The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-24
MES. CAsEY,s OBSERVATIONS


When lie IL Tatnng tho Cotns.
'Biil Ta,aft u Q man / oudJ love. He's
AZ beautiful and found and round as wan
OF thin Californy pears. Thank ye. dearie;
two for FIVE. Take another-thcy arre
throe for tin oints.
did yes see what he says about Sim
toor Foraker2 IN not hit O man whin
he's down. says Bin Ta'aft. IT'S @ noble
sintyminti II docs ekal honor 10 the
back OF his hand and the back Of his
head. Not for all the votes in the ould
Mint ward he says. 'wud ! hit frind or
foe gays be. within he's taking the count
he says.
II I was wan Of these here suffraeettes
] surely wud vote for Bill Ta'aft-if /
cud conceal mo sins fr'm Michael. /
cud relish voting for him two or tree
times for to show me warm regards
for his noble and gin'rous sintymints.
They be almost Irish.
But Teddy's Dootch. Whin the news
paper la'ads and the telygraft o~p'rators
and the Gamers squad and tho Secret
sarvioe oonstables and the schuffers
and the typewriters and the dip'ty assist
ant sec'taries. all headed be Loeb. rushes
UP to the top Of Eyester Bay Hill for to
inform Teddy that his brave ould inimy.
Sih'toor Foraker. is down. what does
Teddy dor Does he say he'd not hit a
man who's DOWN.
Guess agin. dearie. No. He CROSS
examines all thin intelligent witnesses
for TO make sure Foraker 10 down. Is
he past hitting baokf' he asks. Is he
down for good and alp says Teddy. Has
he been frisked,' he says, FOR to make
sure he has no gun In the hip he says
of his pantsf' says he. Has the Coori-
moor been notifed2' he Gays. Have
the doctors he says. declared that the
he. ARE ye all certain he says. look
ing around beseeehing like into the eyos
Of the assimbled infoormants. that he's
no betther than q coorpsof'
.They all take afydavits and solemn
oats that poor Foraker 10 down and out.
and hasn't q poonoh left in his wanst good
right arm. Thin ye shud see brave
Teddy As the dear. dead poet says.
Rose he thin.' he says. in awful might
says he. his hated foe says he. for to
fight he says.
Watch me- he says to the assimbled
and thrimbling ncoors 'Kaps yer
eye on me- says Teddy. while I lambaste
this fallen foe.' he says. Look shar'rp.
while I bite his ear or he Gays. dancing
about the room wild nanny horrid howls
and wal cries. Get ye yer cameras
ready he says, and focus me In the
daring act OF crashing me big sthick down
on his wicked and definceless gray head.
Loeb says he. fetch me me scalping
knife while I rip the thatoh Of his COCO.
This 10 wa'ar.' says he. and I'm q warrior
bouldr he says. 'Whoopi' says he. 'Yip-
peel be says.
swhin the good and gr'reat man was
wholly exhausted wild the gFisly passion
Of combat. and sank down for to rest on
the pe.t OF a wild sheep. a Of the ray
~poorters. wild nc since Of daycency or
fear In his hea'art says. Mr.. Ta'aft wudn't
hit Foraker whin he wus down.
yer O liari' creams Teddy. Loeb
says he. that pesti.ferous penny a liner
IL the king Of liars no says. Put him
on the list. says he. 'Constables.' he says.
do yer duty he says. and the raypoorter
Topped. through the windy and over tho
hedge wild n company OF Secret Sarvioe
constables hazard on his thraiI and nayther
%raypoorter nor constable sthopped until
they all reached a liquor sthore, where
thoy rayfreshed themselves wild clippers
OF suds end plaising sthories Of wild ami
mails they had fed from. It was a func-
ton that only q gr'rea'at lit'ry artist like
me dear friend Helen Green cud do amy
thing like Justice to.
well. dearie. az they say In the ouid
country. the early gro ON scares the
pookah.' II Willie Hursht was wanting
for to see Mr.. Ta'aft's locks well combed
out he shud ave waited until Pookah
Foraker had climbed up on the same plat
forum wild Mr.. Taft and those two
good min had put their arms around
each others necks and jined their tears
in wan spout Of peace and rayconcilya-
ton. Thin II Willie Hursht had fetched
out q few reams OF Standherd lie private
love letthers there wud be things doing.
as my Michael tells me. But, says Michael,
Willie vas not wanting Bills hair combcd,
90 he pooblished The Love Letthers Of
an lie Magnet too soon. He scared away
the pookah.
-'Tis a hazard season for letther writer's
anyway. No soone does Willie Hursht
sind out TO q delighted pooblic a few
selected eoecimins Of his extensive coll
lectio +, OF MIR. Archbold's finder ray
mimbrances to Sin'toor Foraker than
Teddy adds to the merrymint be issuing
some OF Mr.. Ta'aft's finder raymim-
brances about Sin'toor Foraker. The
poor. dear Sin'toor gets his coming and
going. as my Michael says. I have no
permission says Teddy, for to pooblish
this here letther OF Mr.. Ta'aft's,' he says.
and / do So says he, only bekase I
want to do So he says. Having scalped
me foe. slain for me be the hand OF our
ally he says. I wud wish.' he says, for
to sphaks IS Ill Of the dead as the trut'
will allow says he. so I'm handing but to
the press he says. this ~schkandlous
opinion OF Stn'toor Foraker. writ be me
frind Ta'aft. at or about the time says
he, that I suggested TO him that a letther
OF the kind might be as handy some day
he says. as o brick in a rough house
says he.
"A man shud not lave copies OF his
private letthers schkattered around where
they may be picked up be the rich and
curious. He shud have no copies made,
and whin he has writ the letther be his
own good fountain pen he shud. tear 1t
up, burn the scraps, put the ashes in the