The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-06-26

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 "Whajer mean?" demanded the captain. "Jer see her? Wha'd' she say?"
 The other picked up piece of antique Egyptian pottery that had found being Jersey City the year previous and examined the bottom of it closely.
 "She says, Whatt That or guy? Well, should say notr" returned Dugan. And then he gazed at the captains empurpling visage he added hastily, That's what she said first. But kep' at her, an, finally, before l. come away. she want so sore on tn deal she was in tn beginnin' Yuh see tells her how much money youse has got an was also very parric'lar not tuh tell her how yuh gets it. An l tells her. too that looks don't make no difrence an' even if youse feeble o1 guy wit one foot in th grave am tn other ai1 as long as yuhd loosen up oncet in while she oughter be able to stan it. An so I think that if we goes at it right, c'n nail her yet"
 The captain gripped his cigar with c1enching jaw. the victim of mingled emotions; for he wasn't quite clear i'll his mind whether he should feel ragged by the insults eiated the encoura cement that he had received.
 He compromised. Don't get gay r I'll han yuh one" he threatened. And then. "Whajer mean by goes at it rght?'"
 Why" returned Dugan imperturbably, "every guy what wants tuh win dame always put up liberal just like can'date at lection time. After tn candate gets elected an after tn guy gets married, they cn both do as they pleases, yuh see! But be- fore, they got tuh make a front. Seer"
 The captain nodded. Here, at 1ast was something well within his grasp.
 "WeI," continued Dugan, " oughter sem her 'roun some-eh-some flowers r somethn' like that. A box O candy is considered good come-on, too."
 How'd a O wine go?" queried the captain, amenab1y; for his softer nature beginning, nde nt to ard
 Nix on tn bubbles" returned the other tersely. Flowers an candy is your bait: an mebbe spring lid, r jool r two-somethin' neat but not noisy like dmon' horseshoe, r couple O poll rings r some little thing like thenn."
 "Juh think that1 help make good?" asked the captain, anxiously. Think got chancet?"
 "Sure," returned Dugan. Sure yuh got chancet."
 But how'd she tuh take it?"
 Why she sets there quiet yuh please an listen tuh everything says; an then, when leaves she shakes hands wit an asks pne tuh come round again, an makes her oP man ask me- too, an says fir tuh tel youse she'll tink it over an le me know how she feels nex' time come round"
 "Wen, yuh go round tuh-morrer night See?" ordered the captain. Dugan shook his head
 q can't go 'roun' wit'out takin' notn,, he replied "I'd be 'shamed tuh have her t'ink. was doin' Cupid fir such cheap skate as that Honest would An besides yuhn crab tn whole deal f yuh don loosen up. Yuh gotter go intuh tn dough bag fr love jes' like yuh has fir politics. Love- he added phlosophically. lis tn only graft gos has,.
 The captain dug down into his pocket. / How much?" he asked curtly, and to whom the words most familiar
 Dugan considered thoughtfully
 "Oh," he replied length. "I guess about fifty II get goin'."
 The captain silently rendered him twenties and
 "I shall eggspec' yuh tuh-morrer night" he said! An remember if yuh don pull this thing off fr me. yuh lose yuh job" And, Dugan closed the front door behind him, he added (Which ain't sayin that yuh don't anyhow"
 On the following night the John Alden of the East Side again appeared to make his report to the cap tain.
 Well. I give her tn flowers an tn candy an fsh-skin poll big a door-knob, an think we're doin' fne," he encouraged. "She pleased as kitten wit saucer O milk Still. we can't afford tuh lay down none, cause if we does, some other guy may get in ahead of us We gotter play tuh tn limit n can't be pkers. If tn gois's woit hay in, she's volt gon' fr strong"
 The captain nodded a reluctant assent to the others cogent and concise logic.
 "Jask her if she'd made up her mind tull--tul-tuh have me?" he inquired bashfully.
 Dugan nodded.
 "Wha'd she say?" queried the captain.
 "She said they eighteen r twenty applications in ahead O yours," returned the envoy plenipoten- tiary but that, seemed to be such generous guy, she felt sort O like shovn' yours up tn list That's your play" he counseled sagely, that's your pIay-th' generous lay. It's tn only thing you go