Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-02

voice. Turn me loose, or III slug you
one. I'm in the EXTREMIST kind of q
Tut. tut, EDDIE I answers, holding
him hard; let an old friend gaze on
But don't 81 2sk of assaults and battery,
because you're not ut The best you We
got is lot Of Eerve and a mighty empty
stomach. And so Il was. The man was
as weak as a vegetarian cat.
I'd argue this case with YOU. Jeff,
says he, reEretful IN his style, for an
unlimited number OF rounds if I had
half an hour 10 train In and slab Of
beefsteak two feet square to train with.
Curse the man, ] say, that invented the
art Of going foodiess May his soul IN
eternity be chained up within two feet
Of a botrouleSs pit 0f red hot hash I'm
abandoning the conflict, Jeff; I'm desert
ing 20 the enemy. Youu find Miss Du-
mummy and the informed hog She's a
fine girl, Jeff I'd have Beat you out
If [ could have kept up the grubless habit
little while longer. Nouu have to ad
nit that the fasting dodge was aces-uD
Tor a while. I figured il out that way.
But say, Jeff its said that love makes
the world go around Let ME tell you.
the announcement lacks verificatiOn It's
The wind from the dinner horn that does
it, love that Name Dugan I've gone
eide with her sentiments. Only one bite
ala I have That was when knocked the
tattooed man down with 4 war club and
got sandwich he was gobbling The
manager fined me all my salary but sal
AIRY wasn't what 7 was after. Twas that
girl ID give my life for her, but ID
endanger my immortal soul for a beef
stew Hunger Is horrible thing. jeff
Love and business and family and reL-
gton and art and patriotism or nothing
but shadows Of words when man s
starving"
TN such BnTuag e Ed Collier dis
coUrSe1 20 me, pathetic ! gathered the
diagnosis that his affections and his di-
gestions had been implicated in q scram-
bic and the commissary had won ont. I
never dislkad Ell Collier 1 searched my
Internal sdmOuitious Of suitable etiquette
20 See II could find a remark Of a con-
veulept
ia be glad. now says Ed. IF youu
let me go. I've been bard hit. but III
hit the ration supply harder. I IN going
DO clean out every restaurant in town.
] m going 20 wade waist deep Ia sirioin5
and swim iu ham and eggs. It's an awful
thlnE, Jen Peters, for man TO come to
this paste give up his girl for some
thing t. eat-it's worse than that mar.
Esau, who snapped his copyright for
parridge-but then, hunEers fierce
thing. youu excuse me. now. JEFF for
/ smell peryasi0u Of ham frying IN the
distance, and my legs are crying cut TO
stampede IN that direction
"A hearty meal TO you, Ed Collier" I
says TO him, and no hard feelings For
myself I am projected TO be an unset
dom eater. and ] have coincidence for
your preliCaments.'
There was a sudden big whtT Of fry
ing ham smell on tho breeze and the
champion Faster gives a snort and gal
lops on in the dark toward fodder
i wish some of the cultured OUTFIT that
are Always advertising the extenuauug
circumstances Of love and romance had
been there 10 see There was Ed Col
ler fine man fun Of contrivauces and
nir-atons. abandoning the girl Of his
heart and ripping out into the coutigu-
Gus territory IN the pursuit OF sOrdid
grub. Twas a rebuke to the poets and
slap al the best-payiuE element Of
hctluu An empty stomach is sure
antidote 10 an overfuIl heart.
Il was naturally anxious to know how
far Name was infatuated with Collier and
his strajasems. ] Went inside the In
pnralleled Exhibition. and there she was.
she looked surprised 10 see me, but I'M
guilty.
It's an elegant evening outside says
J. The GOODNESS is quite nice and graft
lying, and the stars are lined out. first
class, up where they belong wouldn't
you shake these by-products of the ami
NAL kingdom long enough to lake
walk with q common human who never
was on a program in his life?'
Name gave q sort OF sly glance
around. and ! knew what that meant
Oh, says l, I hate to tell YOU: but
the curiosity that lives on wind has
few the coop. He just crawied out un.
der the tent by this time he has ANAL
gamated himself with half the delicates-
sen truck in town.
y GU mean Ell CouierT says Name.
do / answers; and a pity it is
that De has gone back to crime again l
met him outside the tent and be ex-
posed his intentions Of devastating the
food crop Of the world. It's enormously
sad when ones ideal descends from his
pedestal to make seYenteen-year To-
Gust Of himself
Name looked me straight in the eve
until she had corkscrewed my reflections
len, says she, 1T isn't quite like YOU
TO talk that way. | don't care to hear
Ed Collier ridiculed. A man may do
ridiculous things. tut they don't look
ridiculous to the girl he does 'em for
Ihat was the man in q hundred He
stopped eating just to please me. I'd be
hard hearted and ungrateful if 1 didn't
feel kindly toward him. Could you do
what he did?'
~ know says I, seeing the point
m condemned. / can't help it. The
brand Of the consumer is upon my brow
Mrs. Eve settled that business for me
when she made the dicker with the snake
fell from the fire into the frying pan.
guess I'm the Champion Feaster of the
Universe I spoke humble, and Name
Modified herself little.
Ed Collier and ! are good friends
she said, the same s me and you.
gave him the same answer l did you
no marrying for me. I liked to be with
Ed and talk TO him There was some.
thing mighty pleasant to me in the
thought that here was a man who never