The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07

"On the off chance Of skinning some
one. I don't believe you ever crossed
a horse for pleasure
That's true, ! never did-and there
are only two Johnnies in the club"
They've all gone off to the Gaf."
"Wah! Wah! They must be pretty
hard up for amusement. Help me to
a split"
split in this weather! Hi. bearer,
do burra-burra whiskey peg lao. and
just put all the BARI into them that
you can find"
The newspaper came down with n
rustic as the reader said:
"How the deuce d'you expect a man
to improve his mind when o two are
bukking about drinks? Qui hal. Mera
wasti bhi."
"Oh! you're alive. are you? I
thought pegs would fetch you out of
that. Game for a little poker?"
"Poker-poker-red hot poker!
Saveloy, you're too generous. Can't
you let a man die in peace"
who's going to die?"
"I am, please the pigs. If it gets
much hotter and that bearer doesn't
bring the peg quickly"
All IlEhN. Nv away ii'i' "iil
Only don't do 1t in the club, that's all.
Can't have it Uttered up with dead
members. Houligan would object"
by Jove, I think I can imagine
old Houligan doing it. Member dead
in the anteroom? food Gud. Bless
my soul, Impossible to run a club
this way. Call the Babu and see If his
last months bill is paid. Not paid,
fs-.r ,., It-.. -f .flIa
to run a club this way. Babu. attach
that body till the bill is paid Revel,
o might just hurry up your dying
once in a way to give us the pleasure
of seeing Houligan perform"
"Ill die legitimately," said Revel.
I'm not going to create a fresh scan
dial in the station. I'll wait for lea
apoplexy. or whatever is going. to
come and fetch me"
This is pukka hot weather talk"
said Saveloy. Il come over for a little
honest poker. and find W moderately
sensible men. Revel and Dallston. talk
ing tomhs. I'm sorry I've thrown
away my valuable evening"
Dye expect us to talk about butter
cup and daisies. then?" said Dallston.
NO. but there's some sort OF Medium
between those and sudden death"
There isn't. I haven't seen a daisy
for seven years. and now I want to
die said Revel, plunging ~luxuriously
into his peg.
II knew a Johnnie on the frontier
once who did" began Dallston medita-
lively.
Half a minute. Bearer. cherut lao
Tobacco soothes the nerves when a
man Is expecting to hear a whacker.
We know what your frontier stories
are. Martha"
Dallston had once, in n misguided
moment. taken the part OF Martha in
the burlesque OF Faust" and the nick
name stuck.
"'Tisn't a whacker. it's a fact. He
told me so himself"
They always do. Martha. I've no.
ticed that before. But what did he
tell you?"
"He told me hat he had died"
WAS that all? Explain him"
ut was this way. The man went
down with n had go OF fever and was
on his head. About the second day II
struck him in the middle Of the night"
STEADY the RuTs' Martha, you
aren't an 1rishman yet"
Never mind. It's too hot to put Il,
correctly. In the middle OF the night
he woke up quite calm, and it struck
him that it would be a good thing to
d!e-just as it might ha' struck him
hat it would Ice a good thing to put
ice on his head. He lay on his bed
n thought it over. and the more he
thought about il the better sort of
bundobust 1t seemed to be. He was
quite calm. you know. and he said that
he could have sworn that he had no
fever on him.
We'll, what happened:'
on, he got up and loaded his re-