The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-04

Dat would do for under soivants. '' Duchess says, chesty. 'Not for upper soivants. Make haste. De guests will enter by de trademen's door, and come up to de parlor, where you and me will receive em.,'
 seen dat it would be a case of rough house if I didn't let Duchess do like she'd laid out de game, and tinks dat de gang dat was coming was well know ing how to behave in parlor. most of em being parlor soivants. so I turns on de electrics, and Duchess hustles me into me joint, along side her in de front par Tor.
 Listen: Doing me duty at Miss Fan nie's. I've seen many a fine-haired dame in full sail at a reception, but de best of em was also ran by de side of Duchess. My. my! If you'd seen de swagger of dat goil when de mugs and lasses begins to show up. you'd died wit laughing. She had de high armed shake, de stitch in her side, de property smile. and de tousand- mile-away look in de eye. dat near par lyzes me modder and Mrs. Murphy when 1t comes deir turn to get de hand.
 Mrs Murphy couldn't take her peep CTS off Duchess, and she slides up behind me for to be near. Soon I hears her talking to herself: Look at de leddy?" she says. "A lords teddy hasn't de etyle
 
 wife? She's like a queen on her golden t'rone, she is! Don't tell me all desc grand folks is hired men and goils Dey's de cream of society well I know. Lave me go and find Chimmies modder, to see is dere any beer in de house-so dry am wit de excitement
 All dat style comes near putting a frost on de whole box of tricks; for de odder loides' maids was bound for to be a far in dn oir looked like dere was nobody to break de ice. till Maggie, who looked like she'd ecream when she piped Duchess, says to her steady. me fren de bar-keep. Start de band, Johnnie, or we'll all tink dat we Is at funeral"
 Den tings began to go gaily-gaily, for fair: and Mrs. Murphy, who'd been next 10 de Ice box. floats up from de base ment. and seeing me still holding up de bay window wit me dignity, she says Murphy says "Chimmie your ladder could dance a reel wit any man out of de county Kerry. Stop de band playing dat float t-me-gentle music. and give us d reel, and see what you'll see''
 So I asks de lads to give us a Ilg-time piece. and me and Murphy faces each odder and begins. Say, soivants is mostly like odder folks. and when dey sees dat dere was noting going to hap pen to em if dey enjoys deirselves, oey totns loose. and in a minute we had a reel going dat makes de tears of joy come to me modder's eyes. Murphy was de Queen of de May. Sure! You might not unk, from looking at her dat she could shake a lively reg; but p'chee when We had got warmed up, and I'd let out a few Kerry yells to give her heart. a buck dancer would look like a marble statue alongside de old loidy some Of de hands we had dere was French, some English, some Switzers ana all sorts; but none of em but had some kind of a dance of deir own forr parts dat dey could foot to de music of dat banjo and guitar; and even Duchess she got de fever, and was doing a bint from Paris wit French valet. dat wasn', so woise. De fun was just about m tr c when l seen poking his head in from de dining room door. de cop on post. Tings stopped student
 We're raided." says me fren ."rr,,r out de cop" says Irish coachman hm, says, "Howdy, Kel?" him being a con, per l knowed. named Kelly.
 EDese premises is down on de stst,or house list as Owners away" saya Ksi