Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-25
THREE-CARD MONTY
FALLS FOR CARMEN
In Company With Mister Hard
Boiled Egg, He Takes in
Grand Opera Show.
SEES L TRovYToRY ALSO

SEES L TRovYToRY ALSO
Mister Hard-Boiled Egg, closely
followed by Three-Card Monty, the
bartender, wiggled through the dense
crowd Of grand opera patrons pouring
from the Auditorium, where the cur
tain had just fallen on the last scene
in Carmen
watch yer step, kidP' admonished
Monty, as Egg slipped and nearly
lost his balance.
Never mind the step-I'm watch
ing my watch" was the hasty retort.
II got tipped for twenty berries right
after the Stecher-Lewis rassle, an tn
crowd wasn't half as big'z THIN. /
suppose Joe's old lady over there'll
sbe sore on account uh me not tippin'
my hat, but if she thinks I'm going
to take my mitts off'n my kick in this
mob Just to tip my hat, she's all
wrong, I'll tell the worldP
They got outside.
Breaks Shell OF Silence.
Egg looked at Monty and Monty
looked at Egg. Egg broke the shell
sof silence.
Is "Well, we've did it. We had ten
bucks and we did it. We had it COM
ling and we got It. We've been grand
suproared. Now ! suppose you're sat
isfiedp'
Monty grinned. yep, I'm salts
flied. I'm going again tonight"
ID well, you can 60, but when you
do, there's an Egg that'll have good
wishes for you, but not with you. I'm
sgoing to see the Orpheum."
"Its B. V. d. what you do, but
me, I'm seeing this Fl Trovytory. 1t
was one swell show tonight and II FL
Trovytorys half as good III stand
pat
"Yehl A whole lot you understand,
sdidncha. Now It's all over an we
seen an heard II, what's it all aboutf"
Knows All About It.
Il knew before | went in" Monty
answered. "A guy tells me the whole
slay last week. .
"Yeh, Scat, he's tn bird that told
us we'd have to hunt up the old soup
and-fish uniform. Now we've got
Fem, whatl1 we do. with 'em--sling
Z hash? That amt the worst Of It
seighther. TIL boss Is settin' with his
missus about six seats away In the
four-buck chairs an he's wearin' red
necktie. The only change he made in
his cloes was to spill egg on his
vest for supper. He took one look at
me an got to wonderin' would | still
be in. town by the time they get
through auditin' the books or would
/ he better office up the Law to lay a
leg Tor me. ~
Jaw. say, you'd have something to
wolf about II It was raining kale an
y'had an empty cistern"
Sure I'm woffin' about this Car
men show. Ask me haw much didn't
20 over my head. Ask me anything
III don't knowl I'm layin' out my
Jack thinkin It's about the car mems
strike in New York an you get the
lowdown on 1t an clam. II | make
4 bet | saw Carmen ! got to have
v odds"
III "a quit woifin' ri tell va what
it's all about. You see Carmen is
i the name Of broad, an II brains was
a boulevard, she'd be an alley. In the
Z first ack she an another moll who
works in a spaghetti factory gets into
a rookus an this Carmen muff mows
her down with blade.
Nuts About Another.
"This Darn Hosiery guy, he's cop
an he's nuts about-another broad, but
\ he falls hard for this Carmen when he
pinchcs her for mixin' with this other
mol in the spaget foundry. Carmen
she cons him into fettin' her shake II
before the wagon comes, which he
does, but the sergeant is snoopin'
around and he sees the play and so
this young cop he gets hauled up on
y charges and Is fired. Then he joins
X the Sheeleytown gang and gets a job
as ward captain, thinkin he's in right
with Carmen anyway. Shes too fly,
though, an she blows him for guy
: who's bullfighter, which in them
4 days is the same as taxi driver or
barber now. That makes this guy
sore an he ups with knife an hews
her down. That's all they Is to It."
Egg scratched his head a minute.
well, all I've got to say Is, Il that's
grand opera, I've seen lots of it down
on Douglas street, but didn't know
il was opera then. After you know
what 1t is, il amt so bad, is it1"
The Bad Part Of II.
"No. il amt SO bad. If you've got
the lay pegged before the show
starts"
mo, the only bad part Of it is the
five bucks"
well, You amt got no beef comm
a that, you got in on a pass,
sidn't ya?"
"Yeh, but / could "a sold it,
couldn't II"
"Yeh. that's the way it allus is
with you Hard Boiled Eggs. You've
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