Show CITING FOR CROKER CHOKER Tammany Ex-Tammany Chief Like So Many Others Succumbed to the Fascination Fascination Fasci Fasci- nation of Stephenson The ideas of ot Richard Croker do not run on bookish lines Regretting this circumstance and considering that a taste for literature once Inculcated might be a source of ot pleasure in his advanced years a journalistic friend who crossed the Atlantic with the onetime onetime onetime one one- time chieftain of Tammany hall hail not long ago ngo cornered him in the steamships steamships steamships steam steam- ships library one evening and ob ob- ob obtained tamed a reluctant permission to read Treasure Island to him Much to his friends friend's encouragement Mr Croker listened with unfeigned Interest interest interest in In- terest until the lights went out and apparently enjoyed the narration of the exciting events of ot John Morgan Billy Dilly Bones Black Dlack Dog John Silver and the others Wherefore finding Mr Croker in the library the net evening the journalist again produced produced produced pro pro- his volume of or Stevenson and anddrew anddrew anddrew drew up a chair But the time one-time Tammany chieftain lifted a protesting hand Dont read that book to me any anymore anymore anymore more he said I couldn't get to sleep last night for thinking about those fellows |