Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-06-09
THE WIDOW MAGoOGiN.
She Gets Mixed UP In Horse Racing, witt
Bad Results.

She Gets Mixed Up In Horse Racing, with
Bad Results.
Did 20 uver get the dinkey -dink, Mrs
McGlaggerty3"
IAN sure an fwhat's dinkey -dink, Mrs,
Magoogins"
Ids tn same as gettin id In thu nick.
Mrs McGlaggerty."
FAX N thin ids often my Jury gev me
tn dinkey-dink, Mrs. Magoogin."
"'Twas my by Tammy gev Id to me.
Mrs. McGlaggerty."
'Fwhat did 20 uver let him do id furi
Fwhy didn't ye lather tn loife out av him.
Mrs. Magoogin9"
That's akin, Mrs. McGlaggerty," said
the widow. "He gev id to me, an he didn't
gev id to NE, because Ohm thinkin, an he
seq so, too, that somebody gev id to him,
Mrs. McGlagSerty. But this is the way id
was, me frind. Id was all on account av tn
Brookline Handicap-d'ye moindi My by
Tammy KEN to me, an he sez to me, SEE he,
'Mudder have 20 air SEP seq he. An fur
fwhy, Tammy, agrah3' seq Oh. 'Bekase Oh
kin put id an Lamploighther, an he'll win
In a walk SEE be- Who towld ye so,
Tammy2' SEE Oh. 'Oi towld meself,' SEE he.
'Oi know tn horse sez he, an ids gas
poipe cinch.' sex he. oh, Id is?' seq o.
'Yis, ids jusht loike foinding money SEE
he. Gimme two,' seq he, an Orll bring
80 home twinty'
'Be gobs. that luk'd to me loike purity
sensible way av maxim twinty dollars, Mrs.
McGlaggerty, so Oh whit to the tay can
nlsther in (which Dim holdin TIL money
Oi'm savin to go the Wurruld's fair wud,
an out Oh pulls me foine 50. There i'd is,
Tammy 'avourneen,' seq Oh And aft ys
lose my byootifull So may the Lord have
marcy an yer SOUL SEE l. But divil tn
heed he seems to have gev to TIL threat,
Mrs. McGlaggerty, for aft he put to Cooney's
Oislan an bet me mooney wud tn buker
makers. Oh can't blame Tammy SO very
mooch fwhin his dang fool av mother
didn't have no more sinse that to go BLOWN
in her hard ARMED dollars an horse racin.
But he had no roight or ushcuse ur raison
fur temptin me, me frind. Pasoides, Ord
nuver gev him tn two but Oh got shtuck
an tn harse's name meself an thought
mebbee he moight have shance to win.
Mrs. McGlaggerty.
There's common sayin that seq to run
loike lamploighther names to run loike tn
very divil, so fwhat was more reasonable
than that harse wud tn name Lamp.
loighther shud be purity handy wud his
feet, Mrs. McGlaggertyS So putin this an
that together an lishtenin to tn gaspoipe
cinch that Tammy towlt me about it wasn't
strange that Oh shud give him me e. to
boick up tn harse wud.
"Well, to make long shtory short mo
frind. Oh worried an shtewed about me
mooney antil Tammy KEN hum from tn
thrack, fwhin he towlt me Lamploighther
lost an me two was gone UP tn fue. 'Oi
thought We towlt me ye didn't sec how
I.amploighther kud lose?' seq Oh, takin
him be tn throat to shake 90 worth az
rashcality out av him. But he begged, an
he croied an pramised never to do Id agin,
Mrs. McGlaggerty, so Oh let tn poor balla-
wanny alone But me two Is gone, an me
hart Is broke
DO ye know fwhat OF think, Mrs. Mo
Glaggerty? Oh think thin divils that owns
the race thrack mustn't "a hurd about me
havin thin few dollars, savin thin to 60 to
tn Wurruld's fair an they put up this job
an me to get tn money away fran me. Be
th' hokies, that's fwhat Ohm thinkin, Mrs.
McGlaggerty. But, moind me, me frind,
my Tammyll nuver come near me agin
wud amy gaspoipe cinches UT gashouse
cinches ayther. Ohm considerable av
sport, Mrs. McGlaggerty, but Oh can't be
Tammy knows id. Oi'll murdher him aft
he uvcr clnches me agin, Mrs. McGlag-
gerty New York Mercury.