Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-11-16
Old Man Lewis
Son
By MORRIS SCHULTZ
60, 1922, Western Newspaper Union.)

Levi! Levi! Hey, Levi, here's
| bit Of pork for you!" shouted Casey
junior
Hey, Levi, pops got a bit of bacon
for Yer supper cried thee youngest
| AIlligan.
Levi WINGED. It was not the bacon,
but because one of the Ryan children
had hit him on the ear with a stone.
'Whiskers :" shouted the hope Of
the Sulliyans; giving Lewis beard a
tug.
"OIe cIo'! Ole clo'r" cried Levi,
continuing his peregrinatiOn of the
alley.
Sometimes Levi did succeed in bar
gaining with an Irish housewife for a
suit Of clothes when her good man was
away, and the prospect Of business
was enough to drown the pain of these
insults and injuries.
whats that darned Sheeny want
ing in Cherry aIley? was the general
opinion. 'Why don't he keep to his
own part Of tn tOwn?"
Big Casey was the principal voice
of this point Of view. Big Casey had
been the heavyweight champion of the
district till he got fat. Big Casey
hated old Levi.
Hey, you, keep out of heren' he
shouted, next time the old peddler APP
peared
So threatening was his demeanor
that Levi decided policy dictated a re-
treat.
cole clio! Ole clo'"' he whimpered,
as he made his way out of the alley.
"You come here agin ard I'll break
your neck for you!" shouted big Casey
belIlgerently.
Next day the familiar cry was heard.
cole clio! Ole clo'!" came whining
down Cherry alley.
Big Casey, who had been hitting it
up the night before. saw red. He hur-
ried OH his clothes and came prancing,
down the alley. fight in his gestures.
you blank, blank Levi, I told Eou
ter git out of here" he yelled, dou-
bling an enormous fist.
What harms the old man doing to
you" demanded an understood, hook
nosed young man who had suddenly
appeared, and resembled old Levi in
such a striking manner that he might
have been his son.
Big Casey stared at him in derision.
"Who the-What the" he began,
and swung one of the Casey fists at
the young mans proboscis.
10 Casey's establishment it encoun-
tered only thin air. TO Caseys anlaze-
ment, he found himself next moment
lying in the gutter with a kind Of pain
in his eye.
Big Casey got up slowly. The young
man With the proboscis was waiting
for him. Big Casey, who did not Nn-
derstand what had happened to him,
swung a tremendous right He was
confident that the young man would
be Invisible when that got home.
TO big Casey's amazemenr, the
young man was not where he had
imagined he was. The young man
was dancing In front of him, planting
blows right and left in Caseys stom.
ach.
Big Casey realized that he was up
against a new phenomenon. GIaring
about him. lie saw that a ring had
been formed of q number of friends
and neighbors. In a detached sort of
way Old Levi was watching him over
his pushcart.
Big Casey uttered a below and
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Next instant he was staggering under
the force Of two terrific blows, one on
the sound optic and the other on the
nose.
This was past understanding. Here
was big Casey, ex-heayyweight cham
piun, who had come out in the best OF
moods for a quiet morning stroll, and
something perfectly inexplicable had
happened to him.
He flung out both arms to clinCh
this intruder, and received a terrible
kidney punch that sent him stagger
ing.
Then the man with the proboscis
seemed galvanized into life. Left
right, left, right the blows fell all over
Casey, until tremendous jolt on the
jaw sent him to sleep in the gutter.
The young man, having surveyed the
wreck of Casey, turned quietly and
walked away.
"What hit me?" demanded Casey
ten minutes later, when his friends
and neighbors had picked him up, re-
stored and busted him, and hung a
strip Of beef over the worst of his
eyes.
Say, don't you know? Battling
Leviw they Informed him in tones OF
awe. Hes old Lewis SON."
"What? The champeenF roared
|. Casey in delight. He had never
dreamed of such an experience coming
to him. The man who had knocked
him out, eight years before, had never
reached championship honOrs.,
cole clo'! Ole clo'r came Lewis
whine in the distance.
Casey ran after him. "Hey!" he
shouted. "Wait a mo-, Levi! 1 got
three suits an a dress suit an over,
coat, an my wifes got a suit an a
afternoon gown an ten pairs of shoes,
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