Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-11-23
THE WIDOWS EQUAL.
GIMME FADDEN POSES IN A VERY
STRANGE ROLE.

break like dat.
"Let me tell you. Do duchess is de most
savingest goil you ever seed In all your
life, and she'd RAIDER have cable car run
over her toes dan cough upa PUNK fol
anything she can get any odder way.
"She must have money sunk away t.
burn wet day wid-her wages, my wages,
and near all de tips collars on de
side All de money has y spend is what
I holds back from her, what gets on de
quiet sneak and sinks WHARF she amt on ia
1T. OATS what t'inks Seer OATS what
I thinks, but mostly dreams when t'ink
dat way, cause when has made a bit what
I t'ink she don't know Of, why, den in a
little while she gives me some game like
was telling you of. Says she has t 60 t.
town for bonnet or some dinky ting
and makes me blow in me secret Doodle on
a racket.
"Sure, she's wonder, dat goil is. She
knows when has made sneak Of BIT
just as well az If she'd seen me get it. Dat'l
right.
but tries t. bluff her. What TELL
says t. her. You amt going t. buy no
bonnet. You'd drop dead in fit before
you'd fash up de long green for dioer.
What's your gamer
''Den de duchess she bumped her shout
ders like form women does, and she says,
'Chames, says She Chames, has de un
wee-de undisposition from de bore, and !
needs little jolly time t. put me on rapoh
wild meself
"Dose was de very words she used. But
am easy on t. most Of her form lang.
wudge now, SO I know'd she meant dat
she was leary of de game as it lay and
wanted a new deck.
CAN right, Duchess says. I has T.
go into town meself for t. get new collar
for de bull pup Which his neck is grow.
de end Of sausage. I'm wild you But
who'll put UP for de trip? I'm worse broke
dan cop what's lost his place on de force.
"De duchess she says, without looking
at me, says she, 'Chames, we'll chase into
town, and you dream dat you has money,
and your dream will come true
Say, honest, dere amt no use stacking
up against goil like dat Is derep took
an easy tumble T. meself, Gauss on de dead
straight did have flyer sunk what ]
taut de duchess didn' t know Noting about,
and we gets excused for de day and chasei
into town.
"Say, little old New York is de best ever.
Amt dat right? De country would be all
right II 1t was only in de city. / likes IL
down to our place on de sound cause Miss
Fannie is dere, and little Miss Fannie and
Mr.. Paul and de odder folks, but de day ID
"a hours long, sure, when you amt in lit
tie old New York.
"Well we sailed down FIT avenoo feel.
ing like we had skates on, till we come e
de Waldorf and dere de cops wouldn't lei
us pass. What do you t'ink de cop says t.
me? You has t. wait, he says, till Ii !
Hung Chang comes outer de hotel and |
goes away, he says. Do you tumblep ]
didn't. DE duchess says dat Ii Hung Is 9
China chink. tells de cop dat has t
see a man down town what would have a
fit If I wasn't dere, but de game didn't
work.
MY saying de word fit must have give
de duchess tip, for she give me de wink
t. say noting, and she trun a dummy
right in de cops arms Honest, If she'd
been actress out on top of de stage, she
couldn't trun better fit dan she did De
cop catches Ter, and I says, Take her t. de
drug store quick. I says, 'or she'll trun
anodder! Well, he picks de duchess up in
his arms and carries her across de street,
where we wanted t. 60, me follying, and
dere de duchess comes t. herself, and, max.
ing de cop grand bow, she says, 'Merci,
me good man, I'll not tr uble you t. carry
me furder!' and den she puts her hat on
straight and says, Come, Chames, we
can't wait for NJ. Lii
De cop he looked like t'irty cents as we
chases ourselves down de avenoo. Say, Ia
dat goil de best ever wonder!
"Well, we walked and walked down de
avenoo till we got down by Sixteent' street,
and I was noticing dat de duchess was
kinder walking slower and slower and pip
Ing of de carriages like she'd lost one and
was looking for it. was wondering what
her game was, when coupe drove up by
de sidewalk, and heard some one inside
say, 'Hortense' what's de real front name
OF de duchess. De coupe stopped, and de
duchess went up t. de door,
Say, I'd taut dere was something up
what wasn't dead straight, only seen dat
de woman inside de coupe was dat WILDLY
I was telling you about-the high fliel
what Mr.. Paul calls de willy wildly
"She and de duchess jabbered togedder
In French for awhile, and den / was called
up. touched me hat u de WILDLY, and she
says quick: Don't touch your hat like
servant Bow t. me like you was my
equal
II didn't tumble t. dat, her equal
cause Of course de only ting you Is equal
to is anoder man what you can hght az
we'll AZ him, but / takes on me dicer wild
sweep what made her laugh.
Den she looks me all oyer, from me
shoes T. me dicer, and says: You'll do.
Mr.. Burton has very good taste in dress
and don't wear his close long before you
has 'em. You'll do. Dan she pipes Of de
duchess and Gays, You'll do, Of course,
Hortense, 'cRuse Fannie Burton's close 1lt
you like dey was made for you
Say, what do you t'inkf was getting
paralyzed. Den she says, Chames, do you
know where rHotel de Blanc lse'
didn't, but de duchess did, cause It's
W French hotel wild a restaurant what form
folks and Americans looking for good grub
goes to.
Nest me dere in is minutes, says de
WILDLY, and remember, Chames, you IL to
act like me equal
fam I e put on dc gloves wild her.
asks de duchess, or what t'ellr
You're q Be = real rent, says de
duchess, and I seon from do look In her
eye dat we was going Into dc very aane do
duchess had come T. town for.
What do get out Of IT, says, and
Dc duchess says, You gets champagne and
woodcock.' says abe, and amt dAA
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