The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-13
A Delegation From de Ate"

At first Snubby didn't care much for
his employer. He was too particular
in his dress for Snubby's autocratic
taste; and though he had to admit to
himself that the tout ensemble was
good to look upon, Snubby, much pre-
ferred man who wore a striped sweat
er with plenty of diamonds and dirt
thereon, or a Soft-collared shirt like
de Giants wears"
However, this feeling lasted only I'M
til the first Thursday of his servitude.
Upon that day. shortly before noon, his
employer called him to his desk and
when Snubby finally condescended to
extinguish a half inch of cigarette that
he was surreptitiously smoking in the
supply closet. where there was plenty
of paper and other interesting inflam-
mable matter, and grant his employer
an audience. he was asked:
MY boy, do you think that your
grandmother could conveniently die-eh
let us say day before yesterday, so
that the funeral could be held this af-
ternoon?"
Snubby scratched his nose. uncompre-
hending, but on general principles. he
answered.:
Sure"
'Such being the case" continued the
employer, II feel impelled to let you
go today at noon: and L happen to have
a ticket to the ball game given me by
friend who varies his profession as
fan by occasional lapses into the law
II the obsequies are over in time, you
might possibly find an opportunity TO
use it. And here's a quarter for ex-
penses."
Snubby took the ticket and the coin;
and. needless to say. he used both. and
to the full. And he returned home that
evening full of peanuts and pain and
enthusiasm. with his voice as weak
as his regard for his hitherto despised
employer was strong.
Hes good guy, all right. all right"
he that night confided to Muggsy Nc
GTaw as they sat behind an ash bar
rel IAN gee, but de Giants pounds
dem odder guys all over de damon. De
pitcher is a lef' handed guy an dey
dim get more'n two hits off'n him de
whole game.
He's a good guy ter work fer" he
went on, condescendingly. Hes a
good guy even if he does part his roof
n de middle an wear no more joolry
dan White Wings. He made a crack
about me gran'mudder wot got by me.
but 1 seen de game an he gimme a
quarter. too. Me fer him He's a good
guy"
Muggsy opined that his friend was
right and wished that he could get a |
job wit a guy like dat And when |
they separated, Muggsy to continue to |
wish Snubby to dream of a ball game |
played on a diamond as big as Man
haitian island with a home pitcher that |
threw ball with the precision and |
frequency of a rapid-fire gun and visit
ing batters that struck out with graft |
flying regularity and promptitude, there
was mutual agreement to the fact that |
the gentleman In question was a good |
guy
And then when, one afternoon Just be-
fore closing time his employer hap
pened to come suddenly upon Snubby
and his cigarette in the supply room
and merely pointed out to him, as one
man might to another, the danger of
smoking amid such infiammable mate
rial and asked him to please refrain
from so doing in future. Snubby, who,
from precedent. had expected to be first
cursed and then discharged. waxed sc
respectful and benevolent and admiring
that he forswore tobacco and its de-
lights in business hours and even be-
gan TO pay as much attention to his
employer as he did to his employers
And he confided to his
friend Muggsy that he had come to con-
slider his employer a greater man than
pion who ran the saloon on Fourteenth
street. which was rank heresy, and
therefore precipitated a fstic argument
from which the two merged with more
bumps and fewer teeth and several adj
iitional rents in their raiment; and yet
with a more abiding respect for one
another and an even stronger affection:
ior with the young, blows ofttimes form
closer and more lasting ties than do .
Kisses. Il
But then when the employer one holt
lay took de push" out for day on
ais yacht and entertained them to more
different kinds of eatables than the
push knew existed. and Z
brought them back in the evening food /
sunburned and happy, Snub-
)y paeanized his employer TO a loud {;
md enthusiastic chorus. There was no ,
argument. And Spike Haggerty, and s
wen the pitcher of ''de Giants. joined
he Has-BeenS. /
One morning. after he had held his I
position for an even twain of months /
which was a record performance with
he entered the Office to find his {
Employer already there, sitting at his G