The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-03
SKINNY AT THE soIcus.
He Carries Water to a Camel and TelIs
What He Saw.

He Carries Water to Camel and TelIs
What He Saw.
''Did go ter de soieus? Well, say Did
ever stay away fun soicus? Nixey,
nit; not never. 1t was like dis. I was
down to de print shop waitin fer me papes,
when who blows in but his nobs, de Teller
dat gives de newspaper gang de Jolly an
de glad hand. Say He didn't have nothin
in his pockets but soicus tickets, an I
strikes him fer a pair.
Are you a member of de press?' he
says.
g If it wasn't for de papes I sell, dere
wouldn't be no work for de presses,
says.
g Well, cum down to de soious termor-
ry,' he says, an III see what I kin do fer
you
How about me partnerq' I says.
g Bring him wild you, he says, AN be
prepared for de wust; may want ter use
you,' he says.
Ibid he use mes He didn't do a ting
but use me-up. Used me fer a aqueduck.
Don't you know what a aqueduck is? It's
to carry water. Well, dat S wat I done; 7
carried water, me an ne chum, Whitley, to
a camel what amt had a drink since de
year of de big flood. I never put me lamps
on such a bOozer fer water as dat cammil.
If he ever bruk loose an gifts down to de
lake dey'n have ter put all de ships on
wheels ter git 'em in to de peer. Dat cam
mil is de champeen water tank. When de
calnmn couldn't hold any more, de glad
hand man give me an Whitley two tickets
an we went in.
81 can't tell you all seen at de soicus-
not in t'ousss0d years. I amt no serial
story writer, but one of de things dat made
a hit wild me was dem tree peacherina
COILS on de trolley wire. Deyre It wild
me. De Japs is good people at de trolley
wire bi'sness, but dem COILS is dc best ever.
Dey'r re de real Molly on de Trolley every
time.
I'm goin ter make ladder like two of
dem clowns uses, what turns over an
over. III git Whitley on de udder end of
it an won't do a ting to him but make
him t'ink he's de human top. I never seen
so many COILS in me life. Dere's a rcd
headed one dat can't do a ting but ride,
an her hairs so red dey have to use tree
white horses in de rings. Whitley liked de
1Oidy on de boss dat danced an picked up
a wipe off'n de groun an handed it to de
loidy. Well, dat made a hit wild me too
Next to bosses, I like ellyfants. De glad
hand man tole me dey come from India.
Say, dem ellfyants don know a ting. Dey
couldn't be nuthin but collidge professors.
I hope I may have fit if dey don't walk
on dere hands-dere front legs, mean
an stand on dere heads an eat at a table
jest like de reg lar boardin house push. Z
hope I may never sell anudder paper if one
of dem didn't open two small cold bots an
git reg lar jag, de chief of police ely
FAINT run him in. oh, maybe dem ellyfaEts
is foolish, 1 don't think.
Say, dey've got goil dat t'rows a dub
BILE sunmerset in full even dress-dere's
only one goil in de woild fer-weu, she's
de only one dat does de bubble summerset.
I fought Whitley would t'row a fit when
he saw her. He climbed right out of de
seat, but 1 grabbed him.
Where you goin?' I says.
g Pm goin to steal dat goil, he says.
" Cum back here, I says, before dey
run de chariut races over yer dead body Z
says.
g I want to learn how to t'row one of
dem bubbles he says.
"Tomorry he'll be tryin it on, III
betcher. Den III have to go an buy dat
kid fun raj. ''-ChicagO Times-Herald.