Show PHILADELPHIA DRUMMER IN TEXAS TEXAS I The Philadelphia I. I drummer had the floor foor and was vas vas having all al his tongue tonge could do In supplying the demand for storie stories ou out t of ot his his his' exp experiences which were not always as placid as a they w were we're re rein in his own native town The last time I was w. w in Texas Texa he said which was wa three months ago I Iwa Iwas Iwas was wa on my my way to a hot hoOt town down there which I will call cal because be be- be cause hat that is the kind of a pla place e it is or rather was when I had been there two years years' before While waiting at a junction unction where I got dinner dinne before taking the tle tie accommodation I 1 fell fel into conversation with a typical Texan Tean of the old school and Incidentally maiden maiden- tally taly mentioned the fact fat that I hadn't been to S. S for some time Ume and didn't kno know how things thins were vere there thee and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps he might tell tel me Tam Tain stranger he said lugubriously taint This disturbed me for if It I it wasn't want any good I certainly didn't want to waste time and money goIng goin there to see the thE one or two merchants I 1 might d do business with and might not anxiously wrong with wih it I inquired V Well l Ive I've Ive been livin fer for the thelast thelast thelast last nine years and Im I'm gittin glUn out this very minute Its It's Is I's plumb pe petered ered out that's what what How do you mean Gone Gona Into bankruptcy Busted Buste financially Oh not nt that a Im I'm Im about Its Is morals morals Oh I 1 never thought it was very ve much on that line lne anyway I said greatly relieved ThaI wasn't a a better beter town in the whole State when J fust went he said in a tone of resentment you dont don't know It I stranger he went vent aventOn venton on on but it used to b be bC that we was shore to have a hangin er In town every thirty er sixty days as as clockwork I think I r read ad something not long ago in the papers papers' about a lively time I you had there followed followed followed-by by a funeral or or I two two Yes he admitted sadly but that was three months ago and nd th r been sence sence But that aint the wust by a heap sight and he looked as if i he would weep at the drop of a hat by gum gm they've gone and a game 0 uv golf to town and this mornin when I sees em off the slinks er whatever whatever whatever what what- ever they call cal the dern things I had h to git out and come down heer fer fresh freh air And I aint goin back No siree I aint It wont won't be no time now tell tel they'll therl be a a. lot uv doods chasin chasm round roundtown roundtown town wih with ther socks sok outside ther pants and stranger stanger Ill I'll Il be danged efI ef I cant can't stand it I. I I 1 cant cant Oh I 1 laughed you mustn't lose heart that way Brace up Something Is going to happen to a dude in golf stockings on the streets of a Texas town sure Im I'm Im not saying a word but you know now enow Texas His face lighted up as If I the sun had risen behind it i and he stuck out his hand cheerfully Shake stranger he said and lets let's letsgo letsgo letsgo go and git a snifter Youve You've heartened me up moren anything In many a day Danged ef I dont don't g back hack to the old place and wait walt fer better times He went back with me and the very first man we met on on on the platform was wasa wa a dude In golf stockings and my companions companion's companions companion's com corn panion's pardons face grew hard but he only shook his head New menacingly New New NewYork York Herald |