The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-30
The letter'll como to-mor.

whitc yet. The letter'll como to-mor.
row."
"You mean to say YOU haven't been
asked yet, and you're going?"
"Oh, don't fret yourself about that
III be asked. Yesterday thought I'd
like littlc change quite dusty
and wiltcd here in town. Decided New
port would about suit, and that Mulligan's
blue-room-onc on the corner looking
toward Brcnton's Recf-was the most
comfortable sparc-room Ikncw ND there.
So-says 1, to mysclf-says l: Jack.
you'll spend next Sunday at Newport in
old man Mulligan's bluc-roon, looking
toward Brenton's Reef And then /
wrote letter to Ma Mulligan, said l
was coming up to Newport next Sunday,
anu had no place to stay. Hoped l
would see hcr and her beauteous and
accomplished daughters. Dashed in a
salient bit about tho view of the sea
from the blue spare-room. Said some.
thing about dropping in to see them
and next Saturday will do tho drop
act chez -uulfgan, and not drop out again
till Monday morning"
And suppose they expect you to do
done tho dropping-in actP"
"Oh, they wont! l know my Multi
gans-bless their hearts and their blue
spare bedrooms! Haven't l brought
them up i'll the way they should go?
engineered two germans last year for
them and arranged one toboggan party
and four dinners. DO YOU think my no.
blc-hcartcd Mnlligans take me for a
lclot? .1aW rirs. l work for them;
they've got to pay me. My proud spirit
forbids that l should take that filthy
drosS for which am now and ALWAYS
Will be in such sore need. But will
take their invitations, and that one will
be waiting for me when get home this
evening know rs we'll rs that there's
not Mulligan born on TO this earth
who can arrange dance or dinner
without me-
And that's the way you manage it?n
That's my little way. They can't
any of them get akqthcr man in town to
take the trouble an6S the time that 1 do
10 make their entertainments go Off
we'll And then | am personablo
youth, and they like me. It's my style,
as I've said before. When I'm up there
with them | make myself swcetcr than
honey. L lay the train for the winters
work then. just dash in few high
colored remarks about entertaining as
an art, and casually allude to IL german
or two led by me, and the great
ness begins to beam from my
brow. Next week I'm divided be-
tween another visit to the Mont
.gomery-J at Squidnecli or the Van
Spooners at New London. I'll inditc
one of my artlcsSly persuasive JiUets to
one or other of them, and get an answer
on lrish-linen paper with gold crest,
and every other word interlined: Dear
Mr.. Brown: If you are coming to Squid-
neck next Saturday can not ace have the
pleasure of your company until you arc
obliged to rcturn% etc."
what colossal brassr'
That's it-you've said it. Your finite
mind has scared up to it, It's my brass
that does it. My brass is my fortune.
Other mems fortunes have lain in their
brains, their beauty, their biceps, their
barney; mine lies in my brass. And l
may say that I've done more with NV
brass than many other men have done
with skullful of genius. Without it
Id be cipher, an otiice-boy in a West
crn shoe factory; with it-just look at
me! And it doesn't entirely come nat
nral to me. | was inclined to be brazen
IN the beginning, of course; but when |
came to this metropolis realized that
what fcllow-who hadn't money, good
looks nor brilliancy-needcd to get on
was brass. So | worked mine up. and
here | am-Ofl on SATURDAY. 70, +bro,
days III Newport in old Mulligan's blue
spare-bedroom. You go here? We'll, SO
long-bye- bye!"-Thc Argonaut.