Show OlD TOM KEARNS DS IDE GLAD MIT r 1 The Old Sport W re an J air r of ab Str addition to his check suit and his hl white w it stove stovepipe stovepipe Stovepipe pipe hat liat He Ire drank his h s mineral water ahead of his bust busthead busthead busthead head a sure sign fl of mental distress In answer to John Johnnys Johnnys nys flys look of inquiry I the Old Sport Snort wiped his brow with a ai i large 1 a rg e bandanna I handkerchief and I ejaculated Ah All Alli i Lord I i You Yeu look like you got of s m thin on your mind Sport ven yen ventured ventured Johnny J timidly after a long pause i Trouble Trouble was the reply I Yes Y s Johnny I got considerable more mare moreon mareon moreon on my mind than my hat an my pre pro premature premature mature It seems to be a long longtime longtime longtime time between drinks Johnny Johnn an so 80 rim Til proceed to elucidate myself a few as the feller f said Im mighty un uncertain uncertain r s certain what to do doan doan 1 an if I on burden myself m Self ru TU ruia ia get some light Johnny did you ever J hold a bobtail flush h with a pair of ot kings when the man ahead has drawn one Did TO you yU ever debate In your mind whether it would be pleaser to draw to the tire kings Jf try to fill the bob bobor or break the pair an v kinder like C the place Pm in inThe inThe The boys Is hot after me are to go into politics again They I all remember how Ez would have got gotI the large Icy mit if I come In I just at the nick of time an helped him out Im walkin out of Separation n ave aye avenue I nue this mornin when who should I Ii meet but my old friend Tom Koonts i iTom Tom seen me the minute he ho laid ey eyon eyes on me Up he comes like a mt ed gambler found a sleeper while the lookout mans II S Why Sport how are you he Ire says say reach in out his mit with that glad smile still lingerin over his face Its been many a day since I see seo you Sport he says Oh Im so so Tommy I says won dens derin all aU the time what he means by bein bela so glad to see me I know i 1 aint I borrowed no money from him an for a I minute or two Im puzzled But he h Ups tips I his hand the next minute Sport he I says lookin serious Im in a kind of a abad abad abad bad place an I needs you mighty bad Why Tommy s up I lays says 4 Its this Sport he says My friend Arthur Brown you know h Arthur and mes brothers thinks I got a 8 good chance to be chairman of this thi here big convention in Philadelphia next ne t month an Sport he says darned if I got gall enough to think so too 4 Do you yo shore enough Tommy I says just like that Yes he ho says s ys 1 I I shore thInk I can win but bt I need your yourI I help Sport he says I 1 want you to o oI I I go gO with me rae down to You Yon know Jar w Mark ark an Teddy lt an all aU them main guys he says an you can fix fl thing for tor me Some of the boys is I likely to be sore at me because I 1 quit the other oUter convention II liable to say some seine mean things but I was waa ignorant then Sport he says Baya I hardly a case cue card from a split an so I got t imposed on oni i But It wont happen again alu unless they turn me rue down an then I tell you Im liable to get my dander up an bust their dern dem convention he says sa Well Johnny I hates to turn Tom Torn Tommy Tommy r my Toy down because r I me inc an hims been I good friends ever r since the city cam Cain campaign Jt ft looks to tome Jn I me melike like he can get that chairmanship I but what the dickens h he wants nu w with It is moren noren I can under understand understand understand stand I asks him hint why an he tells me that he wants want wan it first because Arthur wants wanta him to have havet t I t I IHo He Ho says Arthur ArthurI I knows hes the only man in the Utah I i delegation that fitten Atten to hold the job joban jobI joban I an if he be gets in in Arthur can CIl cop some me of the Ute reflected glory He says ays i eople jopie te look took up to a man that gets such a job They invites him to clam bakes an such things thing e an lets him buy wine in the warmest kind of drink I 1 mentions expense money to him an he hI says say hell pay all the bills bUla Hell buy me whisky an let me smoke long lOBS bit cigars Yes Yell hell grubstake e me from start to finish Of course Tommy aint the kind kiM to give glYe a man money to spend foolishly Hell HeJl give me a stack to go against acain t the bank with It if they have any allY in an sit hell keep keepIn me mein meIn in booze but when it comes to I coin around foolishly ly Tommy draws the theline theline line an so 80 do del I I Im pretty near persuaded to go gor goFt r i Johnny an help Ft I Tommy out The I only thing holdin me back is bik the fear that the country might get overbalanced You I take men like Tom Tarn mit k Kearns an my Colonel Lan Lannan I nan can who I hear is coin though merely as a Johnny merely as a looker on I say you take men of that stripe out of the state an put em suddenly In another state why the state they goes in is lie lia liable ble hile to wobble an the state they leaves is liable to tip up I may have to stay here to hold things level The Tb Old Sport turned moodily away as asa asa a customer came in and as he pushed ha his haway way through the swinging doors he was heard to remark Politics is a game I cant seem to keep cases on |