The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-06-24
iofke to have a can av ia now. Mrs. Nc
Glaggerty."

Mrs. M~cGlaggerty was having her shanty
whitewashed.
"Fwhat are We doin'y' asked Mrs. Ma
googin OF her neighbor. as the two stood in
the back yard regarding the elderly darky
who was doing the calciminiIs.
"Paintin' the house" answered Mrs. Nc
Glaggerty.
$50 Oi see" the Irish widow retorted.
"Paintin' it wild fwhoitewash. an, ids very
byootiful yen he afther maxim id. too,
judgin' he fwhat Oi kin see av fwhat's al
ready done. Let me AK We. Mrs. Mc6ilag-
gerty. are we goin' to put amy dado or
freshco or fido on it. to set aft tn resht av
tn bizniss? No? Faix. n Oi'm glad av
that. Yell have it plain fwhoite an moth
in else? No yaliow, sugar-cured-ham
or doime novel nonsinse about
id. but plain, pure. unadulterated fwhoite?
That plaises me. Mrs. MCGlaGgerty. an do
We know fwhy? Bckase the minnit me
laughter Arethoosy kurns home here an
sees the new paint on yer house she'll ate
the hands an head aft av me antil q; CON
stint to have our little place ihraited to "A
coat av the same color. so the palmer YOU
make yours. Mrs. M~cGlaggerty. the chaiper
the expinse IL be on me.
"Oh. but it's a terrible thing 10 have n
daughter CROWN up In a noice. quoiet. da-
clint neighhOrhud. coortin' a little handy
legged DOotch grocery clerk wild notions as
hoigh-chuned as a mellionaire's an
britches as toight an short-waishted as a
food. There's nawthin' We kin do that's
gud enough, an there's nawthin' goin' an
in s'cicty but We mustn't have. For an amos
thin;hatious WILDLY loike mesilf that has
nawthin' but her. good name an a few
palthry dollars shtandin' bechune hersilf an
heaven, It's enough to dhroive me crazy.
Uv'ry tonne Hinry comes to the house
Hinry is the little cross-vyed Dootchman's
name-there's some new doido TO inthertain
him wild. Do you know. Mrs. McGlacgerty,
that Orm foriyer maxim tay an bakin'
ishkits fur that hungry-faced divil. Be
heavens. Dim comm to belayve that he
doesn't get a boite to ate at home at all.
he's so starved and pinched .iukin'. the poor
crayther.
But no matther. bechune him an Are
thoosy Oi'm kept in hot wather. an now
fwhin she kums home she'll be afther rails
in the very diyil on account av yer house
havin' the fwEoitewash an it. Oin have to
go out to-morry an get some one to
fwhoitewash my place. so tina: Hinry's hart
won't be broke an. Arethoosy's sowl racked
be seem your risidince risin' he the soide
av ours loike a ghost in a ccalyard or a
marble tombstone in n blackberry patch.
Amt It froightful, Mrs. McGlaggerty? OF
wish to heaven that ,Arethoosy was marrii
an her husband in fail, the way both av
thin 'ould be out av my soight. an. the
worsht av it all is. me frind. that no sooner
IL OF have the walls painted as fwhuite as
the dhriven shnow but my son Tammy,
that We all calls the Toof TO. II begin play
in han6ball agin it an speck!e ii all over
wild black blotches anti! it luks loike a
clown with the shmallpox."
We'll. Mrs. McGlaggerty.- said the wild
ow, after having borrowed a tbimble from
her %neighbor. its very foine weather we're
havin'.. amt 1t now
The neighbor in the affirmative.
It's fwhat my daughter Arethoosy calls
the gintle zeephyrs av spring." Mrs. Ma
googfn continued An be the same token.
do we know. Mrs. M~cGlaggerty. that Are
thoosy has a new hobby-horse av a SHAME
tina she's thryin' to roide now? Yis. In
dade. she wants to be a pooet. 30 she SEE.