Arizona republican., 1905-04-22

dropped awe from 'er like she was pest 'ouse. Them wot 'ad accepted 'er envites, an 'ad 'er to dinner an the theater an wot not didn't myke no bones abart it-they just natchully broke an run. Then all sorts O stories come art. low she borrowed money ere. there an everywere, put 'er nyme to bad checks. an fieeced abart every bloomin' 'Ebrew in tarn. Shed a bin plyin' it on grand. an on the little bit too grand.
 She was on trial for abart two dyes. an the city pypers was so full O the scandal that the swells she 'oOdwinked 'ad to leave tarn till it blew over. an San Francisco quit larfin at 'em. give yer me word the reporters did give art some precious rycy tyles, an evey 'Ebrew wot 'ad 'ad Big Becky at o'clock tea didn't dyre go art O doors dyetimes.
 Well, for the syke O ushin' matters up. her cyse were compromised an the prosecution withdrawed. she bein' arsked in return to git art O tarn. Instead Q thet. not 'avin' any money, she went an accepted an offer from a dime museum here. an begun fer to exhibit of 'erself in short skirts every afternoon an evenin' reglar, to the gryte an grand delight of every chap pie who 'adn't been fooled 'imself. After that she done "Mazeppa" at the Bella Union Theater in a costume wot was positively 'orrid. It was so rude that the police interfered. an thet was back ten years ago, wen they want so partickler on the Barbary coast as they be naradyes. Then she dropped darn to Bottle Myers an did serious in tights. She was as funny as a bloomin' helephant on stilts. If so yer didn't see the plyntive side of it, an we turned men awe from the door every night.
 I don't expect Becky ever 'ad more'n a spoonful O conscience. But with all 'er rougery, she was as big a baby in- side as she were a giant outside, wen yer onct knew low to tyke Ter, was Big Becky. Ard as brass she was ! when yer guYed Ger. but soft as butter wen yer took 'er part, w'ich were ] something as she weren't much used | to. for most treated her brutle. Some low I couldn't help likin' 'er a bit, in spite O meself. put in a good deal O | talk with Ter, one wye an another, till ! 'ad Ter confidence, an could get most | anythink art O er I wanted. She told
 me Ger whole story. bit by bit, an it
 were a reglar shillin' shocker, I give
 yer my word!
 | Amongst other things. she told me 1 that a Johnnie in tarn nymed key J Behn 'ad gort precious balmy over 'er | before she was showed up. an 'ad went l so far as to tyke art a marriage license | in 'opes, when she seen e meant biz she'd marry i'm. Ed even been bloom
 in arss enough to give it to 'er, an
 she 'ad it yet. an was 'oldin' 1t over
 is cad for blaskmyIe, if wust come
 to wust. She proposed for to ave a parsons nyme forged into the mar
 riage certificate that comes printed or the other side from the license.
 Mar, things bein' like this, one night
 come up the stryte from the Cab
 in" were I'd been lyte to dinner, an
 went into the room were Becky was
 gettin ready to dress for 'er turn
 There was a toff there in a topper. an
 a long. black coat, an e was 'avin il
 art an 'eavy. with Becky. Just as
 come up, e broke 1t off cursink 'el
 somethink awful, an she was as rec
 as a bleedin' am, an shykin' a herth ; quyke with 'er air darn, an 'er breatl comin' like a smiths bellus. Th