| Show 1 IT THE E 1 WOM WOMAN N OF IT ITI The fishing nuts are around again said Lucile the Waitr Waitress ss as the Friendly Friend Friend- ly Patron tackled his roast beef From from rom now on I suppose well we'll have a bevy of ot them here daily I presume so so was his comment Oh well I dont don't mind Lucile went on Only I wish th they y would lay layoff off the big fish stuff Im urn In their Im I'm not no listening post for fish exaggeration In fact I dont don't care much of anything at all about the ski skinny ny tribe Today we had one one of ot those thos fishing bugs in here He no sooner plumps onto a stool than he elects me a victim to hear his whys and wherefores S Well he says with a a seagoing grin Im Tm on my way to pester the old fish a bit i I Fine I 1 says B But t lets me and you you- pester the theold old chef out in the kitchen a little Would you mind prescribing prescribing pre pre- i scribing your poison polson sos so's the wheels j of justice can skid along In other directions di- di I 1 Oh you want me to order eh 7 he says S tell him much Not at all I 1 very Fifth Firth avenue in my I 1 would merely like to have you visit with me mea me mea a while This rs Is my day in Shall I have you shown to the wino cellar by bythe bythe bythe the butler Its It's right next to the coal bin Now where do we go from here He lie was taken by astonishment astonishment astonishment aston aston- at me being so with style stuff but he finally Just grins Have you lamb chops he a asks ks Oh Oh quite so I tell him 1 I just saw the chef beating b sO some sone e up Why was he beating them up he asks It was then I let him have It wiOt full percussion I 1 j just st look superfluous ous and answer He was licking his chops Well VeIl you know and I 1 know that was a pretty nifty bit of Jollity but would you believe It that it-that that guy dont don't get me All right h he says solemn- solemn like Ill Til take some chops And when yOU you eat them I says still right gay you will be bo like a great composer of the pi piano no fortay he asks that Choppin I says To tell you the whole truth I 1 didn't know th that t Choppin was a composer until one day 1 read his name on n a apIece apiece apiece piece of music I 1 found in the ash ashcan ashcan ashcan can back of ot our apartment The fish guy still looks like a blank Now last year when I was was fishing off the banks of ot Cuba he says l 1 hooked a fish that was so big It Jerked me into the water As I fell tell my head hit a rock rok and and Knocked out all your brains 1 Interspersed supplying the interruption interruption interruption tion with a little platonic silence and nd fun tun he Nearly says Too bad I tell him Well sir he ho says Im I'm quite a wit and asks me if it I ever fish only I never Id like to to toI I says have h ve yet been able to overtake a angle angle ansle an an- gle worm As for grasshoppers they're too spry for tor me Say boy how he does laugh It IL seems like this Joy department has just been woke up and he Is very S happy make double Youre going to me up with laughter he says Speaking of doubling up I 1 says in an absurd tone wait walt till them chops ge get through with you you the But he ho says returning to original subject you say you never do any fishing Not me met mel I 1 tell him Gentlemen who leave tips do it of ot their own voluntary voluntary voluntary vol vol- vol- vol accord Well sir he went oat oot soon after atter that and I presume he wended his way to be another Ike Watson Watson Wat Wat- son the Did he leave you a tip asked the Friendly Patron Yes yes replied Lucile I found a dime under his plate but I 1 haven't got the slightest idea what made him leave It Copyright 1918 by the Press Publishing Co the New York Evening World |
