Life — February 28, 1895 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- cash «AST He had hardly freed himself from the Colonel before Tom De Witt came along and asked jocularly, “ How much he needed to get it out 2” By this time Charlie did begin to feel cold and after a few more of his kind friends had interested themselves in his behalf he felt posi- tively chilly. He was conscious of feeling that everybody on the Avenue was regarding him with wondering pity. Even the policemen swung their arms and slapped their hands more energetically against their chests as he passed. Near Twenty-ninth Street, he met Dr. Pulser and it needed only the old gentleman's solemn and oracular remarks about the foolhardiness of young men and the prevalence of pneumonia to drive Charlie into a state of frozen panic. His teeth were chattering and his lips blue, as he rushed into the Hoffman House and told the bar-keeper to mix him up a good strong “Hot Scotch ; and be quick about it!" Then he stood against the radiator until he was baked through and erwards went home in a cab. On his way home he had time for calmer reflection and to realize that he was not a dead man yet. Then he felt like kicking himself for a fool. “Confound it! I was warm enough until I met all those people !" he exclaimed. ‘I believe I'd have been warm enough yet, if they could have minded their own business. But I'll bet I would have had icicles on my nose and chin in another minute. By Jove ! they came in an ace of talking me into a congestive chill!" . Harry Romaine, A New YORK EXPRESSMAN HAS TROUBLE WITH HIM. compositions, from Mozart and Dave Braham, and then young Tealeaves recited his original poem beginning : “We met. t'was ata function, A function large and smart." Just before the company departed Mrs. Macaroon asked her guest if he did not find everything painfully new in Our Village, whereat he glanced at Tommy Mole, who had just played one of his own compo- sitions, and at Dr, Crawfish, who was telling his well-knownstory, be- ginning ‘That reminds me,” and replied that he had already found a great deal that was old and hoary. Then Willy Tealeaves asked him the best way to be introduced into good society in his own village and he told him the best introduc- tion was through the nurse and the doctor. What do you suppose he meant ? James L. Ford. FRIENDLY WARNINGS. HERE was just a suggestion of snap and stinging crispness in the air, as Charlie Slender left his apartments and started to walk down the Avenue. But a few brisk blocks put him in quite a glow and made his light fall overcoat almost oppressive. At the comer of Forty-second Street he met Dick Ferris moving majestically along wrapped in the glory of a big fur-lined ulster. “* Hello, Charlie 1” said Dick ; '* where's your heavy overcoat ?” “In the house,” replied Charlie promptly. “Better put it on; this weather's too cold for the one you're wear- ing. But Charlie only laughed at the idea and passed on. A little fur- ther along he met Kitty Winslow, who nodded to him from out of the depths of her boa and looked inquiringly, as he thought, at his cos- tume. - May c To On the next corner old Col. Ramrod buttonholed him and gravely remonstrated with him about his imprudence in venturing out on such FOR THE PARSON'S BENEFIT BIRDIE REPEATS WHAT HE HAS a day without his winter overcoat. JUST LEARNED. comicbooks.com