Show Expensive Forgetfulness Slabs knew very well he didnt look pretty hobbling around on crutches but what are looks compared with a cinch on a rich railway corporation for injuries inju-ries from a trolley car Slabs had hired It good lawyer who had personally Interviewed In-terviewed all the witnesses and assured him there was no chance to lose Some of Slabs friends commiserated with him on his misfortune and some of them didnt Some hurried to get him ft comfortable chair when he ambled laboriously la-boriously into the cafe at the Astordorf but others bluntly advised him to come off his perch throw away his crutches and get Into the game again Slabs looked pained and said that he feared he never should be able to walk without elutchOH Six months after the accident Slabs was III the Astor ol cafe engaged in a heated discussion with two l companions about the record of a certain horse At a table near him sat a rising young attorney at-torney I hired by the railroad corporation Slabs was suing Slabs knew him very well because the attorney had personally person-ally made overtures for compromise which had been promptly rejected There was nothing for It hut trial and the time I for It I I was appiwichlns1 t i with a bone In its tooth Youre wanted at the telephone sir said a waiter to Slabs Excusing himself the maimed victim of a muddle headed molormnn as he called himself hobbled away on his crutches toward the booth while the attorney I at-torney looked on with the conviction I that If he made nn appearance like that before the Jury It would scarcely be necessary I nec-essary t to submit testimony But Slabs wus thinking of the hoise he had heen talking about Ho stood to win JO by merely referring to an almanac I al-manac This fact was in his mind when I he went Into the telephone booth with hln crutches It was also In his mind I when he ante out of the booth without them Slabs friends were astonished to see him come toward them crutchlcss as spry nn ever he was In his life Tie sat down and resumed the horse 11IBCtlli lon where It had been dropped Then the railroad lawyer excused hlmnclf to the man he was with and in turn hurried toward the telephone booth lie clime out In triumph bearing the crutches and approached Slab Excuse me he interrupted but havent you forgotten something Great Scott roared Slabs as visions of heavy damages vanished In the dim dlfitance my crutches T wonder how I ever get along without them You got along very 1 well I assure you retorted the attorney sweetly loT shall be hupppy to summon your friends to bear witness to that fact Philadelphia Philadel-phia Ledger |