The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-20

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BNK, rISErY AND BOB.
| esque, but ineffably tender when address
ing the mite of humanity he has fostered
lie is staying temporarily in boarding
| house on Livingstone place, Brooklyn.
! This is his story as he tells it:
Bink's Story.
were cruisin around Zitka after being
discharged from the brig Annie May. She
were loaded wild cargo of supplies for
that port. Then she were goin sealin.
want no sealin in mine, so wild me so
some odd dollars pay cruised around wild
some lads, quenchin thirst, but one morn
in woke up in an alley, and the divil a
cent had, and right sore head. / start
ed for some place to get warm, and maybe
drink, when 1 run amuck of some lads
that had been tipplin pretty free, and
when L was passin one Of them kind of
jovial like hit my eye a clip, so in min
ute was into a pretty scrap, fghtin fast
and free, when one of them boobies they
have up there jest rakes us all in. Seems
as though some one fractured skull of
one OF the lads and they took it into their
heads it was me. hadn't any one TO de
fend me- nor no money, and things looked
the judge asked me if had any one to de
fend me a smart chap rose up and came
forward and said he'd take my case Well,
/ was surprised. But he did right we'll,
and after wranglin and scrappin for
day or so / got away scot free.
Dying Mans Request.
Well, 1 could not pay him, so I went to
work for him. He had small tannery
and kind of practiced law on the side He
made me sort of handy man, and many
a pipe we've smoked together. God rest
him! One day the pneumonia got on him,
and he was mighty sick. Well, ne died.
He wasn't very strong. / remember very
well the night OF it. He lay there just
gaspin and strugglin for breath, and then
of a sudden he just Strengthened up and
says he:
Blink, come here" He was talkin TO
me. The doctor won't come till in the
mornin. L won't need him then. And,
Blink, " says he, If l tell you sonethin,
will you never tell any one?"
''Sartin sure, " says l. And after cough
in a bit he says: well, before / come
here had sweet wife, and, God help me,
believed her false, and one night struck
her, then took our child-the girl Timely,
you know-and came away. We were
then in Omaha, and / came here by slow
stages. She went 10 her mothers home
there, and heard she had married man
without divorce-but / wouldn't bother
her-and that they live in Brooklyn.
was wrong, Blink, very wrong TO mis-
judge her, and / am goin to die. and
want you 70 take the child and this pack
age. Do you see the address,
Faith, and can't read, says /, you
know"
Then he told me the address and saws he.
81 want you 10 take the child and this
package to her and tell her ask forgive
ness. VIII you;" says he.
sure" says l.
There is $3.50. - he says. and he were
chokin and coughin. There is that much I.
in the bank for you''-and, faith, it
makes me heart ache 10 think Of the poor I
lad a-gaspia for breath, and then he lay
down suddenlike, and / hurried away b
and got the doctor. bnt 'twere no use. He 4
were stone dead when we got back.
Well, the next mornin l went to the
bOardin house where the lad kept Timely
hcre-that's her name-and took her 70
'ee her dad, bur, bless yer heart, she didn't
know how twas exactly
Well. the lawyer chaps found things in
;hip shape but somehow or other couldn't
,it none Of the s2iO the lad told me abou:
hat were in the bank. They said IL were
lue and showed me a lot Of papers. but
Lord love me. / couldn't read They were
iesarvin Of IL, I guess. ] had me say
Ms Of me work. $50, so l put the package
he dead lad had give me with marks on
I for remindin Of the las mothers ad-
.ress into me shirt fer safe keepin. and
With the kid here all snugged up cory we
iarted for Portland Well, when I got
here I hadn't money enough % buy a
lean through ticket for Tine and me, -
gets good woman 70 board the hid t0r
ne, and down goes 20 tie steredores.
90 in a good two months Kvcnin's !
vent and had time wild Tine I give
he package 20 the tiInekeeper Tor safe
eepin- Faith, thought IL were some
lvo token or other 70 remind the lass
mother.
Money Gives Oct Again.
Wei. ~ tie end q TWO months I took
De pay and started for ticket and
Ihether had me pockets picked or loSi u
II niver know, bat I were still SO shy q:
cset money, - hack 7 goes 70 work Ar
,her month. and 7 had enough. Well.
hen got ny ticket / got into one q
TEN Cheap John ticket shop. AID. J0ri
We ye. The railroad sharks w0gian't let
IneTy and ! RID no fGrISer than Denve--
o took my u.r.e Iac-ssr snd got Tinety
coy place 20 stay Then / Eelt -hovsl-
~ Work WAS p-etfy scATos- and tie pay
"a -carcer. and We pGr N fogr bard
lonfhs there- hut ~ bad enough - go 20
hicsgo Well. when Ne g; = Chicago
n % trVuolf shippin On is.e Tub and
fer ssTs-zi voyages ] came kOEug and
1u11 EinctT sos. % re bad % take or
ckcf money s-De buy nses5scires aid
liEE--
Vel ~ - Tines cut al -isbt ard
- ~ good zf ihe .oh ] guess cou,c5't
ein i. and ! vss with sozie lively lAas-
~ ] had re fiGe - zfsd was Arrested