Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-06-18
LORD ULLlN,S DAUGHTER.
The Story as Told by q Stun Night School
Scholar.

Scholar.
De swell was skippin fer dc highlands
wild his goil an he come to river wot he
couldn't git across, so he looks up dc fcllcr
dat runs dc ferry, an he says to HIM Say,
git move on you an row me over dc wet
It's good fer flyer, an no mistake" An
dc ferry Teller stuck his nose out OF dc door
into dc rain an says he, "Wot's catin your"
An dc swell says: "I'm de chief of police,
nn dis gal wild mo Is de gov'ncr's daughter.
Sccp DE olo mans been chasin us round
do block fer tree days, nm If he gifts on to
us now ! gifts it in do neck in Is places to
once. Sec? An If gifts 1t wot's to become
of dc golP" DC ferry fcllcrV,ns II looloo
hisself, an when he hears dose he puts on
his macintosh an comes outside "Hully
gee" he says, when he secs de goil, "ain't
she q pcachY Dcy amt no kind of wcdder
OATS eoin to bluff me wild o loidy like sho
Is, an I'll row you across II 1t takes "a
leg, an 1t won't cost you cent neither.
SceP I'm gent, l am, when it comes to
loidies. 'Tain't exactly dc kind OF n night
when you takes your music box along an
fonts wild dc tide, but she goes jst de
samcc. SccY" by dis time dc wind was
howlin like n convention in de Fort ward,
an de sky was as black as dc inside of a
btoNtDlIt, Oolllll uONl ut plhO lOu
could hear de COILS dad wild his gang
maxim noise like de bunch comm down
de homcstrotch in dc mud. "Git u move
on you, please" says de loidy. II ain
stuck on do kind Of weddcr wc's gittin,
but it's velvet to what pepper will be If he
ketches me out dis time of dc night wild
out shappcrun." Den dc ferry Teller
hustled &c gent an dc loldy into do boat
an showed off In deep water. De way dc
wind scrccched now would give cards an
spades to n alley full of cats, but dc ferry
fcllcr was dead game an KEEP dc paddles
goin fer all he was wort. He seen fore
he'd got TO dc first turnin stake dat he
wasn't Roin to win dc race, but he didn't
lay down. Dc water was swipin lie stuflin
out of dc boat every minute an soakin dc
loidy an do gent as If dey was fire wild
all do injincs In dc city turnin der hose on
'cm, but dc ferry fcllor an dc storm didn't
let up little bit. Dcy keep poundir
awny, an do old man, dc COILS pepper, he
come down to dc dock by dis timo, On h,
seen 'em out in de river, an he yelled like
dog run over by n cablo car. Do loidy
had one arm hangin on to de gent an d,
other stretched out TO dc old man, but she
couldn't mako no connections, an dc com
bination was gittin 1t in dc neck dii around
"Back hor, back herl" yelled de old mar
on de dock, but dat ferry Teller might rs
we'll tried to back one Of dem Cunardcr'
goin down de bay full speed, an no jest
t'rowed up his hands. Dc old man prom
Used to make 1t oil right Wild dc chief If d'
goil would como back, but what could d'
gent do? He wasn't havin fun wild d,
boat little bit, an ho would "a been glat
to cough up hundred to de ferry Teller i
he would put him ashore ag' in, but d,
ferry Teller had laid down, an dat ended d,
whole performance. De boat give q chucl
or two an don made n sneak fer de bottom
an down dey all skipped, leavin de old maj
on de dock chewin dc rag an kickin hissel
every two minutes fer bein de chump h
was.-W. j. hampton in Truth,