Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-06

In the city vi Chicago.
Where her father Tpade bis money
Selling wheat Of which he had not
To the msn from Cincinnati,
Lived soft-eyed ale face maiden-
Aibuehsha II. McNulty-
with the accent on the peuuisb.
Who Was yOuns. and f. ir. and slender,
And who wore her hair in frizzes-
Very beautiful was Minnie,
Free from care Of all description.
And rs William j. AcNulty
Paid her bills for fancy dry goods -
Bills for aey. n-dollar stockinys--
Corsets, crimping pins, and 50 forth
He would oftea let his memory
Wander back scpre Of summers
TO tie time when ne was courting
AGNES GeLeyieve Mccarthy
Nov the mother OF his daughtsrb.
Hox they Hss d to sit ri even
On the front step Of her fathers
Mans Oh on the kue de Tom LAT
Swapping lovely lies about their
Wild sfectIon fer each other.
And az William j. reflected
On the past and on the present
1t occurred TO him that Minnie
Had quite Q decided bulge ON
Her mamma in point Of wardrobe.
In the summer when the ball club
Of Chicago last the pennans,
Lost tbs pennapt that their hired
Men had held since 1850.
Minnebaha velt Out riding
In 4 nobby sids-bar wagon,
And her pareAt drove al equine
That was thought 70 be quite speedy.
Down the boulevard they travelled,
Every now and then proceeding
10 pull Out and knock the socks of
Some more unpretentious flyer.
Until Minnie and hsr father
Had about reached the conclusion
There WIS nothing in Chicago
That could mako the old mare hustle.
So they chatted on the topics
Of tho day-Maud SIS record,
Mr.. Beecher's indigestion,
And his love for Henry Irving.
But anon the ear of Minnie
pretty ear with pink of sea she'll
Caught the soft and murmufOus breath
ing
OF another horse behind them.
Be in somsthing of hurry,
From the way in which be made the
Landscape vanish in perspective.
SO she punched her father gently
'Twixt the q. xth and seventh riblets,
And suggested that, unless he
Had Q Wild desire to witness
The surrounding country through
Cloud Of dust, he'd better hit the
Old bay mare just above anidshipS
With the whip, and boiler at her.
You have seem the tempest raging
On a wild and rocky seaoosst,
You have read about the battles
In which thousands bravely perished-
They were nothing to the struggle
That took place between AcNulty's
Old bay mare and the gray ReldinR
That the stranger deity handled.
He was handsome, Was the stranger,
With II form like an Apollo.
And be steersd the big gray gelding
With skill that won the heart of
Minnohaha 10 she sat there
And bsheld her parent distanoed.
"Hold, brave youth ~ cried out Mo.
Nulty;
/" Pull your horse up and como hither.
would speak with you concerning
That good steed which you are driving
Will you cell him What's his record
Does he ever have blind staggers
Is his owner . rO0r widow
Who n f0rosd by want to sell him,
Or who argues that tae climate
Where her husband now has gone to
ID too sultry for fast driving
Seek not to deceive me, sonny,
With q tale extremely gauzy,
But get down to bed. rock figures
On your horse, and let me have them.'
Then up spoke the youth whose drivins
Had enamored 0innehaha
will never eell my horse, sir,
For value him too highly.
With the suiftness Of q. whirlwind
He can draw two in buggy,
And the famed steeds of the desert
Fall 30 far in speed below him
That II one should try TO pass me.
] opine his driver quickly
Would conclude that be was going
In the opposite direction.
He ID bred Just like 81. Julien
Hambletonian stock, and you can
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