The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-12

nos after was a souse in the
NhH' b,,t say. never know just
souIu' coin TO happen TO me when j.
Naa' .o roamin around Westminster
COUNTY .orted out from Primrose Park
10 a. over to a little beach a ways
. hO0l bore when along comes Domi-
@~H .itb his blue dump cart. Now
rlcA ,Scl's a friend of mine, and for a
Dohiill,r.,S- he's the most entertainin' cuss
f0res rner like talkin' with him.
e'Dan make the English language
Be more like a lullaby than most
SCUM ,,r high priced opera singers; and
Of helm cheerful. why. he's got
as ~ eyes like sunny days.
pan he wears rings i'm his ears, and
seven inch knife down the back
Dser is neck. He amt perfumed with
,.ts either. when you get right close
'p' s,,t The ash cOllectin' business don't
w ,n Tor peau d'Espagne. does it?"
'.auaIlo," says Dominick. you lika
ride" .a,. -, s.,,,r =. ,o,..
,.,,ced around in an ash chariot; but
.s,sv Dominick meant we'll, so | gets
We'd been joltin' along for about
,,,- blocks. swappin' pigeon toed con-
IIs-sation. when there shows up on the
va behind us the fanciest rig I've
loon outside Of circus. In front,
sncbed up tandem. was a couple OF
hiack and white patchwork ponies that
,noEsd ike they'd broke out of sport
~, rrint. Say. with their shiny hoofs
and Weller harness. it almost made your
arss ache to look at 'em. But the
Srery was part Of the picture. too. 1t
.ss The dizziest ever-just a couple of
nnl.lstefed settees. balanced back to
tsrE ON a pair of rubber tired wheels,
Vim the whole shootin match. cush-
lons and ALL blazin turkey red
On the nigh side was a coachman,
with his handy legs cased in white
,ants and yeller topped boots; and on
ne other-well. say! you talk about
vagr polka dot symphonies, They was
Is biz as quarters, and them in the par
sgl matched the ones in her dress.
I'd been eawpin' at the outfit a cou-
rio Of minutes before I sould see any,
hing but the dots, and then all of a
sudden ! tumbles that it's Sadie Sulli-
van She finds me about the same
time and jabs her sun shade into the
small Of the drivers back. to make
him pull up. l tells Dominick to haul
IN. TOO. but his old skate is on his hind
legs, with his ears pointed front, wax
I'M up for the first time in five years.
50 ! has 10 drop out over the tail
board
Well. what do you think of the rig?''
says Sadie.
II guess me and. DomiIick's old crow
bar has about the same thoughts along
that line" says /. "Can you blame
us?'
1T Is rather giddy, isn't it?" says
she
Most gave me the blind staggers.'
says l. You ought to distribute some
smoked glasses along the route of pro-
cession. Did you buy 1t some dark
night. or was it made to order after
something you saw in a dream?"
The idea." says Sadie. This jaunt-
hg. ear is one 1 had sent over from
Paris to help my ponies get blue rib.
bon at the Hill'ndale horse show. AND
that's what it did, too
"plue ribbon" says l. THE judges
must have been color blind
oh. don't know" says Sadie, stick
IN her tongue out at me. After thai
I've a good notion 10 make you walk.
L don't know as I'd have nerve
enough to ride in that, anyway" say:
/ rs II a funeral you're goin' to-"
Next thing TO it, says she. Blu
come on, Shorty; get aboard and II
tell-you all about it,"
So | steps up alongside the spotted
silk, and the driver let's the ponies
loose Say, II was like ridin' sidewayi
IN roller coaster.
Sadie said she was awful glad Il
see me just then. She had a job OF
hand that she hated to do, and sh
needed some one to stand in her cor
ner and cheer her up while she tackled
It. Seems she'd got rash a few day
before and made a promise to lug tn
Duke and Duchess of Kildee over Z
call on the Wigghorns. Sadie'd beef
actin as sort of advance agent 70
Their Dukelets durin' their splurge owe
here. and Mrs. Wigghorn had mesmer
lied her into maxim a date for a call
This was the day
II would have gone through all RICH
some one hadn't put the Duke wis
70 what he was up against. Maybe yo
Know about the Wigghorns? Course
they've got the goods, for about a doZe
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