The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-04-24


No it-that can't be the word, Won
know-George was King, and if-if Ba-
silica means q royal -they-they
might have been-welations-but that's
all--no, it ism t Basilica-it-it,s Basilisk
yes, I've got it now-it's Bathilith.
That's what his Majesty was-a Bath
ilith, and fascinated fair creachaws with
his eye. Let me see-where was Ip O.
| rekomember-or weckolect-which is
it? Never mind, 1 was saying that l
was ladies' man.
I want to tell you of one successful
advenchaw had-at least, when I saw
successful, mean it would have been
as far as was concerned-butof course
when two people are engaged-or wath-
er-when one of 'em aUGaats to be engag-
ed, one fellah by himself can't engage
that he'll engage affections that are
otherwise engaged. By the way, what
q lot of cages that was in one thentense,
and yeti seems quite fruitless. Come,
that's pwetty smart, that is-for me.
Well, as I was saying-I mean as I
meant to have said--when l was stop
ping down at Rockingham, with the
Widleys, last autumn, there was q
mons'ous jolly girl staying there too. 1
don't mean too girls you know only
only one girl-But stop q minutes
that rightP How could one girl be stop
ping there tsoo? What doosid queer ex-
pressions there are in the English Ian
guage! Stopping there two! It's
vewy odd I'LL swear there was only
one girl-at least, the one that I mean
was only cne-if she'd been two, of
course should have known it--let me
see now, one is singular, and two is
plural-well, you know, she s0as sim
gular girl-and she-she was one too
many for me. All, I see now--that ac-
counts for it one tsoo many-of course
Il k,sesO there was a two somewhere.
She had q vewy queer name, Miss-Miss
-Miss-Miss, no not Miss Missmiss-I
always miss the wrong-I mean the
right name-Miss Chafingham--that
it-Charlotte Chafingham. l wecko-
member Charlotte, because they called
her Lotty-and one day at bweakfast-
Imade stunnir e e-Isaid-"Why
is Miss Charlotte like London cab
manP" Well, none of them could guess
it. They twied and twied, and at last
my brother Sam-he gave most stupid
anthwer-be said, 81 know" he said
"She's like q London cabman because
she's got fair back"
Did you ever hear any thing SO widic-
ulous? Just as If her face wasn't It much
prettier than her back! Why, l could
see that, for was sitting opposite her.
It's twue, Sam was Just behind her, Of
fering some mullins, but-you know
he'd seen her face, and he weally ought
to have known better. told him So
l said, ethan, you ought to be atham-
ed of yourthelf, Mat'th not the anther. -
Well, then, of course, they all want
ed to know, and IL told 'em-ha, ha !
my answer was good, wasn't it? O,
forgot I havn't told you-well-here ii
isl said
"Miss Charlotte is like London
cabman because she's Lofty Chatting
ham" (of course meant, lot o'chaff in
him). Dye see? Doosid good I cal
it-but would you be.ieveP all the party
began woarwing with q laughter al
wound.
"Why, don't you see, Dundreary,'
some one said-"it won't do-you've
forgotten the lady's sex-Miss Charlotte
can't be said to have any chat in him
It ought to be chaff in her"-and ther
they began to woar again. Upon my
word, now, it hadn't occurred to me GER
tainly before, but don t see noa0 that il
was such mistake. What's the use o.
being SO doosid particular about the
sense of a widdle as long as it's gooe
one? Abthurd!
Well, after breakfast we went out fol
a stroll upon the lawn, and somehow OF
other Miss Chafingham paired off with
me. She was q doosid stunning girl
you know. A fellah often talks about
stunning girls, and when you see then
they're not 80 stunning after all but Lot
ty weally was doosid stunning girl-fai1
eyes and beautifully blue, ha-no! blue
hair and fair-I (confound it, I always
make that mistake when there's more
than one adjective in a thertencel-
mean fair hair and beautifully blue
eyes, and she had way of looking al
one that-that weally almost took ones
bweath away. I've often heard about
felllah's falling in love. never die
tho mythelf, you know-at least not thai
weckomember- mean, weckollect-
before that morning. But weally she
did look so jolly bweaking her egg a
bweakfast-so bewitching when she
smashed the shell all wound with hel
thpoon before she began TO eat til,
weally began to feel almost hpoo''es
mythelf. Ha! ha! there | am at i
again; weally must bweak mytheh O.
this habit of joking; it's vewy low, yot
know-like a beathly clown in
b-beathly pantomime-I ought't to hav'
said beathly twice, know. A feilaf
once told me that if-if q man says tn
same adjective twice in one thentenc'
he's taught illogical. But he's wrong