Produced by ellinora, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Fresh Every Hour ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRESH EVERY HOUR ---------------------------------------------------------------- DETAILING the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of one Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child. By JOHN PETER TOOHEY ---------------------------------------------------------------- BONI AND LIVERIGHT Publishers :: New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRESH EVERY HOUR COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC. Printed in the United States of America ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO MY MOTHER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fresh Every Hour ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FRESH EVERY HOUR ------------------------------------ Chapter One ------------------------------------ JIMMY MARTIN’S heart persisted in acting like the well-known eyes of the young lady in the song. He just couldn’t make it behave. Up to the third week of his summer season as press agent at Jollyland, the big summer amusement park near New York, it had always been a fairly well-mannered and dependable organ which performed its physiological functions with becoming regularity and which was not accustomed to respond to any external stimuli with anything beyond an occasional slight flutter. To be sure it had acted up a little three years back in connection with a certain dark-eyed beauty who presided over the destinies of the cigar counter up in the Grand Hotel in New Haven, but that had only been a slight attack and it had resumed the even tenor of its ways after a brief interval and had been unobtrusively going through with its routine activities ever since.