The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-03-13

English as she was ungrammatical in chatterng SYRIA
cusan Greek.
1 "You was up-to-dett always" she conceded, in
answer to her daughters remark. "By reason you
loves all young for being 'up-todett YOU
All right yes yes But you gotta marry to pretta
after you will lose your Onkel Axers six
hunder' dollars"
Its only September first to-day and amt nineteen
it'll eighth of March. funny old Dutch idea too
] don't any moren did two years ago why he
thought I'd ought to get married by nineteen years.
However, course I will"
He only your pas first woman's brother. No
people of yourn he. You could knock me down
with feathers, surprised for him to come
such visit to your pa that while. But he was
short Of folks Also growing old fast. Was
all right anyhow; give him good time One
boarder talked his German, too"
Uncle Axel Pfichter wasn't hand English,
sure; and pas lodges is the only things you can get
pa to raise hand for, he wasn't comp'ny for
old Axel- But it was him took me off the cigarettes
and jollied the German telephone man into givin me
q switchboard. I'm much obliged to him for that, if
he hadn't left red cent"
Day was Frightening perceptfbIy; whistle blew
somewhere In the city. Mrs Reilly looked the
timed and graveled roofs, the chimney pots and
wooden tenements the junk yards the factories huge
In dingy brick, the yellow marshes, and Newark Bay
just gmmering under the far line of haze.
Comes seven O'Clock; gotta hurry breakfasts"
sne announced, plying her broom vigorously. Sweep
ing strip for strip, she ap1 Polly finished the pile of
floor coverings. As usual when she was actively at
work, the mother dropped into her island dialect.
~Your sailorman-soldier CORVALLIS wants much sau-
sage for breakfast The plumber, also three
gentlemen, eat it if it grapes apples And
there is Luckless Eddie-eh would rather feed sau-
sage to Eddie than to the fine big sergeant, I! In
poor Eddie fear there is often emptiness after
breakfast to breakfast again. This is a bad year;
and he is the last to get him job in bad years.
CORVALLIS pays me four times much, but Eddie
pays whenever he An usher of the vaudeville
gets little wages. Yet like Eddie Luckless best"
Edward Epaphroditus Ransom is really swell
est boarder if you want to know it." said the girl
Seems of his folks that he's named for was
gov'ner, away back; rich old fella and in politics.
Eddies folks is well to do, only his father They're
Ash swells out in Wisconsin an them places West.
father invented, and that don't pay centrally. Ed
o.es awful fine education if he is only a nom
union electrician out of job I'll stand up for him,
I tell you! But guess you only like him cause he
answers q Greek name"
"Dfnner he will not take here any more, and some
don't know We ourselves, alas! must squeeze out
another fifty dollars for your father. Poor SOUL he
has had bad luck with his lodges again The Lidder
Cranks have turned him out of being janitor which
was a paying one; and Fourteenth Ward Democrats
ask him for money after being a free society five
years; and Red Men taxing Their people for
paint and Ancient Hibernians do not elect your pa