Show A Hard Luck Story New York Press j i You fellows never saw an any hard hardluck luck saId the commercial traveler to toa a group up ot of his I began my career In a small country store iId finally bought out the But times got dull and I failed Then I moved to Missouri and with a few dol dollars lava lars saved saed from the wreck established myself in the fur Lur I started to raise cats and anel sell their fur I stocked a pond with German carp whIch made madeI fine food for the cats Whenever I I skinned a cat I threw the body into the pond and dead cats you OU know make makeI fine food for carp By f feeding the carp I to the cats and the cats cata to the earp carp I established sort ot of an belt ar arrangement arrangement that promised perpetual mo me Uon tion with ever eer Increasing But the second summer pond dried up In Inthe the thc drouth the carp arp all dl diet d and the cats cals starved to death After Arter a liquId or of sym sympathy sympathy pathy the group permitted the drum drummer men mer to proceed All I had left he continued was an old gray mare marc I started in the popcorn business because popcorn was high and used usell the te old gray mare to plow with U gentle genUe gentlemen men I raised the finest crop o e ever r seen In th the west nS ber I had bad It aU all harvested and In the crib read ready to be hauled to market One night th the crib caught fire and popped every oeo blessed ear ar of that corn There was 38 popped corn aU all over the plantation two feet teet deep It was a sight to behold The old gr gray mare came out and at It and thInking it was wap a snowstorm ln lay down in the middle or of the field awl and froze to death And here I am tr traveling yeUn for tor a living Xo No boys bors you dont know I what hard luck Is |