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Show THEALVCK 9f RASTVS ' i "Yes, Huh, I suttenly docs bilovo j I tn luck, Suit," snld Jtustus, wiping tho B I ( lather out of his victim's oyo ami BBl I spreading a fresh layer on his bristly BBg J chin. "Soino folks snys ilcy nln't no J Recn l'lnS ns luck. Hull! Dam's tie BB vcry fo,1;H 'nt nln't novnh lind no luck. BBb j I)al'n why 'loy don't liollovo In It. Dat's , rRht, Suli. Ain't I got n nunt 111 busl- BBJ noss henh? Don't I uinko moah In n ' wc0,t llon '""st culluil folks mnkes In n BBl inonth? Well, Sun, It nil como from a BBb stroko uv luck Jest pure, plnln, ove'j- BBb. S ,,ny ick. Like to henh nil nbout It, BB 7l)" Huy' Suh? Sultoiiy '' tc y- B "When I fust struck N'York I warn't BBS worth ii dollar. All I could get was BBf a olo closo Job goln' round buyln' BBm up olu closo, you know. Suli, nn' hollar- BBl ln' CnH' iii-' BB "Do man I worked for Inrnt mo how Bb to clean and press rjoso, which I dono BE nllny d,ly8, I)nt where lock struck mo BBS one day wlion I was hrushln' up a mighty nice black coat dat warn't BBl hardly worn none, but had got too BBl "'l for (1 Kent that owned It. I turned BBl ll() lckoU Inside out nn' had Htarted BBl to press It when 1 felt sumpln' rnttio BBS twlxl do llnln' an' do tall of dc coat. BE " was a lottor, done sealed an' stamp- BBE nn" nn' addressed to a lady over In Bf Eighty-first street. Bf I r "Voit know, Sub, do Under koops. I BB ' didn't lot .my boss sea dat letter, hut Bb '""'la out to spell through It myself. B It waB a sure enough lovo letter telllri' BBf Jo InJy tint Mr.-Jack Winters had dono BBl tnako up his mind to go to Brazil do BBf vory nxt 'lay an' ho Jest couldn't go BBT, wldout tcllln' her how much hu lovo BB)" ncr- It "tiro was a purty letter. BB "' Toared lllco (ley's hnd n sort of fuss BBJ "' Mr. Jnclc Winters was might' unx- BB) 'ous to make up, but was 'feared tho BBJ t Indy warn't uv dat opinion. Ho didn't BBl x ''or tl wrlto back. Stead of dat ho BBf tell hor to bo down at do wnrf do next BBJ afternoon to hid him gooci-byo so's ho BBl know by dat whether sho give him Bf ny liopo for tho future. De dato was BBl o'Kht months old, so It look llko a BBf losln' Job to wnsto any time doliverln' H dat lottor, but I Jest fought I'd try Bf '' soo whnt como uv It, so I wont BBf ovah to dat address tint vo'y bvonln'. BBf "Well, Biih. I found do young lady Bf s""o enough u powerful purty girl Bf h was, too, hut alio didn't look to say BBf ronl happy, splto uv hor good looks. BBf Sho hadn't no moah den glanced at It foro sho Jumped up an' said: 'Alaw, you gottor help mo cancel nil dom Invites, In-vites, right quick, 'cause doy won't bo no reception hoah to-night. Do hurry I ' "Do olo lady looked llko sho'd drop In a faint 'What on earth dono nil you, (rnco7' rIio ax. 'What's In dat letter? l.omme read It (lis very mlnlt.' "Do young lady didn't pay no 'ton-Hon 'ton-Hon a tall. Sho set down 'foro her desk nn' writ nn' writ fnstor den I evnh see anybody chaso a pen. an' In Jest nbout live mlnltH alio hnd a pllo uv notes ready for mo to 'strlbutc. " 'I'll give you a dollnr apleco to deliver dom letters,' sho snys. 'Don't fcrglt a single ono, 'causo do mnttnh Is vo'y I in poll t nut.' "Well, milt, mobho I didn't hustlo. Doy wns eighteen notes to deliver, nn I dono It nil linjlclo uv two hours, Whon do folks nxed questions I say, llko do lady told mo, 'Miss Ornco ain't well." Dat's all sho say fob mo to tell 'cm. At 0 o'clock I wns back nn' she gimme eighteen dollars sura enough In splto of her mnw's objections, objec-tions, which was vo'y strong, for do ole lndy was still mad as a hornet. 'Now,' says do young lady, 'I got ono moah letter for you to tako care uv, nn' when I gits do answer you're goln' to henh from mo right olT, so lenvo mo your address so's I can wrlto to you.' "Well, Sub, dat Inst letter was addressed ad-dressed to Mr. .lack Winters In llrazll do answer to do ono I found In do coat. Long nbout five weeks Inter, when I'd begun to t'lnk Mr. Jack Win-tors Win-tors never got his letter nftor nil, hero como n nolo from dc young lady snyln' sho wnnted mo to call at a certain odlco down town, whero I'd And sumpln' sum-pln' to Int'rest mo. What you s'poso I found? Five nice now flvo dollnr bills, sure ns you'ro hawn, Sub. Do gent dat handed 'em to mo said Mr. Jack Winters ordcrod do monoy to bo delivered to mo. Ho snld ho was Mr. Jack's brother, nn' do vo'y man what forgot to mall dat letter, not dat ho actually plum forgot, but when ho looked In his pocket nn' found It gono ho Jest nntcliully 'lowed he'd dono dropped It wld odor letters In tho box, an' novor give it nnodor thought, "Ho said Miss Graco como mighty nrnr boln' persuaded Into hnvln' nnodor nn-odor tnnn dnt sho as well as promised hor maw to tako dat vo'y night I brung hor de letter what broke up du pahty. He mentioned dnt Miss Grace an' Mr. Jack aimed to git married soon as ho could git hack from llrazll. "Well, Sub, dom forty-thrco dollnrs bought out do pnhtner uv do man what uster run dls bnrber shop when It warn't whnt It am now. I tented strictly to business for six months, when I bought out do odor pnhtner nn' sot up for myself. Dat warn't much monh'n two years ago. You seo for yourself. Sub, how well I dono. It all como from flndln' dat' letter. If dat warn't luck what was It, Sub?" Now York Times. |
