The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-06-09
THE WIDOW MAeooelN.
lho Gets Mixed Up In Horse Racing. with
Bad Results.

the Gets Mixed UP In Horse RACING WIN
Bad Results.
"Did ye uver get the dinBey-dink, Mrs.
McGlaggerty~
AN sure an fwhat's dinkey-dink, Mrs.
Magoogin9
Ids tn same as gettin i'd In th' nick,
Mrs. McGlaRgerty"
"Faix N thin ids often my Jury gev me
tn dinkey-dink, Mrs. Magoogin."
"'Twas my by Tammy gev i'd TO me,
Mrs. McGlaggerty."
"Fwhat did ye uver let him do id furi
Fwhy didn't ye lather tn loife out av him,
Mrs Magooginf"
That's akin, Mrs. McGlaggerty," said
the widow "He gev i'd to me, an he didn't
gev i'd to me, because Oi'm thinkin, an he
sez 80, too, that somebody gev i'd to him,
Mrs. McGlaggerty But this is the way I'd
was, me frind Id was all on account av tn
Brookline Handicap-d'ye moindP My by
Tammy KEN to me, an he sez TO me, sez he,
Mudder, have ye air S2H sez he. An fur
fwhy, Tammy, agrahp SEE Oh 'Bekase Oi
kin put Id an Lam ploighther, an he'll win
I'm a walk, sez he Who towld ye So
TammyY sez Oh 'Oi towld meself, sez he
'Oi know tn horse, sez he, an ids gas
poipe cinch, sez ne. oh, id isp sez Oi
'Yis, ids iusht loike foinding money sez
he. Gimme two.' sez he an Oill bring
ye home twinty.'
"Be gobs, that luk'd to me loike purity
sensible way av maxim twinty dollars, Mrs
McGlaggerty, so O wint to the tay can
nisther in (which Oi'm holdin tn money
Oim savin to 20 the WuTuld's fair wud
an out Oi pulls me foine 81. There id is,
Tammy 'avourneen, sez Oh And aft ye
lose my byootifull So may the Lord have
marcy an yer soul sez |. But divil tn
heed he seems to have gev to th' threat,
Mrs. McGlaggerty, for aft he put to Cooney's
Otslan an bet me mooney wud tn buke
makers. Oi can't blame Tammy so very
mooch fwhin his dang fool av a mother
didn't have no more sinse that to 20 BLOWN
in her hard ARMED dollars an horse racin.
But he had no roight or ushcuse ur raison
fur temptin me, me frind. Besoides Ord
a nuveI gev him tn two but OF got shtuck
an tn harse's name meself an thought
mebbee he moight have a shance to win.
Mrs. McGlaggerty.
"There's a common sayin that sez to run
loike lamploighther names to run loike tn
very divil, so fwhat was more reasonable
than that a harse wud tn name Lamp.
loighther shud be purity handy wud his
feet, Mrs. McGlaggerty2 So putin this an
that together an lishtenin to tn gaspoipe
cinch that Tammy towlt me about 1t wasn't
strange that Oi shud give him me s. TO
boick up tn harse wud.
well, to make a long shtory short me
frind, Oi worried an shtewed about me
mooney antil Tammy KEN hum from tn
thrack, fwhin he towlt me Lamploghther
lost an me two was gone up tn flue 'Oi
thought ye towlt me ye didn't see how
Lamploighther kud loseP sez OIL tal,in
him be th' throat to shake So worth av
rashcality out av him. But he, begged, an
he croied an pramised never to do id agin,
Mrs. McGlaggerty, so Oi let tn poor balla-
wanny alone. But me two is gone, an me
hart is broke.
"Do ye know fwhat Oi think, Mrs. Nc
Glaggerty9 Oi think thin divils that owns
the race thrack mustn't "a hurd about me
havin thin few dollars, savin thin to go to
tn Wurruld's fair, an they put up this job
an me to get tn money away fran me. Be
tn hokies, that's fwhat Ohm thinkin, Mrs
McGlaggerty. But, moind me, me frind,
my Tammy'n nuver come near me agin
wud amy gaspoipe cinches ur gashouse
cinches ayther. Ohm considerable av a
sport, Mrs, McGlaggerty, but OF can't be
payin out 81 fur cinches very long. An
Tammy knows id. DIN murdher him aft
he uver cinches me agin, Mrs. McGlag
gerty. New York Mercury.