New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-07-19
LIZERUNT.

the name Elizabeth Hunt, but II years
after the entry the spokea name was
LiZerunt.
She worked at a pickle factory and ap-
I)eared abroadin an elaborate and shabby
costume, usually supplemented by
white apron.
Withal she was something of a beauty
that is to say her cheeks were very red,
her teeth were very large and white, her
nose was small and snub and her fringe
was long and shiny, while her face, new
washed, was susceptible Of a high polish
Many such girls are married at lG, but
Lizerunt was much belated and had
never a bloke at all.
Billy ChOpe was a year older than Lie
runt. He wore a billycock with thin
bri1n and permanent dent in the crown.
He had a bobtail coat, and his collar
was turned up at one side and down at
the other, as an expression of independ-
crce. Between his meals he wore his
hands in his brooches pockets. He lived
with his mother, who mangled.
His conversation with Lizerunt con-
sisted long Of perfunctory mods, but this
especial Thursday evening, as LizerUnt,
making for home, followed the fading
red beyond the farthermost end OF Com
1nercial road, great things happened,
for Billy Chope, sloucling in the oppo-
site direction, lurched across the pave
1nert as they met, and taking the nearer
hand from his pocket caught and twisted
her arm, humping her against the wall
''Garn," said Lizerunt, greatly pleased,
''le' go!' For she knew that this was
love
"Where yer auf to- Lizer?"
'Ome, @ course, cheeky. Lee GOT and
size sllatched in vain at Billy's hat
Billy let go and caperet! in front. She
]cigncl to dodge by him, careful not to
be too quick. because affairs were deyel-
opiny.
j 81, Lizer," said Billy, stopping his
dance and becoming businesaliEe. 'E;oin
anywhere Monday:
Not along O You. cheeky. You 80
.NM@ o Dellcr Dawson, like vot you did
i,H~tur.
"!low Boiler Dawson; she amt no
s5o"l. I'm %oin on the fats. Gomez
1-jInru2lt, delighted but G21isive. ended
with Il promise to see" The bloke had
CONS. ut least, and She walked home with
Ike feeling % having taken her degree
she islt! half assured herself of it two
;",,S :H:IOrC, when sam Carlew threw an
rI"2l.<e 7jccl at her, Int went away after
i lirtle prancing Oh the pavement.
}.,nl W&sa smarter fellow than Billy
@12l earned his own living. Probably
us intentions We're serious, but one must
i.GrS"r the bird il hand
Iittro is no other fair like Whit Mon
,}&y's on Wansteal flats Here is a
square mile and more Of open land where
sou may howl at large. Here the pub
lie houses are always with you; shows,
>llieS, swings, merry -go-rounds, fried fish
tails, donkeys, are packed closer than
N Hampstead Heath.
Also you may be drunk and disorderlv
without being locked up. for the stations
won't hold every body, and when all else
has palled you may set fire to the turf.
Hercinto Billy and Lizerunt projected
themselves from the doors Of the Holly
Tree Oh Whit Monday morning.
But through hours and hours of fried
zi4h and half pints both We're conscious of
. deficiency, for the hat of Lizerunt
was brown and old, plush it was not, and
its feather was a mere foot long and
very rusty black.
Now, it is not decent for factory Girl
from Linlehouse to go bank holidaying
Slntler any but a hat Of plush, very high
IN the crown and of a wild blue or
wilder green, carrying also an ostrich
feather, pink Or scarlet, or what not
that springs from the fore part, climbs
the crown and drops as far down the
shoulders as may be.
Lizerrnt knew this and would have
stayed at home without a bloke, but
chance is a chance.
Silly, too, had vague impression
muddled, but not drowned in half pints
that some degree Of plush was con-
dign to the occasion and to his own ex-
penditure.
Still there was no quarrel, and the
pair walked and ran with arms about
each others necks, and Lizerunt
thulnped her bloke on the back at proper
intervals, so that the affair proceeded
very regularly, although in view of Liz
erunt's shortcomings Billy did not insist
upon the customary exchange of hats.
Everything went well and well enough
until Billy bought ladies' tormentor
and began to squirt it at Lizerunt
For then Lizerunt went scampering
madly with piercing shrieks until her
bloke was left some little way behind,
and Sam Cardew, turning up at that
Moment and seeing her running alone in
the crowd, threw his arms about her
waist and swung her round him again
and again as he foundered this way and
that among the SHES and the hoky poky
barrows.
"'Ullo, Lizer! Where are y a-comin
to? If 'adn't laid 'old O. YER
But here Billy Chope arrived to de-
mand What Sam Cardew Was doing with
his gal. Now, Sam was ever reader for
fight than Billy was, but the sum Of
Billy's half pints was large, wherefore
the fight began.
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