The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-22
GIMME FADDEN AGAIN.
he Describes little Miss Fannie's Party to
tna Stun Children.

He Describes Lfttle Miss EaAHn2e's Party to
tins Stun Children.
ssIittle Miss Fannie had a party. She's
Miss Fannie's little goil, you know, and
Is de boss of our whole OUTFIT, from his
v7hiskers, what's her granddaddy, down
& me, what's stuck on her harder dan
am on most anybody or anything else in dis
vvoiId. OATS right I don's trOt in her
class, but she's so little she don't know it,
and the only ting dat over makes me sore
is dat when she's growed up shell know
dat dere's more dan one class, and dat
amt in hers.
'Tings is all right wild US now. She
and de bull pup and me is ticker togedder
dan Mr.. Paul and a small bottle, and
when dere amt nobody else can jolly little
Miss Fannie, when she's dead leary of her
nurse and her maid and her mudder and
de whole gang, den Miss Fannie she says
e. me, says she, sChames, she says, won't
you amuse de baby? And den me and de
kid and de bull pup we has fun till de
baby laughs till she has de hiccough.
Cup where we lives on de sound, when
we amt in town, dere isn't many poor
kids like dere is on de east side, where
lister live, SO de few dere is up dere is
nearly killed wild all de jollying and tend
ing and fussing dey has from de high
toned folks what looks after EN-. Miss
Fannie is stuck on dat kind of a job, cause
she lister do it when I fOist knowed her,
before she was married.
ssSay, honest, dat's kinder habit, like
hitting de pipe, dat fussing around and
joIlying de poor folks. His whiskers says
dat if all de people in de woild was t. get
rich student dat Miss Fannie would have
a law passed making a lot of EN- poor
again, SO as she could do tings for en-.
Well, Miss Fannie, she said she wanted
de baby t. give q party for poor kids, cause
on Christmas she is t. have all de rich lit
tie kids to a blowout and she wanted her
e. have de poor kids foist.
tDen Nh. Paul, he says, says he: But
where are you going t get de kidss You
and your mission societies has given all de
poor kids in desc parts SO much close dey
is all losing flesh from overweight dress,
and dey all has de dispepsy from eating too
much rich food
g I was in de room, and 7 says, Excuse
me, says, but why don't you fetch =
load of kids up from de city and let little
Miss Fannie blow off de real article?'
''Say, dat made a hit wild Miss Fannie,
and she says: De very ting, Chames. viii
you arrange it?'
g In a minute, I says And I did
De duchess and me we chases down
here and goes to a lady I know what runs
q mission school over Cherry Hill way,
and 1 cops her de layout straight She
tumbles all right cause, of course, she
knows Miss Fannie and 1 told her t. have
90 of de kids at de depot on de morning of
de party, and I'd be dere t. fetch EN- all
up to our place.
Den de duchess wants t. know if all de
kids couldn't be put in steam bat'tubs and
kept dere till de day of de party.
Say, amt dat duchess de woist ever?
Cert, I says t. her. eDey viii all be put
t. soak in cologne and fed on violets all
dat day, L says. Deere amt one of dose
kids W hat ain t got a Turkey bat 'room con-
tod vrri6 4 nod
De lady teacher, she laughed and said
she taut she could manage t. have de kids
scrubbed up all right, all right
We'll, OATS de way it was. I fetched
de lady and de kids t. de house, an dey
was turned loose. You never in your life
seen such graft Foist on de kids was
sort of paralyzed, and just stuck ders
tumbs in dere mouts and looked like dey
all had a jolt in de jaws. So 1 says Z de
folks g. all chase dereselves and leave de
kids e. little Miss Fannie and me and de
bull pup.
"Dey done it, and den We had circus.
Foist, of course, we didn't do a ting e.
'em but trow grub in der mouts We
chickened EN- and tOikeyed 'em and ice
creamed en- till dey was all poddy like de
bull pup, and den little Miss Fannie, she
says, What would you like t. have2' e. a
little dagO kid what had eyes like saucers.
e De kid taut awhile, and den ne says,
i wants dat, says he, pointing to mar
bic statOO of Miss Fannie's head what a
form mug had been paid two tousand dol
lays for doing.
It's yours says little Miss Fannie,
and den dey all began choosing, and in a
minute dere wasn't ting in de room
what dat gon hadn't give away, even t. de
rugs and de lectric lights. De only ting
little Miss Fannie went shy on was when
. Irish goil says dat she wanted me. De
little one yelled murder at dat and says
she couldn't spare me.
Her yelling brought in de folks, and
when I'd told how de game lay Mr.. Paul
asks if he wouldn't do in my place, but
little Irish wouldn't have him Den Mr..
Paul, as sober as a judge in de Tombs,
says how would Mr.. Van Courtlandt do
in exchange. OATS his whiskers, you
know, and Miss Irish looked him over and
says dat he'll do.
He's yours, says little Miss Fannie
de first crack Gutter de box.
eve had d dead easy time getting de
kids t. exchange de tings de little one had
give EN- for de close and toys what was
all fixed for EN-, except dat little Irish,
who'd win his whiskers, wouldn't give up
her bargain till she got a green dress be-
sides de red one what was staked out for
her Edward W. Townsend in New ork
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