
alongside each other. One Of them had a
fine. osteptatious coat OF tan. and the other
didn't. They recognized each other before
the car started going again.
why. hello. there. neighbor!' exclaimed
the man with the coat Of tan. III ware
you? just got back from my vacation last
night. Say, had the bufliest-e''
Well" put in the tanless man. we've
had pretty warm and gummy time Of 1t
here in Washington. Never knew quite
such "A damp summer. Everything sticky.
doors all warped, everything gummed to-
gether. and
'Thasso?" poked In the tanned man, OBJ
viously anxious to get going with his narra-
ton of his summer trip. well, we had
some pretty hot weather where was. too.
but: all the same. had the finest-''
Some Of the nights back here. though.
cooled of fairly well,s interjected the tan
less man. But 1t was pretty hard sleddin'
TO get to sleep the most Of the time. had
to get-up in the middle of the night several
times to cool my wrists before could get
to sleep again, and even then"
"uh-hnh." stuck in the tanned man.
Wen. SIR, talk about your trout fishing,
you wouldn't believe
They say, butted in the tanless man
right there, that the fishing In the upper
Potomac has been pretty fine this summer.
though haven't tried 1t myself. I went up
there last May, but the herring were run
ming at that time. and there was nothing
doing with any other kind Of fish. Several
fellows that I've talked with. though, havc
caught some fine messes OF bass up above
Great Falls, and they"
But" thrust in the tanned man, breath
lessly. this Trout fishing was Just like
fighting grizzly bears, honest, because they
We're SO savage and tightly that"
Talking about fights" obtruded the tan
less man, what dye think of that Cans
Nelson affair? I hear some Of my sporty
friends say that they think it'll be a fake;
but, somehow or another, I've got kind OF
a bunch that those two pugsll feel that
they've got to give 'em a fight out there in
Nevada, for If they try any taking out
there there's bound to be all kinds Of a
rough house right at the ringside, and II
those mining fellows ever get to pulling
guns, why"
Talking about guns" persisted the tan
ned man. I'VE had bit of shooting-on the
dead quiet, you know, for it was the closed
season. OF course-that nd just have made
YOU
Some of the pitchers connected with the
Washington club have been more than
shooting EN- over. by the way. during your
absence, as maybe you've heard" put in
the tanless man. Mean to say you didn't
follow the games at all while you were
away? Well, sir, there's been some ball
playing around this neck of the woods.
take it from me. Why, after the Chicagos
had won nineteen straight games they came
along here, thinking we were going to be
easy meat for 'em to break the record and
win twenty straight, but they were dream
ing, that's all-dreaming. 1t was a double
header that day, and-say, dye mean to
say you didn't read about it? Why, we
cleaned 'em up twice, just as slick as a
whistle. Patten pitched one Of the games
and Smith and Hughes the other, and, say.
it was like taking candy from child, both
nd fhav fbo htfno oh nf
crustaceans, those White Sox. you ever
saw. and"
"Thasso?" vaguely put in the tanned
man, certain light of evaporation begin
ming to appear in his eye. well. about
that bit Of shooting 1 started to tell you
about-you know that country where was
Is full of all kinds Of game. but at this
time Of the year. of course, the game
laws
well, talking about game" chuckled the
tanless one right there 81 guess there
wasn't chance for some big game shooters
over in Virginia the other day. Didn't read
wonder you wouldn't get the news while
you're away. Well, sir, whole flock Of
elephants got loose from some show or
other over there, and they spread 'emselves
all over the state Of Virginia, and the whole
country down that way was terrorized, and
the people the elephants belonged to had
the deuce and all to round 'em up, but
finally some regular elephant handlers
drifted along. and they got 'em corraled
"Ye-eh." impatiently stuck In the tanned
man, "but just wait a minute and I'll tell
you few of the bully things that hap
pened to me on my vacation trip. We were
camping out you know, and
Talking about camping out" butted in
the tanlesS man once more several OF my
horse race playing friends tell me that
everybody'lI be camping out that doesn't
| play this colt Peter Pan to win the Futu-
rity, and I've got kind of sneaky notion
that I'll just stick little piece of change
| on that one. for the lead-pipe tips out that
| he's going to just walk home in the big
| race. and
See here, neighbor." began the tanned
man, I'm trying to tell you about some OF
the fine times had on this"
well. do-dO, old man-here's where I get
| off," said the tanless man just at that point.
and he swung Off.
Another one Of 'em tagged" triumph
antly muttered the tanless man to himself
as he trudged down the street to his Office.
| There's only one way to stop these chin
! ners that want to tell you all about the
| bully times they had on their summer va
| cations, and that way Is to beat them to 1t.
| If any of those just-back ducks thinks he's
going to herd me up into a corner and
pour a hogshead or 50 Of that what-a-
| great-time-I-ha on-my-vacation over-het
| steam into my system. he's got to know
| how to talk a heap faster than I can, and
| then some, that's all I've got to say!" and
| the tanless man, who spent his vacation In
| little old Washington because he wanted
| to. passed into his Office building with a
| wide grin on his scanned and shrewd coun-
| tenance.