The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-02
THAT WILEY WILDLY.
CHIMMIE FADDEN SPOILS HER FIR
TATION WITH HIS WHISPERS.

Fannie In the Country-"Say, Honest,
You'd Never Get Tired"-A Plot That
Proves . Very Successful One.
Say, honest, you'd never get tired. De
bull pup is not marker by de side of de
fun we had wild his whiskers when we had
de toboggen sliding at our place down in
de country. You know little Miss Fannie?
Well, dat kid wouldn't let nobody take her
down de slide except me, SO dat kept me
out dere wild de folks all de time dey were
sliding, and dat was nearly all de time
while de snow lasted. Mr.. Paul said it
would have lasted longer only for his
whiskers, who is so warm. But you'd
never get tired. Remember de wildly I
was telling you about-de wiley wildly
what tried t. play bluff and break into
de family tru de church, wild his whiskers
t. tip de parson? Well, Miss Fannie was
dead sore on dat game, cause she wasn't
locking for no stepmudder only five years
older dan herself, and de wildly was terri
bic shy on invitations t. visit our place,
until she got engaged t. marry anodder
mug. Den she got invitations again, and
everyt ing was lovely.
Say, dere is funny ting about widdys.
When dey is engaged t. be married, dey is
just as gay as when dey isn't De duchess
told me dat dat was because dey has been
In de game before, and don + use in
t'rowing down dere hands and stop play
ing until some one has called 'em. If dey
did, dey might find dat no one was going
t. call; dat it was only bluff, and den
dey would feel like a man who steps out
of a hand and finds dat if he'd drawn
cards he'd had four aces. But OATS only
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poker she tries t. make everyt' ing in life
line up wild de game. But I don't see
nothing between de two what is alike, ex-
cept dat in poker and life de mug who is
always kicking at his luck ism t very shifty
at his job, whatever it is But, say, you'd
never get tired. De wildly was visiting
us, and his whiskers was so kittenish
wonder he didn't drink milk instead of
whisky and water.
Miss Fannie wasn't worried, because de
mug de WILDLY is engaged t. get hitched
to has money for cinders, and you couldn't
break her away from de contract wild dyna-
mite. So she just didn't do nothing t.
queer de WILDLY from having all de fun she
was looking for.
little Miss Fannie, and de duchess t. look
after Miss Fannie's cloaks and tings, was
all out on de slide de odder day, wild de
men from de stables t. fetch up de tobog-
gems from de bottom of de slide. Say, you'd
never get tired if you d see de way dc coach
mans kid would kick when I'd give him
my sled and tell him t. take it up, like
was one of de swells But, honest, I had
little Miss Fannie t. look after, and she's
more worry dan any one else on top of de
cart, and couldn't look after anything
else
Well, dere was big snowdrift de size of
a house one side of de slide, just after you
made de big jump in de middle, and you
had t. steer mighty shifty as you'd go into
de drift. I was de boss of de road, cause
1 could steer de best, what was de reason
Miss Fannie let me take charge of de little
one. copied it right dat his whiskers
who was taking de wildly down wild him
every trip, always folleyed me down,
cause he could steer after me and make
good 1t was dat set me thinking, and one
time, when we started down, told de lit
tie one t. hold on t. me tight, cause I was
going t. give her nice turn over after de
jump. She taut dat would be great-and
it was. Honest you'd never get tired.
Well, away we went, and, like he always
did, his whiskers fOlleyed wild de wildly,
steering close after me. Just before we
came to de jump give a twist and we
went off widout even turn over. But
his whiskers, folleying, turned just Sec
ond too late, and, honest he shot up like
de bull pup de odder day when de COW
tossed him. De wildly let a shrek an his
whiskers begun some beautiful langwidge,
but bote voices stopped short as dey made
q beautiful header into dat snowdrift, and
never stopped till bote of 'em, his whiskers
and de wildly, was out of sight, except dere
legs.
Say, you'd never get tired. De rest of
de folks up at de top of de slide came run
ming, and we all dug out de pair, Mr.. Bur-
ton and Miss Fannie laughing fit t. kill
demselves. But Mr.. Paul was as sober as
judge in de Tombs, and says, Hurry,
Chames," says he, hurry and get 'em
out before dey melts de drift and drown us
ALL
When we got 'em out, his whiskers new
er tumbled; but de wildly, when she got
me aside, says, 81 owes dat t. you, young
man.
pardon me, lady," says I, "but dey
was silk and all right
Honest, you'd never get tired.-Edward
W. Townsend in New York Journal