San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-24
MUNICIPAL CHATTER.

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that I'll soon have to dig. potatoes to
| find you.
| Claud-In that case 1 won't have
to smell any more rot in high places.
| Brine-You're getting impudenter
every day an sometimes think you
are going mad.
CIaud-You are the one that's froth-
ing and you have good reasons.
Brine-Yes; the newspapers are
skinning me from toe to finger nails,
an Pm wondering day and night
what they want with my hide.
Claud-They might want to tan it
| and make Aztec postage stamps of II.
But seriously how do you stand the
puncturipgs anyway?
Brine-I don't stand them at all;
just bleed inwardly and appear alive
when am really dying-can't stand
| 1t much longer. MY heart is full of
arrows an l can't float 'em out with
all the water in town. My very hair
is leaving me an my poor life is a
! toOthache.
Claud-Yes; and you havewrinkles
in your face that would hi dean alder
man at small. The pillow of sorrow
has entered your cheek, hard as it is,
and only weeds grow in the burrows.
1 am sorry for you, at least fifteen
cents worth.
Bripe-I amt taking anything to-
day; I'll fool the LIGHT man once If 1
have to go dry doing it.
Claud-Tm like you, I won't; but
yeroner, do you know the people are
angry about that invitation we sent
them to view the city hall on certain
days and between certain hours.
Brine-They're mad you say?
Claud-Thst's what UTTERED.
Brine-Well they can go to the ID
and tell him Pm comm when 1 get
ready. Pm the bose of this town an
| If they don't mind wont let 'em see
the hall at all, only at distance.
Claud-You'll let them come in to
pa their taxes, won't you?
Brine-I hadn't thought of that,
but I'll make the niger drive 'em out
as soon as they pay 'em. They can't
hang around any house l built,
not If the court knows itself without
u glass.
Claud But the people built the city
hall and not you; tits theirs and not
yours, then why should you presume
to bar them out? Your cheek would
knock q hole in the street roller.
Brine-Haven't you ever seen q dog
keep his master out of his own yard
Claud-Yes, believe I have.
Biine-Well, in this case I'm the
dog. No one can enter while 1 am
picking the bone. AS remarked be-
fore. you know me Pete.
Claud-I see now; you don't want
| them to know what's going on inside.
From the knowledge 1 have of inter-
nal affairs L don't blame you. You
know your business, and they're not
| expected to know anybody's bust
ness. This is a phase of statesman
| ship that had overlooked.
Brine-You see also how 1 keep
farm wagons and other unsightly
things off Commerce street?
Clsud-I do, but it's tough on poor
people.
Brine-First thing they know 1
won't let nothing on that street but
| fine buggies an the drivers must
wear my coat OF arms.
Brine-Yes, I've a notion to keep
poor people off that street entirely,
either afoOt, horse back or wagon
back. Let 'em go around and thank
me tor even that indulgence. People
That can't wear plug hats like me
shouldn't go out no way. I'm in it;
they amt What's that?
Claud.-The bill for publishing that
"invitation" in our organ. You see
we make the taxpayers pay for invit-
log them to see their own property.
Brlne-That's right; my organ and
the little Dutch editor must be back
scratched for their fawDing-psy 'em'
d-m 'em, pay 'em, if we have to take
iG out OF the contingent fund and GO
dry. They hang around the munich
pal table like hounds, and if the
crumbs don't drop last enough they
whine their ears off. I've big notion
to turn them over to the dOg-cstchers
Claudio, yeroner, do: but first
dismiss any scruples you might have
on removing the bottle. You clutch
it as II it held the capital prize in the
lottery.
Brine-Excuse me, I was wonder,
ing il made any allusion to Lock
wood in connection with the menag
erie. NO; 1 amt drinkin' much to
day.
Claud-Very we'll sir, but do you
know that the Dutch are down Oh
you like q stranded oyster?
Brine-I dol made q bad break
when 1 come from Psree that time
but was so full of French notions
and such that put my foot in 1t VI
to my ears. didn't think the re-
porter would give me away.
Claud-He reported you correctly
did he not.
Brine-He did, said that tn,
French were patriots born and tina
the Outch were patriots by force; ou
he should have considered my con
dition at the time. True, 1 mean
what said and the same goes.