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Show I1 I LITTLE FABLES 1 BUSINESS WORLD i. J t $ j KNOCKS vl SPHERE was onco a Toung Man "M il wbo soemcd t0 be Partlcularly idiU 1L-. Pestored "5vlth KnockB' Not 3jj 1 that he waa a Moan Guy or a Shine. Nor did people Dodgo when nj' they Saw him First. It wasn't that st kind of Knocking ho had Handed to to him, Truth to toll, when he did get ij Knocked, he didn't evon Know It and that was the Sad Part about it. JJ Once a Real Estator camo to him toji with a Lot. Of course, ho didn't 'j Bring the Lot With him, but ho did UW, tell Our Young Hero where It was OK! and All About it- Also, ho told him M ' Said Lot would Increase In Valuo one Jfl thousand per cent, in Five Years. He wont with him to Buy. 'jJHJ ' But O. Y. H. was a Wise Lad and BM f merely Snickered. Ho admitted that "3 the Lot seemed to bo mado of Earth, aEJ3 Just llko Any Other lot, but he couldn't W see Any Reason for a Thousand Per nta ! Gent, Boost. Also, If it was such a JM Choice Piece of Ground why didn't ml Is " i .Of Course, lie Didn't Bring The Lot With Him. M I ine Real Estaicr keep it for himself M I ov was It Hut real estaters aren't II ' ballsiicd with to Uttlo Prollt? M I , Wherefore, he Snickered again and aP I theu Yawned. M I K Now that was Knock Number One, l And O Y. H. hadn't even heard a I N'olse! , A while later a Chap with a Rod Necktie fastened onto a Diamond came along v-Ub a buncn of Artistic StoeU If Certncates They reprosented Sljaroi It, In a Dill Pickle Factory. And h Sir offered ihcm for almost less than th Mfft- coat of the Erine around Ono DIl mM Pickle, But ngaln -O. Y. H. was : hJB Wiso Lad. Ho admitted that Some People llko Dill Pickles but said that as for himself he Muoh Preferred the Sweet. Furthermore, he couldn't see where any Two Thousand Per Cont. could bo mado in Dills. So again ho Snickered and Yawned. Knock Number Tuh, as The Umpire says. Only a little while ago came Knock tho Third. A Friend who didn't Owe him Money, tipped him off on a certain cer-tain War Stock. He had Foed Box Information, said Friend explained, that the Germans and tho AIIIcb were going to place a 'Stoon Million Dollar order with the Concern for Supplies; and then tho Stock would Soar. It was Easy Plckins for anybody who Got In while the Bulls wore lowering their Horns. But O. Y. H. was still a Wiso Lad. lie admitted that if tho Ordor was Placed tho Stocks should Jump to Meot It. But ho wanted to See the Order. So, onco again, ho Snickered and Yawned. After that camo no moro Knocks. But BUT that wasn't all that Happened. First of all, only tho other day O. Y. H. road In the Real Estate news of his paper that tho Lot had sold at a Flguro which, compared to tho ono he had Snickered at, was Just llko Picking Up seven-hundred-percent, out of tho Guttor. BIng! Then he Discovered that the tasto for Dill Pickles had Increased throughout the land to tho Tunc of Ten Per Cent, every Six Months for thOBO who owned tho Stock. Bang! And right on Top of that came tho Big Order from the European Battlefields, Battle-fields, and a Twenty Point Jump in the War Stock. Bung! Stungl Not until then did O. Y. H. hear tho Knocks And ho was Soro-Most Soro-Most men, according to tho old Dope, have Dame Fortune knock on their door Only Oncj and hero he, Poor Boob, had been Swatted three times! So he began to count up tho Money he Might Have Had. And thon he-went he-went over and Enlisted with tho Turkn. Moral: Don't snicker or yawn you can't hear who's knocking. |