The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-22

FOR SAFE DIV X. X BolIamE.
rope to hang de william, for sure" I
says.
H should be boined alive," Wildly
says.
He will be, Ma'am," I says, just as
son as we can light a fire.
And your cat-wife should be boined
alive. and sent to prison for dis muir
der" a y Wildly.
NO need, Ma'am," 1 says. Duchess
has took a pound of carbolic acid, and
cut her throat; and I'm just going to
get me gun for her" 1 says. Let me
see your beautiful dogs leg, Ma'am,'
I say rs he much hoit?"
Never you mind poor Fido's leg
she says. You go and telephone fo1
de vet"
"Well Whiskers comes chasing, and
orders me to go back and finish me
clown act, dat was included in de dog
turn. and me and Mr.. Paul soon had d.
show running again; but de audience
was all laughing about de turn dat was
not down on de bill. When Wildly hears
EN- h vas foist near croisy wit rage;
but h is no farmer, n pretty soon
she shifts to make a good lace of it;
for DANES like her can stand most any
kind of a game except to be made d
game of deirselves. and SO she pretend
ed to take it as a joke, and get out OF
being part Of de joke.
De show was a winner, boodle-wise
and if ever we finds any yacht sailors
orphans, dey'n have ice cream and
candy de rest of DER lives, but I was
feeling like 1 wished I had a home as
far off as Scandehoovia to go to, all de
time 1 was helping to solve refresh
ments after de ball was over. I knowed
dat I could square meself wit Mr.. Paul,
all right, but I had me opinion dat Miss
Fannie would be dead sore ON me for
not telling Wildly dat I was going to
borrow her poodle.
But when de folks had went, = and
Whiskers had drove off wit Wildly to
de vets, Miss Fannie calls me to de
hall, and she looks around to see dat
no one was rubbering, and den she
shakes hands with me Dat was beau
tiful done. Chames," she says
Tanks, Miss Fannie" 1 says. "Wha
was beautiful done?"
"Laming Mrs. Harding's poodle, sc
dat de vet will hav to put it out of dc
void wit cloroform. You did it on poi
pose, of ~course?"
Say. 1 was in what dey calls a prob
lem play, den, 1 hadn't done de poodle
on poipose, but if it made me stand tC
de good wit Miss Fannie to have hel
tink dat I did, I was willing to stand
for dat. or anything else. So, I just looks
wise, n says, Tank you, Miss Fan
ME-" and goes on me way.
But when l sees Duchess l tells hel
to put me wise on de game.
1T is so simple" says Duchess
"Ma'mzelle Fannie admire Madam Har.
ding very we'll, but she despise dar
Madam make so much of dat poodle
Also Whiskaire, he do not like d.
poodle. What will you?"
"Anyting OATS coming to me-" says /
Very we'll. Ma'mZelle Fannie, sht
know very true dat Madam Harding
will lever more be seen wit de poodle
because a woman like her would radde,
be seen wit a pair of soiled boots. o.
gloves-and she'd die before dat-dal
to be seen wit a ting da has made he:
Of de redic'lous. So she will now b.
more agreeable to Ma'mzelle, and per
haps to Whiskaire-"
If Duchess hadn't doped he game t
me right, I'd been paralzed when Widd,
comes to me in a few days, smiling lik
she was a Six time winner, and say
dat de poodle was not much holt; an
did 1 know of some kind people da
would 'preciate and tenderly care TO
Fido, because she didn't tink lie climat
of Westminster County was good for d
little dear'S healt,
/ tells her sure: dat me own modde
was all her life dying for just such
beautiful dog as Fido; n her old ag
would be like a continuous perform
ance picnic if she had a poodle lik
Fido to board wit her.
What do you tink? Wildly tells m
to take Fido to me modder, and pay
a case-a whole, long, one-spot for d
board of de dog every week. Modde
is getting chesty with de income, anC
as she feeds it proper, and don't coddl
it, it's getting some and spir
It; and de old lady has more fun wit
dan a BOX of monkies.
1 was satisfied to get out of de propo
sition on dat lay, but what bodders m
is, dat Duchess never got no roast nc
noting; and has a smile like she
stuck on herself, whenever l speaks G
de job: and she has de parasol Of Mis-
Fannie's she's longed for. Do you spos
dat French goil had de wit and noiv
to feed de poodle to de pup on poipose
What!