Show OLD SrO ORT Rr Ai Jr EXPLAINS illS IS Johnny threw up i f his hands bands and snort snorted 1 I v ed with amazement nt j jA U A glass he be had been Jad J 1 gently genty polishing fell fel J L to the floor with a 5 5 o 0 r I crash but he recovered I ered himself In time timeto to extend his arm am armS S over the bar ba with c the ample ale hand hd on onte oni i I the te Od end of It wide yide ide I open Huh Fh akl i the Old Sport r you yu act at lure like lJ you never neverS S 1 J seen jean en at an old pid friend ome m home home From the t e way w you push your mitt mit at me me make a man manI think I lowe owed you ou something smet t Why Wh Sport St Johnny are you gettin bughouse Is I bats bat merry In your Has HI your porter l t r ducked with wih the bank bk roll roU you ou been all aU these the the nights night anyway I aint laid I eyes eye on you since you seine coma a in here one an au trIe tried tope to peddle paddle a con talk about havin elected le e Ete Bir mayor all by yr r lonesome Ave Are te you qt of politics or what t the s have Ie you o been doin on onI 5 Dont try tr to rub it in inow Johnny I Dont try tr rub It lt in You YO put me in inI I mind of a H nn rit Johnny the Old I Sport went on Oft Your Youre dead daad whim to I push a man goin gem down d wn the hill But Ive taken take a ft brace br ce my boy an n the tile I hants that me shall know me meno meno meno no more as Shakespeare says I You want to know where Ive been an buried burled myself all an this time Well tell you Its Ifs thIs way Along after the t else elec election tion you u know I hedged out my bets on onEz Ez Ba anso anH an so win anything a feller meets me on th treet t an n says a Sport he lie says wouldn you like e to hold down the he desk d k for awhile r Why Johnny is isIt IsIt It possible you dont dontI I j know what it m means s sto to old down the j 1 desk Friend friend your education Is pC nf f fth th the sere an whitish h 5 chip variety v I dont dOnot dontI t I know w whether w ther I am a j r fl make this here deal a J l clear to your barren c intellect but Ell ll try Q Holdin down the thea thed n Q J a d cesk sk k Johnny Johnn is like In the lookout chair Ija 4 newspaper insi of f faro bank b but the ideas id largely the same Instead of out ut for sleepers an bum plays the desk desir man on the news newspaper newspaper I paper looks out for bum copy an staves I off people that thinks theys got a kick kickI comb There is other things the desk deskman deskman deskman I man does but I 1 aint ain t goin gem to waste no notime notime notime time to explain them to you Its sufficient to say y that I takes the job an anI anI anI I been buried there ever since the day da after the day you last lI st seen me Oh Op say Johnny but Its a tough to proposition My troubles begins bOb ns the th next day after I goes to work A sweet young girl comes J In an wants to know if rm it I makes a front an anthen then she gives me a play about hew liw h he her r dear d ea r little brother brot her an I young thing that th never a harsher game e than tW Is pinched for ii two bite bU from a barber Of course cour e ethe the boys got nethla to tc do with the play It dont stand to reason n that he has h hs s I I I for he aint bought no automobiles nor diamond studs Its just a a mean low lowdown lowdown down dc wll trick on the th part of ot the tile barber to get fret the kid into trouble an disgrace th the tho 3 family It the he first time little Willies s si i been in any trouble an wont I please pl ase keep it out bf f the paper p per Thata the way way the girl puts It up an I tell you ou Johnny my heart shore goes go s out to her rt I tells her little Willies name shant be Wasted blasted if Ive Iv got to furnish furnish the dynamite Not in a hundred years She Sh some an thanks me an au Im all swelled up when the lad that does police cornea comes in Do you know kUoY k little Willie I asks Know him Why sure I know him says the police repOrt rep r I he stole now By degrees he breaks the news that little Willie has been pinched times an for everything except a ft bank an murder The sweet girl had been con to me Johnny Johnn Next day a man comes up to the office ollice with a glare in his eye like a locomotive headlight shinin On a a wet rail I seen reen right away away that had agitated him an nn began pegan to wish I was back in dear old City I 1 wants to know thos ho responsible n for this he be says hard It was up to me an I Iwas Iwas was where I coul lay down my hand I The Th thing he called this wa wan a 4 breezy little piece that described him as ns a wife wito beater boater a crooked gambler and a few other things like Jike that I II I u Well VElI friend I says S y wh ts wrong r ong about It wrong he says I some agitated why Its all aU wrong wrong I r raint aint the man at all aU Hold on now be becam becam cam earn I says say Be cam earn he says good goodLord goOdLord goodLord Lord man could you ou be earn cam if such a apiece apIece apiece piece come COmb out about you And thereat I admitted that I would have difficulty p myself under similar circum circumstances circumstances 1 I stances I argues the thins thing I with hm him for a few j minutes an a n finally Anally I convinces him that there no I i Xi Z i I harm hann meant al at although I though it Jt was kimler hard hara on him He I I went away happy but Johnny Id I ruther rather fail to better I deuces In a jackpot than to go through that there ordeal again So it went f day in an day out There was a tl lot of kicks but whenever anything right good was was got In about a aman aman aman man he ho somehow or other forgot to call callup callup callup up an n tell us he liked d It ft Its Ita a n dern sight t easier to forget a 8 favor than to I I an injury as I found out while I was on II the desk Johnny The Th Old Sport sighed profoundly as he gulped the that Johnny Johnn had I set out silently while he was talking i Then he braced his shoulders back and with the air all of a man who has been bee n eased Cd of a weighty burden he said sai But all al that Is behind me rae now Johnny Its ns In Inthe inthe Inthe the dim and distant past Hereafter Im m going to mingle with the people an leave I the desk to some man who likes the play pia J I The stepladder stepI limit the deck with the j I II I joker counting as 8 an ace c or or to Jill fIll 1111 a j flush are the things that suits Its your Un Uncle UnI I I cle Sport S me day da Johnny Jo my I may Y lie be e eI tempted to give you a few Cew more I I l of my m life on the desk But Dut i j Inot not now Johnny Johnn not now They T hey are are yet too painful I |