The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-01

IN The seif-Reproaohing soiiloquist.
Never, in the uneven tenor of a wordN
mann life, he is sincere in his expression, il
must 81 when, imagining himself alone
'the woNd forgetting, by the world for
gu" in Me language of the immortal
wegg, h, 'Nrops into" soliloquy. sweei
soif.communeN How il portrays the limos,
secrets OF the hSertl
The reporter sSSnetimes oamped upon
the trail OF gentlemen who have been sue.
cessiul in their attacks upon the lair of the
formidable tiger. Then halEuttered ex.
pressions would tumble, pearl.like, from
wreathed lips in Some such form as
this; 81 golly Didn't \get 'em; warn't
that a bully CALI Won't the old lady dry
up her talk quick about late, hours when /
shove this twenty.dollar goldSpece into the
hollow of her horny hand?" Or sometimes
thuslJ' Tell me keno can't be beat |
done done it know a thing or two; bold
game for me ali the time; come on old
washerwoman. I'm ready for. you, keno %
Such EXPLANATIONS would Ncome from
those braves whom fortune had favored and
whose seli-gratula,ions of the dual sype
were prompted by that genuine good feel.
ing which a little luck and more Nenzipe
had prompted.
But occasionally, as of very receM oc.
currence, bitter self.reproach would takS a
tumo'e rom the seli.communist, and only
aieW evenings since the reporter dropped
upon the following monologue, little be-
fore o'clock, on Main street. II was the
night Of the late operate performance, and
The soliliquist, with rather unsteady feet
and by no means measured tread, was
vending, ploughing or lacking his way
h0mewar, when the mold.eared faber-
pusher overheard the following very re.
marknbie observations, ierked out with in
term!ttanthiowps, as they fell from the la
ls'a organs of aNlstinguished citizen. IN
Mine o'clock l1ic)--Nce time to be goin
home to take wife to opera (hic) there she
elta all dressed up awaitin' TOR this dad
blamed cuss (hic)-ain't she bilm! thinks
jim took sick So ! an, (hic)--but she'll
raise Ned all the same when come a,.y-
how. rlayin' fifteen hundred ball pool
amt that a nice bisness for a family man
(hlc) what care II they got all the balls
and the cues and the old triangle too in all
the holes (hic) ought to be 'shamed my
self to neglect wife Tor fifteen whisky tod.
ICES and FIVE ball pools (hic)-guess can't
H ,pt now, old fel-hic). DO your best
YER pear sober say twas bisness import.
III tanned me--twont do, tho'-(hic).'
nun az tpUCu. III SELL
cha ,ination the street-car passed on
naoenrEifhup-bound trip, when the
ASin,sny and belated vovager to the haven
rsdSvs t,stic bliss, broke forth in another
70 f5 Ia as he shook his clenched fis at
Cly& Eing and innocuous public cha iot.
eevXfA ole keor! You can't get no nickle
NJ. i just won't ride-I'm going to
y y 'tiit takes me all night (hic) and to.
AZ TOO (hic)-don't deserve no ride
mil too good for yon sir Ketch thun-
Kin mice little wife setting there, all
mr.. W., and me playing whskey. pool
en-ball toddies Shant ride-no,
W'FyRf ~tsS,,, raw''' anu tnns with such
sSs; 'uqs .uApn the immedia;Hte
na.oo VI SCI he -. -. s9 ,.,l
800 ducements to
Che .....aurI. s-s-1l sr4.v s weet. featured, but
iathef disappointed dame, who couldn't
go to the opera that was to perform Tor one
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