The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1911-01-05
THE GIRL AND
the CRAFT
A Breach Of Promise Suit That
Was Nipped In the Bud.
BY 0. HENRY.

copyright, 1910 by Doubleday, Page q
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The other day ran across my old
friend Ferguson Pogue. Pogue is a
conscientious CRATER of the highest
type. His headquarters is the west
ern hemisphere. ana his line OF bust
ness IL anything from Specializing Ia
town lots on the Great Siaked plains
10 selling wooden toys In Connecticut.
made by hydraulic pressure from nut.
megs ground TO a PUN.
Now and then when Pogue has
made good haul he comes TO New
York for rest. He says the jug OF
wine and loaf OF bread aud thou In
the wilderness business is about as
much rest and pleasure to him as slid
Ing down the bumps at Coney would
be to President Taft Give me" says
Pogue, "a big city for my vacation, es-
pecially New York. fm not much
fond Of New Workers, and Manhattan
Is about the only place on the globe
where don't End any"
While In the metropolis Pogue can
always be found at one OF two places.
One is little secondhand bookshop
on Fourth avenue, where he reads
books about his hobbies, Mohammed
anism and taxidermy I found him
at the other-his hall bedroom In
Eighteenth street where he sat In his
stocking feet trying TO pluck "The
Banks OF the Wabash out Of small
either Four years be has practced
this tune without arriving near enough
to cast the longest trout line TO the
waters edge On the dresser lay a
blued steel Colts 45 and tight roll
Of tens and twenties large enough
around to belong TO the spring rattle
snake story class. A chambermaid
with room cleaning air fluttered
near by Ia the hall, unable to enter or
to fee, scandalized by the stocking
feet, aehast at the Colts, yet power
less, with her metropolitan instinct, to
remove herself beyond the magic In.
iuence OF the yellow hued roll.
| sat on his trunk while Ferguson
Pogue talked No one could be franker
or more candid in his conversation.
Beside his expression the cry OF Henry
James for lacteal pourishment at the
age OF one month would have seemed
like Chaldean cryptogram. He told
me stories OF bis profession with
pride, for be considered II an art. And
| was curious enough 10 ask him
whether he had known any woman
who followed II.
LADIES'" said Pogue. with western
chivalry, "well, not to any great ex-
tent They don't amount 10 much In
special lines Of graft because they're
all no busy In general lines. Whatf
Why, they have 10. Who's got the
money In the world The men. Did
you ever know a man to give WON.
an dollar without any consideration
A man Will shell out his dust 20 an.
other man free and easy aud gratis
But II be drops 4 penny In one OF the
machines run by the Madame Ewes
Daughters Amalgamated association
and the pineapple chewing gum don't
fall out when he pulls the lever you
can hear him kick 10 the superintend.
ent four blocks away. Man IL the hard
est proposition woman has to 20 up
against. He's low grade one, and
she has TO work overtime TO make him
pay. Two times out of iye she's salt,
ed. She can't put IN crlishes and cost
ly machinery. He'd notice 'em and be
on 10 the game. They have to pan out
what they get. and Il hurts their ten
der hands. Some ''uf 'em are natural
sluIce troughs and can carry out 1900
10 the ton The dry eyed ones have TO
depend on signed letters. false hair.
sympathy. the kangaroo walk. COW
hide Whips, 1pfits 10 cook, sentimsn.
tai fures. conversational ps~srs six
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