Show A CASE OF THE RETIRED BURGLAR RELATES AN interesting experience trow bow he ere C came ame to eat roasted boasted oysters with a gentleman who sleep he make a cent but ea buoyed nj oyed the rest eest and had a pleasant visit I 1 1 I 1 I found the dining room of a house that I 1 was looking over one night said the retired burglar filled with a glow of light from a bright hard coal fire burning in a grate at one end of the room there was just a little bit 0 of f gas burning from one burner but it only made a little yellow tip in the redder glow from the fire about half the table was covered with a folded white tablecloth ble cloth clean and thick and with tho the creases still in it on this cloth thero were a plate and a plate of bread and some come butter and vinegar and catchup and things like that and on the other end of the table that covered tho the end 4 nearest the fire there was an old fashioned square tea tray with the ja panning pretty much all worn wom off jo boking oking down by the fire I 1 saw on 60 one rde faide of the hearth a half bushel basket pretty near full of big selected oysters pretty uniform in m size and laid in car carefully with tho the round shell down it t was a winter night caldern col dern greenland outside and d this room was enst as comfortable in as it could be and that layout did look inviting and I 1 co even guess who it was for because the house was shut up lightern tigh tern a drum evidently nobody expected and nobody sitting up but while I 1 was waa et rt anding there wondering over it I 1 heard a door open the one next to the one id come in at and in comes a man that looks at me for a minute and says I 1 I 1 I 1 this is an unexpected pleasure and I 1 says it is to me too looking at him at the same game time and seeing a man maybe a little biggeln big gern myself end and perfectly resolute and capable and able to tako take care of himself 11 but sit down he says an and eat da Eom something ething with me find fin d another oyster knife in the left hand side of the right hand drawer of that sideboard right back of you and there it was and when I 1 turned around again the man was putting oysters on the fire in the grate five minutes later ho he was wab picking em up with a pair of tongs en an laying leil em carefully round shell down ori bli the old tea tray now will you just help yourself ho he says you do this very often I 1 says well no I 1 dont ho says and I 1 do it at all if I 1 could help it but bui I 1 suffer from insomnia and I 1 find that when I 1 cant sleep a little snack of something to eat cat makes me ine sleep I 1 can tell generally before I 1 go to bed tho the nights when I 1 aint going to sleep aud auch nights I 1 have em fix up something to eat cat in case I 1 should need nea it ana abid then I 1 como come down blown and find it like this and eating something sort of tranquilizes my mind and I 1 go back to bed and go to sleep all right I 1 he pushed the top shell og off an oyster in front of him over on to the tray and put a little bit of a scrap of butter on the oyster and looked at it dissolve a minute and then he put on just one drop of pepper sauce turned the oyster over in the deep shell s 0 o as to get the dryton dry fop side into the oyster juice and melted butter and then he ate it il thes ther he dipped a little hunk of bread into t 0 the juice in the deep shell and ate that 1 aud then he pushed the empty shell out of the way on the troy tray and took another oyster off the fire with the tongs and 4 began on that darned if I 1 could eee how a man that enjoyed eating as much as he did could ever bother about anything but he did all the sa same me that was plain or he bo have been there cc 1 it I dont suppose he says that you ever suffer from insomnia and if you did it make any difference because you want to bo be wide awake nights in your business eh ch and lie he seemed to think thi wasa was a pretty slick little sort of a joke then I 1 told him how I 1 came to go into the business that when I 1 was a young man I 1 had been a great Euf sufferer ferer from insomnia myself that in those days there were not nearly so EO many night occupations to choose from as now and that my choice was limited that I 1 had not followed burglary from inclination but that I 1 was compelled to do something for a living and burglary was the only night work I 1 could get at the time and how I 1 came to take it up as a business you dont mean it he says put on the blower and start up the fire a little if id hal ha known you yon were coming id had another basket baskel I 1 I 1 well we finished em up and I 1 says saya to him what do you yon think think you yon can sleep now and he said he ha thought he could and he lot let me out ont the front door and welt to bed I 1 suppose I 1 know I 1 went homo myself feeling comfortable I 1 mado a cent but bat its a good thing to take a rest now BOW and then and I 1 always did Us like croaa roa oysters 1 new tv suu sun |