The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-15
The Record of Rusty Quinn

# punch distributors lnat ; more ot
less educated, and block that's set on
some solid. Not much TO get chesty
o,.er but the combination has kept me
nom askin' for benefit performances,
and as a rule I'm satisfied.
There's times, though, when I wish
saw. don't go TO givin' me the hee-
rsu- on this--when I wish l could sing.
Al 7 don't mean bein' no grand opera
+.nor with a throat that has to be kept
B, cotton battin' and a reputation that
moods Chord Of lime What would suit
me would be Just a plain. everyday Ia
la outfit Of pipes, that / could turn
ioose on coon songs when / was alone
sr ont with a bunch in the moonlight.
IA like 10 be able TO come in on cho-
rus now and then, without havin' the
rest Of thc crowd turn on me and call
for the nook.
What music I've got is the ingrowin'
kind When anybody starts up a real
Tvcl,- tune I can feel il throbbin' and
bumpin' away in my head, like a blow
0v I'm a milk bottle; but If ever / try
uncorziu' one of my MARBLES. the peo-
Die on the next block call in the chill
dren and the truck drivers begin hunt
in FOR the dry axle
Now look at what bein' musical did
for Rusty Quinn. Who's Rusty? Well.
he amt much Of anybody. 1 used to
wonder. when I'd see him kickin
around under foot in different places,
how il was he had the nerve TO go on
Twin Useless, He appeared about as
much good TO the world as a pair of
boxin' gloves would be TO the armless
wonder.
First 7 saw Of Rusty was five or six
wears back when he was hangin' around
my t'ainin' camp He was a long,
slab-sided. loose jointed. freckled-up kid
then. always wearin' silly. goodna-
tured grin on his homcly face. About
al the good you could say of Rusty
was that he could play the mouth or
gan. and be good natured. no matter
how hard he was up against it.
II there was anything else he could |
do well, no one ever found it out. !
though he tried plenty of things. And
he always had some great schemes rat
tin round in his nut. something that
was goin' to win him the big stake. But
IL was new scheme every other day. !
and. outside of GRIMM and playin' the
mouth organ. all ever noticed special
ly brilliant about him was the way he
used cigarettes as a substitute for food.
Longs he had bag of fact'ry sweep
ms and book of rice papers he didn't
mind how many meals he missed, and
them long fingers Of his was so well
trained they could roll dope sticks while
he slept.
Well. it had been a year or so since
I'd run across him last. and if I'd
thought about him at all, which I
didn't. 1t would have been 10 guess
what hn'Hy finished him: when this
affair ont. on Long Island was pulled
on The swells that owns country
places along the south shore has a |
horse show about this time every
year. As rule they gets along with /
out me bein' there TO superintend: but
last week I happens to be down that
way. paying little call on Mr.. JARVIS.
an old g'lar Of mine, and in the after
noon he wants to know if I don't want
10 Climb up on the coach with the rest
Oh the gang and drive over TO see the
sport.
Now ! amt so much stuck on this
iour-in-hand business. It's jolty kind
Of rldin'. anyway. and if the thing up-
SETS you've got long ways TO fall: but
always likes takin' look at a lot of
sood horses, so / plants myself up be-
nind' alongside the gent that does the
ara-tara-ta act on the copper funnel.
and Off we goes
II amt any of these common fair
grounds horse shows. such as anyone
can ouy badge to. This is held on the
private trottin' track at Windymere-
YOU know, that big estate that's been
Used. 1su by the Twombley-Cranes since
Ohey started maxim their splurge.
And say. they know how to do
'hings in shape. them folks. There's q
dig green and white striped tent. set mn
LOT The judges at the home plate. and
banked around that on either side was
'He traps and carts and bubbles of
SuHe OF the crispest cracker-jacks on
MIS-. Astor'S list Course. there was a |
no. OF people | knew: so as soon as our
SodCH is backed into position I shins |
Io"n from the perch and starts in to /
90 Ine glad hand walk around.
NAT What fetcheS me onto one of /
, sie SIDE paths ieadin' up towards the /
zig mouse I was takin' a short emf |
1 ,... me grass when | sees a little |
p lt. comm down through the |
~. "a, Nooefy. First OFF it looks like some
h,,. MdS Den' helped into their coat:
tebiSs - / houceS that the husky chan
noiita TaS actin more vigorous than
roljsr M, ne mas the other guy by the
80 ana was givin' him the knee
80 ana plenty. first shown him ON a
,',i, Ut TWO, and then jerkin' him hack
80 Loomm' up in the rear was a
iH, t. spots right off for Mr. Twomb-
rolIo CId1e himself. and by the way he
@CSu!i takes il he's bossin' the lob.
o,o re- says I to myself. heres some
fair" i"ush chuck-out for
In, -Ai'u men I has a glimpse of a frecklv
inv -I,e an. ana the silly grin. The party get
looi.;.u,'t run was Rusty Quinn. He's |
NH Just as seedy as ever, bein' cos
80 il faded blue jersey. an old
tbs, ot yellow ridin' pants, and leggins
'l,11t uont match. The bouncer is a
- manifested ruddy-necked Brit /
-. - man twice the weight of Rustv
he ~ 20 d race shaped like a punkin. As
~ SeeS me slow up he snorts ont some /
IN ,, us-y and gives Quinn an extra /
- 9ang IN the back with his knee. |
i'm. ,, LA starts my temperature to ris-
,.o., WY don't you hit him with a maui. /
IL Oi9onin aitch eater" says I. |
nov y. Rusty. what you been up to |
Your friends been happre'ended
- iie 20 thievin'. that's WAR growls |
Ut -, me beef chewer
-. VI WanE' says I. 7 wouldn't believe !
-ne hkes Of you under oath. Rusty
how about it?'' i''S'S'
,. Goi'iii, ne gives me one of them battv
,I,iis OF his and spreads out his hands |
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