San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-09
MUNICIPAL CHATTER

OVERHEARD FOR THE LIGHT BY SHARP EYE
Brine-We haven't talked much
lately.
Claud-.No; my tongue is worn list
eniDg oyou. -h
Brine-I notice that old Corkscreu
is lame in the feet lately.
Claud-Yes; and that unfortu nateIy
makes MIN crippled at both ends.
wouldn't have him know said this.
however, tor spoon full of aldermen.
Why dou't you bring out your big
daddy and be done with it?
Brlne-l have my victim for alder
man-at7large staked ont under
thin BILE and they'll see him when ]
let his tail protTude foremost. NV
aldermanic liabilities You know have
crawfish predictions. They go back
ward and trust to the blind pilot me,
for guidance. He'll crawl out through
one of the pores when whistle tOr
him and show up anyhow as big as d
ten pin. I've been thinking about
feeding him on dry apples and then
loading him with San Pedro water be
fore flashing him on this looted town
liV III NJ Gboh lcdCu Tic COdI-ldllB Oh
big men like you and me. There's
nothing like initiation, you know.
Claud-But when contraction comes
some of you will have to be held to
the light to see which end of you is
so deadly to sour mash. BY the way
what's That you are reading?
Bripe-Ips'a scrap from some poem
[ guess. Have seen something like il
before but don't know where. It's il
Newcomb's hand writing as usual.
Read itfor me
Claud AN right
How big :sthe alca!de, pa,
That plug in masquerade?
He's just about as big, my son,
As gnat's egg freshly laid.
Brine-That's quotation from
Shakespeare, ain t it?
Ciaud No; think it's from tina,
speech you made when you wanted I 9
to write your name in let
Brine1lt you bite off another sylla
bic of that sentence I'll make you
think that my fist is bone-yard ant
fnaL YOU r ln 1t! l've a notion to fire
you through a crack anyhow.
Claud--I was absent minded and
wondering if you would object to ola
Mack dumping his whisk ers nto youI
stove pipe and carting them out o.
town and making q bonfire of the
whole lot. Though you are both
green l think those redundancies
would burn If the sun was out. Don't
get too attached to the bottle.
Brine-It's empty anyhow and I've
no use for vacuity except when it rat
ties ia the head OF one OF my alder
men. must admit however that in
that line some OF them are pleasing
me trifle too much. Pm tired of
their fawning and some of them are
getting absolutely rank. 1 may have
TO hang cologne bottles on them IT,
tolerate them within smelling dis
lance.
Claud-The fish that feeds on little
ones shouldn't object if the bones DO
hesitate in the throat. Crhere's a fly
in that-remove it.1
Brine-Poor fly ! like the taxpayers
he's In the soup and like them I'll
leave him there. 1 didn't call tor
water no how.
Claud-Did you see that fellow
passing just now?
Brine-No; who was 1t?
Claud-Joe, the kid, with three
county commissioners in his pocket
hear there ignoring Mack and he's
| kicking like bronco under Boston
| dude. In the lingo of one of them
she is not in it.n
Brine-Guess We'll have to build
that house for 'em after all.
Claud-But the people amt through
laughing at the city hall jok yet. L
isn't finished yet and
Brine-We are doing the laughing
remember, and not the people The
jokeis on them and not Us. A 5000, 0OC
tamale joiut isn't to be sneezed at ever
when the grippe has you.
! Claud-But they say you are to-
fresh and next election they'll fire 8
carload OF salt into you 60 keep you
from spelling. If that don't do they'll
try saltpetre.
Brine-Speakiug about Peter brings
up dream / had lately. / Thought
was deceased aud Knocking at st
| Peters Tor admission He 6-keC
me who / was [ told hin my
name as near as could re