Octavus Roy Cohen

Name: Three's a Crowd
Author: Octavus Roy Cohen

Three's a Crowd (1916)

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“Three's a Crowd”, published in 1916, is a work by Octavus Roy Cohen. It explores elements such as Chauncey, f'r and y'r.

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ Nine days is gone. I'm just ready to beat it back to Noo York. I aint said nothin'—an' I'm feelin' miserable. I goes out under the trees at night—an' then I seen 'em comin'. An' his arm is around her waist!
I seen red. I wanted to do murder right there—the darned Chauncey kid. But I figures if they love each other, it's O.K., but little Willie's on the job to watch.
He stops right on the other side of the tree from where I am, an' kisses her—an' she kisses him— Say, don't you never have a gun in y'r pocket w'en y' see the woman y' love kissin' another man, an' snugglin' close in his arms. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ There's as pretty a little tableau as you ever seen. A guy wit' a minister's coat an' a Bible—an' the mug of a bruiser—is standin' before Chauncey an' the girl. There's another woman in the room—she who opened the door f'r me—an' nobody else. Then I'm sure!
Phyllis an' Chauncey jumps apart. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ Y're run down. Things are lookin' bad—"
"Yeh!" I butts in. "Rotten! Here's me wit' two of the best hundred-and-twenty-two pounders in the city, and not a fight f'r a month. Honest, Doc, things is fierce!"
"I aint talkin' about business," he says, peevish. "I'm gassin' about y'r health."
I'M wise finally, an' the next day I pulls out on the Central. My ticket expires at a one-hoss burg called Harleyville, and I takes a hack f'r the farm he'd recommended as training quarters—no taxi being in sight. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ An' the decent skirts I take a shine to—well, they wont none of 'em have anything to do wit' a fight-manager."
"Oh!" she says, kinder soft; an' we hardly speaks again till we gets back to supper.
WELL, that's the begginin'. If I do say it meself, I gets in pretty strong wit' the old folks, and at the end of two weeks I'm ready to confess' that I'm strong enough f'r this Plyllis kid to get hitched f'r life. An' she seems to have got over her feelin' against fight-managers, some. We walks together 'most every day when she aint workin'. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ An' on the evenin' of the second day I meets Phyllis alone at the gate. I bows, an' she stops.
"What's been the matter with you f'r the last couple o' days?" she asks soft-like.
"Oh! nothin' special," I sez. "But w'en I see one of these imitation John Drews dazzlin' you, I guess it's hands off f'r me!" I says, just like that. Up goes her pretty head, an' she streaks into the house.
BY the end of a week I've got enough. Three times I catch this here Chauncey helpin' her over a brook—reg'lar picture like they got in Tom Sharkey's place ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ There aint no use tellin' you w'at they talked about; but I'll just tell yuh that they're plannin' to elope. They're gonna leave from Harleyville on the four o'clock train the next afternoon. He's wired to a friend of his f'r a minister, an' they're gonna get married. She aint wise to why she oughter elope, but he insists, an' the poor kid's so gone on him she says she will.
Right then I begin to think at a 2:01 gait The next mornin' I avoids Chauncey an' the girl an' packs me grip. ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ That there Kid Wilson is feather-weight champ of the world, an' he's my principal mea1-ticket—" I see I'm in over her depth, an' I eases up.
"These here fellers," I explains, "fight f'r money. They're clean guys, honest—three of the four is married, an' they're happier. An' listen here, Miss Phyllis—don't you get the idea in y'r bean that fightin' aint as good a profesh as anything else. It takes a head f'r that, an' a clean body, an' spirit an' grit, an'—"
She flushes, an' nods.
"I understand," she says. "On'y I—"
"Like everyone else, y' thought fighters must be brutes, eh? ”

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Octavus Roy Cohen, Three's a Crowd (1916)

“ WAY OF WINNING A WOMAN
By Octavus Roy Cohen
SAY, why don't you take in the show at the Academy to-night—"The Old Homestead"? ... Sure, I used to be strong on the rough stuff, but that was before the Doc sends me off to the country. ... ”

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