Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — Looking After Number One. [ARTICLE]

Looking After Number One.

The seedy actor shuffled his feet and looked into his hat apologetically. He laughed conscientiously at the joke the manager made, but it was a hollow laugh. In fact Mr. Perkins, otherwise Claude Cremorne, juvenile lead, felt hollow generally, particularly in the part which Bhould have contained his dinner. “A sovereign on account of my salary would be of Inestimable service, to me just now,” he murmured to the •manager. “You can deduct It at the end of the week, you know.” “Ah, yes, dear old darling fellow,” said the manager beulgnantly, “that’s all very well, don’t you know. But the difficulty comes In berA Most likely I shan’t be able to pay any salaries at all at the end of the week, and if I give you a sovereign now whore should I be then? No, be sensible, dear boy.” —London Answers. >