Show abbreviated STORY THE SPORT TWILLER SCRATCH asked verna the same said twiller scratch oh I 1 m so glad to find you in I 1 ua girls are getting up a fund to teach foreign children in america their na alve language so they can talk to their fathers and mothers in case the parents can t speak english and if you would care to delighted 1 said twiller scratch heartily and he made out a check tor 50 the boss bertny Is a sport the stenographer murmured admiringly to the bookkeeper during the next two hours twiller scratch bought a set of books entitled tights thousand selected chinese siamese and portuguese proverbs for 9 from a book peddler because the poor devil looked so hard up sub ascribed scribed a fund tor sending over shoes to the agoo savages in africa and gave the office boy 10 for his birthday then he went to lunch with fred osprey and insisted on paying the whole check which came to 8 you re a sport and every body knows it said osprey as he patted him on the back not a tall not a tall said scratch modestly as he dropped a dollar bill into a burly beggars overflowing tin cup and in the course of the afternoon lie loaned artle slatcher cr 30 and gave a messenger boy a 2 tip that evening after dinner hla alta said timidly twiller everything for the tables so high and ive run a little short of money money money money snapped scratch I 1 just hind you a whole five dollar bill the day before yesterday and he dodged behind the evening paper and dlan t come out again till his wife had gone to bed by geogre matthew adams |