The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-28
T0Od'eiSm
Has a Try-Out
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stiff iointed; but. say, I'm satisfied to
be walkin around at all. If / hadn t
my luck with me the other day, I'd
be wearin that left leg in splints and
bein' pushed around in wheel chair.
As it is, the meat is only little sore,
and a few more alcohol rubs viii put
it in shape.
What was it come so near gettin
me on the disabled lista Toodleisml
No. I expect you didn' It; but let me
put Won next, son; there's more isms
and 'pathys and lists ioatin around
these days, than any one head can
keep track Of l don't know r:ueh
about the lot; but this Toodleism 5 q
punk proposition. Besides leavin me
with game prop, it come near Blu 'stin
up the family.
Seems like trouble was lo0kin for
me last week, anyway. First OIL, l
has run of oldtimers, that pan
handles me out of all the loose coin
has in my clothes. You know how
they IL come in streaks that way, some
timesf Why, was thinkin OF havln
,em form line, one while. Then along
about Thursday one of my back heten-
ers develops ease of jumps. what
a fletcherf Why, steak grinder, ana
this one has ripe spot In 1T. course,
it's me for the nickel plated plush
chair. with the footrest and runnln
water attached; and after the tooth
doctor has explored my jaw with a
rock drill and few other cute little
tools he says he'll kill the nerve.
uDon't. Doc!' says /. "That
nerves always been friend OF mine
until lately. Wouldn t dopin' it doi.
He saws it wouldn t, that nothln'
less m capital punishment would re-
form a nerve like that; so L tells MIN
to blaze away. No use goin into de-
tails. Guess you've been there.
fiSay, Doc, - says once when he
was fttin' fresh anger into the ma
chine. ssyou ain Il mistakin me for the
guilty part, are your
ssDid hurtf" says he.
ssYou don't call that ticklin', DO
youi" says I. :,
But he only grins and goes on with
tbe excavation. After he g blasted out
y hole big enough for a terminal tun-
mel he labs in hunk of cotton soaked
with sulphuric acid, and then lamps
down the concrete.
ssThere!'' says he, handin me drug
store drink favored with formaldehyde.
sfIn the course of fortyeight hours OF
SO that nerve will be as dead as a piece
Of string. Meantime it may throb at
intervals"
That what it did. too! Tt dies as
hard as a campaign lie. About every
so often, just when j I'm forgattin', IT
wakes up again, takes a fresh hold, and
proceeds to give an imitation OF live
wire on an alternatin circuit.
ssAhr cheel'' says Swiftly Joe. To
look 1T the man Of woe Won re carrvin
around, you d think nobody ever had
bum tusk before. -
sfNobody ever had this one before,
saws +. "and the way look now ain =
chronic. like some faces know of. =
eAhr chee!o says Swiftly. which il
MS way of bringin' in minority re
port.
The worst of it was, though, I IN bill
ed to show M at Rockywold for
party that Sadie and Mrs. Purdy- Pei
was pullin off, and when lands Their
Friday afternoon the jaw sensation
was still on the job. IN feelin abeu
as cheerful and chatty as Zoo tige
with ingrowin toenails. So, after "
done the nolite handshake, and had
word with Sadie on the fly. / digs on
my exercise uniform and makes
sneak down into their dinky littl
gym. where there's frst-class puncl
'r' bag that / picked out for PNrd,
Pell myself.
I Wanted to Hit Something.
You know. ! felt like / wanted
hit something, and hii hard. Tt wan
any idle impulse, either. That foot
vas iumpin' so I could almost feel m
heels leave the floor. and I rad EN-
fions that it would take more tha
language to express proper. So / pee
of for it. down to sleeveless jorse
and pair of flannel pants. and star
IN to drum out the DEVILS tattoo {
that pigskin bag.
I was so busy relievin' my feelin
that / didn 7 notice anything float
fba door; but after awhile I looks l
and discovers the audience. She's
young female party that didn t ]
member havin seen before at any
the Rockywold doin IS; but it looks Ii
she g one of the guests, all right.
Well. hadn Z been introduced, a
eouldn t see what she was butt
into the gym for. anyway, so / kee
right on punehin' the bag; think
that If she was shocked any by I
costume she d either get over it,
beat il and have fit.
She's one of the kind You might
poet most anything from,--one of the
long. limp, loppy. droop-eyed hui
With terra Gotta hair. and prun
and-prisms mouth all puckered to s
something soulful. She's weariu ;
whaekin big black feather lid with
long plume trailin down over one e
sirawb nv pink dress cut accordin
louie Catorz designs,-waist band
dor her armDits. Won know,-and nj
tepn-hrtton length gloves. Finish &
"T with white hen feather boa. h,
her hands elasped real shv under
chin. and Won We got picture of w
sees there in the door. Pvt II was
friendlv sizeup she was givin me,
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