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By /aeb Siorne

Age not guarantced---Some I have told for 20 years---Some Less

That Vest Pocket Story

This story is comparatively modern, yet has traveled so fast it is a veteran already. I have h,eard it told at least twenty different ways, but this seems the most popular.

A little, insignificant, harmless looking man walked into a saloon and up to the bar. Back of the bar was a big, powerful bartender, and on the end of the bar slept a huge tomcat-

The little man gave a strange order. He wanted a tall glass of beer, and a drink of whiskey. Curious as io who the two drinks were for, the bartend,er served them. The little man drank the beer, then poured the drink of whiskey into his vest pocket. Again he ordered the same. Again he drank the beer, and poured the liquor into the same

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vest pocket. He did this six times in a row, and the bartender could stand it no longer. He said:

"You must be nuts ! What's the idea of pouring all that good whiskey into your vest pocket?"

The little man flamed with rage. Leaning over the edge of the bar he blurted savagely: "That's none of your business, you great big so-and-so, and if you say another word about it I'll climb over that bar and beat the living hell out of you."

And. right then a little red-eyed mouse popped out of the pocket that got the whiskey and screeched:

"And that goes for that damn tomcat, too !"

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