Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . er. The butcher is a brief and caustic shortness of his speech is due to theinfluence of his pursuits upon his is nothing quicker and shorter than achop or a cut. A butcher might, with greatsuccess, found a school of expression for pre-ciseness and brevity. I jumped upon hisbroad back where he could not reach me. Get off, you brute! cried the butcher,but I dug my claws deeper into his soft, fatflesh. Then he bribed me, and when hetempted ine with something worth my while,a red and juicy bit of steak, down
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . er. The butcher is a brief and caustic shortness of his speech is due to theinfluence of his pursuits upon his is nothing quicker and shorter than achop or a cut. A butcher might, with greatsuccess, found a school of expression for pre-ciseness and brevity. I jumped upon hisbroad back where he could not reach me. Get off, you brute! cried the butcher,but I dug my claws deeper into his soft, fatflesh. Then he bribed me, and when hetempted ine with something worth my while,a red and juicy bit of steak, down I came,and seizing the meat in my mouth, ran outof the shop and ate the steak behind a gar-bage-can. Poverty, it is said, sharpens thewits, but it is hard to keep the wits as sharpas the hunger, which poverty also grinds outto a pretty point. Tuesday.— .... After many failures, Ihave at last discovered a most desirableplace in which to sleep. I have adopted oneof the large white urns on the gateway ofthe entrance to the Park. It is a com- EDITORS DRAWER. 480. modious, elegant affair, sheltered by thegreat oak-tree that spreads its branches overthe gateway, and I can drop into it from theoak boughs as softly and lightly as a snow-flake. There I have solitude and shadowedgloom; the moonlight reveals the coldstatues glimmering in the groves andbathes the dead fountain in white wishing to be selfish, and sensible of thelack of sleeping-places, I invited a chanceacquaintance, Speckle Devil by name, to oc-cupy the otherurn. He re-fused in a sul-len, dogged man-ner, saying in ashamefaced waythat he didntwant to sleep inno Symbol ;but Speckle isof a rough andsuperstitious na-ture, given tofoolish andgroundless prej-udices. He andtwo friends ofhis, StealthyRake and Smut-ty Sneak, makea strange of ap-pearances, roughand defiant inmanner, theirsseem to be char-acters of intenseswagger and bra-vado; but their adventures and their conversation I findhighly intere
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