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Show KNEW ALL ABOUT D. TOMPKIN8. Many-8lded Man Had No Secrets Hidden Hid-den from Farmer. "You say you live at Stony Brook?" asked tho man who looked llko a lawyer law-yer of tho farmer who occupied a seat 'with him in tho smoking car. "Yes, sir." , "Then you probably know Dante! Tompkins?" "As well ns I kiw my own son." "Just what sort of a man Is ho, according ac-cording to your Ideas?" "That's according to what you want of him?" "How do yon mean?" "Wall, If I waa goln' down to nsK Dan If ho wouldn't run for tho loglsln-turo loglsln-turo If a gas company would pay all tho expenses nnd glvo him $500 to boot I'd expect to find him full ot Christian resignation and willing to do anything for his country, but If I was goln' down to trado bosses with him I'd expect to meet a feller who'd beat mo out ot my cyo teeth nnd let mo and tho country and everything elso go to tho devil." "I see. I'm just going down to sco r T Full of Christian Resignation it I can't colloct a judgment against him." "Ob, that's it? Thon you won't And him any sort of a man at all. Ho'll set the dog on you and mako for tho woods." |
