The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-13

Duchess. You get him ready, if he's
only going somewheres for a week
end
Oats because de Jap orders riding
boots for yachting; and if he gets aim
ready for trip, he never knows where
he'll land"
Dose is poor excuses" says Ouch
ess de odder soivants would tink
more proper of you if you done only
second mans woik."
IN tink about dat 1 says. Its
not me job OATS bordering you. Sing
your song, and dance your dance, and
let me see where you're at"
You is de real director of de soicus
and l have no part in it, says Ouch
ess, and dat shows me where her lit
tie bootees was pinching.
We was getting up a soicus-a anna
Tor soicus-for de benefit of yacht sail
ors orphans: what dere amt any of
EN- nearer dan Scandehoovia, where de
yacht sailors come from. But dat made
no difference: dere had to be ben
eft, and yacht sailors orphans had a
romantic sound as Willy Wildly said
so dat went: and our folks said de
soicus might be held on our lawn,
cause we had de most conveniences for
sowing tea.
Dat put it up to Mr.. Paul to be di-
rector, and he, being too strong to
Woik hard, puts it next to me.
Dere was a swell comes over to take
charge of de riding turns, and l gets
up some comics for de laugh side of
de show, and takes charge of de woik-
men getting up de tents and seat; and
look after de places where refresh
ments was to be set up; and gets de
pand, teaches de clown how to do a
comic ia II Troptiaac a fnVV f11n1hlinQr
tricks of me own. learns our kiddie-
Little Duke-to do a ring-master turn
Tor Little Miss Fannie, and almost
mad something to do.
Soon as she heard dat dere was to be
soicus Duchess was croisy to be part
OF de show. Dere's a whole bunch of
tricks she can do, but none of EN- is
IN de soicus line, and I had to pretend
DAT l wasn't on to what she wanted
If dat goil didn't have to woik for a
living she be a actress. Sure! / never
ana see a woman who liked to be in de
lime light more dan Duchess. And
she's all right wnen she's dere, for she
amt a little bit shy as a good locker
nut she belongs to de modern school,
ana thinks dat to be a good-looker is all
aere is in de game, and won't study
no part. I've tried her in de teeatricals
we has ev'ry winter in de ,soivants
hall.
But dat dug no subway wit her: she
was bound to be in de soicus, and when
couldn't see it, de way she found
PAGES where I was a mile off from be-
ing. i was a wonder.
Ot course, a man dat wants to, can
peat a woman wit a hammer; but if
hammer isn't in de game, de easiest
way to do, if you've got to beat her
~ not to. So l hustled to find job
III de socius dat Duchess could hold
"oWn, and l got it. / had to.
mad turn l was rehoising Little
Nlss Fannie, and our kiddie and de
pull pup Little Miss Fannie was to
yuI de pup trough his tricks, while
NIadie was ring master. De pup done
nooIe IN all his tricks except dat he
.MoS no dead sure proposition on go
ing trough de hoop every time. Most
~ When de Little One held de hoop,
1'ler Wed discovered il wild paper. de
XXX would balk, tin he'd run around
una IL 10 make sure dat Little one
~ ue piece OF meat he was 10 get
le hoop wasn't covered he'd see
hot 50 through
! doubles de size Of de chunk Of meat.
a. ~ was no sure ting dat he'd butt
4. b1pet vi he'd took a peep behind
gre TOT fair dat his wages was deere
a. see ne didn't like de paper end
~ trlck, anyway; and i was up
lnst how 30 make Dc turn Il sure
--vl iill, one day. de folks from our