Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23

Westchester County!
I'd started out from Primrose
Park to hoof it over to little beach
a ways down shore, when along comes
Dominick with his blue dump cart.
Now, Dominick's friend of mine,
and for a foreigner he's the most
entertainin' cuss l ever met. like
talkin' with him. He can make the
English language sound more like
lullaby than most of your high priced
opera singers; and as for bein' cheer
full, why, he's got pair of eyes like
sunny days.
Course, he wears rings in his ears,
and likely a seven inch knife down
the back of his neck. He amt
perfumed with violets either, when
you get right close to; but the ash
Collectin' business don't call for beou
d'Espagne does it?
Hallo!" says Dominick You
hka rider"
Well, l can't say I'm stuck on !
bein' bounced around in an ash
chariot; but knew Dominick meant &
well, so in gets. We'd been joltin I
along for about four blocks, swappin'
pigeon toed conversation, when there
shows up on the road behind us the
fanciest rig I've seen outside of
circus. In front, hitched up tandem,
was couple of black and white
patchwork ponies that looked like
they'd broke out of sportin' print.
Say, with their shiny hoofs and yeller
harness, 1t almost made your eyes
ache to look at EN-. But the buggy
was part of the picture, too. 1t
was the dizziest ever Just couple
of upholstered settees, balanced
back to back on a pair of rubber
tired wheels, with the whole shootin
match, cushions and all, blazin
turkey red.
On the nigh side was coachman,
with his handy legs cased in white
pants and yeller topped boots; and on the
well, say! you talk about your polka c
phoniesl They was as big as quarters, and
the parasol matched the ones in her dres:
I'd been gawpin' at the outfit a couple of
before could see anything but the dots, a
all of sudden l tuTnbles that it's Sadie
She finds me about the same time, and jab.
shade into the small of the drivers back,
him pull up. | tells Dominick to haul in, toe
old skate is on his hind legs, with his ears
front, wakin' up for the first time in five
l has to drop out over the tail board.
Well, what do you think of the rig
Sadie
81 guess me and Dominick's old crow
about the same thoughts along that line,
Can you blame us?
1t is rather giddy, isn't it? :" says she.
4hOot gave HlC IllC Dllild SldSSeIS, says
ought to distribute smoked glasses along t
OF procession. Did you buy it some dark
was it made to order after somethin' you
dream,"
The ideal" says Sadie. This jauntir
one had sent over from Paris, to help m
get blue ribbon at the Hill n dale horse she
that S what it did, too"
Blue ribbon!" says 1. The judges m,
been color blind"
oh, l don't know" says Sadie. 80: -:
tongue out at me. After that I've a goo,
to make you walk"
Il don't know as I'd have nerve enough
in that, anyway, says l. is it funera
goin' to?"
Next thing to it." says She But c.
Shorty; get aboard and III tell you all al
So steps up alongside the spotted silk.
driver lets the ponies loose. Say, it was lii
sideways in a roller coaster.
Sadie said she was awful glad to see me il
She had a Job on hand that she hated 70 do,
needed some ore to stand II her corner ar
her up while she tackled it. Seems she'd
few days before and made promise to
Duke and Duchess of Kildee over to cali
Wigghorns. Sadie'd been actin as sort of
agent for Their Dukelets durin' their splu1
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