San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-27
MUNICIPAL CHATTER.


once heard when the Swallows
Homeward Fly"
Claud And they are getting home
quite numerously lately, too. Pass
the
Brine-After me If you please; it's
nearer to me anyhow. In the mean
time do you know that Capt. George
called me squeezed lemon" the
other day.
Claud-He didn't Gail you out of
your name did he?
Brine-No; but can't help being
squeezed by the hungry hOrds that
chafe me three-hundred and sixty
five times a year without counting the
nights. They've got me as empty as
an alderman's head.
Claud-I feel tritie vacant myself
Here's to YOU. You said yesterday
that you was about to make the
hack drivers wear your coat OF arms
when driving down Commerce street.
What's your coat of arms any how?
Brine-A chilli con carne pot sur
mounting three tamales with frijole
back ground, the whole suspended
from blade of Johnson grass. Me
and my jester designed it on a rye
label recently.
Claud-Very pretty indeed, but say,
what hole in the administration is
old man Pag filling? see him follow
ing you around as if you was bottle
and there was something in you.
Brine-That's our business and
don't you poke your nose in our biz
again. | want no torch stuck in it
nohOw. You are seeing too much,
and first thing you know I'll put a
thimble over your head and blind you
entirely.
Claud - Pm sorry 1 spoke, but
should happen to see any of the
grand jury shall 1 mention it?
Brine-In a whisper, yes; but I'll
be skinned and used as q tamale
wrapper if / care con tinental when
they adjourn. [ hear the white
Mexican" is trying to get back again.
He can go to-
Claud-Hush! there he goes now
with old Mack, and they're talking
| about that cellar job. Mack knows
the way to his whiskers too. Like q
peeler he's pulling them.
Brine-Newcomb says that some
| mems brains run to beard in that
| case how vacant must old Mack
head be. Nat and Thad are joining
'em and Joe the kid Is lookin' for
| q mOustache that's scarcely out yet.
Claud-They're talking about us
too, cause they are laughing this way.
| / thought you said that Mack had
quit.
Brine-He has refusing.
Claud-So 1 observe with my eyes
f,,r Ill
mode you any 1 would have no hest.
fancy in receiving the bottle.
8rine-Then receive aId-return-
Pm suffering little too. Numbering
the houses Is bothering me now. I
didn't want to number them before,
because the people would learn my
| way of colonizing the Mexicans.
didn't have to account for the
cusses; now 1 have-every house talks
for itself. Hang Uncle Sam any how.
Claud-Yes; he's meddling too
much, wish Chill would come over
and put his eve out.
Brlne-Let me see, Chilli speaks
Mexican, don't it?
Claud-COurse it does.
Brine Then Pm for Chilli, as was
for the Maffians, every dash out of the
| box. In the language OF Shakespeare
you know me Pete.
Claud-When I'm at myself, yes;
| but there are times when-Well
what's the use of singing a song
that's been sung until the tune would
almost knock the jimjams out of an
alderman.
| Brine-NO more use than it is to
run for re election, put in the mean
time We'll pluck the goose until they
can t see feather with a sixty foot
eye-glass. Let that alone until Pm
served
Claud-Beg pardon, but he pushed
it toward me and you know what a
force of habit is on occasions like
this.
Brine-Too well, sir to well, but
Cohen must have used this spoon
lately.
Claud-Why so?
Brine-Because here's one of his
whiskers on it,
Claud-Yes; and it's the one I used
TO mark where planted those books.
Brine-How can you identify it?
| Claud-I tied knot in it and
Brine-There goes the niger with
my plug hat! Throw him down and
take 1t from him-he may Absorb some
OF my Mexican traits and herd the
Aztec himself. Giminy Christmas
and bad potatoes, how did he get it
OIL my head without me knowing it?
Claud-Dunno, yeroner, dunno;
that's slick coon he can
say nothing and saw wood
In more languages than you can
md In an Italian celebration. He's q
slick one from Slipperytown and don't
you hesitate to remember it.
Brine-l'm thinking about putting
n I'M LII for q Ii