The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-26
SIR 'ENRY AND MILES.
Washington Post.

| TITS aspcstos-unted frizzeS were parted
amidships. like my lady's well groomed
Yorkshire terrier. and his larboard eye
brow executed st. Vitus dance in m
effort to retain q stranglc hold on the
monocic screwed in his eye
lie was one OF Sir Hcnry's actors; no
faithful copy OF the Thesplan knight
that II one was lost. strayed, or stolenA-
which IL likely TO happen to an Irving
actor-the other wouldn't be missed.
Sir Henry took in the capitol the other
day. and his copy" along with n bunch
OF Sir Henry's tragedians, did as Henry
did
ON his return to the hotel Sir Henry's
copy was seized by The Post.
| And here IL Henry's doubles experience
NJ the capitol, set TO dialect:
"onc of the first membaws I encoun.
tawed, yer knaw. was a-aw-congress-
man from Texas. named--aw-named
Miles Crowley. yer anaw--aw."
observe. please, the Irving part OF
speech. the ''aw'' grunt. which was feat
nred In Henry Il. Dixoy's impersonation
| OF Sir Henry
This Crowley yer knaw, Ais n
| chawmng fellow. but | didn't quite--aw--
| gwasp some OF his--aw--his metapnaw
When I--aw--awsked him what the aver
age numbGw of--aw--peoplc killed per day
IN Texas nnmhaw negroes lynched, num-
haw white men shot for cheating at cawds,
do you know what he actually nnidp
Why said CrowleH, that dorcnds upon
the numbaw of Queen Nlcs subjects there
aw IN Texas. Numbaw varies each day.
| Going nnd coming all the time. New,
YOU. faw instance wouldn't last nftoAn
! minutes In Texas, unless you switched
yhw dialect, got yaw hair cut and blew
that hrm-looklng roof ynw wearing
THE idcaw' Switching doiicct aud
| blowing roof l awskcd him to explain,
! You knaw, and he told me that would
| have to havo laparotomy performed on
| my head before saw iaowkc or Il Eag.
dawnt yer knaw. Pawsl,ivc!y. yer knaw.
| Congressman Crowley II simply--aw--si SIM
| ply eNcruclatnE, yer knaw-aw. Crowley.
was told, yer knaw--aw-.was quite a
| flRhtaw IN Texas, and awslSod him about
| II.
Yves, quito wight, yer knaw,' said
| Crowley. 'daowr IN our country our motto
* "The shooting iron II mightiaw than
the sword" And tho boxing glove IS
mIghtIaw than the pcn-nw. II was I'M
| Governor Cuibcrscn gave Cawbeu and
lFits the fwappe. yer knaw.'
"Confound such metaphaw. What doea
| fwappe mean? ] novnw viii learn THIS
| Amewionn SLANG, ye lnnw, aw.
| "Mr Crowley, | undawstand, has n con-
| tompaw wnny yer knaw, aw. who is nftow
Crowlcy's seat his name " h"senth",
| uchcw, yer knuw. and no says he nus
nav votes than Crowley
|
nnttawcd me ny comparing me 10 inc
| rovnnw. Sir 'Isnry~-'ihat Roscnthel won't
have nnv chawncc against me at a'i
daowu't yer knaw, lie runs a--a"- pawn
shop IN Galveston who eNRw heard
of throe balls beating the thrcc-ieaiod
shamwaclS. yer kuRw.'
Il thought that very cievaw. ana /
lawfcd
living said crowley. YOU didn't know
| camc from lBawston. good old lrsa
| RnwMon stock was Dawn under the
| shadow Of Bawsion Inn monument. hut
| | got thu hot foot, yer knnw Screwed my
nut. Yer knpw
such expressions aw na Screw my
nut and got the hot foot were con-
founded clevaw, / suppose. hut blow mo
| VI | could compwehcnd them ycr kuaw.
aw
| Then, yer ktnw, I Hwskcd Mr.. Crow
| Icy ahaout his early DAYS al school In
| Bawston. and ne nstonishod me by telling
| ne ns 'ow be went through Hawyawd-
| aw.
low ! happened to 10 through Ifaw-
| vnwd. Irving, yer kpaw was like this: a
| friend Of tho family. yer knaw. was jani-
| taw OF the college, and he took mo
| through
Some Of Crowicy'a friends were stand
| ing about, yer knaw, when he told me OF
| the tanltaw who was 80 koiud yer knaw,
| as TO giyo the congressman n Ilswyawd
trolning and hloime me II they all didn't
! give me an awful lawf yer knaw-aw. OF
| couldn't sec exactly whaw the lawf caano
| in. We went into pub ncaw tho thoataw.
| md MIR Crowley recommended rotne 'Awf
and 'nwf The 'awf ana 'nwf was tip-iop.
| yer knaw, and awakcd tho baw tondaw
| n II was imported,
"It's from New Jcrsev--Newark, New
Jersey said the bnw tcndaw.
| Then It's imported n it's from New
nat NJ and
| lawfed again. though I couldn't see where
the lawf came IN, yer knaw-aw.
"The subject drirtcd into politics and
| oomplimented the senate and congress.
| "A bloomin' nnc-iooking body Of real tip
| toppcrs, big wiga, yer know, aw.
Ono bettaw than the Texas legisli-
chaw, only largHw. said Crowley Big
| gaw show. that's all. TIA another case OF
tho Passion Play on large scale. yer
know NV.
THAT was rathaw clevaw humaT. but
Mr.. Crowleys humnw isn't ovnw gentle.
lie spoke of President Cleveland and
seemed TO be rathaw famliaw with his
Southern "trip. and. to my asionishment. he
issuRWed me that Mr.. Cleveland dent
shoot duck on HIS trip
but Congressman Crowley 10 "a moline or
infawgnation, and II was from him, yer
knaw. that faound whoi II In that Glove
land issued hin Nonczuelaw papaw. Cleve-
land IL KIND of spnWt IN MS Woi. ana ne
loikes TO see spawning people enjoy them
selves by faVawng Venezuelan he can
get all he wants, yer lsnaw, from Cwespo
And what he wants, yer knaw, Is for
Cwespo TO pnwss bill permitting pwizo
folghiing. This will give the foighters, yer
knaw, a chawnce 10 pull OF mil. ana
the politicians OF the Stoites can no longer
make political capital aont of the foight-
ers. Every spawt In the stoitcs win give
Grover his suppawt II the Venezuelan
question Is decided In favaw Of Americaw.'
said Mr.. Crowley, yer knaw'
"When I told Congressman Harry MI
nav whom knaw. you knaw, In the
ntrlcal vol, what Mr. Crowley had Inn
pawted to me, what do you suppaowse
Minaw said?
"ilc lawfed hawtily, and said as 'ow
Crowley had been a-joshing OF me,
Now, bloime me, what does loshing
mean. you knaw, aw?'
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