§ 139 Not Listed Among the Leading Ones Anyhow
A youth from the slums attained fame as a prize-fighter. With prosperity and prominence, he turned arrogant.
One day he openly snubbed a companion of his earlier days. The snubbed one presently sent an emissary to reproach him for his snobbishness.
“Jim says you ought to be ashamed of yourself for throwing him down now when you two used to be such good friends,” stated the intermediary. “He says he’s done you a whole lot of favors in the past.”
“Aw, tell him to forgit it!” growled the pug. “Dat guy never done nothin’ for nobody. Whut did he ever do for me?”
“Well, all I know is he told me to ask you if you’d forgot that hotel episode in Toledo when you were there together the time of the Willard-Dempsey fight?”
“He’s a liar,” said the pugilist. “To begin with, they ain’t no Hotel Episode in Toledo.”