Evening star., 1915-01-17

waggn' his chopin block head ener- VR "A
getic, when l get behind proposition Ewk
yuh goin to get some action" A>
"Sure know Hunlly, says |, glancn'
up at the clock uneasy and squirmin
bit in the swing chair.
You see this had been goin on now for
near an hour, and, while it might be
more or less entertanin' well as true,
l wa mt crazy about listenin' to it all the
afternoon. For one thing wa mt comm
in on his scheme. Not chance can be
bilked into buyn' tickets for rattle,
even when wouldn't take the junk that's
put up gift, and I'm easy in other
ways; but when it comes to any gatemoney game,
from launchin' musical comedy to open1n new
boxn' club, I'm Tight Tommy with the time lock set.
None in mine! I've had my guesses as to what the
public wants, and know I'm perfectly punk prophet
Besides it was about time for ]. Bayard Steele to
show up with this gent from Washington, Cuyler Nor
rison De Kay, and-wel I'd just soon not be both
cred to explain Hunk Burey to pair like that. You
know the kind of bygone friends that do need explan
WE'LL Hunk needed it bad; for as far as looks went he
about the crudest party that ever spored diamond
elephant sticpn chewed twenty cigars tor
steady diet.
Built wide and substantial, Hunk was, with the
longest arms YOU ever saw outside iron cage and
set of rugged features that had the Old Man OF the
Mountain looSin' like ribbon clerk Reglar cave
dwelles face it was and with his bristly hair grown
down to point just above his eyes, and the ear tufts,
throw-back to the Stone Age, he was it.
As a rubber in my old trainin camp outfit, though,
Hunk had his good points. I've gone the table to
him with set of shoulder muscles stiff as truck
and inside of half hour jumped timber as
a whalebone whip. And I'd never sign up for moren
tenround go without sendin for Hunk first thing after
the oreits went up Course when it to society,
there was others liked better and expect after quit
the ring didn't take any particular pains to keep his
name in my address book
PUT Hunk was of the old crowd that didn't need
- much dodgin'. He went his way like l went mine,
ard hadn't him for years when he tramps into the
studio here the other treadn heavy on his heels
and wearn' this suit of peace-disturbin' paids. He
hadn't climbed the stairs just for any Auld Lang Syne
nonsense, either. He there on business.
That is, seemed like business to him; for, his
special way, Hunk had been comm along. He hadn't
stuck to bein a rubber He'd done strong-m turn
with a medicine top for awhile, then he'd worked into
the concession game on the county fair circuit managed
Ferris wheel and carrousel outfit and swung
Uncle Tom troupe with six real bloodhounds, through
the town halls of fourteen States.
"Puln' down the kae by the double handfuls, mind
you says Hunk. "But no more! The movies has
queered the Topsy business. Absolutely! l seen it
comm just in time, and I've been layin' low until
could find something to beat it. Say I've got it too.
Not for this territory. III give the film people two
years kill themselves in the North with the rot
they re putin out. But in the South they amt got
such hold and the folks different. They're just
old style enough down there fall for street parade
and ifty-cent seats the blue benches They got the
coin too-dont make mistake about that. And this
Great Australian Hppodrome will make EN- loosen up
like a Rube shown his best girl what he do THROWN
Copyright 1915 by sewen Ford All rights reserved.