The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-04-01

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hits faults-iz absolutely loyal to hits
sisizens. Ov course I've had no
trouble in London an did not expect
any. But I wuz a stranger in a strange
city. a big city. didn't know which
way ter go ter find a lodgin' In a
nice locality an wkar the price would
not be out ov my reach. AZ soon az
| l landed / mounted Bob an rode er-
| long the wharf, which wuz awl in a
whirly-birly. | soon spied a police
man. an rode up ter whar he wuZ
standin' / thought he looked like
Irishman, an sure enough he wux-
Guide mornin'. captain" seq In
Irish. top ov the mornin'," seq he
| Then he begun ter take motifs ov me.
/ don't reckon he had ever seed an
old American clodhopper a-ridin' ov
a Terrible Creek mule in the streets
ov London before. an he stared at
me az he mite at a circus parade. He
awlso noticed the American flag on
my coat. Then he cum up an helt out
hiZ pave fer me ter shake. Just
landed from America | guess SEE he.
Correct seq I"Bilkins liz the name"
seq | AN am going ter take In
London an the balance ov the earth"
"Finnegan liz me name" seq he.
MY ancestors on one side went
from Yorkshire, England, an the
other side from Cork County, Ireland,
ter Amerika a long time ergo" seq I,
but my heart still beats fer old Eng
land an Ireland" Shake ergin,"
seq he. Then | told him that l wuz
gOin' ter visit cork before | left them
diggins an that | wished he could git
ferlough an go with me. He sed
he'd try ter go. Faith" seq I "an'
we'd pull few corks if we could git
on the old soil" THAT we would"
seq he, an we'd pull off a real old
fashioned Irish wake" seq he. over
in my native State, North Carolina"
seq I eve hev prohibition an l hope
ter make up fer lost time while l am
in England, France an Germany.
hev bin spittin' dust fer more than
twelve months
What in the nation liz prohibit
LIOu, SEE captain r luueSdn.
ooh, hit liz one ov them new dis
eases discovered in America. Hit il
sorter like apendysitus, but will not
kill person az quick. The game wuz
started in America a number ov years
ergo by some pollytishuns who had
tried ter land every other way an
couldn't. Hit didn't take well at first
in fact, the prohibitionists had ter
pay advertising rates in the news
papers ter git them ter publish the
returns at first, they bein' so small
that they wuz not considered news,
an they got smaller every eleckshun.
But finally in my State. the party
belong to, an which can't carry a
single township in an unprecedented
community, took up a notion that hits
days wuz erbout over an that hit
would be cheaper ter hurry up the
funeral. So hit hez gone prohibition
in most awl ov that portion ov the
Southern part ov the United States in
which hit hez much foothold."
AN you air still votin' with that
party" seq Captain Finnegan.
Yes; yes" seq I. "You know we
Irish ANYWAYS did dote on funerals
an ANYWAYS try ter see that every
body hez a GUIDE time We air goin'
ter hold a wake over the remains ov
the Dymakrat party one ov these
dark mites an we will make up fer
some ov us air gittin' powerful
thirsty"
After leavin' Captain Finnegan,
havin' gotten sum pirts frum him az
ter the boardin'-house trust an whar
ter find the main offs, I purseeded
ter the naborhood whar I expeckt ter
sojourn fer time, while 1 am lookin'
over this great city, which 1 hope ter
leave in a better condition than
found hit. Az ever,