Argosy All-Story Weekly — page 11: what you’re looking at

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

ARGOSY-ALESM ww EF Ss ' VoL. CXLVI SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1922 K. By BOICE DU BOIS CHAPTER I. * THE CRACKER POT.” CCORDING to the ethics of literary A construction, the first chapter pro- vides a convenient vestibule wherein the characters assemble for their formal bow to the reader—hence the scrolling of said * First chapter,’’ within the sordid con- fines of Chink-nail Connors’s Cracker Pot Cafe, and that irrespective of the fact that the fate of a kingdom was involved. First of all we must turn the dial of time hack some thirty odd vears, for the Cracker Pot has gone the way of many another Cherry Hill resort that drew patronage from 1A 801 Water Street society; institutions that have folded their tents and stolen away, because they no longer dared lay down the gage of battle with the McAuley Mission. The name “ Cracker Pot” rested on no ephemeral nom de plume, but was founded upon the substantial, though questionable hospitality of a barrel of crackers that al- Ways stood in the center of Connors’s bar- room floor. Of course this was a bif’ cheap, compared with 2 certain more affluent estab- lishment nearer the Bowery, where a thou- sand silver dollars were screwed to the bar- room floor, but it was far more acceptable to the Cracker Pot patrons. ‘ Bust open another barrel of crackers,” Comicbooks.com