Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-06-18

that sometimes come 10 man. l
ducked my head-and as / ducked- a
sandbag came flying through the air
from behind one of the posts and
glancing down the back OF my head,
broke my new hat and rufiec my
spirits terribly.
Hauling OF with my fist. I smashed
the fellow and started TO run | heard
him go down and before I had gone
more than a few yards / decided to
return and kick him into innocuous
desuetude. Just as | was about 10
turn, looked over my shoulder and
saw there were two of them
Strange as it may seem. [ didn't
go back In fact, | think that Maud
S. would have learned some pointers
on speed il she had been travelling in
my class that night
The worst OF it all was the hat had
been new that very evening-and
guess you know how scarce hats are
when fellow is cub newspaper re-
porter in Chicago"
4 suppose you boys have heard
about Dick Little's overcoat that was
stolen a few wiBfers ago, offered Ed
die Fox. Dick was Just back from
hobnobbing with the Russian and Jap
anese armies, and the only overcoat he
owned was one OF those big, hairy
things that the Russian rag peddler
always wears when he comes TO this
country first After Dick had been
home few days. he raised the price
OF a dandy new overcoat and wore il
up to the Press club with great deal
of eclat-whatever that is
Dick went in to sup and left his
overcoat in the cloak room. When he
called TO get il, the beautiful new toga
was gone."
Groans from the board
Yes" continued Fox. smiling. ii
was gone-and in its place was most !
disreputable looking coat. almost as
bad as the one Dick wore home from |
the Russ war There were tears in 4
Dicks eyes when he looked at il and ]
thought of the one he had lost. but he 4
mastered his grief and went home I
The next morning he got letter (
II was from the thief. who said he 4
wasn't a real thief. but a gentleman
IN straitened circumstances. He told I
Dick he had taken his coat down 70
pawRshop on Dearborn
street and pawned it for So. He told
Dick TO go down and pay the s. and
get his overcoat-and the funny part
If it was. the story was true Dick
sot his coat,
HE tried for 8 week to locate thu
elbow who needed help. even adyertis-
ng in the papers that he would get
lin job if he would report at the
hub, but the So evidently Went long
way with him. for Richard never
earned anything more of him."
The best part OF that story. broke
a Humphrey, was that the thief
ound Dicks note book in the overcoat
ocSet with some memoranda 70 !
phone so and so and 10 do this and ,
hat on such and such a date After j
,honing as though he were Little and
Ding all the odd jobs thar Richard
ad planned 10 do. ne took the Two
heater tickets that We're in the book.
nd mailed them to Little in the letter
: explanation. begging Dicks pardon 7
nd trusting The tickets would reach $
i'm in time for use. a
And did hey" asked Miller.
ooh, yes-sut Dick went TO sleep on :
lie Press club sofa and forgot all 7
bout the young ladies he was going :
take to tbs Sneaier on the tickets
e fellow returned"
And | know Miller spoke the truth, q
2 / was there ~hen Dick woke up. $
.zsd dazedly at the clcck and calmly b
rore at himself, q
@ 9 .
Where TO Get Your Apples. :,
set your apples At the postoffice News n
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