Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-09-25
NEW VOL. 21-NO. 4.


A few days since a stranger from the
unconverted wilds Of the East, where
mugwumpery was born aud tender feet
attain their highest state Of sensitive-
ness, came out to Albuquerque to visit a
friend. While walking along Railroad
avenue he said TO his friend:
"There goes a man met up at Ia
Junta," giving the J its natural p.o-
nunciation.
"You mean la Hunta," the friend
replied. "rhat is a Spanish name and
and in that language takes the sound
Of h."
"Is that SOP Well, l must try to
catch on TO that.
After suolling along short distance
further he asked:
"wherc are those Jemes Springs, Of
which see so much in the papersg"
"You should say Haynes Springs;
they are over in the mountains about
sixty miles"
Darn the lang guage-it breaks me all
up. That's a pretty nice house over
there-that Armijo house, isn't its"
and again he give the its proper pro-
nunciation.
You mean the Armiho house; yes,
it's good one, too"
"Damsitha way of abusing the En-
glish alphabet. | reckon, then, that
must 5e the llaffa Brothers store down
| the street there?"
"No, that is not Spanish name. |
think it is French. However, 1t is pro-
nounced rs spelled"
"Well, how In Santa Fe Is fellow
goin' to tell what's Spanish aud what
isn't? Why couldn't they build their
language aecordin' to the original
plans?"
ooh, you'll soon catch on. You will
ind IL safest to give the Spanish pro-
nunciation to nearly everything here"
An hour later they sat down at the
table of the San Felipe Hotel, and, after
scanning the bill of fare, the stranger
said TO the walter:
"You may bring me nice, huicy
piece of beef, some pigs howl with ca
per sauce, some fricassecd hack-rabbit,
some pork with apple belly, some boiled
potatoes with the hackets on-unskun,
you know-somc tarts. with currant ja-
1 mean currant ham, and, all, some"
At this point the waiter swooned aud
the guests In the room let out roar of
laughter that gave the chandelier the
chills aud fever. This made the stran-
ger mad and he leapcd to his feet like n
crazy man, took of his coat and threw
1t down on the floor and stamped on II
and howled:
"You fellers are tryin' to play me for
sucker, but by the eternal, you've
struck the wrong snag! Whoopee (and
he jumped up and slapped his iists) lm
a dcstroyn' cyclone from lllinOy an i
kin lick the hull crowd! Spanish l
kin sling more Spanish In holy minute
than Montezuma could In year! Kin
/? Well, should ehaculate that kin
Let some idiot pull of his hackct and
hump onto me an the first time bic
lin he'll think he has the blm-bams
SPANISH? Oh, guess mott My names
Jeremi- mean Jeremiah Homes, from
Jacksonville, IlliDoy, an when my
dander's up I'm ravin' hyena! You
played me for sucker, but you mustn't
nudge man by his looks. whoop, 20
sound the hubilec. Somebody come out
and face me. Let some him crow ga
loo. come to the front and criticIse my
Spanish hargon!"
His friends got hold Of him and took
him from the room aud rs he went
through the door he remarked:
81 kin take hoke, but, by Hupiter,
| IL makes me mad for lot OF hackasses
to try TO play me for grceDy p- Aitt-
qt1que IN. NJ Democrat.