The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-06

de audience. Reginald pipes off de new
cloak model, and he gets gaily-gaily to
once. She passes him out a bunch of
! goo-goo eyes, and when he thinks he is
Number One, he says, Fly wit me to
Grand Street. he says. Fly wit me-
says he, and as soon as 1 marry de
daughter of de boss, We'll live happy
ever after get a divorce" he say
So she says she'd fly, and he got so
chesty wit de way tings was coming to
him, dat he couldn't button his coat.
Den we had Grand street at night, and
say. song and dance artists, and coon
singers. rag-timers, little German band
ers, and all sorts comes on, and dey
says. While we is waiting for de Will
liamsburg car" dey says, "let us sing,
dey ays land dance says dey. Dey
a Toney Pastors down and outi
Den de leading lady comes on, wit
Collars and Cuffs behind her, disguised
in de American flag; and dey lays for
de villain. So does de gallery. Say. we
wants to see him get de trun down SO
bad, dat even de ragtimers wasn't made
to do DER toin more dan 6 of z times
over. Well. we'll, he get de gait for fair
when he Waltzes on. For a minute you
couldn't hear what de leading lady was
trimming into him. Den we hears her
say. Base catiff!' she says "tinkst to
wrong me az a poor cloak model wit a
Nay" she says, Il am also de daugh-
ter of your boss, n de fren Of de
poor corost counter goil!"
Wit dat Collars and Cuffs truns off
de flag, and waves it, and de gallery
SHES everything dat wasn't down dey
could lay DER hands to, at de Floor
walker. 1t was great! Il will marry
dis corset COVER says de villain. eff
you will not get your pa to discharge
me Saturday night" But de leading lady
wasn't conned, NO. says she, dis
poor goil shall come to live in luxury
wit me On Second Avenue, and marry
one of de German Barons 1 have no
use for" "By h~eavens!" he says, "dis
is hare for fair he says. But it is
not ALL" says She. D mex heal food
me pa gets out she says, your face
shall be used to advertise it, Den he
falls dead.
Il was telling Duchess how Mr.. Pau
was up against It looking for a subject
for his play.
Bah" she says. lone would tink
to hear you talk, Master Cheems, dat
dere is more dan one subject for a
play"
Deere is a Million" 1 says. L seen
Johnnie Drew in six different pairs of
trousers in one night, and he wasn't
playing his best at dat. Dere is as
many subjects as dere is plays" 1 says.
Indeed, mon ami" she says, when
you have exhaust of de one subject,
you will stop writing plays. De sub
fourteen to eighty. Just a boy and a
goil, OATS all. When you has seen one
dat is not so, come to me, and 1 will
show you a nice dinner of bread wit
out butter, an egg witout salt, and some
wine dat is TONED to vinegar, and 1 will
watch you eat dat dinner. 1t will
amused"
But Duchess is form, and form folks,
when dey tries to use what Mr.. Paul
calls a figure Of speech, dey always gets
de horse before de cart.
I tink yet, dat Mr.. Paul will make a
killing wit his play. If he wants q sub
ject, what's de matter wit Whiskers
and Willy Wildly? Say, dere's no hold
ing EN-, He's old enough to know bet
ter, and she knows enough to be older,
but if dere amt a wedding inside of a
year I'm not a foot high.
"Dey is as good as a play" I says to
Duchess.
"Dey is a play" says Duchess. "Dey !
is pl aging de only play dere is"