Show the man with a liver ahad I 1 had such a pleasant companion on my way home from aurora he got on at bristol and took dinner at the cosmopolitan he bat eat with me at dinner and seem to have much appetite he ho groaned when he took up the bill of fare and sighed as he looked across the table at my order and then shook his head dolefully and told the waiter to bring him a little boiled trout with egg sauce a bit of boiled mutton with caper sauce some roast beef a trine rare just a taste of roast lamb iamb turkey with cranberry sauced bauce sauce mashed potatoes roast duck some pork and beans boston style stewed tomatoes corn 1 turnips squash a bit of cold coid tong tongue ue some sharp relish and a cup of conlee coffee then he ordered some assorted cake cranberry pie indian pudding and ice cream for dessert and said he felt a darned sight more like dying than eating if ahe he dies as well as he be eats just imagine just think what a glorious triumphant death that man will die shortly after dinner the poor man came into the coach and sat down ik opposite 6 me ah 21 2 1 he said sodd with a deep groan aci 1 I dont know what I 1 give if I 1 could eat like you af sir I 1 said in a fine bust of indignation in dig nation for I 1 feared he was going accuse me ot sw aown m knife every time I 1 took a bite of pie and JC 1 just made up my mind that w would 0 uld cut out his heart out if he hinted at such a thing roh rob oh it its a fact be he replied 1 I enjoyed a meal for fears yeara was it possible I 1 asked in amazement indeed yes he said 1 I ramn tarn am all out of fix fi ive got no liver at all to speak of 13 I 1 think one liver would be of any account to him I 1 rather thought that if he could get a couple of gangs of livers and work them by they might be able to help him along especially if he had them made of tin but then he was a stranger to me so I 1 feel justified in making the suggestion no he continued my liver Is no more account than a lump of lead I 1 suppose 11 be said plaintively ili its as big as four of yours and he looked at me with adap an appealing glance as though he expected me to take my liver out and let him examine it as though it were an oride watch he wanted to trade for now if there is anything in this wide beautiful world that will make me mad it is to have a man who is ailing to sit down and bore me with a list of his ills diseases and a detailed description of his anatomical derangements derange ments and the men of free america it seems to 0 me would rather talk of their perishing livers than their never dying souls and it always makes me mad for a man to come at me and burden me with complaints about the torpidity of his liver as though I 1 were his hla physician I 1 am proud to confess to the bild blID bl indest dest densest ignorance g concerning my own inner life I 1 dont know whether my liver is round or shaped like a gun case and I 1 dont where it is and 1 I dont care a continental although I 1 always had bad the impression that I 1 it t was just under the shoulder blades so I 1 said to the man with very great enthusiasm 4 oh do tell me all abo about ut your yo r liver ilver ver I 1 should so like to know all about it I 1 am so interested in such things the man looked a little surprised at my sudden enthusiasm but he salil eaid there much to tell about it it was as torpid he baid gaid aa as a snake in december oh charming char charming I 1 exclaimed and is it tame do you let it run around loose or do you have to keep it chained up Th the stared and looked as though he would like to sit a little further away he said he did n exactly understand me and how is your bp spleen leen I 1 asked eagerly land and fand your ventricles and do you tell me about your duct and how bow do you get along with your tonsil fc and have you raised aby new now bones since I 1 saw you last and when did you hear from jour sour diaphragm do tell toil me all about youri yourl seea make a clinic of yourself and tell mo me the christian names of all your bones and the appurtenances thereto appertaining perta lhing tell me but he got up and slowly out of the car and the conductor shortly afterward told meth me that atthe the man with a liver told him that the man who escaped from the asylum at jacksonville last week was in the rear coach |