The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-05-03
yUsTICE IN A QUANDAnY.
HOW THE CHANGES ON SLANG PTZzLED
THE 1fAGISTRATH.

The envoy that came from Patsy Burns
| yesterday to get a warrant for its propri-
| etur was hoarse, squat and bullnecked. He
leaned across the bar of the Jefferson Mar
ket Court and whispered cOntidentially 4:
'say, Jedge, Patsy Burns want to shet
down on kid that's been skinning him.
"a kid. SHINING him2 Impossible"
said his Honor "Where's the animali'
He's young rooster the applicant
went on, what dishes out the booze in
potay's drum
His Honor looked perplexod ooh, its
poultry your complaining about" he re-
marked, II thought you said it was a kid
Just now. Well, what of the rooster?"
The applicant took good long look ri
his Honor and fumbled lis hat lining nerv-
ously. Then he began again with an air
submissive, but reproachful.
Say, ledge, don't you play me. Pm
giving it 10 you straight, honor bright.
Patsy feels dead sore over the thing, aud
wonts the young terrier hauled up before
YOU
Tho Judge dropped his eyeglasses help
lcssly. Look here, my friend he burt
ed out, ''if you come hero to complain
about whole menagerie, say 3d. but this
parade of flesh and fowl is distracting. Let
us understand each other Kid, rooster or
dog-i5 Patsy's trouble with one or ALP
The applicant looked at him hopelessly.
Then he said:
'Jcdge, this looks like dead open and
shut You don't seem to tumble TO me at
all Here's the scheme. There's n Tiger
behind Patsy's bar that's crooked, and he
wants him taken in. See?n
ooh, Patsy has a saloon. 1t is the per-
son who dispenses the beverages he has
trouble with
"Thats the racket, Jedgo, and the ap-
plicant stamped with delight you've got
It dead to rights. You see, Patsy sets this
bIole in his shehang a sending along the
old stuff, and everything goes hunky dory
till he sees bis nibs sporting a.super, and
logged out to the Queens taste. Well,
PatsJs pooty fly, he IS, and he dropped to
the caper So be spotted the Teller, and to-
day he catched him working the damper. :"
Working the dsmper?"
YES, cOllering the Doodle"
"Coilering the -. My friend, for
Heavens sake, be explicit his Honor
moaned. "What do you mean?"
The applicant turned the quid in his
mouth over and over again despondinqly,
but made no reply. At last be blurted out
| in despair.
Hang it, Jedge, he was tapping the till. -
Tapping the till7' and his Honor pans
! cd to reflect, Then his face frightened up,
An, See, he said. Gle was appropriat-
ing the receipts to his own use Ia the alb
sonce Of the proprietor.
That's the talk, roared the applicant.
'Appropriatin' the receipts is the 20. You
got it down fine, ledge. That's what the
cOdger did appropriated Patsy Burns re,
ceipts. So Patsy sent me round to see as
if you wouldn't give him the collar and
make him produce. He's a bad lot. he is.
and you ought to give him the stretch"
What: cried his Honor, 'would You be
50 barbarous as to have me hang the man?''
Who's talkin of hangin'," asked the
other. 80 What 1 said is be ought TO get O
nip
"Get a nip27
eyes; go up the river
81 see, 1 see, grOaned the Justice. "Gc
to Sing Sing. Ny friend, we will try 10
accommodate you. But this conversation
il trying TO a man of my constitution. Go
to Patsy Burns, beg you. Tell him to
bring his grievances here in person, aud for
Heavens sake let him bring little Of the
vornacular along"
The applicant bowed his head sullenly.
May be your ri hit, Jedge," said he,
''an' maybe you amt, but il does seem
rough on a citizen an taxpayer if he can't
get justice unless he's swallowed a lore die
uonary and crammsd down jawbreakers fit
to bust him. So long" asd he stalked
gioomlly away in quest Of Patsy Burma
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