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_The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, Aug OIDDDHOSADETDIDHOGAG)EPOHGHAGOIVGS 8 OEGGOODSHIGEDSOAGDS NRY’S LAST AND BEST S POOBEy DO OUOUUK haf come to Boleted to butld @ oberch, pander « standing under a cocomnut palm with) “Nee ‘ | hia ttle black alpaes coat and green | oranges in two Gays ‘um has tnime- | umbretia Gate effect; and ence more I ‘Bove, ‘@ he through hie | great repugnance towed the British fa- as bad aa thie? so far reduced? batts bs bse saye to 6 reduced, says 1, ‘te werrl+you scum deepot umf vutear fractions.’ oa std — “It is, indeed, aad,’ eays Pander. mart, ‘to ene my countrymen tn ewoh clroumstances.’ “Sut ‘arf of that out, olf pasty,’ saya TAverpool. ‘Cawn't you te a member of the British apper clasees when you see one? | “Shut ap, 1 told Liverpoot. ‘Ydu're on foreign ot] now, or that portian of it that's not on you,’ “And on this day, too! goee on Pen- lagoon with the ref, yellow and black) employees of Don Jaime. There we ny fighting Mosquitoes and itstening 40 the monkeys aqualling and the allizatora erunting and eplaghing in the Ingoon| urtttl daylight, with only snatches of sleep between times, “We goon lost all idea of what time ; 3 acies, of the year ft wee. Jt was fust about verpool had bean a fighter once, but M@avipation and bad company nad taken the nerve out of him. In ten , minutes T had Kim Tyne on the eand Aermast, grievous~'on this moet ylorl- ne day nf the year when ‘we aborid | Waving the white fag. , and that's al) the difference vou notive. — for him just when he's beginning to| think about cutting ont the @ang a (Covrrighted by Douhiedas, Page & Co.) @ ladies’ and gents’ restaurant in a se F f ®) degrees there In December and June The Story of a ourth of 20 oe [election day ena any other old time. july’’ That Was Half A man te litble to live along the without noticing any fugiting of temp waving up @ Nttle to invest in real en (To ve g*bilsbed tn book form efter Bept. AR) | street called Ey de los Port tate. i | Bometimes ft rains more than et others. a ¥ ear Late, | until come dey the undértaker calle in eeyen Inconsolable Salute, When our, “I don't know how long we worked on his right eye. | Lh : { : iN the tropics” ("Hop-along” 66 Bibb, the bird fancl ‘was eaying to me) “the @easons, months, fert- nights, weekends, holt Javed out there, Liverpool, whose overshadowed his sensacions of oblige, married Cnten P in rice and fried plantain f Month; @nd then Chica pounded Liv for Don Jaime, but it was through two| three rainy epells. eight or ten hair- ts and the life of chree pairn of en cloth trousers. All the money we earn went for rum and tobasce; but we e! all be eclebrating the dawn of Chris. | Get ‘up,’ say! ‘‘oking htm tn Oi tian civilization and the downfall of 2 the wicked,’ < coats Tre mg “Tl AIM notice bunting and berwauets |e because tt was hie habit, wiptng Aecoratng the town, reverend,’ anuya 1, [Ted off his face and-Mose. I led him to lout 1 didn't know what {t for, | Reverend Pandergast’s ehack and called We've been #o long out of toudb with “ | oalendare that we didn't know whether | ‘Look et thie, of,’ cays L ‘Leck at deve, Sundays | Pe! one morning sadly ano earnestty |@nd that was something. WT / 1 and gesterdase aut so summed together | for fifteen minutes with @ casseroin “All of @ sudden aa I, Wy inthe shuffle ‘that you never know |'@uded down from the atone age, and wa erpool find the tra RAR / fy TU) } YW ee knew that we had outweleomed our gical operations o1 | cas eumm after. {tiie thing that was ofice a rows Bete- : Miver. That night w lgned an engage- | ing to aloes and quinine in our mouths. Tie |, long sphaitden ier taier ‘taher. Tou wave ‘ot two dotare aud esd “Hop-along” Bibb kept his bird store | Ment with Don Jaime McSpinosa, a hy-|It's @ seizure that often come upon p 4 8 |), /4 "Here 49 two dollars, saya Pen-|us to celebrate the day. The olan on lower Fourth avenue. brid banana fancler ef the pince, to in and geographical l A : Aercest, Ageing up two Chill efiver sled Danner ‘et!!! waves Gurveh “Thatia @ cockatoo from Revedor,”| Work on his frult preserves nine ni countries, nted to be addreseed if wheels and handing ‘em to “Go, | for the eters and eagies!’ sald Bibb. All he hee been taught Out of town. We had todo ft or he re- again in language and see the #mol | y my men, and observe the rest of the, ‘Dear me,saya to aay is ‘Merry Christmas’ A @eagen-| duced to sea er and broken doses of of a steamer and read the real este f} 7 day in a befitting manner.’ ap his hands. ‘Fighting on thie day of able Bird. He's only $7, amd Ti bet | feed end slumber. srenetem ook gents ouwhting ade. 30 \ “Me ant tAverpool thanked @tm feted. |ail @uyat ‘€ay ‘When many a human has atuek you for more| “Now, apeaking of IAverpool Sam, 1) an old newspaper. Even Soledad seamed ~\ money dy making the same @pesch to| don't malign or inexeulpate him to you|like @ centre of civilization to us, #0 >» 1 euahh'& you. any more than I would to his face. But | that evening we put our thumbs on our \ (eee 15 Two “Phat bird," he explained, “raorinds |in my opinion, when an Englishman gets |noses at Don Jaime's fruit stand and f Os Lew FR Sy ANS me. He's got his dates mixed. He|@s low as he can ‘he's got to fodge so | shook his grase burrs off our fect.. D = - 74 ought to be saying ‘E pluribus ugum,'|that the dregs of other nations don’t| “It was only twelve miles to Boledad, PENDERGAST. og hg to match his feathers, instead of trying |drep ballast on him out ef their bal-| but it took me and Liverpvol two days Instat arpon tt, “we' ‘ilthen aint ‘aiong Bibb. “dise get Bla peed to work the Santa Claus graft. It re-|loons. Aud if he's a Liverpool Hngtish-|to get there. It was banana grove nea ” we knew; but we @idn't know the day) “A little further along wa saw acrev-| “So we pull up in : var cate td hl eugene des minds me of the time me and Liverpool | man, why, firedemp ie what he's got to| ly all the way; and we got twisted time nor the year, hewwse man nemed Pendergast, qwho|s quart of s& and go down on the beach eolers mix Sam got our ideas of things tangled up|look out fer. Being a natural Ameri-| and again. It was like paging the palm ies peneeitielalidii ieniecnnlenaneatiact on the coast of Costa Rica on account cas, that's my personal view. But|foom of a New York hotel for a man of the weather and other phenemena Liverpool and me had much in common, ed Smith. money for?’ ; ‘Merry Christmas!" eaid he eed, “+ Very ‘well, then,’ I eave, ‘ence you |white and blue cockatoo. the tropics. We were without decorous clothes ot vhen we saw the houses of Soledad Vell, Soledad looked fine to me after | it wore, stranded on| ways and means of existence! ‘and, He hetween the trees all my disincination| Don Jaime's plantation. Liverpeo! ami . with | the saying goes, misery certainty does me walked into tt side by side, from nes leniay the society ef accomplices: hilo we wore tro white men |force of habit, past the celabosa end that should be talked about efther. ‘We had stoked and second-cooked our- down there on @ fruit steamer New Oreleans to try our luck, which wae discharged, efter we got “Our job on old McSpinosa’s planta- tion was chopping down banana stalks and loading the bunches of fruit on the backs of horses. Then a native dressed when there were prospects of my changing even cuss words with an American citizen, J put him back in his proper place. And he was a sight, too, Hote! Gri acroas the toward Chica’s hut, where we hoped that Laverpool, being @ husband of hers, might work his luck for a meal. “Aa We pessed the two-story litte WELL WHAT Do there, for lack of evidence. There was | UP than alligator hide belt, @ machete | wish nis rum-painted nase and ‘his red|frame house occupied by the Ameriean no work suitable to our instincts, eo | # ar ores to ts & whiskers and elophant feet with leather; Club we noticed that the batcony had me any Liverpool began to subsist on| ST ves ‘em over to the coa: @andals strapped to them. I @uppose I| been decorated all around with wreaths the red rum of the country and such | em Yon the beach. looked about the same. of evergreens and flowers ami the flag fruit a@ we could reap where we had ou ever been in @ banana grove?! «Jt looks to me,’ says I, ‘Uke Great|was flying from the pole on the roof. | not sown, Jt was an alluvial town, |Jt'# as solemn as a rathskaller at 7) Brtain ought to be made to keep such|Stansey, the Consul, and Arkright, a| yalled Soledad, where there wae no|A. M. It’s like being lost behind the | gin-swilling, scurvy, unbecoming nud) gold-mine owner, were smoking on the ‘arbor or future or recourse. Between one of these mushroom musi | igre as you at home instead of sending | balcony. Me and Liverpool waved our ' teamers the town slept and drank rum. 't see the sky for ‘em over here to degrade and taint|dirty hands toward ‘em and smiled roa! only woke up when there were) follage above you; and the ground 18/ foreign lands. We kicked you out of|society smiles; but they turned their \inanas to ship. It was like @ man | knee deep in rotten Jeaves; and it's €0/ America once and we ought to put on| backs to us and went on talking. And seeping through dinner until the des- | et!!! that you can hear the stalks grow-|rwhber boots and do it again.’ we had played whist once with the two t. ing again after you chop ‘em aown. "Oh, you go to ‘ell,’ ays LAverpool,|of ‘em up to the time when Liverpool ‘We boarded with a snuff-brown lady ‘At night me and Liverpool herded tm| which was sbout @l! ¢he repartee he| held all thirteen trumps for four hands named Chica, who kept @ rum-shop and! lot of grass huts on the edge of # {n euccession. It wae some hotiday, You THINK OF ( \ WELL, WHAT WELL DOC * I'm YOU FOLLOw MY ADVICE AND \ - AILS ‘You, STARTING TO PUT WALI, SIX MILES A DAY, DON'T 1S THAT ( MR JONES ? ON WEIGHT AND EAT OR DRINK CONT SMOKE ALL Doc? aS SEEUCE? AND TAKE VERY LITTLE SLEEP: OFTHIS FAMILY CORNERED HEAVENS NES - WANT 1$ THAT YOu, TO TRY 1T FOR é : <EORGE? THREE WEEKS ? ———— . YES-AND WE FOLLOWED YOURADVICE , NOw TELL by he Trem Publishing €o, (The New York World) ME WHATS O USE Striking while the Iron is) The Self-Kidder bellevos he's Potting; A Hobby is a Good Thing only aa, Our I@ea of the Sad Stuff te te be THE MATTER | Hot 'f you don't Kagp Cool to]Up a Fight when he's Merely Meling [long an tt 1s not Talked Ato Known Among one's Friends Merely @® WITH ME? | Aim! a onstration! — 4 Ciroumspect Man! ‘ A - Pessimism beco Funny when it's | It takes Some of us a Long Time| A Good Way to Forget the the Powe of Adolescence! Most of us Know tn a General Way to discover that there's More Wun |0f ‘To-day is to Hark Back to bout When to Begin~ |gotng to Bed with a Wet Dog than|Burled Cne of Last Year! That “1-Got-Mine* Thing Works Out! the we Diterentt wp Gite , with * eA (Scumelannd! Two Waya! ‘ } HRY @ Mramsied Consctenos! The Man who Chides Himself in Pub- cd "i in ee as > OF aia tt , {ut his Hearers to Put the Re- 7 able Mo D Sometimes Being Broke isn't Malt #0 ( 4 More Fitting Name for the | Ne exnects hie Hear The Malleable Man isn't neces-|y.4'as the Bunch of Refisctions @s to Double Life would he the Double 5 sarily Made of Putty! How it Happened! ' Death! 7 ret of t reces! ome of ~ _— ' the Big Ones w wey Declined, | A Lot of Salvage has been Gained] The “Honesty ts the Best Policy” Man The Real Do-Good Stimulants are {in Planning their to Make any |b)’ Picking up Dereticte—-but they [is the Kind that Keeps the Bonding ver Bottled! Allowance for Shrinkage! Companies Busy Settling! weren't the Human Kind! é% By Clare Victor Dwiggins “Them Was the Happy Convrahe 91 The Heese Pubhiehin = =e a acm STC a 7 mere (Nes, THEY WERE \ Nou KNOW, ALE; (T MAKES ME SO jee | AND — | indeeps Tet were) AN: Gobbi, WE'D See Him, ALE) % Ri How ||} Time You “rook mv Jar TT ‘ aenererer GRY TO) «Be REMINDED OF 0 Abe Mave. ME CRAWL InTo THAT AS “ GENTLEMEN! T was dust }I\F You WOULD NT MAKE | (OA acy 9) | NER C / OF GOLDFISH AWNY F20M | elas A Sy They WERE. INDECO! iu DET THI WDEN Abs Solhyie Ag gl her : seal bl 1 a i ce ME AND Fep ‘em eae HOLD ee MA a } Now Pia cmon!) es! |_RENARSINES J . 1 aaa i Li aap ADE t in |MAD_ The ats bes - es! : CHEER SWNT i | SELF SAME. oe Le es Caps 4 || PLANTAINGS AND ABUSE ME GENERALLY, BT Aas BAD THEN } InesT in iT ——TOLD ME its Were Tu Ye ) = WOIDS , +8 i F ‘ | ARMIN ea AXP Novi LET'S TRY To GET a CANE — Now, Just LeT ) Lose oy TEMPER. eVSTeD THe JAR OVER | corte. | TWeERE WAS A FAIRNS ae AREY To * That. 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