Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-17
CARL DUNDER.
His Peculiar Experiences on q Trip from
Detroit to Chicago and Back.


"Well?" queried Sergeant Bendall yes
terday as Carl Dunder entered the Wood
bridge-street station for the first time in
three weeks.
1 vhas gone to Chicago und back" re-
piled the visitor, with pride in his tones.
SIS that possible Did you take a
guardian along ?"
Sergeant, vhas some greenhorns
"The biggest one ever saw"
"Vhell, maybe dot vhas so. When l goes
NIT der train young mans comes oafer to
me und says vhas | Carl Dunder? | vhas.
All right. Say, Mr.. Dunder, hat got a
new parlor game | like to show you.
Maybe / make you my agent in Detroit,
und der salary vhas S25 per week. He
dakes three cards oudt of his pocket und
throws 'em aroundt like 500
Exactly. That's the old game of three
card monte. You bit, of course?"
"Vhell, he says he likes me to pick out
dot Shack of hearts, und do so. Den he
likes to bet me SO | can't do her again."
"And you bet?"
eyes"
'And you lost?'
"Yes."
"Served you right "
"Vhell, maybe so, but when | take dot
young mans by der throat and shoke him
until his tongue comes oudt he makes a
bargain NIT me. He gifts me $50 to shtop
off on him."
"He did?"
"Dots how it vhas. Maybe l vhas
green like some grass, und maybe l know
how to come in when she rains When |
go so far as Niles an oldt mans comes in
der car and says vhas l Carl Dunder? |
vhas. Say, Mr.. Dunder, here vhas big
telegram from your wife Don't be excited.
Maybe your house vhas on fire, und MAYBE
she likes youto do some errand in Chicago.
Keep cool und be prepared. Der sharge
it vhas twelve shillings."
''Pll bet it was bogus dispatch?'
"Vhellr'
"And you got caught ~
"Vhell, take along some bogus silver
dot Shake takes in from der boys, und |
gif him tree bad half dollars. He vhas
in great hurry to go, but see him poorly
soon again. He comes by der car window
and runs his tongue out at me und says he
can lick me in two minutes. Dot dispatch
vhas all blank paper. Maybe | vhas so
soft as pumpkins, Ell, Sergeant? ?"
"You did well. Anything else?"
'Ven | goes into Chicago | meet very
nice gentleman, but don't know him. He
knows me. Was | Carl Dunder? Ivhas.
Dot vhas good. He like to tell me dot l
draw prize in some lottery"
"Thats the old bunko game, and you
bit, of course?"
."Vhell, if l draws some money l like to
get him, don't l ?'
"Of course"
"Und hat to go along ?"
Certainly
"Vhell, we don't go more ash two blocks
pefore we meet policemans, und grab
dot barty und lay him on his back und gif
him AWAY for some bunkoo. Dot officer
takes him avhay und make it hot for him.
Was / some cabbage-head ?"
81 guess not. Anything else ?"
"Vhell, when vhas coming home, und
shust before we vhas in Detroit, somepody
picks my pocket"
81 thought it would end that way. How
much did you lose?'
"Lose? | don't lose nothings. | take
oudt all my money and write on a ship of
paper, How vhas shestnuts und der man
who got him comes around poorly soon und
says if he lives two thousand years he Will
knock me oudt. vhas only an old Dutch
mans, sergeant, und | vhas so green der
cows bite at me, but maybe goes to Chi
cago und back und don't get lost, eh g'-
Detroit Free Press.