Evening journal., 1912-02-02
wv HEN The kid comes to. he's knicked for tho win

wv HEN the kid comes TO, he's knicked for the whole
w bank the tiv board is about fifteen feet away.
under jagged rocks that have been made to do
for axes, and mis- face is all made over The trio maybe
is back in the woods. As he gets his knees in
workin order again he hits the ties Qr home wondering
if Santa Claus will find his stockings if he hangs EN-
up hay chute in any old barn he can ind
Christmas afternoon Tex and Grin and are down
in the palm room Of the Wavery curled over the pol
ished. droncniDg ourselves with luXuries, when who
wables in but Jerry heSoap, looking like the thing the
rag man dropped After cook him meal with
sphon and pour il down his throat, he tells us how
he got the red white and blue face and all about the
nice trip he had comm back Tex, who can't under
stand anybodys getting licked. except the lob he nap
pens TO be mixin il WITH across with the jolly
suggestion that Jerry go find some of the ginks he
sQuandered his two thousand on, and get staked.
VERY up-stage," raps the Soap. Il met her down
the street, and there's not chanceV
So take him to Grin's room aud slam him INTO
the hay, where he for three days mostly sleeping
Is il any wonder Jerry tries to take the door of
its hinges when Tex eases him the stab about last
Christmas aud he storms out Of the paror. Certainly
not, if you ask me, and remark as much right out
loud, but in a perfectly polite way
Anyhow" I add eve haven't any excuse for tryin'
TO put IL the Soap. have WEI II doesn't look any
softer for than il did for aim year ago-there amt
any forsure burg we can walk back to-
That's right" agrees Grin, thereby chasing the
fear out of my makeup. 1--WE oughta had more brains
than to try to spring any rough stuff through train
so far from getaway place Pretty peaches for us
that the rater had to stop to tank up, or we'd most
likely have been heaved off on our knobs Look at us
"a
beans three times day off real linen, with plenty OF
bank left make the jump TO Frisco for the Winter.
No bzzards when get there. and live town. In
stead of nursin the chance we so bugs and try TO
pun the biz mit thing million miles from anywhere
that looks civilized and get maued for our pile, not
TO mention being pedaled of the people COOP
There's been no luck In that big mitt play since
we fumbed the delayed steal back in Buff the time
Dolan caugnt US all tangled M with that wealthy ginger
party named Toombs." snaps Tex in tone as COM
YES" walls Grin "and to make it good here
stuck in the dimmest flicker the candlelight
circuit and it's called Tomhstone That rest in peace
I'm about to regale the sob-squad with little
comedy, when the door opens and the Soap crawls in
His face decorated with smile that looks counterfeit
and seems 10 invite conversation.
If you had one lonesome case note in your poke
SAYS Tex, you'd have to pry yourself loose from it
right and buy, kid"
Jerry's relieved that that's the worst he gets.
"My goose eggs no bigger than yours says he,
'but listen. I've just been downstairs nosin' around
and solve the delivery Of these small
town yaps tht-cs apt TO be celebration round here
| most any time"
Somebody going to have Christmas treey' in
/ Quires Grin, with fake uncoacem.
Just like that" announces the kid "The snerid'
goin TO give the party and there's telling what he'll
hang his ree-by the neck"
At that prick up ears. and the Soap throws
| out his chest because he's getting popular with q
''when busted out OF here" he begins. = % down
| 10 get line the village. rhsEes nCthing much
popping in the groggery, pedde little chin goods
| gused as a bartender Tie tells me what a wild town
this graveyard community is. and what fox they v,
got for sheriff then he leans and me about
wild zob that's booked 10 shoot up the main street al
any minute Seems that this human cyclone started Z,
enjoy his Nuletde in Bisbee about ten days ago
filled all the hospitals there aud has been rampagin
around ever since According TO dope he's promised &
drop by this tank to-day, just add dash of class &
| the Christmas goings on
.Finero wells Grin with his usual grasp of detail
"If this wildcat makes good may have a lookil
after ALL"
We don't get him.
why you solid-heads," he explains, don't yol
fop? If this walkn' battery does shoot up the tow
everybody in the neghborhood viii break for
Naturally, this being a public house. lot Of them vii
stampede in here aud their minds of the DANCE
we maybe can start little game. The fadeaways vii
be the town towards, and trimming them will be hk
taking walk in the flower garden!'
It sounds true but the Soap has had longer &
think II over than the rest Of is