Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-19
CARL DUNDER.
The Old Nan Falls Into Trouble Again
and Tells About 1t.

The Old Nan Falls Into Trouble Again
and Tells About 1t.
~ thought il about time for you to show
up again." said Sergeant Bendell yester-
day as Carl Dunder hesitatingly entered
the Woodbridge-street Station.
MAYBE like to talk NIT you leedle."
"Well, go ahead. l suppose you are in
trouble again ?"
Sergeant, vhas sheorge Washington
dead ?"
"Of course he is
He vhas dead long time ?"
"a great many years"
"Vhell, dot pleases me. / vhas afraid /
make a mistake und hat to 60 to shall. A
black man come in my place der ouder
day and likes me to gif him two shillings
for a colored shurch. He says his name
vhas Sheorge Washington. l belief
Sheorge Washington vhas dead, und | gil
dot man sooch kick dot he flies twenty
feet.
"You did Why, he was probably
named George Washington. l know OF
several colored men by that name"
"But Sheorge Washington vhas dead
If he vhas dead he can't be alive"
Cant there be two men by the same
name? Don't you know two or more men
by the name of Schmidt ?"
"By Sheorge! but l doan't think OF
dotw
You'll probably be arrested on war
rant some time to-day, and l shan't feel a
bit sorry for you. Has anything else hap
pened ?"
"Vhas Shakespeare dead ?"
Il should remark p
"He vhas dead a good while?'
eyes; a long time"
"Dot pleases me. When you explain
about Washington, vhas afraid Shakes
peare vhas alive. A young man comes in
my place und says vhas Carl Dunder?
vhas. Well, Mr.. Dunder, like to sell
you book by Shakespeare. Here he
vhas, und l sell him cheap. Sergeant,
nopody must take me for fool"
"No?"
"If Shakespeare vhas dead how can he
write some books? 1t vhas shwindle on
me, und take dot young man und almost
preak him in two."
"Then you'll probably have second
warrant to look out for. The young man
was book agent and all right"
"But you said Shakespeare vhas dead
$50 he is. The men who wrote the BIZ
BILE are dead, but the Bible keeps right on,
doesn't it? These are books Shakespeare
wrote when he was living"
"Vhas dot so? Why doan' he explain
it to me ?'
"The Judge will explain it Anything
else ?"
"a man comes in my place und says he
likes to sell me some strips of weather.
Was l fool? Doan' / haf all der weather
l vhant mitout pay? Doan' get some
peoples? Sergeant, | doan' like to hat
some one make fun of me, und knock dot
chap oafer two tables"
"Well, you'll pay fine in the Police
Court for it."
"You don't say ~
eyes, / do The man wanted to furnish
you weather strips, didn't hep"
"By golly! believe he vhas weather
strips"
"They are put on doors and windows
to keep out the cold. You'll hear from
him !"
"But why doan' he explain to me
How do know dere vhas some deeference
between weather strips and strips OF
weather."
"The Judge will explain"
Sergeant, look at me I meier see
sooch country One day gif somepody
five dollar, und vhas all wrong. Der next
day knock shust such man oafer two
tables und vhas arrested. Nopody vhas
two times alike. If l doan' knock some
pody vhas an old greenhorn. If / do
knock him must go nit der Police Court
"Well?"
"Vhell, dot vhas all, except dot 1 go
home und go to bed, und tell Shake und
der oldt wonlans to run der peesness. 1t
vhas all too mixed oop for me. vhas no
good. Goodbye, und if l doan see you
some more like you to visit my grave
stone und weep leedle. "-Detroi Ere,
Press.