Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-04
MRS. MAeooeIN's COURT COSTUME.
She VIII Wear 1t In Honor of Certain
Lady From Spain.

She VIII Wear 1t In Honor of Certain
Lady From Spain.
Who tn divil is this infint that's here
fran Spain, Mrs. McGlaggerty?"
"How in TIL name av common sinse shlld
Oh know, Mrs Magoogins"
"Or me ayther an here they ar akin me
to go to a breakdown in her amer, Mrs
McGlaggerty"
us that so, Mrs. Magoogin?"
"Faix N id is" said the widow. IAN
fwhat's worse, Ohm goin, too, Mrs. Nc
Glaggerty, They do be afther telling me
that's she somethin av foine lady over in
Shpain, fwhere they ate red peppers an
shmoke cigaroots noight an day, Mrs. Nc
Glaggerty. TIL inwoite was STINT me by
Cuban gintleman that shtands high in So
coiety an sells shmuggled seegars fur a
Twin. lie belongs to some semicolon asso-
citation that's goin to give tn dance, an he
SEE that rs there's r'yal blood in the infnt's
brains, an she's loible to be queen UT king
ur somethin av that soort over in Shpain
some day, they want to give her first class
sind off an show her that we have some
gerruls in this cunthry that kin dance
quote as well as Carmyceety
9TH Ashtors an tn Vanderbilks an War
die Allishter have all bin inwoited an his
Cubanlets tells me that ev'ry wan av tn
ladies mustn't wear coort coshtooms an be
away out av soight. That'll shoot me to
T-Y-tee, Mrs. McGlaggerty. Oh have me
coort coshtoom as handy as amy av thin,
me frind, an there II none av thin lux amy
more shcroomtious at tn shindig than
will Mrs. Burdie Magoonin, Ushquoire,
shud they shtopt' inquoire, Mrs. McGlag-
gerty. Oh was to coort wud id sev'ral
tonnes, me frind-wanst to tn throi'l about
Blind Murphy's will, wanst to see Blyue-
Dyed Billy McCarty get noine months fur
batin his poor ovid mother antil she was
onsinsible, an tn lasht tonne fwhin my by
Tammy was up afore the joodge an sus-
picion av wearin a doimond tn soize av
hin's egg in his shirrut front, whin it turned
out to be only "a rhoineshtone tibet he pickt
up in tn alley back av Niblyo's Gardin
"They thought he shtole id, OF suppose,
but he nuver, an the joodge, loike tn gud
an daycint man he is, discharged him an
let him go. Uv'rybody that's uver seen tn
coshtoom seq ids daisy, an so id is, Mrs.
McGlaggerty, as ye moight say yerself aft
we felt loike tellin the trooth, fur ids oftin
an oftin We saw it, me frind. You remim'er
tn yally sthroiped delaine dhress, Mrs. Nc
Glaggerty, wud tn green brocaded shawl,
an tn impoire bonnet with tn red ribbons,
an tn shamarogue in id-well, thet's me
coort coshtoom, and barrin ids a little
ovid, an tn goat has ate tn top out av tn
impoire bonnit wanst ur twoist, Mrs Nc
Glaggerty, ids as foine an illigant coort
coshtoom as amy tn Shpanish infint'll
clap her Dyes upon, me frind.
me daughter Toozy throies to tell me
that id IS not coort coshtoom at oil an that
OF don't know fwhat a coort coshtoom is,
but Olive bin to coort in id, Mrs. McGlag-
gerty, an Oh know id was faist fur tn
eyes av uvry son Of say cuke in tn coort-
room. IDS a dandy coort coshtoom, an her
r'yal nibs III be paralyzed wud j'y an shup-
proise fwhin she seesid. His Cubyan jaglets
sez he's goin in coort coshtoom, too, an that
he'll wear knee breeches He moosht have
ahandsome pair av legs to be afther wantin
to do, 'avourneen Oh nuver saw his legs,
though, an av coorse don't know fwhat
they're loike, but hiven help him aft he's
bowlegged, for Orll make show av him at
tn ball, Mrs. McGlaggerty."-New York
Mercury.