| Show T WORKED UN HIM A variation from the serpentine narrative I 1 saw a young man light a ion hungarian cigar the other evening and throw himself back in a chair to enjoy the smoke and conversation says a new york herald writer the rian cigar is something like a pittsburgh toby only it is twice as long as the pittsburgh article and before you get through with it is also twice as strong the young man was more interested te in the conversation than in alie cigar apparently BO he laid the latter down on the edge of the table a moment as he talked the waggish gentleman next to him slyly took the cigar and cut off about three inches of the fire end and began to smoke it replacing the body of the weed when the young man got through with bia story at which all the rest laughed extravagantly he picked up the cigar again and palled at it his face wore a puzzled look as ho glanced at the end and saw it had apparently never been lighted but ho struck a match and lighted it again after a few pulls ho laid it down to answer the pleasantries pleasant ries whereupon the man on the other side drew his knife and neatly cut the fire end oil and drooped it in the cuspidor the expression on the face of that storyteller story teller when he picked up that cigar and again essayed to smoke was something too funny to describe he gave two or three vigorous puffs at it then stopped and looked at the fresh end while the other fellows were interested te in almost anything else at the moment AR soon as the would be smoker saw eliat his cigar had not been lighted he turned a little pale his glass aside and with a hasty and a story of an alleged forgotten engagement bolted for the street amid the demoniacal glee of the cruel man left behind thus doth conscience make cowards of us all |
