Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-02-25
CHIN ME FADDEN AGAIN.

He Describes Little Miss Fannie's Party to
the slum Children.
Little Miss Fannie had a party. She's
Miss Fannie's little goil, you know, and
Is de boss of our whole outfit, from his
whiskers, what's her granddaddy, down
t. me, what's stuck ON her harder dan
am on most anybody or anything else In dis
woild. OATS right. don't trot in her
class, but she's SO little she don't know it,
and tho only ting dat ever makes me sore
is dat when she's growed up she'll know
dat dere's more dan one GLASS, and dat I
amt in hers
Tings is all right wild us now. She
and de bull pup and me is ticker togedder
dan Mr.. Paul and 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
= me, says she, 'Chames, she says, won't
you amuse de baby And den me and de
kid and de bull pup we has fun till do
baby laughs till she has de hiocough
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
ulster live, SO de few dere is up dere Is
nearly killed wild all de jollying and tend
ing and fussing dey has from dc high
toned folks what looks after 'em. Miss
Fannie Is stuck on dat kind of job, cause
she ulster do it when I foist knowed her,
before she was married.
Say, honest, OATS kinder habit, like
hitting do pipe, dat fussing around and
jollying do poor folks His whskers says
dat if all de people in de woild was t. get
rich suddent dat Miss Fannie would have
a law passed making lot of 'em poor
again, SO as she could do tings for EN-
''Well, Miss Fannie, she said she wanted
de baby T. give party for poor kids, cause
on Christmas she is t. have all de rich lit
tie kids to n blowout, and she wanted her
t. have de poor kids foist.
Den Mr.. Paul, he says, says he: But
where are you going t. get de kidsp 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 do dispepsy from eating too
much rich food.
i was in de room, and 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 articleS'
Say, dat made hit wild Miss Fannie,
and she says De very ting, Chames. Will
you arrange it?''
In minute, l says And did.
"De duchess and me we chases down
here and goes to lady know what runs
a mission school over Cherry Hill way,
and cops her de layout straight. She
tumbles all right, cause, of course, she
leo IN ~. !, ~
30 Of de kids at de depot ON de morning of
de party, and I'd be dere t. fetch 'em all
UP to our place.
Den de duchess wants t. know II 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 everp
Cert, says t. her. Dey will all be put
T. soak in cologne and fed on violets all
dat day, says. Deere amt one Of dose
kids what amt got Turkey bat room con-
nected wild dere bedrooms, saysI.
NDe lady teacher, she laughed and said
she taut she could manage t. have de kids
scrubbed up all right, all right.
"Well, dat's 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 Fost off de kids was
sort Of paralyzed, and just stuck dero
tumbs in dere mouts and looked like dey
all had a jo't in de jaws So / says t. de
folks t. all tlase dereselves and leave de
kids t. little Miss Fannie and me and de
bull pup.
'Dey done 1t, and den we had circus
Foist, of course, we didn't do ting t.
EN- but trow grub in der mouts. We
O1,t pIro nd nj tni1
Dreamed 'em till dey was all poddy like de
bull pup, and den little Miss Fannie, she
says, what would you like t. have9' t. a
little dago kid what had eyes like saucers
ode kid taut awhile, and den he says,
7 wants dat says he, pointing to mar
BILE stated of Miss Fannie's head what
form mug had been paid two tousand dol
lays for doing.
Its yours, says little Miss Fannie
and den dey all began choosing, and In d
minute dere wasn't ting in de room
what dat goil hadn't give away, even t. de
rugs and de leotric lights. De only ting
little Miss Fannie went shy on was when
a Irish goil says dat she wanted me. De
little one yelled murder at dat and says
she couldn't spare me.
Her yeli4ng brought in de folks, and
when I'd told how de game lay Mr.. Paul
asks II he wouldn't do in my place, but
little Irish wouldn't have him. Den Mr..
Paul, as sober as q 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.
"sHe's yours, says little Miss Fannie
de first crack Gutter de box.
eve had a dead easy time getting de
kids t. exchange de tings de little one had
give 'em for de close and toys what was
all fixed for 'em, except dat little Irish,
who'd win his whiskers, wouldn't give up
her bargain till she got green dress be-
sides de red one what was staked out for
her. Edward W. Townsend in New York