The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-11-04

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Cash-The Coy Mug and How He Game
to the Popping Point.
'Chames, says de duchess time de cd.
der day, Chames, now dat de wedder is
too cool for little Miss Fannie t. wear bare
legs above her shoes any longer / t'ink I'll
have t. go into town and get me a new
bonnet, cause Miss Fannie's last fall bon
nets don't suit me style, she says
Say, 1 was dead on dat de duchess
wasn't going into de city t. put up good
long green Doodle for no bonnet, cause she
is too nigh wild her money t. make a bad
break like dat
LET me tell you. De duchess is de most
savingest gol you ever seed in all your
life, and she'd RAIDER have a cable car run
over her toes dan cough up PUNK for
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 1 collars on de
side All de money l has t. spend is what
holds back from her, what / gets on de
quiet sneak and sinks where she ain t on To
it. OATS what thinks. See? OATS what
thinks, but mostly dreams when / t'ink
dat way, cause when has made "a bit what
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. go t.
and makes me blow in me secret Doodle on
a racket.
Sure, she's a wonder, dat goil is She
knows when / has made a sneak of a bit
just AS well as if she'd sec n,e get it, OATS
right.
But tries t. bluff her What tell, I
says T. her. You amt going t. buy no
bonnet. You'd drop dead in fit before
you'd flash up de long green for dicer
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 I'M
wee-de undisDosition from de bore, and /
needs little jolly time t put me ON rapoh
wild meself'
Dose was de very words she used. But
L am easy on t. most of her form lang
wudge now, so 1 know'd she meant dat
she was leary of de game as it lay and
wanted a new deck.
All right, Duchess, says. i has t.
go into town meself for t. get new collar
for de bull pup Which his neck is grow
ing dat big his head looks like button on
de end of a sausage I'm wild you But
who'll put up for de trip? I'm worse broke
dan a 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 win come true.
Say, honest, dere amt no use stacking
up against "a goil like dat. Is dere? l took
an easy tumble t. meself cause on de dead
straight l did have FLYER sunk what
taut de duchess didn't know noting about,
and we gets excused for de day and chases
into town.
"Say, little old New York is de best ever.
Amt dat right De country would be all |
right if it was only in dc city. likes it |
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 is |
"a hours long, sure, when you amt in lit |
tie old New York
well, we sailed down Fift' avenoo feel |
ing like we had skates on, till we come t. |
de Waldorf, and dere de cops wouldn't let |
US pass. What do you t'ink de cop says t. |
meG You has t. wait, he says, till Ii |
Hung Chang comes outer de hotel and |
goes away, he says. Do you tumble? |
didn't. De duchess says dat Ii Hung is |
China chink. 1 tells de cop dat 1 has t. |
see a man down town what would have |
fit If wasn't dere, but de game didn't |
work.
My saying de word fit must have give |
de duchess a 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 q better fit dan she did De |
cop catches her, and 1 says, Take her t. de |
drug store quick says, or she'll trun
anodderp Well, he picks de duchess up in
his arms and carries her across de street,
where we wanted t. go, me follying, and
deere 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 furderP and den she puts her hat on
straight and says, Come Chances we
can't wait for NJ. Lii.
"De cop he looked like t'irty cents as we
chases ourselves down de avenoo. Say, is
dat goil de best ever? L wonder!
"Well, we walked and walked down de
avenOO till we got down by Sixtoent' street,
and L 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. l was wondering what
her game was, when coupe drove up by
de sidewalk, and 1 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 deere was sonnet ing up
what wasn't dead straight, only L seen dat
de woman inside de coupe was'tiat WILDLY
/ was telling you about-the high fiicr |
what MIR. Paul calls de willy wildly
She and de duchess jabbered togedder
in French for awhile, and den was called
up. 1 touched me hat t de wildly, and she
says quick: Don { touch your hat like a
Bow t. me like you was my
Il didn't tumble t. dat her equal,
cause of course de only ting you is equal
to is anOder man what you can fight as
well as him, but L takes off me dicer wild
q sweep what made her laugh.
"Den she looks me all over 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. Den she pipes off de
duchess and says, You'll do, OF course,
Hortense, cause Fannie Burtons close tit
you like dey was made for you
Say, what do you t'inky l was getting
paralyzed. Den she says, 'Chames Go you
know where IHotel de Blanc is?'
- didn't, but de duchess did, cause it's
a French hotel wild a restaurant what form
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