Archie's Plant ( #121)

You know, through Duffy's tavern, starring, artsy himself, Ed Gardner. He's having what he'll eat meat, meat, and artsy demand, just making stuff he ain't hit. Oh, love Duffy, old Pino, pal. I'm happy tonight, huh?

That's packets by him, I thought. Oh, let's see. Hey, hey Duffy, somebody just sent me a potted plant for a present. Let's see, and a crot says, so Archie from an ardent admirer. Well that could be any one of ten thousand names.

I'll call you back, Duffy. Let me see that card again, Eddie. You had a hand-rightness female, all right? Could it be from your girlfriend Mildred Difoniak? No, she wouldn't have said that Mildred and me had a fallen out, you know, kind of a lover's quarrel.

Love is quarrel, huh? Yeah, she got mad at me because I resented her getting married. You know, your father could have been that brother, Carl Walter. Carl Walter. Uh, Martha, Carl Walter, Demacchak. Yeah. Big birthday, you mean?

That's right. The one that there was that question about, about whether she was a woman or a horse. That's like... Nah, I never believed that. And he was just one of them ugly rumors, you know?

Of course, there was that one time when she went out to buy a pair of shoes and they caught a snake and into the plaxment shop. I'm sure the name was human. Well, you think maybe she sent you the plant?

Nah, she forgot about me as soon as she started running around with that trainer from Santa Anita. Guy had a lot of sugar, you know. Hey, wait a minute. You remember me telling you about a name that picked me up at the Excelsior Ball Romany other night?