The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-13
HUMAN HT.TAT-TOO ne Latest Craxe of the Impractical Peeson and the Placid PersoA.
BY c. 6. PARrRIDGE.

The Person With A Political Past had not paid v,ntich attention to the revival of the old pastime until he called up No. II and asked the result at New Orleans.
 Tattoo or baseballr was the startling inquiry that came from the other end of the wire
 The Person With A Political Past hung up the receiver with an expves- sive jolt and walked out into the street Joking for The Placid Person and The Impractical Person. He found them standing at a dry-goods box upon which they had penciled a Tit-Tat-T Too board When he approached each of them placed finger to lips, to command si- lence. The Person With A Political Past stared, scorned silently, then snifed; proverbially he did not scoff but remained to pray. He became in terested in the problem his friends were trying to work sut. He was actually about to make . suggestion when The Impractical Person solved the problem. All three sighed with genuine satisfaction. (
 T had begun to believe there was no way for white to ~in." remarked The Placid Person. Some of the problems published in the Tit-Tat-Too magazines are very pretty studies. This is the best I have seen. There is
 
 placing of a cross at Tat for white and again at Too 1, after black has moved Tit 2. is the key"
 My dear Placidity," remarked The Impractical Person, The Person With Political Past comes most bpportune- ly.- He can and, I am sure"---here The Impractical Person bowed very Vra- ciously indeed-"wiil help us in our plan to show The Person Who Period ically Appears at Polite Parties who's who, personal Identification that has since the bizarre and saline indi- vidualism of Lots wife been a delight full diversion. We shell let Politics help us."
 The conspirators whispered together and parted, The Person With A Po- litical Past going one way and the two others to the office of The Person Who Periodically Appears At Polite Parties, who was carefully and sum ningly cajoled into a lady-grog phop. They gave him some lady-grog and then, when that had been drunk, skill 1uIIy enticed him to the candy counter.
 ihe Placid Person was on one side and The Impractical Person on the other so that escape was impossible when, at the psychological moment, The Impractical Person ventrilooutzed out Of The Person Who Periodically Appears At Polite Parties the puerile. plamt1Ve request.
 Please, Mister. may I have a nickel's worth of bird-eggs in a paper valise with a ribbon handlea"
 Then The Impractical Person turned the victim around face to face with The Pretty Person, who had been fetched by The Person With A Political Fast. The victory was complete The Pretty Person laughed deliciously at buying, nickle's worth of bird eggs and having them put up in a paper valise. The Person Who Periodically Appears at Polite Parties tried to ex- pla>9 that he had lost the bird -eers at game of Human Tit-Tat-Too hIt the enort was futile and when Tne Pretty Person pro posed they should all go out a-walking and have a game. the victim slipped away.
 Why did you treat him thus?" asked The Pretty Fer.on very naiveIy indeed.
 He was supercilious and patroniz- ing about introducing us into what he termed a bored society because we had revived Tit-Tat-Too," explained The Impractical Person. He said you would not own up to knowing us."
 The Pretty Person drowned very formidably indeed.
 Nonsense" she said simply, but con- vincingly
 Very we'll" said The Placid Person winking very sly at The Impractical Person, now that he is gone and I can say 1t without embarrassing him. I lie."
 So they went out to play Human Tit Tat-Too.