| Show the corner C orner loafer everybody knows him axt fc sight what he does by daylight ia is a dys lys mystery for his face would exclude him from every business but the mock auction and his clothes do not qualify him for that by night however he is a critic particularly of the gentler sex and while ho he is not destitute of appreciation his favorable remarks are more to be dreaded than his criticisms he selects his professional stand on the most crowded thoroughfares where policemen most do congregate but he is le let iet alone as tenderly by officers as if he were a burglar or a roper in for a gambling house he never appears appers alone but ia Is a consistent believer in the theory of cooperation and what remains unsaid by him and his associates concerning any lady who passes them is beneath the capacity of the mean est blackguard to conceive utterly d depraved himself he cannot imag imagine that any one upon whom he looks can be otherwise instinctively a coward his lips are sealed in the presence pre of a lady accompanied by a gentleman or even a half grown boy having only two feet he cannot be shot like the spitz dog or any other per ambulating ambula ting nuisance being a voter he cannot be arrested without damaging the prospects of some human nuisance equally dangerous but more politic the only relief from him beems seema to reside in the toe of the manly boot self belf constitute ed idd vigilance committees of one might profitably employ a few evenings in the interests of society by watching these run ruf ruffians fians flAns and inflicting punishment immediately on the commission of any onnen offen of nence fence cej although the marvellous marcellous marv ellous faculty of officers for arresting wrong man would dictate that action should be taken only when no policeman is in sight new york Heral herald darril dApril april 80 30 |
