Show A Flimflam Senator Depew was explaining to a clergyman the slang term of flimflam flim-flam To flimflam he said Is to confuse a mans mind to such a degree that he actually consents to and concurs In his own cheating Now permit me to give you an illustration Il-lustration of flimflam A boy goes to t a grocer and asks for a pint of molasses Put tho molasses sir ho srfys In thls pitcher v I Tho grocer draws the molasses Inn In-n pint measure pours It Into the pitcher and hands It to ho boy But the boy looking nt the measure meas-ure exclaims See here you havent given mall m-all my molasses Theres some still sticking to tho bottom of tho moos ure Oh thats all right sonny says the grocer easily There was soD fn the measure before Thereupon the fllmflamnied boy I goes off content I |