The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-02
A New Version of "rrilby.u
Newark Sunday can.

Newark Sunday can.
SAY, Mickey. wots TrfhyE'
"Hully gee! Trilby amt nawthin'.
Trilby's a dame. Why don't yer read
jimmy
"Well. den who's Trilhy?"
"Oh, youse fellows make me tired.
Youse don't know nawthin'. | read de
book Up at de doctors. TTilhy was dame
wot wuz bro't up In de Fourt' ward in
Paris. Her old man wux a preacher. hut
got 10 hittin' de bottle too lively and her
old lady slung gin In a Joint ney got
stuck on each other and hitehed up. but
do booze got de best of dem and dey
croaked in Paris and left two kids. De
girl was Triihy. but the boy kid don't cut
no ice in dc story. De girl wuz a dandy
and some painter hlolse got stuck on her
shape and made model of her 10 drawer
from. Den dey all got a-paintln' her and
maxim chalk images OF her left foot or
somethlu' and SO she met three English
guys who wuz In Paris learnin' raintin.
There wuz n big bloke, bigger'n Corheft.
and a Scotch mug and little dude. OF
course Triby's old man helm English, she
fell right in wild dis push and soon she
wuz mendin' DER socks and right 10 home
wild dem.
.'Bineby the big fellow got spooney. but
youse kids can't understand that part OF
il. Anyways. the little dude wuz the
winner OATS just like de wimmin: dey
don't know when dey got good thing IL
she'd made a play fer the hig guy think
he'd a flew the coop with her and den tina
story wouldn't ha' been ritten. But the
kid wuz the winner, az ! sed. but she gev
him de marble heart because she knowd
she'd been sIttin' round wild de painters
widout no close on and his folks mightnt
like IT. So den dago wat wuz great
musicianer got in wild de gang ana or
course he got stuck on Trilby, too. lie
wasn't no good except for playin the ni-
amer and wuZ always pulin' some one
leg and wouldn't give any one the glad
hand who was fool enough TO cough up
we'll anyway, when the kid told her ne y
skip If she didn't marry him she weakened
and said all right.
"Den de kids ma cum over from Lon
don and put tho blinkers on the whole
racket and made Triihy tire MIN. see Len
de dude took sick and de dame went on 90
hum for n while, when she met de dago
and he rnesmerized her. Same as dc Dioka
did does guys up Mt dc museum last WEEK.
and hully gee! how she could sing ~heh
she was asleep-no, mean when she was
under his influence. Well, In a Few years
she made big hit all over Europe anu
come TO London ard wot yer .i'.lA ~ ~
night she WIS 10 make her oaooo-nat
MEANS her first appearance, seeF-dlun
IA dago drop ded IN the box. scared
aoth az the big Teller | wuz felin yer
about wot wuz stuck on Trilby In Paris.
Who wuz in tho theayter dat night. aeei
den dere WIZ fun She couldn't sing Ut
- htt because de dago wuzn'E dere 10
,nesrner,za her. and she got sick and tho
little dude got sick; but anyway deg both
croaked. But youse couldn't tumble to
dat part OF the story. But II youse conia
read and understand deTe's lots couldn II
taI about dat would make yer leak even
~ yer wuz turf. The big feiier "uz
-. a,a aa rtf yuz a game one, too.
In. YER can't phaze wimmin. My Mag IL
teat de same way. Huily gee"'