The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-01-12
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liceman Flynn. I've come f'r ye.
but not ixpectin' to get ye.. Dye see
tn pint? She'll not come say l
whin tn capt'in tells me f'r to dhrop
up here an tell ye he wants to see We.
Nv coorse she won't says the capt'in,
but it's only fair to thry wanst more
Ye see, tn capt'in an me knows wom-
en-"
"Oh, you do, do you?" was the sar-
castle comment of the woman.
CIV coorse we do, none betther," an
swered Policeman Flynn. livery
ma-an knows woman; it's only women
that doesn't. So we got to ta-alkin' Nv
it in tn station, an livery ma-an
there says ye won't come. IT'S fool
ish,' they says, 'f'r to sind afther her
ag'in whin TIERS Is or 20 Nv us here
that knows women like book, all
sayin' that she won't come"
"Well, of all the conceit!" broke In
the woman, holly. "Know women like
book. do you? Why, you don't know
anything at all about her."
"Sure we do" said Policeman Flynn,
confidently.
1.-THE absurdity Of it," exclaimed the
woman.
"Ye're not comm, are ye?" demand
ed Policeman Flynn.
"No. I'm not"
There, ye ha-ave tn proof Nv It,"
asserted Policeman Flynn, triumphant
ly. "'Tis what we said. Ohio! we're
wise lot Nv la'ads."
"I'm not afraid to come" insisted
tain wants, and it doesn't bother me
bit. only don't want to come"
''Iv coorse not" acquiesced Police
man Flynn, "but ye're not comm. J
knew We w'u'dn't."
"Then why did you come for met"
asked the woman.
"Oho! didn't tell ye Nv it, did II"
returned Policeman Flynn, leaning
comfortably against the post at the
foot of the stairs. "'Twas all along
Nv me wife. At tn station we'd give
up sindin' FIR We agin. an was laugh
in at tn idee iv annywan thinkin' ye'd
come whin she up an says: Barney,
she says, how d. We know she'll not
Gomez? 4 know women says I. 'Ye're
a fool says She"
"She's right" interrupted the
woman.
"How can ye say that" demanded
Policeman Flynn, "whin ye're provin'
she's wr-rong?"
what else did she say?" asked the
woman.
'Twouldn't inth'rist ye," asserted
Policeman Flynn. "She's like all tn
r-rest Nv tn women-she thinks she
knows-an' she r-roasts me f'r thinkin'
I know. Its like ma-an,' she says,
'f'r to think he knows what a wom-
anil do an to be br-raggin' Nv, it.
But I'm right I says. 'Ye're not,
says she; II ye're polite to her an act
tn gintleman,' she says, she'll come.
With that we ha-ave some words, tn
foolish woman thinkin' she knows tn
sex betther than me that's married to
fine sample Nv 1t, an in tn ind she
lays a bet Nv a new shawl ag'in a pair
Nv winther gloves that yen come II
I ta-alk polite to ye an don't thry Fl
to bluff We. So here am, an win. "
"Oh. you do. do your" retorted the
woman.
"Iv coorse do" said Policeman
Flynn. 81 ha-ave tn gloves all picked
out. Ohio! it's a great joke ha-ave
on her. she thinkin' I didn't know
anything Nv women. Twill be les.
son fr her"
Il don't believe you" she said al
last.
"'Tis all tn same to me-" returned
Policeman Flynn, $50 long as We DOM
come with me-"
II believe you think I'm afraid t.
, face the captain and answer his ques
, TONS"
r "Niver," insisted Policeman Flynn
t "'Tis only tn woman mkt door think!
. that. Ye see, whit there be mis-
4 ta-ake," he went on, as he saw he
8 flush angrily, "an' whin I told he
. what was afther she di-ricts me here
e an says: But she won't go with ye
a though, f'r she's afraid iv the polls
' did she say that?" demanded tn,
a woman
o "She seemed to know ye," said Pc
liceman Flynn, blandly. "'Tis
e shtrange thing, too, whin We think 1
e wan woman KNOWN another. II m
wife had as much sense she'd be havir
q a new shawl instid Nv buyin' me pal
iv gloves with fur on thin. Tha
y woman mkt door do be havin' tt
sinse av a ma-an."
, "Just about as much" returned tn
woman I'm afraid, am I? And III
/, read like book by lot of lazy me-
n loafing about police station, am I
Well, you just wait here a minute"
l, where We goin'?" asked Policema
70 Flynn.
s. 'I'm going to get my hat" was tn
IT answer. 81 always did despise tina