“That’s what’s the matter; you’ve been smoking.”
“I guess smoking don’t make fellows sick.”
“Don’t it though. Tried it before?”
“I can’t say, I have.”
“Ha-ha, ha-ha” laughed the friend.
“Keep quiet will you. Men wouldn’t smoke if it made them feel as I do.”
“Don’t you make a mistake. Most of them have just such a time at first.”
Tolomeo was amazed. He wondered how anybody could get enough fun out of smoking to pay for such bad feelings. He didn’t try again although he was told if he smoked often enough he would feel all right. “What’s the use any way?” he said. “If I grew to like smoking, I’d buy cigars and have less money for clothes than I have now. Besides I want to save enough to go to the ball-game. I want my money for lots of things more fun than smoking.”
PRUDENT PUSS.
Bold Joe and Jim, and terrier Tim,