. Colonel Crockett's co-operative Christmas. Well, Ive heard of Southern hos-pitality, he says, but this beatsme. How much you going to chargea head ? Nothing. Everything is to befree. Admission included. Not on your dear old LostCause! he exclaims. Leastwaysnot in our little dolls house. Not forten thousand dollars! Why, man,do you realize that if you offeredthese New York, Brooklyn, Bronx,Hackensack and Hoboken folks afree show, moren two thousandwomen would get trampled todeath ? Did you ever see a bargain-counter crowd on Twenty-thirdStreet ? Well, thats only for a 44. C©°®|p®ratlfi:w?C]h]
. Colonel Crockett's co-operative Christmas. Well, Ive heard of Southern hos-pitality, he says, but this beatsme. How much you going to chargea head ? Nothing. Everything is to befree. Admission included. Not on your dear old LostCause! he exclaims. Leastwaysnot in our little dolls house. Not forten thousand dollars! Why, man,do you realize that if you offeredthese New York, Brooklyn, Bronx,Hackensack and Hoboken folks afree show, moren two thousandwomen would get trampled todeath ? Did you ever see a bargain-counter crowd on Twenty-thirdStreet ? Well, thats only for a 44. C©°®|p®ratlfi:w?C]h]rfelliffiaas chance to get something they dontwant at a fishbait price. But if youoffered them a free, take-onechance—holy l<eewhiz!—I can justsee it now! The Garden aint halfbig enough in the first enough Take-Oneers inthese parts to fill the old theyd make the wild animalslook like a cage of rabbits or whitemice. Well, the upshot of it was, he per-suaded me to charge an admission;so we set it at $ a head on thehoof. I wrote out a card and sentit to all the papers to print at adver-tising rates. It cost right smart, butit looked neat: 45
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