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Show STUNG BY BASE INGRATITUDE Bowery Denizen Seemingly Had Right to Be Indignant at Old Friend's Attitude. "Ycu remember dat guy, Jim Burke?" asked an irate Bowery denizen. deni-zen. "He's dat stiff dat's doin' time up der. river Sing Sing boiglary ten years. Well, you know all I done fer dat stiff. When he was pinched didn't I put up der coin for der lawyers? law-yers? Didn't 1 pay der witnesses? Sure I did. De Oder day I t'inks I'll just go an' see dat mutt just t' leave him know his frien's ain't tied de can on Mm. So I drives out to d' jail and goes Into d' warden's office and he says I gotter send me card In. Me card! D'ye get dat? Well, anyway, I writeB my name on a piece o' paper an' a guy takes it into Jim Burke, an' what d' you t'ink dat stiff tells dat guy to tell me?" "I've no idea," 6aid the listener. "He tells him," concluded the angry one, "V tell me dat he ain't In!" From Success Magazine. |