New-York tribune., 1907-02-24

~ side. you l,now-1Ises the
kind you buy at the store
P when he's got It; and when
DEN Di'ninsa he amt got II, he wants
money.
s'pose if / was wise I'd scratched Snicll off my
list long ago; but KNOWN him IS one OF the lux
urIes I've kept up. You know how it IS with them
old time friends you've kind Of outgrown but hate
% chuck in the dscards even when they work their
touch As reg lar rent bills
But SnicS and me played on the same block when
kids, and there time when | looked
for Snck 10 be boostin' me- stead OF me boostin'
MN Hes one OF the neaT-srlarts that you re
always eXpectln' 10 make record but that never
does Bright lookin' boy, neat dresser, and all
that. but never stickin 70 thing long enough
make good. You've seen EN-.
Hello, Snickl" says /, as he levels the single
barrel on me. | see you've pulled down the shade
again. What's happened to that memorial window
OF yours this timeE"
Same old thing" says he. It's in at Simpsons
for ive, and bookies got the five
And now you want - negotiate d second mort
gage, eht" says l.
That was the case. He tells me his newest job
Is handn the Josh horn o the front end Of one Of
these Rube wagons. and Just because the folks from
heolul< and Painted Post said that lookin at the
patch took their minds off seem the skyscrapers,
The boss told him he have to chuck it or get the run
He wOudnt I come across with a five IN advance,
either" says Snick. How's that for the granite
Its ike other tales of woe I've heard you tell.
SAYS l. and generally they could be traced TO your
5ackn three kings, or gettin inside tip on some
beanery skate"
hats right, says ne, but never again ! We
quit the spoTtin' life for good. Just the same. if
don't show up on the wagon for the leven o'clock
trip Fl be turned loose. If you don't believe 1t,
Shorty, III"
All, don't 90 calm any notary publics," says |.
Here's the TO take up that ticket. But say,
SnicIt; how many times do l have to buy out that
eye before L get equity in it?
It's yours now; honest. 1t IS" says he. " If
you say 50, III write out bill OF sale
No" says l, your word goes. Do you
He lid he did
Thanks" says 1. Il always have thought
that me eye, and I'm proud to own 1t. q
So long, Snick."
There's ore good thing about Snck Buffers: Y
after he's made his touch he knows enough to
fade; don't hang round and rub 1t IN, or give you
a chance to wish you hadn't been 50 easy. It's
touch and 60 with him, and before d got out
the last Of my remarks he his way.
It wa mt rnore'n half josh, though, that | was
givln' him about that phony pane Of his 1t was
a work Of art. one of the bright blue kind. As
general thing you always spot bought eye
as far as you can see IT, they're set and starry
But Snick got his when he was young and, ben
a cute kid he had learned how to it 50 well
that most folks never knew the difference He II
could do about everything but with It ll
First off he'd trained it to keep pace with the k
other, rnovin' em together, ike they was nat IL
ural; but whenever he wanted 10 he could make Ilk
the glass one stand still and let the other i
around. He always did that on Friday after ~
moons when he got up to speak pieces IN the
grammar school. And it trick at all for
him 10 looI, wall eyed one minute, cross eyed the
next, and then straighten EN- out with a jerk OF
MS head Maybe if il hadn't been for that eye of
Snicks I'd have got further'n the eighth grade.
His star performance, though. was when he did Z
a Juggin' act. keepin' three potatoes IN the arr
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