Daily picayune., 1921-01-11
Spud McGlone By CLARENCE L. CULLEN
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1 wore q certain S0Oty and @cindery ap- pearance that didn't seem to denote q ride on the vanished cars.
 Does a job at the gasworks. back in this dump, look good to me?' ne observed gloomily, replying to nobody's question.
 Does it? Ask Smudge Shaugnessy if he ever had yen for beef stew! {! Southern race tracks, eh? Say, I'd rather be q moldy ear in Coney Is land hot-corn boiler than a red barn full of feed and hay down there in the cockroach Dixie belt, and let that ,, go with the main bet.
 "There's no getting away from the ring Pinks down there.
 "The first day out down there slanted a thing that looked like bean- left fin as he mooned around the ring marking a program and trying to look wise
 "'Sh-sh ? says I as tried to lead him under one of the stairways. 'Sh-sh I would fain uncurl one gold en word or two unto you Hey? What's that? he 6awled like fish-peddler yelling shad on a side street and trying to shake off the clutch I had on him.
 "'Not so voicy, major,' said I, hang ing on to him.
 Hey, look-a-here, what's all thisT he shouted, not with any effort, get me, but just talking in his natural voice. What dye want?
 'Sh-sh Try whispering, general says l to him, lamping around to see if any of the ring Pinks were on the job. All that desire to do is to send you away from here lopsided with cur- rency.
 For about half minute he studied me with that harvest-moon wick.
 "'What do you want to do that forT he shouted. What is it to you whether 1 win or not?
 "'The soft pedal and low bridge. please, judge, I begged the smudge.
 Is it a horseY he yelled at me.
 ""That loud stuff is great in a knock about turn. but here it's liable to crab perfectly good sketch. Now, will you gamble that hundred on one that's Rocky Ford wrapped in tissue-paper and tinfoil and served in Tiffany dishY
 Is 1t some horse that's going to run in this first race that you want me to playY he howled.
 Say, general, won't you try to im- agine that you're at wake, and pull the muffling snares down on that drum of yours?
 Yes, it's one In the first race.
 It's 15 to l now, and it'll street. home like cat that's been chucked into a creek with stone around its neck
 Well, the mark yelped then like barker with d double-horn megaphone on a rubberneck wagon: How do you know that this horse will win, heyT
 Just then the ring Pink that I'd piped the minute before breezed up behind me with the stiff forefinger for the middle of my kidneys.
 None O that buzz stuff here, Bright Eyes, says he to me, or over the fence for you, and then l had to smear away from there and join the eIbowers in the main aisle.
 Two days later snagged, coming down from the grand stand where he'd salted his wife, one that looked 10 me like q full basket of quarts.
 'Guy',' says l, as he got to the bot tom of the steps, dye know the name of it.?
 ""The name of what? he asked me in the tone of the skipper of q canal boat hollering at a mule-whaeker a hundred yards up the towpath. Did you ask me what time it was? Why, it's half past three.' pulling out a soup er the size of hand-painted porcelain plaque.
 haven't got an idea in the world what horse you mean and, of course, you're stranger to me'-he was hol- ering louder and louder with every chlrp-'but l lost fifty dollars on the first race'-by this time he was orat- ing like the ringmaster of circus anu II thtit dLy tIldhtt lo get tHdt money back, why, of course, I'd like to obtain the name of the winner.
 You look as if you might know, even if, as l say, you are stranger to me and Of course if the one you named really did win I'd be willing to -er-do the right thing toward you for your kindness and
 Did l haw, that one hooked? Why, say, it was out of the water and swinging toward the grass when
 Say, Louie, says the same Pink that had given me the kidney poke be- fore, coming up behind me again, I thought l told you that tell-'em thing was all off and done away with around these works, hey?
 Now, you femme pipe you again hopping q lob to one o' your boguSes, and you won't have any heels left on your kicks to beat 1t with And so