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If with a full stomach he can doze away his time, he is satisfied, and asks nothing more. When, however, he desires any recreation, he patronizes Tony Pastor's Bowery Theatre. At the latter place he is often seen standing near the door, with the hope of having a check given to him by some one who leaves early.
"No; until lately I lived with a man who keeps a saloon on the Bowery, and tended bar for him." "What was his name? As a reporter I know the Bowery pretty well." "Tim Bolton." "Tim Bolton? I know his place well. I think I must have seen you there. Your face looked familiar to me as soon as I set eyes on you." "Very likely. A good many people came into Tim's.
I rode out the Bowery road when I was last in New York, but I did not get a chance to go to old Tom's. You and I and Benjamin have seen some lively times there, when we were a bit younger, eh, Alan?" "Aye, Jacobus, you speak truly. We were just as much concentrated upon self as the youth of to-day.
I told him what had happened, and he was astonished, but saw God's hand in it, and said so. From that night on I never wrote up anything to read to my audience, and I have spoken all over within a circle of fifty miles of New York, and even farther away, including Boston, Philadelphia, Albany, and Troy. I tell the Bowery boys I'm what is called an extemporaneous talker.
"I will buy a ruler of good hard wood, and then you must look out. But, tell me, where have you lived hitherto?" "I don't like to tell you, Miss Florence. I've lived ever since I was a kid with a man named Tim Bolton. He keeps a saloon on the Bowery, near Houston Street. It's a tough place, I tell you. I've got a bed in one corner it's tucked away in a closet in the day."
Jimmy half-rose, and, pulling his prisoner by inches to the door, felt up the wall till he found the electric-light button. The yellow glow that flooded the room disclosed a short, stocky youth of obviously Bowery extraction. A shock of vivid red hair was the first thing about him that caught the eye. A poet would have described it as Titian.
Wherever rich agricultural lands exist, the big game must give way, from those lands. To-day the bison could not survive in Iowa, eastern Nebraska or eastern Kansas, any longer than a Shawnee Indian would last on the Bowery. It was foredoomed that the elk, deer, bear and wild turkey should vanish from the rich farming regions of the East and the middle West.
"I don't see why a jockey or anybody else should be dishonest I'm sure it must take too much valuable time to cover up crooked ways." "Yes, you'd have made a great jock, Little Woman;" the father went on, musingly, as he watched the horses lining up for the start. "Men think if a boy is a featherweight, and tough as a Bowery loafer, he's sure to be a success in the saddle.
I believe I am pretty well known to the public," continued Signor Orlando complacently. "Last summer I traveled with Jenks & Brown's circus. Of course you've heard of THEM. Through the winter I am employed at Bowerman's Varieties, in the Bowery. I appear every night, and at two matinees weekly."
As he prepared to slip past the ship a sinewy hand was placed upon his shoulder, and another equally sinewy caught him by the collar. "Burke, suppose you return aboard ship," said "Hod," quietly. "You are not going to hit the Bowery this time." The Irish fireman attempted to wrench himself free, then he struck out at "Hod" with all the force of his right arm.
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