The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-08
ANNIE ASKS A QUESTION

And what do We think or Tim
being a sarge. Miss Margaret"
said Annie yesterday.
She had brought little Margaret
Anne over 10 see me and was tell
ing me all the news OF the whole
city politics. especially OF the dem
ocratic party
4 think II Is pretty fine. Annie.
IL IL very probable that by the time
little Margaret Anne grows up her
father will be the chief
That's what Tim always is say.
ing And do ye know. Miss Mar.
raret. that freshman thinks 1t is all
hlsself that does this He is get.
ting that conceited that ! am some
times afraid I'll not be able 10 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
name. ye spalneen. that all
yer Jobs have come to We because
We had a pull. Oh. don't say We
did not make good aftcrwsrd. but
what want to impress on yer
thick head is the fact that most
Jobs come TO them that has pulls
instead Of them that waits We
see. Miss Margaret. Il was I'm my
mind TO tell him that the boss OF
our ward made him a policeman be-
cause | asked him to. But then
thought better of IL. for II did II
would be just as like as not that
Tim would throw II up 10 me that
had been flirting with the boss
some time when he was mad at me.
But | got my promotion be
cause OF my saving that child said
Tim. We can't be denying that
am not that same ! answered
quickly. but II Miss Margaret had
not enlisted Mr.. Symone and some
other OF her influential friends,
where would We be? Did any one
promote Mickey Casey, the other
day when he saved Miss Flanni.
gans Patsy from being run over
by lot OF ioy.riders7 No sir. all
Mickey got was a 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 IL does
not do TO let him get too uppity.
The first thing I'd he 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 for grand
man like himself that was rising
thru hts own efforts to sitting In
the chair OF the chief
Men are the queerest creatures,
Miss Margaret At least Irishmen
are They are that lnconsist-
ent that they remind We of the
Frenchmens flea. one minute
Tim will be saying that must not
let little Margaret Anne go to the
kindergarten class that Mrs. Sy-
none has at her house because Il
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
garrett DO you think | 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
hut don't want her 10 be unhappy
because she is ashamed of her
father and me
At last ! had gotten to what An.
ME had come over for. She want.
ed to ask me IL she was right in
letting her child mingle with the
rich.
Il don't know anything about 1t,
Annie. and | would not dare to ad-
wise, but | think II | were in your
place | would let her stay with
Mrs. Symone's children. | think
they will not only do her good, but