The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1897-04-03
THE FOXY DUCHESS.
She Proves Too Shrewd For Chimmie Fad
den and Mr.. Paul.

den and Mr.. Paul.
" oh, we'll, says. don t see your
name on any buttons.
when 1 says dat t. de duchess she
says l was "a little beast, what is her
form way of giving me de frosty face.
Let me tell you. Ever since dat time
when l danced wild Maggie de house
maids sister out on top of de stage de
| duchess has been leary of me, and has
hard time to lose her long enough &,
go over t. Mr.. Paups t. give him his
boxing exercise every day. But she's
terrible awful sweet on me, lust de
same, dough something woise has hap
| pened since. Da's funny ting about
women. Dey kicks till dey nearly gets
de swell knee if you does little ting
like,giving annoder goil kiss, but dey
never ia SO nice to you as when dey
kicks. 1t don't make no difference how
long man is up against de game of
women, he is always farmer at it-a
dead farmer.
DE duchess says dat she knows I'm
stuck on Maggie's sister, what knowed
before de duchess come from form parts,
aud she says Maggie was in de Job t.
give me chance t. see her sister, and
she's made tings go do odder way from
Maggie so fast she looks like chicken
chasing grasshopper But all de time
tings is coming my way so fast from de
duchess ] has t. wear catcher's gloves
to hold 'em.
Can you explain dat? No, nobody
can't. It's just because women is queer
form women, particular. Why, say,
de duchess calls me "a little beast and
makes bluff at giving me de frozen
face, but all de same / never was in it
80 hard as now. Dere amt noting she
won't do for me-except yield up any
OF all dat Doodle she's pinched from me.
But I'm winner on every odder lay,
sure.
Always till now had t. get Mag
gle e. darn me socks and sew on me but
tons. Was taking some of em t. her de
odder day when de duchess says, Let
me do dat for you, Chames; Maggie
doesn't do EN- neatful. Well, she done
EN-. Say, if I took off me shoes me
socks would put your eye out. De duoh-
ess darned EN- wild dose giddy silk yarns
Miss Fannie makes fancy tings wild,
and me Trilbys look like dey was green,
yellow and blue posters
But dat ism t what was going T. tell
you about. Mr.. Paul heard about me
dancing out on top of de stage wild
Maggie's sister. Yes, I told him. Mr..
Paul and me gets pretty ehummy when
boxes wild him, and we has small
bot afterward t. take de dust out of our
troats. Honest, dere aim noting makes
you 50 chummy wild a man as t. spar
wild him--if you spar hard, and Mr.. Il
Paul won't have it no odder way.
'Chames. says he t. me de odder day
when he gives me glass T. trow in me
face, how is it,, says he, dat you
danced wild de goil you was telling me
about?'
can't cop your light on how we
done it except l has de goiI t. dance
wild. says I.
Den he looked solum, like he does
when be has game on. and says: isn't
dat in de realms of poss 'bility? You fix
de job says he, 'and I'll pay de
freight.
dat was enough for me; so I cops
Maggie de game, and she writes t. her
steady, what's me friend de barkeep, t.
fix de layout. Well, say, he fixed i'll
got night off, telling de duchess dat
was going e take Mr.. Paul to q boxing
match, and she didn't say a void. We
chases into town, Mr.. Paul and me did,
and after de teeater Maggies sister and
some odder goils what dances wild he,
shows up at Mr.. Paul's town house.
He don't do tings on de small. OATS
right. He had orchestra dere and bot
ties t. drown whale and grub up t. de
limit
Il introduces him as his own valet,
what is little game swell mugs is up
to once in awhile when dey is travel
ing in company dey don't beslongs to-
Well, we wasn't having ting but fun.
Maggie's sister and me showed EN- de
high shoulder speel till Mr.. Paul and
his friends near died laughing. Tings
was going along like hurry call am
bulance, when all of a suddent, p'cheel
in waltzes de duchess. taut den was
up against it de woist ever She'd fol.
leyed us into town, and, knowing Mr..
Paul's servants, she made de sneak in
de house all right. just braced meself
Tor earthquake, but what do you tink?
Honest, de duchess was smiling e. beat
de band, and dat did scare me, sure.
She says t. Mr.. Paul dat il he wanted
t. see good dancing dere was no use GO
ing t. de trouble of coming t. town and
getting dose 'canaille, what is form
word
All you has t. do, she says, when
You want e. see Chimmie dance, is t. ,
stay at home in de country and ask him
and me over to your house
"Iw was paralyzed, cause Icouldn t get
on e. her curves little bit, but Mr..
Paul was as cool as small bottle, and
says dat he didn't suppose de duchess
would do him de honor; but if she
would, de music and de floor was at
her service, he says. What do you tink |
dat goil done? She told de band what t. !
play, told de 'canaille' e. chase dere- ,
selves t. de wall, and den she danced. ,
Say, it was de best dat ever come over {
de hill Even dose odder girls yelled ,
murder wild joy. l tink de duchess must ,
have been trained for it. II I'd been |
rum dumb, couldn't been more par {
alyzed De next day Mr.. Paul sent for !
me and de duchess, and he says t. her,
as polite as ever he spoke in his life ,
'Hortense, says he, i done you wrong