Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-06-28
PASS THE PERFESH9'

John Schofed. Lotta's manager, was
standing in .he street entrance of Hooley' 5
the other evening, contemplating with
extreme satisfaction the procession thai
was passing into the house, when his at,
tention was especially drawn to two young
men with noisily checkercd ulsters and
enormous diamonds, who were CONFER
ring in some earncstness with the junior
Hooley, who presides at the box office.
"Wanta pass, suppose" thought he,
Don't get it this trip, all the same"
Presently he saw the treasurer point him.
out, and directly after the pair approach,
ed.
"Say your name SchofeldY" asked
one one of them.
"Yes, sir"
"Are you the ma nsger Of this here
show !"
Yes"
"Do you pass the perfeshf"
"The what?"
"The pertesh."
whats that ?"
saw, don't screw yourself too high.
Do you pass the perlesh ?"
do you mean the profession ?"
"Why, cer-the perfesh."
That depends. Who are your
Were Nc Clannahsn and Nc Slab
berty."
What do you do?'
Each instantly put hand to the others
nearest shoulder and danced three or four
steps as they sang
"0h, l hate to tell,
But then l must"
winding up suddenly, rising their hats
and striking an attitude.
'Song.and dance men, are your Sorry,
but can't pass YOU
Wh-w-well, III be blamed, said
one, incredulously astonished, you don'i
pass the perleshf'
Why exclaimed Mr.. Scho6eld, j
can't let you in-I'm turning people
away from the house that want TO pay
money to get in. How do you suppose
l can afford to give you roomW
Then you wont pass usH'
NO.
That settles It.. Ysur names Scho.
field, is it?' producing piece Of poper) }
Yes, my name Is SchoAeld.'
Got a penci!7 Lemne lake it,"
Mr.. Schofeld let him take it.
"How do you spell that there name Of
yoursf" preparing to note the spelling }
IS c.h o.f.e Id, Schofeld.'
IS k-o-w-Do you know what I'm GO
ing to dor
Mo-
I'm going to give II TO you In the
perfesh, I'm going to write you up strong
and send it to my friend Frank Queen, of
the Clipper
'Oh You arc, are your And here
abouts Mr.. Schofed began to look sx-
traordinarily.
Yes, am. S.k-o hue can't spell
yer beastly old name-write II down yer
self, want to get it just right. l want
to let you have IL 70 nobody II be able to
mistake it,
Gimme tina: paper and pencil said
Mr.. Schofed, with sudden energy. I'm
write it plain for you, There = (writiug
against the vall.) j. b. Schefeld +
There Send that wherever you like,
and tell 'em don 7 pass hamfatters nor
beats in the 'perfesh or out Of IL. Dye
heart"
All right; you will hear from usagsin.
Not If can help it, WON'T
The dog g-banged beats seliquized
SchoGeld, when they had gone. Write
me up, will theyf'
Mr., Hooley called him up stairs at this
junction, and the incident was soon for
gotten. Half an hour later Mr.. Nichols
stopped at the door with Mr.. Schofeld,
and said: i thought you weren't giving
passes this week."
II amt"
We'll, look at this. A couple OF glue
brothers brought this little while ago.
Mr.. Schofeld looked at 1t. There was
no mistaking the trick. The gentleman
of the perfesh bad taken his wrathfulIy
written signature ard written over it the
simple preface, Pass Two
Where are they now2' he asked.
Inside. Shall / fetch them out
Not by ary means. Go take EN- in
to one Of the boxes, and send them quart
bottle at my erpenss.'- Chicago Times.