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Show What Cured Lazy Man j "The luzlei.t tnnn I ever knowT Well." said .Mr. Kli.gKleby, "I am Inclined In-clined to think that thnt was a man I knew once nnmeil Itimeton Jackson Itl ITleton who wna cnnsldernblo of a player on the rornet, but who didn't very often play one because he wss too diim lazy to blow it. "Hut finally ho hit on a plan that let him play all ho wanled to without taking the troublo to blow; all ha had to do waa to manipulate the keys. "lie bad a tank tuilt thnt ha used to pump full of compressed air, and which had a pipe leading from It up bark of his hesd and around In front of It with an opening that fitted Into the mouthpiece of bis cornet, which ba was thus enabled to hold In the usual position for playing and to play anon without blowing himself. 'Ha ksd a valve la the tank which ka used te operate with his foe, and so supply the sees as air. And whin he'a Iliad ap kls tank ka eft there and play, till his air gave aut, with thk greatest enjoyment, aicept when ha wss too lazy to press the valve with hla foot "Yes, I think thnt Jackson nifTleton was the laziest man I ever know, Hut he didn't always romnln so. I -'That tank blew up ono day when f Jsclmon had put a double charge into f It to save himself the trouble of chart,- f Ing It so oflen, and blew Mr. Itimeton r aerons his room and throUKh the door ! out Into the hall and broke his left J arm nnd dnmnKed him otherwise, and j laid him up for quite a long time; I and when be got out again he waa j quite another man. r "Whelher In that long enforced Idle- f ness he hsd stored up enough energy j to give him a start, or what, I don't f know: but certain It Is that after bis' f arm healed and he got out again he j, waa another man, as go-ahead and an- ergot la as he bad beoa lasy before;. f and so he has ever since continued, f fur he's still living: and to aee blm now you wouldn't think he had ever had a lazy bone in hla body. "Now that was a queer rase, wasat It? It surely was. I have heard of a good many simple things aad of a good many odd things, serving Anally ta spur some apparently hopelessly Issy msn on to endeavor, bnt Jarksoa Rimeton's la the only case I ever heard of In which a man waa thus transformed my the eiploslun of a romprosod air tank built to help a lazy man play the rornet." '1 |
