The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-15

long tonne ago in bizness, says he
| an thot was some years BEFORE OF
failed in politics, says he. O' sounded
SO much loike owe thot whin OF got me
discharge in bankruptcy says he, oi
was too much raymoinded av me cred
! itors, says he. To make a long sthory
short, OF dropped the o. says he.
"Bills got the CRATE mimry. Shure
he kapes tabs on livery bissed thing.
Glory be to Peter, but he's the good
wan. He asked me if Hin Hovey was
still wearin' a plug hat, if Julyus Zae
der had the embumpoint av jim Cav
nagh yit, an if Shea and McGinnis were
still tillin paple thot little joke about
why they have a loicince on Exchange
street-bekase they exchange high byes
fer nickels. \
But coming down to the facts av the
confrince. Bill OF twigged immajitly
wanted not only me advice, but me in
! hoonce. What makes We think, Bill
says OF, 'thot We are goin' to be ilicted,
says OF. IT'S this, says he. 'Circum-
| stantial ivvydince,' says he, ladies me
to suspect it, says he.
| g Not being a lawyer, Bill says oil,
what mott circumstantial ivvyidince
mane?' says OF.
'Ofll explane it be a parrybin.' says
he. Wen imagine Dryfuse in the
dock says he. Jewst, the judge av
the coort martial, is sittin' on a soap
| box, says he.
Answer in a brodd an ginnyral
way says Jewst to Dryfuse,' says he,
| the following Generate and spacific
quistions says he, comm as close to
the juxtaposition av the approximate
propinquity av the truth as possybil,
says he. Fire away says Dryfuse.
Are you the son av Krag- Jorgen-
sem says Jewst, 'thot bilt the tower av
Babel, says he. No answer.
"'Were you wild Brinnus whin he had
the gall to sack Rome? says Jewst No
answer.
-" Do you know where Cap Kidd hid
his trisyures?' says he./ No answer.
Last and foinal question: says
: Jewst are you the son av infamy thot
| burnt the timple av Diana at Ephesus%
Thin it was thot Dryfuse put the
long sthick aV silence acrost his knee
an broke it.
Dim not save he. Dim not guilty
av ony av these crimes says he. The
timple was BURNED be a gossoon wild
a swilled hid be the name av Erosthra-
tus. He wanted his name to go down in
histhry wild such CRATE min as John L.
Sullivan, mesilf and Connie Murphy
| Well says Jewst says he, we may
not he guilty az these crimes says he,
but il We We're around loose in thin
days says he, 'Oi wouldn't put in be-
hind ye,' says he.
Thin up slips wan Bertillion. 'Oi can
prove thot We are guilty, Dryfuse, says
he First an foremost We are a Jew
says he, and We have asked fer a Jewry
thrile. Thot's circumstantial ivvidince.'
'Ye have put in a claim thot forger-
les and perjuries have bin committed
against We. Now pronounce thin wor-
rds slowly and wild emphatics. Per-
jew-ry, forjew-ry. Ye see, says Ber-
4 tillion, triumphantly the Jew crops out
! Everywhere in this case. Thot's circum-
stantial ivvidince.'
can so they convicted him. Now
thots what a man gets fer being a cash
customer in a barroom. OF don't know
that Dryfuse robbed the hin roost, but
its circumstantial ivvydince thot he had
chicken fer dinner whin arristed.
But to come down to the platfar
rum. We need a change av adminss-
thration,' says Bill, to me, says he.
More likely, says Oh, we need a change
av underclothes, fer Oh can smell the
sweat av yer hatband.'
bill smiled loike wan thot's sick
Dim goin to win shure, says he. 'Aven
the Adriot Free Press is wild me, and
oi'll swape the country loike a whirl-
wind
''Well, sor, to lave out details. Bill an
OF made UP the platfor-rum. Well de-
/ care our sympathy VIA the SOFeS dV
South Afriky who are foitin' fer their
! homes. We will declare fer home rule
fer the Orish, an home brew fer the
Scotch Gym Million av ward foore is
to be stint to London as consul-ginnyril
and George Fred is TO be made head
waiter at the Whoite House. We will
come out aginst government at the
| junction, and Fer 16 to L.
''Vot means sigsdeen ter von?" asked
Hans. Exclamation nit some inform
ationings abowit it, Derry"
well sor, Brine explained it to me.
| It's this way, Terry says he. IL We
We're attacked be 16 min, thot would be
! IS to l, but if we had some intrinsic
feitin' value av your own, We would be
akewel to 80 av thin. Thots the prissint
stondard, an it's wrong, says he OF
coorse at first OF didn't twig his MANN.
= 1t was as clear to me as lookin' acrost
| the Sthrand in London whin the fog
gifts up early in the marnin' and set
ties down fer a long visit.
Toward the md, Bill asked me whot
OF thought av his chances. Oh towld him
thot he wouli probably raysimble,
afther Fiction, a glass av wine thot's
| impty-turned down."