The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-05-09
CHICAGO WORLDS FAIR.
It's Nature and Purposes as Ex-
pounded by Terence Murphy,
Hold Carrier.

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Hold Carrier.
1t was high noon, and in the
basement of the building in course
of construction the men had laid
aside their hods, and after dispos.
ing of the contents of their dinner
pals were smoking the clay pipe Of
contentment. Terence Murphy took
his short pipe from his mouth as
be addressed Dennis Finn.
Say, Dinny, would yer be afthel
goin' to the WORLDS Fair?"
ITO tn WORLDS Fair is it, We
say? And fwhat moight that be
tn WORLDS Fair?"
Sure, an haven't yer hear spake
o tn WORLDS Colombian Exp'z'-
sim. as they say?"
"Come off, now. Terry Come
away Git out o that wild thin
dude words. Fwhat's tn plain
English av' tn blarney ye're givin
me?"
Faith, man, it's no blarney Pm
givin' We. Don't yer read fwhat
they tells in tn newspapers,
Dinny?"
"Y'know dom well I don't read
tn stuff l have me work. to do.
l tell We I've heard of no fair"
"Well, there's to be a fair"
I'm fwhat county is it, Mike?'
limo county, bejabbers. They'd
be afther havin' it in Ch'kawgy."
'In Ch'kawgy is it you say? An
will it be loike tn good fairs in the
ould country? Arrah, now, an if
it is, you'll see me in the very midst
of itm
''No, no; but you are ign'r'at,
Dinny, me man. This great Gloom
bian Exp'z'shn's goin' to be tn
divvil of a institootion, tn loikes
av which no one ever saw before,
before. P'haps we've hear tell of
tn stock yards in Ch'kawgy?"
9Th place where they kill tn
pigs, is it?"
9Th same place. It moiles an
moiles in tn circumforation."
"An' is it there they'd be for
loldin' tn fair?"
"Indade it is. Every fair has
pigs, Dinny, and tn Ch'kawgy fair, |
Is bein' tn greatest in tn woorld, |
must have more pigs than any
other fair before. So they said as
would be cheaper to take tn fair |
o tn pigs than tn pigs to tn fair,
TN they built tn fair grounds all
ound tn pigs. They're buildin'
yet, Dinny."
"An' viii they have nothin' but
,igs in Ch'kawgy?"
"No, indade; but they'll have
'iece of everything in the woorld.
'hey'll have lagoonys an gon-
oolys an piazzys an porticoolys
n men an women from all over
he earth"
Faith, but where did We get the
'rinch lingo about tn lagooays?"
"Sure it's all in tn noospapars."
can phwat tn divvifs Ia
oony?"
"You don't know phwat's a la
oony? Did ye never hear O. pat
"Pat Shooley? Sure, l never did.
n is he bossin tn fair?"
"No, We choomp, he amt bossin'
4 fair. Ye have no eddycashun,
inny. TIL stuff they call pat
louli's a perfume. The old
man uses it av Sunday fwhen
lie goes to tn choorch."
"a perfume is it? An is tn
goony perrfume?"'
Faith, an they tell me it is
1t. But av yez go to tn fair We
IN see for yerself, Dinny."
well, 1 don't care much for TIL
goony. l much prefer tn pigs.
hey say tn Ch'kawgy pigs
inc class O. pig"
True, Dinny, it is. 1t has s
inc chance" q
can fwhen is tn fair to be-" d
sob, not till th' comm sum- b
err" S
"An' is it now ye'd be botherin' a
e wild tn WORLDS Fair, that Ii
ut to be till tn next SUMMER" b
at is that" a
We'll, I'd have we t. under b
md, wild yer talk about exp'z'- q
MS an lagoonys, that fwen We be
akin to Dinny Finn, yez might
st confne your oratoratlons to ft
present day. An there goes IL
whistle now. l want to hear fc
more of your WORLDS Fairj'- n