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Show 1 Frrizied Finance. He was newcomer in the city and ", VTuiu;!ust reveled in one of its thrills "It happened right near .the mouth I of an alley," he told the other fellows f nt the bar. "I'm from a little town, and nobody ever held me up there. But I got a right good start in new sensa-t sensa-t lions here. Just as I passed the alley J some fellow threw I !s arms around my J arms and held. Another man slapped one hand over my mouth. lie used the other to go through my clothes. First he got my Ingersoll, and then he got about one dollar and ninety cents in silver. "'Where's yer froghides?' he asked. . -r-Vtjvhat?' says 1. ' 'Yer froghides,' lie says. . "''What's them?' says I. ' "'Greenbacks,' says he. "And then I knowed what he meant. . -.t 1 didn't have none." |