Travels for a clothing house in Cincinnati and they call him Slim because he's so fat that every time he turns around he meets himself coming back.
He's all to the good—that boy is!
And such a cut-up!
Slim knows more "look-out!—there's - a - lady - over - there!" stories than any other drummer in the business.
Nick goes after the gilt things for a hardware house in Columbus and he knows everybody in the world—bar no one living.
Nick has only one trouble, he will paddle after the ponies.
Whenever he makes a town where there's a pool room his expense account gets fat and beefy, and Nick begins to worry for fear he may win something.
He won $12 in Cleveland once and he spent $218 at a boozeologist's that night getting statistics on how it happened.
Tod Stone cuts ice for a match factory in Newark and he's the life of a small party.
Tod's main hold is to creep into the "reading room" of a Rube hotel after the chores are done of an evening and throw salve at the come-ons.