The Cairo bulletin., 1906-06-17

Ing OF my dear departed ten, so I
makes the play! to
What are they saying now?" says
the Proposition in Peaches.
Right there was where | fell In the
| cellar. wm a&
Bon gre de la tour be jeel" !
says. handing her the hottest accent
that was ever turned loose.
"Oh. John Henry." says my lady
friend. Why l didn't know you
could speak French! How lovely!
What does 1t mean in English"
1t was UP to me to make good
1T means" | says, that Sara is
handing oall.down to the old guy
that looks like cheese sandwich. She
says to him. See here! you've got
another bun on. How dare you trail
into my nat with your tide high
enough to float battieshipT"
THAT doesn't sound very poetical,"
says the Extreme Limit
at isn't poetIcal," says, but It's
the goods, all right. Bon gre that's
French for bun. and de la tour
uedUs tHe rest.
That was where caught step with
my finish. aE
had to translate everything that
was said on the stage, and couldn't
even pronounce the name OF the piece
they were playing.
All | could do was to Remembers
some of the swell language / had
heard at other play joints, and
rushed them at my lady friend so fast
that she hadn't time to decide that
ought to be on my way to foolish
house.
When Bernhard addressed a lot OF
French supers used up bunch OF
language that May
Irwin hands TO her rib-racked audi
ences, and my lady friend stood for it
When Coquelin pushed out his chest
and jawed every one In sight. threw
my whole soul into the translation
and handed my lady friend a line OF
talk that heard in burlesque at
THE New York" Coquelin made an
awful hit with my lady friend II
could have remembered more of those
good things Coquelin would have
been aces with her ever after.
Before the first act was over I had
Sara talking about a sure cure for
that read In an almanac
and | had Coquelin recfting the
Charge of the Light Brigade"
1t was a hot evening-for me!
Before the second act was nall
through went of my dip. | was
1utty from pit to dome. had enough
bum French in my topknot to start
,ne Of those sit.back-hold-tight table
i'hote places, with wine at Acc. a
grab.
1t was fierce.
But ii was all of when put Sara
nto Mother Goose. That was the
asst camel My lady friend wouldn't
stand for 1t when told her that Bern.
iardt was saying "Old Mother Hub.
,ard, she went TO the cupboard" She
bought l was stringing her. guess
was.
told her that the French had gone
o my head. Clara Jane said looked
,ale, and hadn't we better go home;
he had enough, anyway!
I'll bet she had. I'll bet four dol
ars my lady friend had the worst
lay, bar none, that was ever adapted
rom the French. That's what she
ad, and | had such a headache!
After we padded of home my lady
riend said she didn't exactly under.
tand the plot of the play, but she'd
e glad If got the book and read the
est of IL TO her. 80
Me.-off to the woodsl Mel--to
he tall timber till she wakes up! No
lore glad tidings from the French
Or me My lady friend is the Whole
utput, but she'll have to get out of
er trance and take me without
Iayonnaise dressing. $50
was lobster TO sit In the game,
ut I'm not pate de foie gras enough
, stay there after my feet get cold.
Yours, on the griddle.
JOHN HENRY.
Copyright. 1901, by G. W. Dillingham; Col