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Show B ,. THE MOOIHER mi w fl 7:E eoes sliPnIn through life with his hands in the other fellow's pocket. B "i I 1 He is always trying to figure out a way to play without pay. His touch m 'j "k technic is perfect. His line of talk is almost 'anesthetic in its effect so H that he can borrow a dollar and leave you almost unconscious that you've been B f i touched, so painless are his methods. Ho always wants to sit in the game, but !i someone always has to stake him to a stack of chips. He knows human nature and is wise as to what pet weakness to tickle to pave the way to a touch. Tie i makes capital of confidence and a makeshift of morals. He won't hesitate to ' juggle the truth to jingle a dollar. He feasts on falsehood and fattens on fools. i . Ho studies the sex and works women by vaunting their vanities. Anyway or M4 anything to corral the capricious coin. M He's a speedy spender, only some easy mark must furnish the filthy. He's M f a natural-born deadbeat and would rather take a beating than pay an honest K 1 debt. When it comes his turn to treat he loses his thirst. If he does spend m I five cents for fluid he will eat a dollar's worth of free lunch to beat the house. M I His jaw-bone action is double-jointed, ball bearing, one hundred lightning B power. He can talk without thinking so that his jaw don't have to wait for i his brain, hence there is no limit to his palaver. He pays all bills in conversa- 1 tion. He likes the primrose path and he has a passion for ponies. He is a Hi past artist at pass persuading and so is often seen decorating the front row. 1 He is good at making one of a party and is always figuring how to slide into Hf the empty chair at the dinner table. He isn't one of the kind that borrows a Hj dollar and then dodges the donor. On the other hand, if a man lets him have rw one! he will hunt him up and touch him for five. Ha You find him everywhere. He may be sitting or standing at your elbcv HI this minute. If ho is and you hunch a touch coming, slip him this. It might HI check his cheek, but I doubt it. He has the gall of a brass monkey and the' I sensitive hide of a rhinoceros. It takes more than a verbal bark to nick hi3 I nerve. If he is pestering you might as well pony up the price of peace if you II doc't want to bust him on the jaw, and if you did you might break your HI knuckles ".gainst that cast-iron article. I can't tell you how to escape him, so HI t what's the use! The Jefforsonian. K;' Wy mk1 |