The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-02

punk at his ofice and he went homo and
had his doctor come to see him. and
the medical sharp thumped Bin all over
and said that he was all right except
that he was too fat. and logey. and he
ordered Bill to drop everything In the
work line and beat It up to Westchester
county to take tho hike it over meadows
and dales cure-medicine bah and horse
back rides and all like that-for the fat
thing, or he. the doctor man. wouldn't
be responsible for the consequences.
Bills wife boosted the idea along. and DO
Bill galloped up to Westchester county
the next day and put himself in the hands
OF n Of those training sinks ~he H:sse
a man work like q lumberjack and .
truck horse combined.
Bill stuck along with the course OF
sprouts. and when they turned him loose
three weeks later he had lost forty.fve
pounds and was thinking Of challenging
this dipge johnson and all such.f -
We'll, on the day he went back Il. bis
Office he got q notice from his tailor that
he'd better drop in and try on those Ave
suits Of clothes, and Bill, forgetting
about how he'd shrunk, did drop, in to
have the rags fitted. and OF course Cd soon
as he tried the first coat on he began to
blurt things. The coat could have been
wrapped around him nce again. Z,
the tailor told Bill that he'd be able 70
chop of enough hunks from the clothes
to make 'enn At but Bill wouldn't have 1t
that way. being an unreasonable sort Of
an Injun, and he clomped out Of the tailor
shop bellering that ne wouldn't pay 9
nickel for any Of the five suits that had
been cut to his before taking measure,
and the tailor, being ono Of those het up
dud makers. has been telling everybody
all about it. and nov when the gang meet
Bill they ask him what he means by
pulling that Leslie Carter stuff on his
dressmaker, and
'Oh. say. shipmate. spelling about that
stage stuff. who's that dreamy eyed tall
doll with the raven hemp and the lus-
trous wicks that I've been seeing Jack
Snaggem gallumphing around the restau-
rants with lately? Have you pipod her
YETI Another stage birdy. en-?
Jacks got a cute little mania for the
big swishy. six foot picture cover Of .
magazine kind Of squeens. hasn'ths' Saw
him stalking her TO some OF the vintage
juice, with bird trimmings, at a grill a
few nights age. and last night / bumped
into him at another eats plant, and he had
her along again.
Some Of these ginks lever learn any
thing from experience. what? ! thought
when that other one denied Jack with
her breach OF promise case-that one with
the extravaganza show. yoa rem ember
her-and split about tw enty-five thousand
apart from him when it came'to the COM
promise thing that he'd sort Of make up
his mind tina. he wasn't meant to be we'd
ded to the stage; but hero h e-goes again.
nudging around with n OF the Salome.
ish. odalesqueish kind, and the FIRST thing
re knows he'll be getting them papers,
Percy de Howard-Vane. for another Of
those little gimme gimme bundles II you
don't traipae up to, the altar with her;
and then we'll hear about little Jackie
busting through the bankruptcy court,
for l heard the other day that the market
had got him for the biggest kind Of a
hunk OF change. and IL he has to dribble
across with another wad in fixing up a
ID odCU Cl pTOIulbo case. why, Cdu y yOu
see him sitting in a back room inhaling
hay through q corncob pipe. end
Flows all that? Jack has been mar
ried to the young woman for the past
two months and she was never o day on
the stage in her life. but was q choir
up in Maine. and never saw New
York until Jack brought her here a his
wife, and Jack hasn't lost anything in
the market at all because no doesn't play
any moro, but 10 getting rich at
The railroad supply business. and
well. say: geo! You've got a hsap OF
dope on the Jack Snaggsm thing, haven't
you' How's that? You only wanted to
put me right 20 that Wouldn't 80 blurt-
around the town telling
ia, hal Forge: it. old top! For get
about my telling anybody anything!
Don't take things to heart SO much. I
vas only asking you about Jack. you
know. and I'm tickled to death to hear
hat everything's all right with him and
hat he's settled down and all that stuff.
and as you know
Say. you take a lot Of interest in that
paper OF yours. don't you? Oh, well, I'm
Oh hero anyhow. Ia. to. Don't
ct anybody slip you any zino money till
you get a wire marked Collect from
ha! So long. old haws -. Behave
anyhow. il you can't be carefuli'