Show I DIDNT CONSULT THE OWNERs OWNER-s Adventure of a Man With Another I An-other 3Ians Boll i A lot of us were wailing at Syracuse for the train from Oswego when we noticed an old man and his son the latter about 25 years old and built like a horse Something seemed to be troubling the boy and by and by the old man slipped around and put us on Said he Bill has got a bile on his left leg about as big as a pint cup Hes had it two weeks and I got him to town to have it lanced Come to git here ho haint got the sand Sunthin orter be done and Ive thought of a way j I Well Id bust the bile in a York minit if I could get the chance but Bill suspects me If one of you fellers would go up and tap him hed be the most thankful man in the county after it was over You will always find some one in a crowd I ready to offer himself up for anything j The man in our crowd who volunteered was traveling tnrougn the country with a fireproof paint He was a slim cadaverous I chap with a wheezy voice and he said to the father Old man Ill do it rye had biles for the last twentyfive years and I know what it js to suffer All of you keep quiet and Ill have Bill singing hosannas in lessn five minutes He stepped out of the crowd wandered around for a bit and as Bill became interested inter-ested in a railroad notice tacked on the I wall the humanitarian approached him I and dealt him a smart kick on the calf of his 1 left leg A wild yell and a jump followed I and then the room was filled with hats dust coats arms legs and boots and we pulleclBill ofItofind the paint man lying unconscious un-conscious and apparently tied into fourteen knots A doctor who was present worked over him for ten minutes before ho opened his eyes Bill and the old man had slipped out long before that and we had picked up two teeth a crushed hat a broken watch chain a smashed watch and some pieces of cloth and laid them beside the victim He stared at us for a minute or two cleared his mouth of blood and then sat up to say Bill had a bile I was fool enough to try to bust it for him and Bill busted me instead Gentlemen place me on a bench and leave me to my reflections I want to figger out if I haint a dangerous man to be allowed to run at largePNew York Sun |