The Washington herald., 1908-06-21

want to say and then to come right back
and deny saying anything after you know
that all Of your barbs have struck.
oh. well. what's the use? The man who
expects a woman 10 have any sense of
reason or logic is a pinhead who deserves
all he gets and a blamed sight more.
won't play poker any more, seeing that
you make such shrek about II.
DO Nothing but work.
won't play anything. I'll just work,
work. work. all the time. and let you do
all the playing. I could pick up few
more dollars by sticking around the Of
fee until midnight, and you could devote
the extra money TO more hats and mat
inee tickets and things, and / could
Here's $40. Pay the electric light bill
out OF that. It's the last money I've got,
except 40 cents in change and l can
get my lunch out Of that besides riding
downtown and back After you pay the
six seventy-eight electric light bill you
might as well drop down 20 Twenty-third
street and stake yourself TO a hundred
yards or so OF that nickel val. lace that
you'll find on the bargain counter some
where or other
only brought into the world for the pur-
pose of working the flesh OFF our bones
for you women. and it's all right. I've
got no kick coming. I'm only part OF
the system, that's all, and no one man
can change a system.
BY the way. what's become OF that gray
suit that ! had last year? / wish you d
dig II out to-day and send It TO the clean
ers and have it.
Huh? You've sold &, Sold it. Wait
a minute Let me hang on TO myself.
1 don't want 10 so nutty If / can help.
Just a minute DO you mean 20 tell
me that YOU have deliberately, malicious
ly malevolently. gone 10 work and sold
that suit OF clothes for 50 cents or some
thing that | only wore about ten times
last year?
Hows that? I wore It when I went
ashing last fan. and It was all worn
out and unfit 10 be fixed up again?
Madam be so good as not to sit there and
tell me things like that. Kindly don't
do IL. I can stand a heap. but there's a
heap that / cannot and will not stand
That was the finest suit OF summer
clothes 1 ever owned in my whole life,
and ] was so careful OF Il that Well,
what dye think Of that, If I wore that
suit more than fifteen times at the very
outside last summer then l belong IN
| Bloomingdale.
His suit Gone for ChrRmcIs.
! Why. l wouldn't take so for that suit
as it was on the day when I last took IT
of. and here, just because you happened
/ 10 want 50 cents for caramels or son p
thing. you deliberately dragged IT out anC
/ handed II over to grinning old clothes
man. without ever so much as giving mt
a thought. Well. we'll. Well And me
/ looking forward 10 wearing that suit foI
/ two or three years yet. off and on.
How's that? I told YOU that suit nevel
fitted me. and I threatened 20 sue th'
/ tailor because he wouldn't refund me my
money on IL. and / changed my tailor or
account Of H. and
Oh what's the use? What IS tho use
What kind OF q l0-ceut dream book d,
1 YOU get all this stuff out OF these days
. anyhow
Oh. there YOU go. snivelling OF course
/ That's the weapon YOU all use-tears.
As soon as YOU play all the hob YOU can
and pcrpctrate every Internal injustice OF
a man that you can think or and he say
a little word about H. why, YOU pull tha
/ tenr stuff on him, and you're just craft
enough 10 know that il viii win in abou
nineteen cases out of twenty
H0ws that? ] am unjust. and ! picl
on you dreadfully2 on. OF course. o
course I pick on you. I'm the abysma
brute All I ask Is little biz OF common
. consideration az your hands and yoI
come out and say that I pick on you.
That's a pretty hard stab 10 take al
man. I'm telling you that. I'd rather hav
anything else in The world said about m
except that I'd pick on a woman.
on, shucks, hon, cut out that cryinl
business There's no occasion for II
. EverythinE's all right or course. if.yo'
say you didn { say anything about my lii
tie game Of poker, all right. Il goes
It's got 10 go.
There. there. Come on. now, buck uI
I'm late for the Office already. Say.
makes your nose as red as the dicken
TO do that. and I'd ike 10 have you shoy
me a woman that can make a hit with
red nose.
An right I'll he back for dinner a
the regular time. And please have some
thing M TO eat. won't you? That stea
last evening was punk. All right Good
by.
O. course. I wish I had that suit O
clothes. but as long as it's-weu, neve
mind I'm going, Go dry your lamps
fhey're leaking