Show WHEN ED WAS OUT AHEAD Ed Thrift the king of the kidders was with an Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin company com corn pany traveling through Indiana one time Oh I wasn't an actor said Ed as ash ashe ashe h he sliced a pie behind the lunch counter yesterday I was the advance man It was my business to go ahead of the show from town to town and borrow a abIg abig abig big yellow calf to use as the bloodhound and also to distribute handbills How did you like it it somebody asked Uke It at alt all Ed Ed EdThe The manager used to make me ride on the blind baggage or r walk I used to sleep In box cars My salary was 7 a week and expenses I never had bad any expenses though except a dime now and then for dinner How long were you rou out Three weeks The manager owed me 21 I wanted to quit He saw something had to be done so he fined me 25 for forgetting forgetting forgetting getting a calf that had bad lost its tail taU for forone forone forone one towns town's performance Then you never got your 21 eh asked one of his hearers No and I had to beat it out of town on a freight train to escape being arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested for tor not paying the mana manager er the 4 difference say Ed with i a sad smile fk ge rT Keep out of the theatrical a b business s he concluded especially the advance work It aint what it looks to be Denver Denver I Post |