Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-09

gorilla, and there was nothing whatever
to his countenance except lower jaw.
Take it and use it, said the sport
ing editor to me- jerking his finger IN
the direction of the pug: and then the
sporting editor went on downtown about
his business. Having made my appear
/ was the entire Camembert with the
pug.
George. said l to the mixed aler:
not exactly rememberin a his name me ~, II
next week OF SO you belong to me for
good dough. but part of it is going to be
conditional. The top ham of my snow
seething. swirling souse. While he. is
thus being gay and blithe with HIM
self this ham of mine loves prizetighters.
brows like you. Dye make that
"'Wot youse all tree ways 'crost de
board replied my pug. ;interestedly.
inst we Ten5 me on want wth Xop to- TO
night after the show. He'll take TO you
like a pup to root want you to
make him regard you with profound AZ. ar,
mans town for another week. and then
we're going south I can handle him
when we get south, but | can't do any
to let him get out of your sight. Lush
along mildly with him and talk fight with
him and tell him the history of your life
IN all languages and then whistle it
at the stage door every night at o'clock
and on the two matinee days at 1 O'Clock,
in shape to go on and work for his
Spilled you let him get or get with him
between working hours; but I've got to
have him in his play-actinS togs and
performance. Are you still making me-?
I'm smuggling you, bo, he replied.
'''All right said /. Here's a stack of
green's, which the same is not Wet money
etc o1,o oif hot m N
be able to keep up your end with him.
The conditional end of it is this: If you
produce him for every performance and
deliver him to me in time to get him on
the midnight train for the south on next
Saturday night you get another hundred.
Is that your number?
- got de kale in me kick already,
cap said the pug.
And I went on if he ferries I'D to
it that you're sleuthing him-as. no doubt,
he will when you make him go light on
the red stuff for a couple Of hours before
each performance-well don't You care,
Reggie. The point is that he's not to get
away from you, whether he gets next to
your lay or not. You can macerate him
to a pulp; but keep him. If you find it
necessary to scatter his face around,
that won't matter. either-the makeup
box'll fix that up all right. But don't you
lose him.
lose him? Wit dat soft change in
sight?' said my pug: and somehow | felt
that he'd deliver.
HE did. ] didn't butt in at any stage
of it after I'd made my little arrange
ment with the mfXed-aler, but just per-
mitted events to travel along on creased
skids. My leading man and the pug were
inseparable. 1t was not until along to-
ward 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon when
the pug told my ham that he ought to
switch to lemon and settler in order to
be in shape to weigh in ringside for the
show that the leading man began to
smell the rat. He bucked. He wanted
the high red ones right up to the minute
he was due at the theater.
THE pug wouldn't stand for that num-
Der. of course, and then my leading man.
very upstagey. dropped to the gag all OF
a sudden. He became naughty. but it was
no go. When he walked up to tile bar
and dema nded that juice of the grain. the
pug got him around the shoulders and
merely carried him up TO his hotel room
and locked him in. Then the pug sat
down on the edge of the actor mans
trunk and told him that. for little BRIEF
space. he. the pug. was going to be IT,
He told the Thespian just how far he
could go. He said that he wanted to he
the play-actor's little brother for fleet
ing spell The leading ham scowled and