New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-29
~ NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY. AUGUST %. 1875

| INC oanQ. 4 sthr0ocard monte man WoS pyy.
ing his vocation. Some sirens of q neigh;
bathing suits in The isnrf The great ships
were moving calmly far over on the rim Of
4 the world, dropping down to Europe aBd the
\ OLD ispd4 Of sohg end story. Hers aad there
nsteamer left .. trail of smoke upon the
| sky:: The breakers tamb1Aa ,mevrily in, and
it was .sbeut hall: flood good bathing time.
InerD was semfrespeetable pereon who
kept 2 semi,respectable blue check bathing
su.t loan .shapty inst beyond. To him l
vent, and put myself in pawn for the regu-
laf!on costume. i remember my number
we'll 1t WAS fifteen. And remember the
BOARD seat and the party of the second
part ~ the next compartment; for he dashed
1 bis elbows against the narrow limits while
be gracefully struggled with some of bis
1 habi!iments, and then he dashed, double
dashed, and asterisked all proprietOrs OF
bathing establishments from Coney Island
/ to Cape Cod, and thence to- Kamtchatka in
! ertain inclusive ,maledictions which re.
~ealed him as genius in profanity.
| When l was bObbing in the surf ar The
end OF the safety line my friend of No. 16
became apparent 10 me by the profound
and searching anarheDa with which be
spread gloom upon the life of 2 certain crab
that had sacrificed his Toe. Il I had been
| that crab should not have felt completely
safe even in the zodiac. t. say nothing Of
the fact that was then at the very nadir
! OF his wrath. In fact, the fellow looked a
| rongh-s short-haired rough-one of the
| "Mnlligan Guards, tout for holiday, az
likely as not. And the other'five of us.
for I'VE were seven"-were of the eame
saying, | doubt mot, in their secret souls.
! az did Master Stephens in Beu Johnson's
Every Man in his Humour." II Lad as lief
as an angel could sweay as we'll as that
This present Captain BObadil might have
gone unn0ted but for these same maledie-
tions if one of bis fellows had not struck in:
O. them loads inter tn Ereni,s; Posi-, stead
o that stuff yer call Anthony Todd.
That was all I wanted to hear. had
found my other self. We all bounced M
and down, on our rope, as mad and merry
as the rest. And then it began to rain, and
We All ran in out of the wet, and howled
derision at each other as we ram My watch
was safe IN the toe OF my shoe. and kept
up running fire with No. l6 through the
partition. He was in advance Of the rest in
many matters, even profanity. emade up
my mind what to do. took him aside. and
told him my name. He sent up q whole
rocket nttery Of corruscating curses, ana
then leveled perfect fusillade of all he had
remaining right upon me: { barred my
breast like Marshal Ney, and received the |
snot: small and large. Chen 4 asked for
The result was that ! impaired to 6im
my piaa. We 'shook" the "Mulligan
Guards" and stayed until evening at the 7
beach. fell back upon his better self. a
self knew in his poems pretty Thoroughly
found him not 90 bad but that he might
be worse. Hiereal name he had used as a
non, de plume, his false one as an every, day I
lid
Todd and Rube Albettson without trouble.
and the very name he had hoped to keep
clean until he could stand up and claim It I
b ad been smirched and detiled. From that
moment he had become desperate, and
When found him there were detonating
nodes in every fibre Of his brain.
They talk now about "TOdd and his
DOUBLE, Well, they can talk all thew
'hoose. That double Of mine is doing
himself some Credit, and when INV great,
lncle heard the story he made GD his
mind to help on the young genius by a
rifle OF this worlds empty chow and
Inning dr0se. So take another name in |
he place of my own, and by act of the
psis!ature 1 hope soon to be Arthur H. |
harrington.
True. have to begin all over gain; but
asst upon lee-shore, and to-day I am ofiiv
wenty seven And, for the matter Of that, !
lnthony Todd had to begin all over again
DC; and he has dope it nobly.
Let me just add that to K him with me
, Forty ninth street the other evening.
ad completely dropped out Of society's
n0wledge, and was not afraid of reccSoi
on under the die uise of Arthur H. Bar
ngton and heavy mustache Todd was 9
ell dressed, and looked perfect gentle. |
ian; but You may well believe ! sent in !,
D card for him.
The banker papa was graciously pleased 2
) grant us due audience. He also was I I
e ased to bestow fit attention. J felt rta- I
>, like the host of the Ancient Mariner. G
could not but choose to hear" -
His eyes enlarged, his jaw dropped. I !.
: awhile, Todd struck into the converse. II
on With singular force and brilliancy, q
I'd painted up the whole panorama for the
d gentleman until it was better than
harles Reade or Wilkie Collins to listen to y
m.
The banker rose and reached The bell
o said, n
Keep your seats, gentlemen
James came. 'James. call Miss Matte" g
Miss Matte came. "Theret You two 90
to the parlor and talk it out. This gen, 81
men and will stay here" 81
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