Show FASTED FOR FOUR DAYS Prisoner Waited for the Milk Toast That Hevor Came Ill do no work until my stomach Is In proper cdmlltion Whats that I Well you hcardpwhat I said Well well see tI This Is the substance of a conversation conversa-tion had between Jailer Kimball and a prisoner who gave his name as Tom Kearns and who was recently sent up for sixty days for vagrancy the prisoner claiming that Dr King had told him that ho must eat nothing but milk toast and have that served at a fairly good temperature Kimball wus staggered for a short time but absolutely refused to allow the milk t asl even f the doctor did order It And so Mr > Kearns fasted for four days During the first day he was sulky and hover failed to ask when a1ed aqJe that milk toast was coming Kimballs reply was that it would be probably around in tho sweet subsequently and he suggested sUr gested that in the meantime it would ije a good idea for Kearns to whet up his appetite with a big dish of bean soup This idea was repulsed with scorn and so foul days passed At the end of that time the prisoner asked where the milk toast was O Its I coming I guess was the reply You see we did not like to take the rIsk of giving you milk toast alone so wo have sent for some humming birds and as soon as the cook can get the feathers off them we shall serve them roasted with the toast I will make a very nice dish wi Kearns was staggered for ai moment said something about being Jiggered and then sat down to the breakfast table whero ho devoured three quarts of soup and called for more He is now among creek road the best workers on the City |