The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-27
MAGAZINE SECTION.

show to make a gallery play, you
wouldn't have caught me takin' a bite
out of the ounce. the way 1 did the
other night. But say, when a young
sport has spent the best part of a year
learnin' swings and ducks and foot
work, and when fancy boxin's about
all the stunt he's got on his program,
it's no moren right he should give an
exhibition. specially if that's what he
aches TO do. And Chester did have that
kind of longin'.
who are you plannin' to have in
the audience, Chetty?" says /.
Why" says he, 'there'll be three or
four of the fellows up, and maybe some
of the crowd that mothers invited viii
drop in, too
Miss Angelica likely 10 be in the
bunch?" says j.
Chester pinks up at that and tries to
make out he hadn't thought anything
about Angelica's bein' there at all. But
I'd heard a lot about this particular
young lady, and when / sees the color
on Chester his plan was as clear as If
the entries was posted on a board.
''All right. Chetty." says 1; have it
any way you say. I'll be up early Sat
urday night"
So that's what 1 was dom in the
smoker on the five-nine, with my gym.
suit and gaslight clothes in a kit bag
up on the rack. Just as they shuts the
gates and gives the word to pull out,
in strolls the last man aboard and piles
in alongside of me. | wouldn't have no.
ticed him special if he hadn't squinted
at the ticket I'd stuck i'm the seat back.
and asked if l was goin' to get off at
that station.
II was thinkin' some of Il when /
raid my fare" says /.
'Ahv' says the kind of gentle and
blinkin' his eyes. THAT is my station.
too. Might ] trouble you to remind me
Of the fact when we arrive?'
Sure" says l; "Ill wake you up.
He gives me another blink. pulls a
little readin' book out of his pocket,
slumps down into the seat and pro-
ceeds to act like he'd gone into a
trance.
Say. didn't need more'n one glimpse
to size him I'D for a freak. The An
CORA haircut was tag enough-reg'lar
Ebert Hubbard thatch he was wear
In, ali fluffy and waVy. and just clear
In his coat collar That and the ar
lists necktie. not 10 mention the eye
glasses with the tortoise shell rims, put
Hifn III Tie. Sclf-duNerIlSfn CLASS With
out his sayin' a word.
Outside of the frills. he want a bad
lookin' chap. and sizable enough for q
s. ongshoreman, only you could tell by
the lily white hands and the long fin
gernails that him and toll never got
within speakin' distance
Wonder what particular brand of a
mollycoddle he tsp" thinks l.
Now there want any call for me to
put him through the cathecism. Just be-
cause he was headed for the same town
] was: but somehow l had an itch TO
take a rise out of him. So leans over
and gets peek at the book
''Readin' po'try. eh?" says l. swallow
in a grin
BEG pardon?" says he. kind of shak-
IN himself together. YES. this is
poetry-Swinburne. you know" and he
slumps down again as Il he'd said all
there was to say.
But when / starts out to be sociable
II ?" says l.
'Why, yes" says he. very much, in
deed. Don't your"
He thought he had me corked there:
but comes right back at him. Nix
says /. Swings stuff always hit me
as bein' kind of punk
Really" says he. liftin' his eye
DfOWS. you nave Deen uf-
fortunate in your selections. Now take
this, from the Anactoria-"
And say. I got what was comm to
me then. He tears off two or three
yards of II, all about moonlight and
stars and kissin' and lovin'. and lot
of gush like that. Honest, il would
give you an ache under your vesti
There says he. Isn't that beau
tiful inlarery2"
n
pened to light on that part before"
"But surely you arc familiar with his
Madonna MAJ" says he.
y THAT got past me, too" says l.
Its here" says he. speakin' up
quick. wait. All. this is. itr' and
hanged II he don't give me another dose
with more love in ii than you could get
in a bushel of valentines. and about as
much sense as if he'd been readin' the
dictionary backwards. He does Ii well,
though. just as if il all meant some
thing; and me settin' there listenin I'M
til / felt like I'd been doped
Say, / take II all back" says I when
he let's up. THAT Swinny chap maybe
amt quite I'D to Wallace Irwin: but
he's got Ella Wheeler pushed through
the ropes. I've got to see a friend in
the baggage car, though. and if you'll
let me climb out past I'll speak to the
DfdktIildil putin NOu jill NHcIt
you belong"
You're very kind" says he. Regret
you can't stay longer"
Was that a josh. or what? Anyway,
] figures I'm gettin' off easy. for there
was lot more of that blamed book
he might have pumped into me if /
hadn't ducked-
Never again. says 1 TO myself
Next time 1 gets curious I'll keep my
mouth shut"
/ want takin' any chances of his
holdin' me I'D on the station platform
when we got off. either. I was the first
man TO swing from the steps. and /
makes a bee line for the road leadin'
out towards Chesters place, not stop
pin for hack. Pretty soon who should
come drivin after me but Curlylocks
He still has his book open. though; so
he gets by without spottin' me, and I
draws a long breath.
BY the time I'd hoofed over the two
miles between the station and where
Chester lives I'd done lot of breathin';
but il was quite some of a place to
get to; one of these new model houses
that wears the plasterin on the out
side and has a roof made of fancy drain
pipe It's balanced right on the edge
the vorEs with tho UhOIa Of ono