The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-11-08
Copyright, 1915, by Newspaper
Enterprise Assocfation.l

"And what do We think OF Tim
being a cargo Miss Margaret"
said Annie yesterday.
She had brought little Mar
garet Anne over to see me and
was telling me all the news of the
whole city politics, especially Of
the democratic party.
Il think it is pretty fine, Annie.
1t is very probable that by the
time the Margaret Anne grows
up her father will be the chief. :"
That's what Tim always is
saying. And do ye know, Miss
Margaret, that Irishman thinks it
is all hisself that does this. He
is getting that conceited that | am
sometimes afraid Pdd not be able
to live with him.
| The other day he came home
and told me that he was sure that
he would be police captain within
the next six months.
Mr.. Symone needs me in his
campaign he said, sticking out
his breast like a turkey cock.
It's yourself that will need
Mr.. Symone the same as usual,
I'm thinking said l.
| What do you mean by that?'
" I name, We spalpeen, that all
yer Jobs have come to We because
we had a pull. Oh, don't say ye
did not make good afterward, but
what I want to impress on yer
thick head Is the fact that most
jobs come to them that has pulls
instead of them that waits Ye
see, Miss Margaret, it was in my
mind to tell him that the boss Of
our ward made him a policeman
because | asked him to. But then
/ thought better of it, for IL l did
1t would be just as like as not that
l had been flirting with the boss
some time when he was mad at
me.
"'But l got my promotion be-
cause of my saving that child.
said Tim; we can't be denying
that"
"T am not that sane, l an
swered quickly, but IL Miss Mar
garet had not enlisted Mr.. Symone
and some other of her influential
friends, where would We be? Did
anyone promote Mickey Casey, the
other day when he saved Miss
Flannigan's Patsy from being run
over by lot of joy-riders? No, sir.
all Mickey got was pair of broken
ribs. He didn't have any pull
with the rich folks
! "Of course, We understand, Miss
Margaret, think Tim is the finest
man in all the world, but it does
not do to let him get too uppity.
The first thing I'd be knowing is
that he'd begin to think Annie,
that he married when he was
hanging around the saloon on the
corner, was not good enough fer
a grand man like himself that
was rising through his own efforts
to sitting in the chair of the chief.
MEN are the queerest crea-
lures, Miss Margaret At least
Irishmen are. They who are that
inconsistent that they remind ye
of the Frenchman's flee. One
minute Tim will be saying that |
must not let little Margaret Anne
go to the kindergarten class that
Mrs. Symone has at her house be-
cause it will put too grand ideas
into her head. And the next he
insists he is as good as anybody
and better than most.
what do you think, Miss Mar
garet? Do you think l am doing
wrong by letting little Margaret
Anne go over there? | want her
to learn the best things; | want
her to have everything | can give
her, but l don't want her to be
unhappy because she is ashamed
of her father and me-"
At last l had gotten to what
Annie had come over for. She
wanted to ask me If she was
right in letting her child mingle
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