Los Angeles herald., 1892-05-23

you clap button onto one side of it, an
then you go to work an try to navigate
through from t'other side with needle,
an ef You don't stave the point off ev'ry
single time I'll swaller it!
"Old lady down to Moose island,
where come from, last winters done
my button sewing for two years back.
an comes kinder rough on me doing of
it myself Jim he'd oughter to know
how to sew, didn't he nowa But he
don't. says to him sometimes, Jim,
says, 'Nbu'd orter be ashamed, big ez
you be an can't sew But don't do no
good, only makes him madden n set
tin hen. Allus does when get foul er
any O. his lacks. But he's good Teller,
Jim is, ony he amt never been brought
up right. 1t makes lot O. difference
to feller whether he's been brought
up"
Fridays critic was spread out at COM
Portable length in his chair, worrying
his fur cap tirelessly as he talked.
II don't mean that kind O. fetchin up
the big bugs set out to have" he ex-
planned, warming up to new idea.
MY kIdClOubb UAlCAO . O1O VI bWO lOuSCS
go into sometimes, summer folks down
to Moose island, in town for winters. l
ben to 'em. know how they donel
Yer can't tell mel Why, gwin there
awhile an seems ez eff should dwup
thro' the ruff, makes me SO deuced on
comfortable. So stan up an p'ticler
them kind O. folks is, yer can't fetch
step but what yer come down on some
er their notions. Good Lordl in some
of them rixtocratic houses yer have ter
split bean t. eat it. Eff want sunni t.
eat druther eat off'n the floor than be
SO awful slow and mannery. Now, !
like to come over here, yer don't have
ter act anyhow.
"Now, I'll tell yer, did yer ever no
tice," balancing his cap on one fist and
beating it around and around with the
other) ''it's jest this way-sometimes yer
have an awful sight better time when it
don't cost nothin than ye do when it
does. That's what's the matter. Now
I'll tell yer. j set out to go to Yarmouth
on a Sunday to see my cousin, Maria
Collins, an SO staid over till Monday.
Well, I'll be blamed eff / ever he'd bet
ter time in my life; an do ye believe, the
whole thing didn't cost fifteen cents.
Nor couldn't tell ter save me what /
done, only set roun an LATED, an dunno
what / was laffn at. Maria's tearer
and she makes things human SOS her
children. Terrible nice children.
"Ive ben places where I'd git rid of
fifteen dollars an wisht all the whole
time l hadn't went. There's lots O
things you pay for that's poor invest
ments, / say-'specially parties and
presents Now I'll tell yer. Invent to
party down to Moose Neck, an me an
mother feller we laid out five dollars for
the two Of us, an blamed if it warn't
clean fizzle. My boots was too small,
pinched awful, an there was too many
girls. Eff there's one thing hate, it's
too many girls at party. An hain't
went to another party since. An just
see what | laid out, now, compared to
Maria's, an didn't get no lastin satisfac-
toni
II guess I'll be goin now. Jim he'll
be cussin an jawin an loolin out the
door ev'ry little while t. see ef I'm COM
in, but soon ez / heave in sight under
them tower steps, he'll in and slam the
door an make believe not know I'm
aroun. Oh, he's sly one, Jim is
Well, good night; guess I'll be goin.
Hope to see you over to my house, some
O. these nice nights. Well, l made q
visit, hain't l, this timel Eff ye stan up
it's call, an Of ye set down it's visit.
Well, / guess I'll be goin. Good night"
Boston Transcript.