The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-06
A FIREMArs couRrsHIP.
V r. s- CHAMnERLAYNE.

man 10 knoW.
 Young man." said he to me one day,
 'iv all the curyus things in the world,
 there's nothin' so dunn curyus ez wo-
 nun. I thought so thin an think so
 now. an I know a heap more about 'em
 now than iver I did thin.
 Tt come about like this. Nolan an
 me was both down to tn owld Kelsey
 sthreet chimical--though 'twuz not
 ovid In thim days. Captin Costello
 had 1t thin. an dishagreeable man
 he wuz to be under. An t begin wid,
 Nolan an me didn't hitch Ther' wuz
 really nothin' butween us at furst. but
 only jist fwhat ye might call standin
 difference uv of opinyun. But where
 men re shut up to gither day an night
 in a little brick coop wid work enough
 for half ther' time little difference
 iv opinyun grows. Ther' isn't no ither
 way to do.
 But Nolan an me didn't need no
 ingine house quarrel. We found wan
 outside, an Maggy Hogan started it.
 1 didn't know which saw 'er furst tho
 Nolan claimed I wuz thryin' to cut i'm
 out whin furst I begun to go ther'.
 Howiver that may be, go ther' I did.
 an it wud r took more than Nolan to
 keep me away.
 You an Misther Nolan don't seem
 to love each ither,' says she wan even- WHl1, U UtlH ny ody ohs aH
 there uz usyul.
 'Ther is only wan person on top f tn universe that I love- says I, an ye know well enough who that is.' An looked at tn person wid me tw" eyes. stiddy.
 Misther Nolan is viry nice man. says she. not lookin' up from tn board where she wuz ironin' He wuz here only last night. We wuz talkin' about At . x1tt Srntt m i'm didn't like each ither bother, both iv va bein' frinds f mine. so t say So that's It. says I. startin' up | An Nolan Is tn man. Is he? Viry we'll. Misther Nolan. you an me will sittle this affair butween us.' An l ! started fer tn door. i" oh, fwhat re ye goin' to do?' says | she an see by tn look in Ter face sh" wuz Hurried.
 i" Dor says I. I'm goin to do fer | Nolan
 An at that she caught me by tn | arm. Don't she says, wid a scared | kind iv a pleadin' in 'er voice. Oh. | Michael. don't do It. Don't. Wan wan r yell be kilt she says Are ye pleadin' fer him? says l.. | pushin' 'er away wid me eyes gittin' | hard.
 1 Fer him? Fwhat a foolish boy
 
 | An wid that she hid 'er face In me coat. an cud only kiss tn top iv 'er | head. Ye may guess l wasted no time | f 1ookin fer Misther Nolan that night. But the next afthernoon, whin tn boyn wuz sittin' round in tn dumps. | ez they mostly wua under Costello. I | says to Nolan: 'wud ye like to put | on the gloves wid me Misther NolanT Wed set iv boxin' gloves in tn | bunk room, an tn boys used to work out wid 'em occashun'lly. tho Nolan an me had niver come togither. I'm not pertic'lar about tn gloves says Noltn.
 Are ye fraidr says I mlstakin' his meanin.' If ye be, I may say that it'll assist tn decision iv frind iv ours. It seems to me, sich bein' tn
 case. that ye night 'Ye needn't sthop fer tn gloves | says Nolan. pullin' off his coat Good for ye,' says seein' me mis- | thake. 'Yere a bother man than [
 mistook ye fer An I pulled coat | mesiif ,a Well. iv course. we had to use tn gloves to cover 1t wid: Costello wud | f had us on the books fer fightin' in | quarters. else an tn boys wuz not really onto tn game fer tn furst few rounds
 Well. that wuz tn furst an last ] time we iver fought. The reason fer
 which was this: Nolan. be,n' some | thin proud iv his looks, waited till | pay day to sittle fer tn two store | teeth he put into his mouth. But I, havin' no cumpuncshuns ez to me ap- pearance wuz over to see Maggy tn | furst chanst I got Whin she see tn ripe lookin' plum that me eye wuz she says: 'Fwhativer hev ye been doin, Michael, to git such a lookin' eyer I run agin a slight obsthrucshun says I.
 It wuz niver done at a fire.' she | says.
 niver said It wuz' Thin ye've been fightin',' she cries an wid Peter Nolan too. Ye must not do it, she says. "Ye must not do
 it. Michael. I shan't allow it. Do Ye | understand me%
 'Ye towled us to sittle it, says l. an sittled 1t will be- I'll niver hey it sittled like that, she says. Wan iv yell be kilt. an I'll not hev 1t. Promise me- she says promise me Michael. yell not fight agin.'
 well. she begun to cry ez she says It. so ther wuz nothin' to do but make tn best iv 1t an promise 'er, an mebbe give 'er a kis CT two in tn way iv | cheerin' her up So I done it. an thar wuz no more fightin.' But tn quischun had to he sittled an sittled 1t wuz in tn followin' man. ner:
 "Wan day ez I wuz comin' back to l tn ingine house from dinner | sthopped in at tn Hogan's fer . | word CT two
 'Whn come in who shud see sit l tin fin tn Hogan's kitchen. ez big ez life. but Nolan himsilf Nolan wuz tellin' Maggy an 'er | mother a great sthory about cuttin' of wheels Did l tell ye Nolan had been
 made driver Iv tn chimcal: Well, he l wuz--he got it through his uncle fwhat wuz foreman fer Clancy, tn con thracter-an' greatly wuz he set up by it. An. ez I say. he wuz tellin' Maggy great sthories about cuttin' off wheels
 You don't know fwhat that is? Well. I shud explain to ye. thin. that it is tn ambishun iva young driver to cut
 d wheel off iv a wagon wid his own
 machine. Tn way 'tis done is this:
 Whin he's runnin' down a good. easy
 sthreet, answerin' a call. an sees d
 wagon on ahead iv 'im-most gin'rally
 an ovid dray CT some ither rickety thing wid tn wheels ready to fall off | he steers in behind it an swings out | jist in time to ketch tn hind wheel. | His horses bein' on tn run whin he strikes tn wheel. it goes to flinders.
 tn wagon drops down in tn sthreet, | an tn newspapers puts in q piece
 about tn carelessnes iv teemsters an | tn great danger to tn brave fire
 men-an" fer a month that partic lar | driver hez a head swelled to tn size | iV harr'l