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Show STUN3 BY BASE INGRATITUDE Bowery Denizen Seemingly Had Right to Be Indignant st Old Friend's Attitude. "Tou 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. Wei', you know all I done fer dat stiff. When he was pinched didn't I put up der coin for der law- , yers? Didn't I pay der witnesses? 1 Sure I did. De Oder day I t'inks I'll ! just go an' see dat mutt just f leave i him know his frien's ain't tied de can on 'im. 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 writes my name on a piece o' paper aji' a guy takes it into Jim Burke, an' , what d' you t'lnk dat stiff tells dat guy to tell me?" t "I've no idea," said the listener. ' "He tells him," concluded the angry , one, "V tell me dat he ain't in!" ( FYtfm Success Magazine. j |