The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-16

one must go through with it just the
same. Me man Pat often pfties me af-
ter witnessing me struggles, but at the
same time he's proud of me station. II
I was only common clay / think he'd
walk up and bat the first policeman he
saw and get sint to the Island for three
months"
That was slightly different matter.
/ Mrs. Reilly, as 1 have been tolo, anu ds
may be the truth. was ted edufa.Su, bsd ,ucF l 70
fall in with that man OF ners. IN he5
conversation she says went Lor gone,
and 'arrove' for arrive, but l haEe neNet st
held that up against her. Any lady - apt
to nispeak herself, especially II sne u 4
wondering If there IS taters ana mat n,i-d II
the house for dinner have never iookeo
upon Mrs, Reilly as a rale lady, but as
woman who wouldn't wipe her mouth on
the tableclOth if invited to a wretchershay
luncheon"
And why may wretchershay mean,
Mrs McGlory? I've been living in TINS
never heard it before. Is it that the
repairs to the leaking roof?''
ITS spaking in the French, Mrs. Fin
n1gan- and that is language a thousand
miles above yer head Be contint with
plain English and leave me the rest. Yes,
many's the time we have went in COM
pany to the bargain sales or a matinay,
but the thing chopped on so suddenly the
other day that it must seem like a
drame to her. ] was out by meself in
the afternoon, and I had occasion to take
a street car. / gathers up me trail and
to the driver to bring his vehicle to
stop. and then with the hand of the con-
ductor at me back 1 carelessly elevates
meself to the platform and enters the
car"
Glory-I'n bet my bonnet you made d
sinsation."
Ffnnigan. That car was crowded with
the bon-ton of the town, and as 1 struck
me gait and sauntered up to the front
end and sat down I was the beholden of
all beholders. 1t was a proud moment
for me. and I'll not deny it. had sat
me triumph and feeling of pity the wo-
man who was no lady, when an eyint
happened to chill the blood in me veins
Did the motorrnau run down some
body's only child. Mrs. Mc5lory2"
Far worse than that. There was a
vacant seat on the off side of me, and
who walks in and takes II but Mrs
Reilly? One glance at her set me hair
stuck out of her gloves, and two of the
cement patches on her shoes had come
loose and were Topping in the breeze
And what's taking you out today,
Mrs. McGlOry2' says she, as familiar as
if we had been alone and drinking from
7 gives her a stony stare and says
Is it bargain sale and ffteen-cint
stockings that brung you out2' she goes
me look was as cold as the grave, and
no reply does L make.
And have ye got the toothache or a
touch of the collie? she asks, as she turns
I hated to do it. Mrs Finnigan, I give
ye my word on that, but Mrs. Reilly
drove me into it. It either to cut
her dead lose position among the
aristocracy, and I hesitated only for a
moment. Then, looking her full in the
face and pretinding that 1 didn't know
her from Adams oldest girl, 1 half rose
up in that shick way OF mine and says:
a. Me deah woman, If you are looking
for scrubbing to do by the day 1 cawn't
assist you, as I already have tin servants
at me residence. ="
Mrs. Finnigan.
''She tainted dead away, me friend, and
the last I saw the conductor was crowd
ing SNOWFALL down the back of her
neck. 'Tis sorry I am in way for Mrs.
Reilly, but she should have known better
There's many a time when me own fing-
ers have busted through me gloves, and
when me cement patches have broke
loose, but on such occasions I've had the
modesty to put me hands In me pockets |
and me feet under the seat
And I'm depending on you. Mrs. Fin |
nigan. to go through the tiniment and |
tell them all how it was. and If they cen !
sure me after that I'll spake up as a |
lady and tell the whole blooming crowd
to go to and be hanged to them"-(Copy-
right, 1906 by T. G. McClure)