| Show HE FINALLY RODE Couldnt Walk Another Step and Had to Ride Cant walk nozzer step Gotterest he soliloquised as he seized the fleetIng fleet-Ing lamp post with both hands swung around it and slid gently down on the sidewalk He crawled on his hands and knees until he could reach his silk hat which had landed on the asphalt sidewalk side-walk with a thump and bounded off Into the gutter then crawled back to the lamp post Cant walk nozzer step he repeated with a helpless shake of his head which dislodged his hat again Ill ring for coupe Wherezh sat messenger box and he searched packet for X every e PtX f 6iiIJ I It Wonder Wheres gone he muttered mut-tered Then he raised himself to a perpendicular i perpen-dicular with a constantly changing base and tried to rIng the lettesr box He I was unsuccessful In that but he found an Idea Ill ring for ptrol wagon Policeman take me home Ho fished out his citizens keys and within half an hour managed to get the key in the box and turn it Three minutes min-utes later half of the fire department dashed up What Is it shouted the driver oran or-an engine Heream ol man gimme a ride home shouted the Inebriate Cant walk nozzer step Who rang in that alarm Whoer spose Me me I wanter ride The driver pulled up a hydrant across the street and the coupling was made That fellows flue is burning out Give it to him yelled the fireman A few minutes later a halfdrowned man was lifted out of an ambulance at the receiving hospital and he told the surgeon that he had fallen two miles off the Sutter street hill Into the bay San Francisco Post I |
