The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-24

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| out Of trouble" Oh, yes. people who
| takes dat route has a handy mind at 2
| joke. now and den.
! Modder and Murphy Sees what IS
| bordering de poor goil. and dey says
dat dey would take her pass de young
man, SO dat he couldn't harm her. and
den she could go OF her way.
De only way 1 has is de wharf
| route" she says.
Der de old ladies says h was De
matter Wit dem taking de goil home
! Wit dem. and giving her i job at de
fine laundry woIk. OATS what dey
done. De nice little man followed en-,
and locates where de goil was: so mod
der writes me would l cone down dere
on me next day off, and give dat young
man a little attention..
Sure" | says, "and tank YOU kindly,
modder. for de chance. Iii be deere"
: Say, we puts up a picnic of a job. for
fair. 1t was easy to see dat de young
| man was laying for a time when de old
ladies would be far from DER own fire
side. He'd felt DER open fists. and was
shy of an encore. We figures it out dat
If dey was piped off by him leaving de
place ned make a hurry sneak up to de
room, and try to scare de goil away Wit
him. So goes in by de back way: de
| goil goes into a friend room across de
hall. and me modder and Murphy, dey
chases out wit DER baskets on der
arms, like dey was off on = marketing
trip.
Twas telling you de old ladies has two
| rooms. now. l goes into de inside one.
and waits for de nice young man. L
hears him sneak in, and den he tries de
door where l was, and he says for her,
thinking she, de gOil, was deT@. to open
it: or he'd trun it down, and give her a
eXtry beating to boot. | taught 1t was
time for me 10 make my entrance, as
dey say in de play books SaT. 1t was
a good one, all right. Whel h. seem
dat he'd been talking to m @2d not to
de goil, dat nice young man tri"d % do
a jump TO de fire escape, buJ l nailed
him.
Never mind what l done to him.. It's
not much to brag about. to take proper
care of cattle like dat nice young man,
but all de care he needed. | give him
wit a little extry trun in for good meas
ure.
When he a breat enough 10 say
anything, he says, Please, now may l
go" he says.
Dis is only de coitain raiser" I says
De hair raiser comes Oh when de wo-
men folks is home"
When Murphy and mOdder comes, dey
brings all de American ladies on de
block: de old families, you know. who'd
lived dere, like me modder and Murphy,
ever since dey comes from de old sod,
and long before de Ginnies and hin
comes into de district.
Honest, l wish one of dose laddie-
boys, what can take down what u mug
says in wire screen marks, had been
dere to take down de tings does Ameri-
can ladies had TO say to dat nice young
man. I've heard some langwudge on de
kind Mr.. Paul calls Picturesque in
me life, but de best l ever heard before
sounded like de small talk OF school
COILS alongside what dose good ladies
said to dat young man. You wouldn't
tink dat just wOidS could coil up a man
like dose langwudge cOiled up him.
Den Murphy takes a broom handle. an
she winks to me, and L gives de young
man a place across me knee-you know
de kind of a place modder used to make
and Murphy got busy. De copper on
de block he comes in looking for muir
der, but when he sees what was doing,
he looks like he'd found de room empty,
and he goes out.
'S4AB EAAS 11o 1ioi Piy " aim VIZ
tired, l don't tink dere was an incl Of
whole skin on de part of dat young
mans body shed been aiming at.
Just den Duchess comes in, and she
says was we having a party. n mod
der, she says it was a picnic. and
Duchess goes over to a tub of water
dat had done duty for washing. and she
says Dis is my contribution to de pic
mic" she says, and she dumps a bag of
salt in de tub Of water.
Wit dat de party screams wit laugh
ing. and L picks up de young man, and
doubled him up, and sits him in de tub
for to pickle him. When lie salt and
water had got well into de place dat
was shy of skin, de copper comes back.
and modder makes a charge of house
breaking against de nice young man,
and de copper run him in.
Dat night when 1 was fussing about
de WOO fire in de library [ hears WINS
kers say to Paul, he Jays, "AH dis ak
of vice in New York is rot he says
Most talk is rot" says Mr.. Paul,
But what talk has you in mind now"
he says.
Dis talk about vice, and cadets. and
red lights, and strong arm gangs"
Whiskers says. In de lection am
PaiSH We mas JUST peeiI trough Ldlb u
dat kind Of talk was too common. Il
hoits de reputation of de city. and j.
all lies. Dere is no cadets nor red lights
nor strong arm gangs, except in de talk
of de wicked men who mak speeches
for to scare campaign contributions out
of US"
Il fear dere is some vice left" says
Miss Fannie, who used to be in on de
game of doing good down where de
moist good is wanted.
oh. some, no doubt" says Whisker,,
comfortable like. But not such vice
as we hears talked Of. Any way" he
says, what vice dere is can be cured
by moral suasion No force or violence
is necessary"
How is dat, Chames?" Ask Miss
Fannie. rs dere less vice down der