Evening journal., 1907-03-04

arrival of Biinkss automobile on that eventful day.
Dye know, Honora Mr.. Foggarty said, "befure 70
Bryan an we snt O'Haras byes out an got him, Tim
O'Hara an me was called t til front his shtore bo
seen' runaway horse dash by
"Ihin a cloud av dusfr at tn head av tn
"Howly shmokeP says I, Phwhat's that comin'a'
i dinnaw,' says OHara, it looks like ta-able gona
Tf saints preserve usP says l. its "a BansheeP
"Be this time it had ta-aken suddint turn off tn
road an was comm down TIL sidewalk lickity split,
an there was an ould lady r-right in front av it.
She'll be killed, / shouts.
"Tts TIL oud maid-th' minister's sisther, wells
O'Hara, an she's as deaf poslr, says he, oh.
me Oh, my she's goner says he.
But she wasn't-whin tn divolish thing within
no more av dishtance than two-sixteenths rid
hair-shplt an polished-fr'm her-she seen it. an
Whit she up an awnin pole like monkey, there
she cung TIL top il, ettin off yells that nd make
amy fog horn on III Atlantic coasht tur-rn green with
envy.
Meantime TIL thing r-rushed on, an whin it met
four byes a carayin av counter out av shtore It
made kindin' tn counter an left tn byes tangled
up in til splinthers
"Immajety afther this it took wan more turin, sn'
wint bang through a plate glass window into a mil-
linary sthore There fufteen wimmen in there az
this time an they at once comminced exhibition av
fufteen hundred different kinds av Mysteries all over
"AIebbe twas this that scared tn thng-small blame
TO it-annyhow it backed right out tn pla-aee, an
run right across tn shtreet down some steps into
cobbler shop, an scared tn eobbers suft-wan av
thin was still throwin fits whin left
Here TIL thing shtopped It turned its back
with its wheels spinnin in tn air squirtn oil an BEN
zine like a lawn fountain an here, fr tn hrsht time il
was discovered be an automobile in dishguise.
"Av coourse, there was wild excitement, an whin
afther a time, a little appeared, bare headed, with
his collar half off his coat r-ripped up tn ba-ac
his pa-ants shmeared with black an tn sole av
his patent leather shoes half off, tn crowd knew
without his sayn' a wor-rd he tn propresther av
TIL rid dvoe an they wud have lynched him, then an
there. but fr his wife ben' with him.
"IIe was arristed at wonct. TIL joodge fined him
svinty-hve dollars an made him pay fr all tn dam
ages.
1T was ndade sight t him payn' thin, an
they all prisint excipt wan"
"Phwhat wan thatf enqured Mrs Foggarty.
There no bill brought in fr frightenin' tn zinc
linin' out av TIL ould maid, til minister's ssther.
"Afther telin' him he wud like t send him up fr q
million years, TIL joodge let him 60"
"Who was they?" asked Mrs. Foggarty.
TEDDY Corcoran, who r'rns tn elevator av tn Sky
borough Flats knows them They live there, he says.
and so does the other couple that along. They
don't speak now, he says Bechune TIL wimmin It used
t be Pet an 'Darlin' he says, whin they meet
in TIL elevator TIL air gets could it I'D ma-ake you
shver he says.
Anyhow it's a sorry thing, Mrs. Foggarty, people
have no more snse of fitness"
"Phwhat do ye name by that Dinns ?
Il name Mrs Foggarty that If We had good sinses
We wudnt try ma-ake churn out church organ,
mr. an ice cream freezer out sausage stuffen.
"No, I wuddenti"
"Then, Mrs Foggary, yell see that fule that buys
AUTOMOBILE becomes dun fule, if he trys ma-ake
it into dnin- -r-room ta-able"
"Shure, an I can see that aisy," said Mrs. Foggarty
with the emphasis Of conviction.