The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-04-25

SO havin' fixed all smooth with
her ! drew up alongside of the old
man, and made ready to give him a
blast. BY jinSo, boys, he looked as
wicked as treed bear. But fined
up and let go. That's an oncon-
scionable slick gal OF your'n mum
seer, sed |. IL tickled him to have
her cracked up, for he thought her
natures tinishin' tech, 50 did l.
"Oui sair," said he, "she vair
tine leetle gal, she is sair, mine only
schile.'
"Well," seq l, "she is a serou-
GER"
Wat you mean by him eh? Vat
you call s-c-r-r-r.ouge, eh? Vat is
he sairG My lsetel gal, vat you call
him, sair!" And he begin biin'
over because l had call her bad
names, and swarm lie would take
the gal home; and I'm blessed if he
didn't, and long afore the shine was
over too. l got in their wake and
followed him through one street
arter another until his home was
reached. jest as he wur about TO
90 in he heered my footsteps, and
turnin' round in the darkness hol-
Tered, "Ah, ha, You sneak yankee
doodal, / shall cut YOU all ND in
leetle pieces, all, hal" and bang
slammed the door in my face.
| waited sum time. and at last the
French cal, she cum 10 the door and
locked around. | sidlcd up to her
and asked to come and sit with her.
| told her | was Just frittcrn away
all To uothin. thml;in on her. and n
sma, mite Of courtin wud SPUR me
up amazin'; and then rive her
sech a look. that She tlu,tered into
consent as easy as mockin bird
viii tiles.
"Oh. oui, YOU shall come nov,
mon pere soon 60 To the cabaret:
hut YOU must he vair quiet, and 90
vay before he come back to de mai
sou.
In course ] promised to do lest AS
she sed: so went mo the si,,in
room, whar we sot down and took "A
GOOD look onto each other. She
looked poo,y enough 20 TEMPT a fell
lar to bite IA piece out on her. | had
all sorts of GOOD things to say onto
her, bat cuss me if / could get out
the first mutter. Whether it was
skeer for ole Frenchy, or a bilin' up
of atfpcshuu, that stuck in NV throat
SO tight. Pm unable to swar, but
thar [ wus like boat fast on the
sand bar. making nifty lttel head
wav.
"Vat is de mattair wiz YOU, nun
see?'' sez Marie.
"Well.n sez |. 81 do feel as if I
wur about to collapse a fiue or bust
my biler. fur they say your daddy's s
tiger. and eff | get caupht here
thar'i he suthin' broke. a burvin'
instead of weddin'; / am not a
mite skeered fur myself. but the old
man might get hurt. and | would he
frettel to do apy sicb a thinpn
"But mon dieus What shall 7 do
wiz YOU, suppose he come. eli ?' sed
Marie, kinder skeeredlike.
but nv angel sez I, "he
shan't ketcb me. fur Tll streak il
like q bolt the moment I hear steam
from his scape pine"
[ had no sooner sed so when
bang went the doer below, and ole
Frenchv cum feelin his way up-
stairs, mutterin like piece of fla,
thunder. [ knowed ther waru't n,
time to spare, so l histed the windel
aud backed out. Jest as / was
about to drop Marie ses to Inc, "Oh
mon dieu! Don't drop inter the
WE'LL" and instanter shet the win
der. NV har riz on end in a mint
I'll tell yer boys, a souse inter tn,
river in ice time, warn't half as colo
esIwus. 1t was 80 etarnal dark
I'd give all lIwus worth to know
whar that we'll was situwated.
looked up as | hung ON to see i
thar wusn't a star a-shinin lest tt
give littel hint of what was below
But thar wasn't then | looked be
low and listened an [ cud hear tn,
water droppin' at about ffty fee
below. The ole man wus tariI
around the room and swarm fit I,
kill. Well. ef I warn't in au oneas,