THE RESCUE BUSINESS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1653, 29 October 1887, Page 3

THE RESCUE BUSINESS.

Two rather seedy individuals met at a downtown comer of an American city and greeted each other with ©•usion. ‘‘What you doin’,- culll” asked one, “Selling clothes wringers, What’r you doin’ 1" “Aint doin’ nothin’ now, except nursing (his,’’ indicating a black eye, “ How d’you get it f ’ “ Got it doin’ the rescue business in Toledo,” “ Rascue b : zt What’s that!” “Well, you are green. Me an’ a pal o’ mine made good money out of it in Cleveland and afterwards in Toledo. He was a big fellow, and could eat mo alive. He’d drees kind of slouchy, and I'd keep myself in pretty fair shape. We’d strike a lonely street in a kind of a swell neighborhood, he taking one side of the street and I the other, and walk along until be saw a lady as looked as she had cash. If there wasn’t anyone about he’d go up and apeak to her. Of course this would frighten her to death, but he’d just stick and try to walk with her. Then tny turn would come. I’d sail across the street, big as life, and say : ‘ Madame, do you know (his man!’ ‘ No, sir,’ she’ll say. *ls he annoying you V ‘ Yes, sir.’ Then I’d tell Jack to go about his business, he’d give me some talk, and I’d let oat a mighty savage blow that wouldn’t kill a fly. He’d go to grass as if ho was shot, and then get up and run like a whitehead. I’d walk a block or two with the lady,'giving, her a great talk about being a stranger in town out of a job, and I almost always got a good tip. Once I got 20 dollars, and what I didn’t want—a job.” “ Where’.! you get the eye?” “Oh, that was last week. My pal got full, and when I lot out at him he says ; ‘ You miserable little rooster, I’ll teach you to make a crack at an adult,’ and give me a paste where you see it. That broke up our partnership.”