The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-02-05


pink ella monsters crawling up the
walls of the same motel in Canyon
Diablo! A dry-but let that pass.
Whisky straight-and they're on YOU
Merritt smiled and paid.
They lunched in a small extension of
the dining room that connected with
the cafe. Merritt dexterously divert
ed his friends choice that lowered
over ham and eggs to a PURGE Of eel
cry, a salmon outlet, a partridge pie
and a desirable salad.
ION the day. said Greenbrier, griev-
ed and thunderous, when ! can't hold
but one drink before eating when I
meet a friend / amt seen in eight
years at a two by four table in a
thirty cent town at o'clock on the
third day Of the week want nine
bronchos to kick me forty times over a
640 acre section Of land Get them sta
tistics y
fright, old man. laughed Merritt.
.sWaiter, bring an absinth frappe and
what's yours, Greenbrier?v
whisky straight" mourned Nye.
"0ut Of the neck Of a bottle you used
to take it, Longy straight out of the
neck of a bottle on a galloping pony
Arizona red eye not this ab-oh,
] what's the use? They're on you
Merritt slipped the wine card under
his glass.
"All right / suppose you think I'm
spoiled by the city. I'm as good a
westerner as you are, Greenbrier; but,
somehow, can't make up my mind to
go back ont there. New York is com
Portable comfortable. make good
living, and I live it. No more wet
blankets and riding herd in snow.
storms, and bacon and cold coffee
/ and b1owouts once In six months fol
me. I reckon I'll hang out here In
/ the future. Wen take in the theater
/ tonight, Greenbrier, and after thai
well dine att
s.I'll tell you what You are, Merritt, .
said Greenbrier, laying one elbow in
his salad and the. other in his butter
You are concentrated. effete, I'm.
conditional, short sleeved, gotch cared
Miss Sally Walker. God made you per.
i nendicular and suitable to ride strad
| die and use cuss words in the original
Wherefore you have suffered his handi
i work to elapse by removing yourself
TO New York and putting on little
shoes tied with strings and making
faces when you talk I've seen yor
rome and tie a steer in forty-two and
a half If you was to see one now
you'd write TO the police commissions
4 about 1t. And these fiapdoodle drinks
1 that you inoculate your system with
Il these little essences of cowslip witt
acorns iii 'em, and paregorie flip, the,
q amt anyways In assent with the cordi
atty Of manhood ! hate to see yol
this way.
Well, Greenbrier, . said Merritt, witt
apology IN his tone, ''in d way you ar
right. Sometimes do feel like Wai
being raised on the bottle. But, I tel
you, New York is eomforta BILE comfort
able. There's something about It, TIL
sights and the crowds, and the way /
changes every day, and tile very al
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stake rope around a mans neck, wifi
the other end fastened somewhere
about Thirty fourth street dom
know what it is.
God knows. said Greenbrier sadly
"and I know. The east has gobblee
YOU up. You was venison, and nov
you're veal You put me in mind o
japoniea In window You've beel
signed, sealed and diskivered Re
quieseat ID hoe signo You make M
thirsty
"a green chartreuse here, said Me-
sitt to the waiter.
whisky straight 2 sighed Green
brier, and they're on you. you rene
gade Of the roundups'
Guilty, with an application for meT
cy.' said Merritt You don't know
how 1t IS. Greenbrier. It's so CON
Portable here that
sPIeaae loan me your smelling salts,