Show L Tangled T I d Up U With W t h Miriam M BY SE SEWELL VELL FORD a n g e p 1 I r I a In Copyrighted day by r the Incorporated I Associated Asso J Sun Sua Say it If I 1 been havin a n dop streak Id a known was i about due There a thing hap happened happened happened to me for moren a week when I Pinckney blows into the studio Just Casual asual like as it if hed hod only come com In J cause he found the door open That j should hould have put me leery but It t tI I II I t gives gins him hint the hail hall and tells him he hes j like liko a pink just off ocr the Vie ue ic Shorty says sa s he how are you on harpy I Im a cinch says s I Every pan panhandler handler north of ot Madison square knows he can work me for a beer beercheck beercheck I check chek any time ho can run me dow down n j I Then be glad to your talents In aid of a worthy cause caus says hr hc It dont follow ways says I The do dl dose se servin seln In poor I passes up Theres too f i I much done clone ono for em aa u it is Its the un unworthy worthy orthy kind that wins my coin They i I enjoys enjo s it more and has a harder time gettin it I Your lo ie Is good Shorty Short says he h and I think I agree with your sen len sentiments sentiments But Dut this is a ease case where charity Is le only an excuse The ladles ladies 0 out it at Rockywold are getting up en un affair af at affair fair for the benefit of something or other cither no one seems to know just what anti ve put you down for a little I bag ha punching and AmI club swinging Then wire em to scratch the t u en n tr says sa S I I dont make any an or I chestra circle plays that I can dodge I i and when It comes to the kith leath leather 1 er or 1 before a R bunch of peacock millinery I 1 j every ever time tim Ill IiI put on Joe Jt as a sub if youve youe got to have hae some someone j I jone one ont Pinckney shook his head at that No o says he Ill Til tell Sadie she sh must leave you OU oft off the program Hold on says s I Was Vas It Sadie I billed me for this stunt He said it was Then Im on the job says ays I T Oh you ou can an grin your our ears off oft I dont don t tc care art c careWell Well Vell that was what fetched me mt out outto outto outto to Rockywold Rork wold on a Friday night when I had a right to be the ama amaI amateur tur tryouts at the Marlborough dub club instead The show until Satur Saturday I day evenin but Pinckney said I ought to be 1 there rt for tor the dress rehearsal I Theres only about a dozen guests there now so you ou get skittish ays ay s he het t And a dozen dont go far towards fill fillin fillIn fillin in up a place like Rockywold Rock wold Say Sar If I had the price Id like a shack where I could rould take care of more or less com without without settin up cot Mt beds bed but Ill be blistered If iC I can see the fun in a free hotel like that These amateur shows are apt to be pretty prett punk but I could see that bar barrin barlin barrin rin lin myself there was a n fair fall aggregation aggregation aggregation tion of or talent on hand The star was wasa a girl who did a barefoot r a herself with tI r parlor coochee that would have hate h e drawn capacity houses at Coney Cone Then there was a pretty boy whet could do things to the piano a duck duk that could tell funny funn stories and anda a bunch of oC six or eight ladies ladles and gents laid themselves out to prance through what they the called a n minuet Lastly there was me an Miriam She was one une of these limp shingle hested girls Miriam was She h r eve e much to say so I take any an particular notice of ot her But at the re rehearsal rehearsal I got next to the fact tact that she could tease music out of a violin in great style It was all right if it you ou shut your eyes e es for Miriam what oud call a pastel She Sho was as built a good deal on the lines of ot an pillar but that bar her from one OL 01 these dresses that leave you much in doubt as to her framework Yes Miriam biam could have hae stood a few pads Shed lived 1100 long enough Dough to t have found that out too but they the was miss In I should guess that Miriam had begun her collar collarbones collarbones collarbones bones to society about the time poor old Jhn Jahn L Ii fought the battle of ot New ew Orleans Yet when she snuggled the butt end of ot that violin down under her chin and squinted at you across tho bridge she had all the motions of a girl f Course I dope all this out to myself at nt the time for as I was say sa saIn In I size Ize her up special But it all came to me afterwards yes yes es The excitement broke loose along about the middle of ot the first night Id turned In about an hour before and was my ear like a circus hand handon on a Sunday layover w when hen I hears the trouble cry cn First off I goin gem todo to todo todo do any ally more than turn over and get a afresh afresh fresh tresh hold on the mattress for I aint much on out for fires unless I feel the headboard gettin hot But then I wakes up enough to remember that Rockywold is Js a long ways outside the metropolitan fire district and I be begins begins begins gins to to throw clothes onto m Inside a of ot two minutes I was outdoors lookin for a chance to win a Carnegie medaL There any show at all though The fire what there was of ot it was as In the kitchen in the basement of ot the wing where the help stays sta s Half a dozen stablemen had put it out with the garden hose and were finish In the Job by one of the cooks when I showed up upI I 1 watched em for tor a while and then started back to my room Somehow I got twisted up In the shrubbery and Instead of ot gon back the way I came cameI I J gets around on the other corner comer Just about then a window is shoved up and a female In white floats out on a little stone balcony She waves her arms and began to call for help tI Youre late says I Its all over That satisfy her at all though Some smoke and steam was still com corn comIn cornIn In ln from the far side of the and It was blowin In n through ugh another window Help help she squeals Help be before before before fore I jump I 1 says I The gone home with Ith the life lito net not The smoke the smoke says 88 she Oh I must jump Well It If youve got the fit says sas J I jump ahead ah but if ft you ou can hold yourself in a minute Ill bring a stepladder Then hurry burr please hurry huro says she site and starts to climb up on the edge of ot the balcony It want moren six sir feet to the turf anyway and it have been any killin matter if she had bad jumped she shed d landed on her neck but she 8 e was wast wase t e 1 f rf r w yF r 4 r x x arx g SR r rt rI t f fy S1 t y I If f a h dd Y Yr t f r B x I I A 5 4 t 4 Y 4 vim M wt 4 1 FY Y r t I I I I 4 t ii H Hl w i I i I I l l 7 i C CA I i 4 A a J J r t hr t to ys yeu 0 w d as loony loon as if shed been stand In on top of ot the tile Flatiron Bein as how Id forgot to bring a n stepladder with me I chases around after something I she could come down on The moon shinin very bright though and ana there seem to be any an boxes or 01 barrels around so I gilts gAts hold of something that was the very ticket It was one of at these thes wooden stands for flower pots I lugs that over and sets it up under the window Now w if It just slide down onto that easy says sas I your our life is saved sayed She looks at it once and begins to flop her arms and take on again I never can do it I know I cant says sa s she Ull IU fall Ill m fall fallWell Well Vell It was a case of Shorty McCabe to the tho rescue after all Coming up i says sa s I and hops on the thing holdin i out me paws pans She need any more coaxin She scrabbled over Oer that balcony rail and got a shoulder clutch on me that you ou have loosened with a crow crowbar crowbar crowbar bar I gathered in the rest of ot her with my left hand and arid steadied myself m with the other Lucky Luck she a heavy heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight weight or that potholder have stood the strain It creaked some as we went down but it held together Street floor all out says sa s I as I hit the grass But that even en get a wiggle out ut of her Its all over oer says sa s I Youre res rescued rescued rescued cued Talk about your our clingstones She was it Sever Never ever a move I tell whether shed fainted or was as too scared to let go But It was up to me meto meto meto to do something I stand there for the rest lest of the night holdin hold In a I strange lady draped the way wa she wasand was wasand wasI I and it seem to be just the right I thing to sit ait down to it Besides one of her elbows was to puncture my right lung il If It youre over the fire panic Ill try and hoist you ou back ack through the win window window window dow miss says sas I She ready to do any convers in then though She was just holdin onto me like I was too good a thing to let slip Well Yell it looks to me as though wed got to make a front entrance says I but I hope the audience 11 be slim Mim and with that I starts to finish the lap around the house and make for tor the double doors Ive carried weight before beCore but never that tha t kind and it seemed teemed like the blamed house was as big around as a city block Once or t ce we butted Into the bushes and another time I Inear Inear Inear near tumbled the two of us Into tile the pool of a fountain but after awhile I struck the front porch some out of breath and with a few wisps of ot black blackhair blackhall blackhair hair hall in my eyes e cs but still in the game The lady made a murmur murmur and she slacked her clinch I was to slide in quiet w without helm bein spotted by anyone for most of the women had gone back bacle to bed and I could hear the men down in the billiard room glasses over oer an extra dream soother Luck was against me though Right under the light stood Pinckney a silk pajama coat outside of a pair pail of black broadcloth trousers When hen he sees me mt and what I was he looks kind of pleased Hello Shorty says he What bat have you there It might be a porous p rous plaster by the way it sUcks sticks says I but it aint Its a lady Ive Ie been while tho the rest of you guys was around a wet cook By Dy Jove says Pinckney up and a close clo look Miriam Thanks says I We Ve aint been in introduced introduced Introduced yet Do you mind her fingers from the back of my neck But ut all he lie did was to stand there therewith therewith therewith with his mouth corners and them black eyes of hrs his like a pair of arc lights Its too pretty a picture to spoil says he So touching Reminds me mc of Andromeda and Just keep that pose a minute will you ou until I bring up the rest of the fel fellows fellows fellows lows bring up says sa s I out with one hand and gettin a grip on the collar of his liis silk jacket Now get busy or off comes your ki kimono kimono kimono mono With Vit 1 that he quits and goes goes to work on fingers and in about a minute she gives a IittI ump like shed Just heard the breakfast bell Why says S S she Where here am I Right where you landed five min minutes utes ago says I 1 IThen IThen Then she shudders all over Oer and squeals Oh A man A man manSure manSure manSure Sure says sas I you take me for a Morris chair did you Miriam linger for any an more She lets loose a a holler that near splits my ear open slides down so fast that her bare tootsies hit lift the tho floor with a spat grabs her up u away awa from her ankles with both hands 1 and sprints down the hall as If she was makin for the last car Sa Say says saja sa 8 I gettin me ml neck out of crook rook I wish that thought had come ome to her sooner I feel as if Id been squeezed by a pair pall of Ice tongs If she can hug like that In her sleep steep what could she do when she was wide wideawake wideawake wideawake awake Shorty Short says sas Pinckney with his face as solemn s lemn as a preacher Im pained and astonished at this Me lle too says I Dont jest says he This looks to tome tome tome me like an attempt at If It oud had that grip on you ou I 1 Iguess Iguess guess have thought it was thE thEreal thereal real thing says I But theres a lit little littIe tIe the tip I want to pass on to you von yo go this josh business around the lot or your be minus a star act Ill stand for all the private kid din you ou can hand out but Ive got m my objections to a public joke ook part Now ow will you jou ou do it itHe itHe itHe He was mighty might disappointed at hay hav ha haIn In ln to do it but he gave gae his word like a aI little man and I makes tracks upstairs I glad enough to be let off of so easy It was a queer kind of a faint if what it was says sn S I 1 to myself m III bet b t I fights shy sh of anything more of the kind that I sees comin my way wa This is what I gets for so far from Broadway But a little thing like that dont in interfere interfere interfere with my sleep In w when hen slumbers on the card and I proceeds to tear off what was due me on the sched and maybe a little more I 1 get a sight of Miriam all daylong day daylong da long Not that I was rues my m eyes e os any There was better to look at Sadie for instance Course Pinckney was bossin the show but she I v was as bossin him and anyone an one else that 1 H was teas as handy They Th w were ere goin to pull oft off the racket in the ballroom and Sadie found a lot to do to It a hum hummer hummer hummer mer Sadie is Maybe lIa bc she want brought up among bowlegged English butlers and a lot of Swedish maids but learned the tho trick of gettin em to break their necks for her whenever the She says s s the word All the forenoon more mor folks Kept coin com comIn In on every train and there was two rows of ot them big tourin I cars In ht the stables By dinnertime Rockywold looked like Jile a Saratoga hotel durin the season Chappies w were re pla id lawn tennis te nh and leggin l golf bags around Tind nd keepin the ivories rollin while the t e front walks walles and porches might have been Fifth ave ae on ona ona ona a Monday afternoon aft from the dry d goods that was bean bein sported there In a corner of the billiard room and mix much but I was It all in Not ot that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was lonesome or anything an thing like that I likes to see se any kind hind of fun even eYen if it aint just my m kind And AmI be bp besides besides sides there thre was more or 01 less leSi In the bunch that I knew But 1 I dont care about to the front until I gets the call So everything runs along smooth and andI I was vas figurin on makin a late train downto down to Primrose Park after affer Id done my little turn I care much about seem the show plum so I stuck to the dressin room until they the sends word that it was was mj my m next Wed cd had the bug apparatus rigged up in inthe Inthe inthe the and there theme any anything an anything thing left to bedone be clone but hook h ok on the leather and spread out the mat Pinckney was doln the and the jolly joll he lie gives me before he lugs luge I F me out was so methin tierce fierce I reckon re kon I Iwas Iwas was aa blush in some when I went on and maybe what called out such i 1 hand I just took one squint at the mob and felt a chill down my spine Say its one Ill thing to step up before a gang of sports in a t a hall iw and another to t prance out in ring clothes on a plat lorm In front of ot two or 01 three 1 l real rj al ladies and gents their thir theire e evnin mn nin togs There I was though and the crona rO d i doin doln the hurrah act for all it ac acworth i t worth When I gets get the bag b sum goin oin I feels f better aid aad whatever grouch I has against for not oot TI m TIM TIIT year vear IT far my gym suit I puts into short am ara punches on the pigskin p The stunt seemed to take I could cou d tell that by t Ill he buzz that came over the footlights N matter what youre doln whether i imaku i makin campaign speeches or a corner comer in six rounds round its always lva s a to help to know that youve got the crow crowd a 1 with you By the 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