The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-20
CHlMMIE FADDEN,
Tells How the Boston Swell Studies Sociology.
By EDWARD w. TOWNSEND.
By EDWARD w. TOWNSEND.

be wanting to study now politics IS run
bOte sides Of de fence, so l lets en- out
: of me mind, and goes in for de grand
march up 10 de limit. We was just
doing Dc last toin around de hall, Mag
gle walking on de edge of her foot for
JOY dat she, and not Duchess, was do
ing de lead, when l sees a party come in
dat nobody knows, and dey was ragged
out in de fanciest dresses of de whole
bunch.
Who's de fairies?" I asks Maggie.
! Il she says dey is some of de ladies
Of De leaders gang. what had come TO
look on. and get de wort of de Doodle
we'd touched de leaders for. 1 wish Id
looked hard at EN-: I'd known.
So l says All right; if dey is out for
] de wort of DER price, let's give it TO en-.
Take partners for de Roseleaf quad
riIIe!" 1 yells, and me and Maggie, what
is TWO of de highest kickers. we takes
de- mead of de foist set, and de band
began to play. At me side was a dame
of de party Ia seen come in. and she
was doing tings wit de end of her toes,
and sees dat Maggie had to woik if
she was to keep de record. When We
balances to corners I let's out a link n
plays up TO de DAME, but p'chee she was
all dere. ana a little to de good. at dat.
Dere was war in Maggie's eye hen she
seen wha me orner could do; and de
Odder sets broke up, de way we do when
deere is a challenge on; and if de dame
on me corner wasn't giving Maggie a
challenge she didn't know de rules of de
game 1t was up to me to be ace to two
queens. for nobody else in de set could
make il interesting for does two COILS;
Maggie and de unknown.
Dey had u ring around US by dat time,
and dere was me swells, and de leaders.
plugging de game, and whoOping tinGs
along TO beat de band-and de band was
earning wages at dat.
When We was lone de leaders invites
us-Maggie, me and de unknown-oveT
10 d. side table to trun Il lip over 4
glass: n | was afraid to renig, for
if l did it might give it away who me
sweIIs was. Whiskers sees me fix, and
he says. All right" he a y to me on
tie sly, "AIl right, James: we is out
for to study sociology, and you can
drink at de table wit me. and no harm
done" OF course. he didn't know who
Maggie was. nider did Boston, and l
whispers to her to say noting, and she
wouldn't be found out.
Go along wit you" she says. I'm
in me place here, and no shame to as
found out. It's dose high rollers dat
isn't in DER places"
Well, [ was worrying q bit, but &c
swells wasn't; and dey all, de leaders
as we'll as de swells, tries to find Ou-
who de unknown champeen was-foT
she had put Maggie out of de running,
for fair. But it was no use; she
wouldn't say noting in a regular voice;
and dough Boston offered her a box OF
gloves if she'd take off her mask. she
only shakes her head and gives him de
hd-ha.
Say. dare must be something what
Mr.. Paul call celebrating" about taking
a glass at a Roseleaf ball, for pretty
soon de swells was letting out DER col
lege yell, what dey muss Joined forty
years ago. or so, and when de next set
was called for. p'chee, if deY didn't grab
| off de unknown and Maggie, and make
a side. De old ~gazeaboos vas not 50
woise at dat. High and fancy stepping
must been one of de tings Joined at der
college; for dey wasn't lounging in no
back seat, none of de time. Maggie
cot a fierce scare on when she found
herself at one end wit Boston, and she
GiGn't do her best; but de unknown WAS
right in il, and was having de time ot
de evening. when Whiskers holds out
his hat about five feet UP. Say, she lei
90. and de toe of her shoe runs trough
? de top of de silk deer so far dat it held
[ on. and l picks it off for her. and when
does it, she was laughing to herself
S and hully gee! 1 was on in a minute
# was Willy Wildly!
didn't have to ask de answer: ]
5 knows il was some game she'd beer
? helped out in wit Duchess. and 1 says
l noting. but goes on d still hunt for dat
: goiI: keeping de punCtured deer in me
hand. l didn't ave to look far, for ]
, soon sees a figure DAT I'd know fOl
, Duchess a mile off in Il fog, and I waits
. till she was out of de set she was dane,
ing. and l says TO her. "Woman!'
: says. whats doing?' l says
/ When she sees de dtcer in me hand
: she saws. Dat was a good boy for Il
: c~apture Whiskaire's hat. Give it t
e me and I will make it into ten dollar.
De cheek Of her paralyzed me SO da'
/ I yielded de dicer. ana asks was | to b'
. T., in to de game she was playing
e Sure" says she. Madam Harding i
fond of sport, and she asks me could
get her here and home wit nobod!
kuowing-dat was when I tells her da
u You was 10 take Wh:skaire and Mstel
; Bostoug here"
You had a light not to Sc and tel
= her noting" l says.
"Ot soitainty." says dat III nus
. y. I had a right not to. but I had ;
right for to do it also"
e say ha can a man DO when he IA
: a wife like dat? l didn't dare to pu
: the sweIIs Wise. for 4 would be sivin:
away Willy Wildly, 50 I just hang
: around 10 see dat no bad break wa
n made. but l wasn't needed. WILDLY wa
al de table Wit de leaders and de swells
p ana she was coming dem like dey wa
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