The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1895-05-17
THE TRUTH ABOUT TRlLBY.
From the Lips of New York Gam n
Mickey.

From the Lips of New York Gam n
Mickey.
"Say, Mickey, watts Trilby?"
"Hully geel Trilby amt a naw-
thin. Trilby's a dame. Why
don't you read, Jimmy?"
"Well, den, who's Trilby2"
ooh, youse fellows makes me
tired. Youse don't know nawthin.'
/ read de book up at de DOCTORS,
Trilby was dame wot was bro't
up in de Fourt' ward in Paris. Her
old man wuz q preacher, but got
ter hittin' de bottle to lively, and
he old ludy slung gin in joint.
Dey got stuck on each other an d
hitche up, but de booze got de best
of dem, and dey croaked in Paris
and left two kids. De girl was
Trilby, but the boy kid don't cut
no ice in de story. De girl wuz a
dandy, and some painter bloke got
stuck on her shape, and made a
model of her TO draw from. Den
dey all got a-paintin' her and MAX
in chalk images of her left foot or
somethin, an SO she met three Eng
lish guys who wuz in Paris learn
in paintin.' There wuz a big
bloke, bigger'n Corbett, and a
Scotch mtg and a little dude. Of
course, Trilby's old man bein' Eng
lish, she fell right in wild dis push,
and soon she wuz mendin' deir
socks and right to home wild dem.
"Bimeby the big fellow got spoon
ey, but youse kids can't understand
that part oft. Anyway, the little
dude wuz the winner. OATS just
like de wimmin; dey don't know
when dey got a good thing. If
she'd made a play for the big guy
/ think he'd flew the coop with
her, and den de story would't ha'
been ritten. But the kid wuz the
winner, ez sed; but she gev him
de marble heart because she know'd
she'd been sittin' round wild the
painters widout no close on, and
his folks mighn't like it. So den o
dago wat wuz great musicianer
got in wild de gang and, Of course,
he got stuck on Trilby, too. He
wasn't no good except fer playin.
the pianer, and wuz always pullin'
some ones leg and wouldn't give
any one the glad hand who wuz
fool enough to cough up-well, any
way, when the kid told her he'd
skip if she didn't marry him she
I weakened and said all right.
"Den de kids ma came over
from London and put the blinkers
on the whole racket and made
Trilby fire him, see? Den de dude
took sick and de dame went on de
bum fur awhile, when she met de
dago and he mssmerized her, same
as de bloke did does guys up at de
museum last week, and hully gee,
how she could sing when she was
asleep-no, | mean when she was
under his influence. Well in a few
years she made a big hit all over
Europe and come to London, and
wot dyer think2 De night she
WIZ to make her dahoo-dat means
her first appearance, see?-didll't
de dago drop ded in the box scared
T. deth of the big feller | wuz tell
in yer about wot was stuck on
Trilby in Paris, who wuz in de
theayter dat night Gee! den dare
waz funl She couldn't sing a little
bit, because de dago wuzn't dere to
mesmerize her, and she got sick
and the little dude got sick. But
anyway, they both croaked. But
youse couldn't tumble to dat part
Of the story. But if youse could
read and understand dere's lots |
couldn't tell about dat would make
yer leak even If you wuz tuff. The
big feller wuz a corker, and the kid
wuz a game one. too, but yer CAM
phaze wimmin. My Mag is jes,
de same way, Hully geep-sun'