Show THE TACK SWALLOWER when boris Kik swallowed a brass tack he thought he had really swallowed a gold mine he decided to tc make money on the mishap not in a circus sideshow or on the stage but in the fake claim racket he was successful for a time in playing his simple act boris I 1 traveled from town to town in a strange city he picked out the best restaurant ranU entered and ordered a meal half way through it he sprang to his feet with a blood bloodcurdling curdling yell 1 I have swallowed a tack lie he screamed the startled restaurant manager usually sought to quiet him until he be reached a doctor but boris ris continued his noise as part of the act ile he demanded x rays which inevitably revealed 1 I the tack nestling prettily in s insides afraid of a div ivil ia suit I 1 the restaurant proprietors made quick settle and large ones 1 then boris m made ade the mi mistake stake of trying his racket on a member of the index bureau system of the national bureau of casualty and surety underwriters I 1 der writers investigations revealed I 1 long lists of eating places naces where the faker had eaten a tack medical examination dislo disclosed sed that altho although there actually was a tack in his stomach it was held there harmlessly I 1 by a growth of skin an operation i removed it and boris entered on his prison brison sentence admitting you cant g get e t away with it its too loo bad that a fe few r hoodlums in town can wantonly destroy public and private property without being detected this matter of closing tic the l post office lobby is not only an in to the citizens but it if is a sad reflection upon tile town it looks as if we had just as well turn the whole coity clity over to the yaps and hoodlums and the rest of us move out ephraim enterprise I 1 because in the early history of the university were paid in produce instead of money it has been humorously stated that the teachers salaries were vere drawn in wheelbarrows instead of from banks |