The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-11
LORD ULLIN's DAUGHTERS.
Ths Story SIS Ted By a sIuna Night =ehool
Scholar.

The Story SIS Tsla by a sIuna Night school
Scholar.
De swell was skippin fer de highlands
wild his soil, an he come TO river wot he
couldn't git across, 50 he looks up dc feller
dat runs de ferry. an he says to him: Say,
git q move On you an row me over de wet.
It's good Ter q flyer, an no mistake. AID
de ferry teller stuck his nose out Of de door
into de rain an says he, '-Wot's eatin yOu?''
An de swell says: I'm de chief of police,
an dis gal Wild me is dc gov 'ner's daughter.
Sees De Gle mans been chasin as round
de block fer tree days, an if he gifts on to
US now 7 gifts it in de neck in Is places to
once. See? An If I gifts it vyCt's to become
of de goil?'' De ferry feller was looloo
hisself, an when he hears dose he puts on
his macintosh an comes outside 'Hully
gee, - he says, when he sees dc goil, amt
she peach? Dey amt no kind of weeder
OATS goil to bluff me wild l0idy like she
is, an III row you across If 1t takes
leg, an it won't cost you cent neither
See? I'm a gent, I am, when it comes to
loidies. 'IaiB't exactly de kind of night
when you takes your music box along an
floats wild de tide, but she goes jist de
sanee. Seeg'' BY dis time de wind was
howlin like q convention in de Fort ward.
an de sky was as black as dc inside of a
stovepipe, an comm down de pike you
could hear de COILS dad wild his gang
maxim q noise like de bunch comm down
On you, please, - says de Ioidy. Il amt
stuck on de kind of wedder we's gittin,
but it's velvet to what pepper VIII be if he
betches me cut dis time of de night wild
out q shapperun. " Den de ferry feller
hustled de gent an de loidy into dc boat
an showed Of in deep water. De way &c
wind screeched now would give cards an
spades to a. alley fun Of cats, but de ferry
feler was dead game an KEEP de paddles
gOin fer al he was wort He seen fore
he'd got to de first turnin stake dat he
wasn't goip to win de race, but he didnt
lay down. De water was svipin de stu1lin
out of de boat every minute an sOakin de
loidy an de gent as If dey was FIRE wild
all de injincs in de city turnin der hose on
'e1n, bat dc ferry feller an de storm djdn'
let up a little bit. Dey KEEP pOUndin
away, an de old man, de COILS pepper, he
come down to de dock by dis time, an he
seen 'ern out in de river an lie yelled like
a dog run over by s. cable car. De Ioldy
had one arm hanain on to de gent an de
other stretched out to de old man, but she
couldn't make 20 connections, an de com
bination was gittin it in 0e neck all around.
Back her; back herl'' yelled de old man
on de dock, but dat ferry teller might as
well tried to back one Of dem CUnarders
goin down de bay fun speed, an he jest
t'rowed up his hands. De old man prom
ised to make it all right wid de chief If de
goil would come back, but what could lie
gent do2 He wasn't havin fun wild de
boat 2 little bit, an he would "a been glad
to cough up a hundred 70 de ferry Teller if
he would put him ashore ag'in, but de
ferry Teller had laid down, an dat ended de
whole performance De beat give q chuck
or two an den made sneak fer de bottom,
an down dey all skipped, leavin &c old man
on de dock chewin de rag an llickin hisself
every two minutes fer bein de chump he
Vyas.-W. j. hampton IN Truth.