San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-22
MUNICIPAL CHATTER.

Drlut- we've Ueou tdihluH laGoly
in five languages, French, Mexican,
English, American and United States
and still that LIGHT man under
stands us. What'll we do.
Claud-Talk IN short hand, of
course.
Brine-Whst kind of lingo is that?
Claud-Don't talk at all; but wink
as you do to 'cork-screw Lockwood"
just before taking. I'll understand
you, particularly on OCCASIONS like
this; and the more you wink the
more I'll approve and comprehend
you.
Brine-You just do q little of the
winking yourself; it cost money TO
wink under those cIrcums tances. The
contingent fund must not be winked
away no how.
Claud-What's the difference, it
goes any how?
Brine-Yes, but why in eternal
blazes do you eat SO many cloves.
That's the tenth you's eaten this
morning.
Claud-The sugar tastes like de-
crepid cheese and the water seems to
have been pumped from Bitter creek;
and the other article amt any too
good either.
Brine-I believe they've changed
the
Claud-Hush! don't insinuate; we
might get it worse the next time.
Brine-But that stuff would bite its
way through an iron-ciad.
Claud-You are certainly shouting,
but contain it, even if it doesn't leave
enough Of you to walk home on. Re-
Brine-Grave, sometimes, which re-
minds me that the great men are
dropping off. There's Bslmaceda and
Boulanger and others have crossed
the sphynx.
Claud-The Styx, you mean.
Brine-Yes, and I would not object
to the attentions of q doctor or two
myself. When Pm talking classics 7
don't want you to correct me after
this.
Claud-I won't, but what do you
suppose 1.-THE white Mexican" as you
call him, is talking to that taxpayer
about? They're looking at US and
laughing until they've cracks in their
sides.
Brine-I suppose that while we are
taking things Joe is giving things
away. He and Nat and Thsd and that
kid Joe have got to 60, If I do say 1t
myself. can talk also, and I'll do 80,
IL have to wear my tongue out in
three halves.
BriDe-I see that the Pertinent
Photographer" kicks because think
Of Mao;aav, IL
of al American tramp. Course do;
the beggar takes care of me and L
take care of him. The American can
go to HI and pick black berries if he
wants to. I'm a Mexican man.
Claud-Iknow that. but you should
keep it to yourself.
BriGe-I was keeping it until that
last settler fioated it outside. There
goes around the corner the only one
in the city council that I can't hoo.
doc, VIM. Hoefling. While most of
the others sit around like hypnotlzed
apes he has an eye on me that say g
plainly, Brine you are no good. l"
And the worst of it is, he is right.
Ciaud-Yes, he is too Independent
for us, but we've Conner, Weber.
CT egory. Schreiner, Corkscrew Lock
wood and other miscellany TO help US.
Brine-Yes, but they've been crawl
ing around me until they smell bad.
I hate slave. even if he's mine.
Have you seen any of the grand jury
lately?
Claud-Yes; there goes one of them
now and believe he has designs on
Cohen's whiskers. He's smelt those
hnNHo Of nj To 30, a
them, no how; fact is L don't under.
stand them myself.
Brine-Neither dol, but you should
have given them to the n igger.
Claud-Why so?
Brine-Because he is about the
only one in the bunch that could keep
them in the dark. See the point?
Claud-Yes; and Ialso see the poin
of that bottle, like bad trump turn.
ed down. Wonder you wouldn't
right it and encourage it my way.
Brine-YOu would take it out of the
hands of the receiver, so to speak, eh?
Claud-I would, if it took all the
Kings of all the courts in Kingdom
come.
Brine-This knocks great chunks
off the con tiHgent fund, don't it?
Claud-In the language of Shakes
peare, 1t does. But what's three
dollars q day to artists like us?
Brine-In my estimation nothing,
but the circumstances that now hedge
us in like prickly pears are bothering
me like Sam Hill. 1 feel like going
out and dancing the csn-can on an
ant.hill, and bare-footed at that.
Claud-DOn't do if VurOnar don't
do 1t. We need you little longer in
our business. Then you can hire out
as town pump-you would make 8
good one.
Briue-How's that?
Ciaud-Cause you never run dry.
Brine-By the powers of garlic