Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-05-05


cart, whitewash and young ones were
all mixed up in one heap and the three
women were tangled up in another.
1t wasn't my play TO interfere Even
If it had been my asthma would have
Kept me out of it. I'm not taking any
chances Of sudden death on salary
of IS per month and my rent throwe,i
in. Did you ever see three women in
a scrap. Mr. Wasserman2n
"NeTer in my life. Mr. SprocSet, una
pray heafen dot don't It must be
more awful ash a. steamboat explo-
sion
There isn't SO many killed and
wounded, but it lasts longer, and there
is more fun in it. Say. now bur OF all
the splitting and scratching anc hair
pulling ever read OF in history that
took the cake. 1t was. each one for
herself and az in the other t@o. and
each one went in to win | didn't time
the scrap, having left my watch down
in the store-room to rest the wheels for
week or two, but should say it last
ed for ten minutes Then they fell
apart by mutual consent. as it was, and
each made for her own room to get
some clothes on. The hair and tatters
and buttons and hooks and eyes left
behind would have stuffed mattress. =
'Vhell, how many peoples vhas muir
deged?n asked the grocer as shiver
crept up his back and shook his sheul-
ders.
Not a one, replied the ianitor.
There never is whea women scrap.
not if the ice p:ck has been mislaid
and the legs are left under the stove.
| got the other gang uEtangled and
tooJed them up or down, stairs, and
half an hour later Mrs. O'Sulliyan call
ed to me. | found her pacing the lower
hall and chuckling to herself. She had
a black eye. IA scratches on her tacc
and bitten fiager
Mr. Sprocket,' said she. was these
4 ruction up stairs a little time ago.
There was, said l.
And w1s bridget O'suliyan in it?'
She was.
And did she 60 her duty by Ireland,
by her husband fimothy and the kids
49,,
Size cd. fo" sure, and SECS got
sears to prove it..
An they are scars that Fil-ba proud
to show to ne Tim when he reaches his
freSide this eyenin. an >.ayhe | snall
have them Photographed l9r the chill
di to lcek at-when / am dead and
gone. Tell re, Mr.. SprocNet. did I
shirk ne duty ct any stage of the
game?'
Not at all. M.@ o'sunivan. Yor
went in with a bang. ssaia in with a
thump and cane on with wreath o.
victory on your brow. | was watching
you all through, and if Tim don't pat
you en- the back tonight and send cut
for bottle he's no nan al all
Eyer hand, Ar sprocket, en- from
this time forward ill death Bridg5 t
G'Sullivan. who descended from the
O'Sharcs as straight as a baby falln
down stairs, is a friend to We al yer
asthma en- Will swine the jaw OF any
one sayin a word az in ye.
Fifteen minutes later said the jan
itor Il went up to the sscond to see if
the dago needed the ambulance. You
bet she didn't She vas prancing up
and down in best dress. She had 4
cut over her eve. her nose had been
raked. and she had lost a front tooth
and had hsr hair Timed ont
All. ba she called out, but you see
dat ighta. eh?
q did. countess said
"'Day piteha into me one two IN
i ighta back. | pulla hair. | fshta, |
scratcha
You did. countess You was a
whilrwind on wheels
AN who win data fghta?'
You did of course
'Ah-h-h. See here. an here. an
here Yes | Wilma dat fighta an was
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