Show THE DRUMMERS REPERTOIRE How the Gentlemen of the Road Study to beHalf Anulsil be-Half a dozen drummers were lunching in a downtown 0 restaurant and making lots of noise They were not talking about their samples but criticising the respective merits of some members of their profession Tommy did mighty well on that Oregon little fellow trip I tell you said a stout with a huge red beard We swapped stories at Eugene City and J gave him a bunch that just captured the country I hope none of you fellows got onto my about the pig and the old woman inquired yarn in-quired a dudishlooking man with a scarred hp I No no Billy thats patented though did hear that you werent quite on the square up north Wasnt square Who dare say so Harry Vast said so He said you told Jimmys l t and the hammer in Virginia yarnaboitthrgoatandthhammer I ginia and sang his boardinghouse song hs You tell Harry from me that hes may tel Har lying said the dude angrily And whats hes been using my yarn about the sea more captain and the boa constrictor in Los Angeles captan from folks just geles I know it I heard it fols from there up To get at the bottom of this mysterious Alta reporter buttonholed an business an acquaintance Ala reprer party at the termination lunch and inquired what it mination of the inqued all meant Why dont you know said the friendly drummer Well you kow all of us fellows to make ourselves agreeable must know a lot of stories songs tricks and so on Now if tnckr when Ito I want to sell a package of whisky into a barroom I ask every one up to to go drink Then I begin with a story which min bo pretty new to catch the fellows I They begin to think Im a good sort the proprietor pro-prietor takes a fancy to me and I end by that The man barrel two I selling him a or selng well is always welcome on can sing a song wel I road If he cant sing he must be able the Crt I the which will take with I to do something wi his hunts country towns Every chap up i own stories and I know one or two newspaper in town who make a nice thing men paper getting up business tow this sort for the drum fellow may get The danger js that a felow mers do and around him in a barroom crowd a aroid that the man who passed the same stu before him did This is through a few days h though Though it aint very hard to hit a right he hates to have a chest countryman rlht on him and likes to nut passed h of down running show his smartness by rni dow Sow who hawks those stale drummer hawk the around When you get in logs drummers and begin to tell of ad lot with a ders begn personal experience they are piping exriece your be sure If you tell of off you may I you of something that happened to you in Boston New York or Halifax and it has a funny Halax ending one of the fellows will tel that story I the State making himself the hero I all over makg hsel and He brush it up so of the tale may brh i i improve tae by wedging in a lie or a joke here wedgg d hardly know it and there that IOU v > t but it is story JLf ne is a gooa imuttiui isyour I of the Irish your or Dutch dialects he will ring in an Irishman or a Dutchman for the opportunity I Ihman real A himself loose portunity of turning hself lose rea tug in the hrst lass bright story i money te drummers las pocket sory the time S is a I ders for recitation something pathetic dialect piece likes to thetic because the countryman thetebcaus have aroused Now you have his emotions the business nroued and see hereif a point on buiness line pint pert in the story lineI hear anything stor I you prt I about drop me a line so that may floating to foatg for I have it with the gang work copyright the southern counties next week San Francisco Alta |