The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-06-04
NEWSBOY FINDS A ROMANCE.
Secret Is So Good That He Tells It In
Newspaper Office. .

"Say, do youse fellers want a funny
| ting ter write up?"
The night reporters and desk men
| locked up to see a little newsboy who
had drifted into the Journals city
| room.
81 don't mean it's funny like er
| joke But it's funny ter me, cos | new
err seen muffin like it. I'd like ter know
| wot dem two Wuz up ter ennyhow,"
the boy continued.
81 wuz in de doreway er de J'urnel
| buIdin' yestiddy ter see de time ball
| tumble. l knew youse cud see it fine
from de front entrunz. So in l goes
ter wotch der ball drop.
well, der funny ting wuz here. JUS
afore de ball went up on de pole, I
sees a Teller an CURL duck in ter de
doorway, 'longside er me. Dey cum
close ter me, but dey wuz so takin' up
wit demselves dat dey didn' notis' me
er tall
"Say, dey wuz fine pair, fer cert'n.
De CURL wuz peach. She wuzn't very
OF, not so OF as de guy. She wuz, wun
er de purties' gurls / ever seen, an
she wuz drest way up ter de limit She
wasn't no cheap kind, knows dat. She
wor de bes' from de Back Bay, er sum
such part er de town.
"An' de guy wor JUS de kind NV q
Teller ez yer wud t'ink wud be chasin'
round wit er CURL like dat. He wor
tail an swell lookin' like wot he had
had things eezy all de time. But he
didn't look no sof' mug fer all dat.
"WTel, dey backs inter der doorway
an begins gassin' away. I guess dey
didn' cum ter see no time ball, nor
nuttin' elz but themselves. I cud hear
dem talkin' ez if dey didn' seem ter
know l wuz round. l wuz bout daffy
tryin' ter keep me one lamp on de
time ball and de udder on de guy and
de CURL.
81 heern him tellin' her sumpin'
bout how he wuZ tired ter deaf tryin'
ter see her wit out her folks bein' mex.
Den he axes her as has her pa emmy
'jectun ter him at all 'cep he t'aut she
was too young ter marry. An de guri
SEE, SEE she, Me fader won't stand fer
me leavin' home yet'-only she didn'
say it just dat way. Ennyhow, I gifts
wise dat de guy wanted ter marry de
CURL, only her OF man was givin' him
er fros cos he t'aut de CURL worn't OF
enufi. An say, she wor er kid in her
looks, only she wor grown. l heern
her tell de guy dat she s'posed herself
dat a CURL er II might know wot she
wanted. Her ma, she SEE, wuz within,
eZ long eZ she knoo de teller wuz all
rite, but her pa wuZ ez set ez de PAWN
block. An. de CURL she seemed kinder
sore on FER pa fer not lettin' er marry
de guy.
AN den de guy begins givin' de CURL
a CRATE jolly bout ez how dey might
chase off by derselves an git marrid,
wit'out her pa KNOWN ennyt'ing bout
1t. De CURL didn't say ez how she wood,
er ez how she woodn' an de guy KEEP
on erlong dat string harder dan ever.
He tole her ez how dey had been gagged
fer er long time, eZ how he cudn' STAN
it no longer an ez' how, if she wuz ez
stuck on him ez she sed she wuz den she
would marry him. Den he winds up
wit:
Yer knows ez how dere amt no
show er yer pa lettin' up fer two or
tree years, an yer can't tell wot'1l hap
pen so long away
"He ratified al dis off ez quick ez
emmy wun cud say it, an de CURL wuz
lookin' down ter de floor, an den look
in ZIP at de guy, ez if she wuz not
KNOWN wot ter say. Au' wen she did
look at de guy it wuz great look she
gin fer fair. Homes, 'twuz de fun
niest look | ever seen. l would like
ter hev some wun t'row der eyes at
me day way a minnit, JUS ter see how
it wud seem. An she wuz al pink in
her face, over sumptin'
1T wuz bout time fer de ball ter
drop, an I wuz wonderful wot dey wuz
ter DO An den der guy asks her ez
how won't she come wit him ter
minister, as he knows, as wuz wit him
in collij.
"An' de CURL seq, 'Wot, now, dis min
nit?'
can de guy tells 'er, Yes, dis min
nit rite off, An he says ez if t'were
de las call, 'W'unt yer, dere?'
''An' hear de CURL say, Yes an dey
cbases derselves out inter de street an
mo watchin' 'em, JUS as de time ball
fell Boston Journal.