The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-16

dey feel likes a scrap-as all good
men must once in a while-why, dey
has one. OATS all.
Well, say, Duchess and Maggie was
dreams! Duchess was ragged out in
some close Miss Fannie passed on TO
her, and Maggie was ragged out in
some Duchess had passed on to her;
and dey looked so much like de real
ting dat me fren de barkeep blew us
off for a carriage to drive down to
de pier, where de boat was dat was
to take us up de river Dat was de
beginning of de troUble-as. like as
not, me fren knowed it would be.
He had a trouble of his own: he
has been Maggies steady long time,
but she wouldn't give up her place at
our house and marry him. She vents
him to shave off his fedders, and take
place as butler wit Mr.. Paul. He
could get de place, and would make a
corker butler; which de same Mr..
Paul knows, him sometimes going
down to me fren's place on de Bowry
to study life, as he says.
II can't stand for it" says me fren
to me, as we gassed de game toged-
der. 81 own me own drum now
drum? Why a drum is a place, a sa-
loon. I taught you spoke de English
langwudge-"Ive paid for me own
drum, and am making more long green
in a week dan me wages as butler
would be in a mont. Maggie has for
got de Bowry, along wit being trun
in wit does form soivants, and she
thinks dat keeping a drum isn't nigh
toned"
Well, as I was saying, we drove
down to de pier, and de gang give US
de gaff for fair when dey pipes us in
de carriage.
Here's de Honorable Chimmie Fad
den," says dey. Whats de matter
wit coming down by street car. Or
by hand. Make way for de silk hair
ed ladies and gents!''
We jollied back, and noting doing
at foist, because when you gets in
scrap too close to de pier, some cop
may see, and ring for de resolves
and come out in a patrol boat and
spoil de fun before it's half over. So
we jollied de game along. quiet like,
and started de dancing and singing
and pretended not to hear de tingS dat
was said what mean fight. Dat was
hard, too for l was long due on a
scrap; and what wit all de exercise
has, teaching sports to visitors at our
place, 1 was feeling dat l could give
a good story to any one of me weight
dat would listen to me.
Duchess started it. She's danced
wit me- and wit me fren, and was
toisty, so she says to a goil dat she
sees wit a mug of beer, Me good
woman" she says, give me dat glass
of beer and run and get yourself an
odder."
De goil near drops de glass, she was
so paralyzed wit de cheek of Duchess;
den she let out a holler for her steady,
who comes on de run. When he hears
de story he near falls dead, too, and
gets his gang; and dey comes over to
where l was, and he says: Have you
got a gang, Chimmie?"
Sure Mike" l says, for l always
keep next to me old gang; and 1 calls
EN- togedder, and l says, Whats do
ing?"
your Dago wife has insulted me
lady fren," he says. what are you
doing?"
make a ring" I says.
He had no right to mix in wit me
alone, for he was overweight, and
soft, at dat, and l put him out of bust
ness easy. But dat was only de
commencement, for de gangs lined up
and when de man who was out had
been dragged away we gets busy.
Dere's one advantage in starting your
scrap early in de day, for den every
body is sober, and noting but a fist is
used; and when it is over dere is
chance for a hand-shake, and a gailly-
gailly, like dere had been no discussion
Duchess, being form, tainted at de
foist sight of claret, but Maggie, be-
ing New York, stood behind our gang,
and gives us good tips to rush where
de odder gang was getting shy. Our
side won, bote on points and results;
but none of us was as pretty as when
de boat started. When we shook
hands, and me fren, who was de floor
manager, told de orchestra to play,
and called "All waltz" Maggie goes
up to him, and she says Johnny
she says, ''you done beautiful. I'll
name de day whenever you like"
Den dey waltZed
/ looks up Duchess, and p'chee!
found de goil who started de row TAX
ing care of her. "Chimmie," says de
goil, at was "a lovely scrap, and your
gang won, all right but if I'd remem-
bered dat your wife was a Dago. and
not onto our ways, I'd not been insult
ed by her asking for me to give up me
stein. Now she's coming round. GO