Adventure Magazine Cover, November 10, 1924 — page 74: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

72 Adventure we His fat hot dogs that nestled in a roll is Of such a size that, taken as a whole, hee *T would make a meal for lesser men than these. ' Now other places might do what they please In boosting prices, but however fickle The butcher’s rates, old Joseph, for a nickle Still served a dog. "He was no profiteer, He owned a conscience and he kept it clear. The truth is that this ancient sausage fryer, Who seemed to have no thoughts or visions higher Than dogs, more dogs, and still more dogs to fry, Had “got religion” in the days gone by, And sometimes, in the dull mid-afternoon, If you had wandered to this old saloon And caught old Joseph in the mood for speech, You might have heard the way he came to reach The narrow path, a tale he’d sometimes trace When trade was slack and few were in the place. S v } = vs wo Oo oN ‘| hoe a é a “i eo cues bith ) tN = ~ \ eS és (Ne cae ANG SON Ses wa NHN NA ’ a% Were a oe NIH x a ps “When I was just a gay young buck, I piloted a heavy truck Around the crowded thoroughfares throughout the noisy city; My horses were a bully team with lots of vigor, pep and steam, The way they snatched that truck along was something very pretty. But I was always stirred to wrath by other trucks that blocked my path, By traffic cops and trolley-cars and thronging population That stopped my progress here and there, and that is how I came to swear With words that made the people stare in awe and admiration. “But then arrived a day in life when I took Mary Ann to wife, And when she overheard me curse tt certainly upset her. Says she to me: ‘I’m shocked to hear the way you use your tongue, my dear, I thought a noble man like you would know a whole lot betier; But now I find you swear and curse as bad as sailors do, or worse; And when you drive it seems to me your oaths are never slackened. Oh, pause a little on your way and think about the Judgment Day And how ‘your record up above with curses will be blackened! COMMIGIOOKSEGO 5}