New-York tribune., 1922-11-29

deadly creatures, it always gives fair
warming before it strikes. Verbum
sap, sir, verbum sap!
CAPTAIN PETER FITZURSE.
ANOTHER COMMUNICATION
Sir: / am widow and / run 3
boarding house, and I saw in your
paper about Captain Fitzurse who
was going through the Suez CANAL.
Well, if it is the same Suez CANAL
one Of my boarders was always talk
ing about maybe it was the same
man that went away three years
ago owing me considerable more
than | could afford to lose and ne
had the best room in the house hav-
ing married my daughter and went
away when a lady came who said
he was her husband also but he
claimed she had got divorce from
him. Well, he can say il he wants
to that he don't owe me for board
and room on account Of having mar
ricd my daughter, but he ought to
pay something, because even if it
was all in the family, like he
claimed, there is two sides to all
these family troubles and man
ought to support his wife and FAM
llv not sponge OFF from his mother
in-law, and the child is now three
.'ears old and eats like anything and
not SO much as pair Of shoes for
the child has my daughter and me
ever seen from Captain Fitzurse.
Well, If he fell in the water off that
ship Ike he paper eai1 II was
first water I ever saw HIM take and
he used to send the pitcher to the
corner bar room for beer before
Prohibition come and I had to pay
for it and he drunk it for his meals.
On account OF that more than one
boarder has left, he would have the
pitcher set on the table. and drink
right out Of the pitcher, and me
trying to run a nice place, and if
any one said anything about it he
would twist up his mustash and
snort snd carry on and then after
he had bullyragged the other board
ers that way he would bo'row MOI ev
off Of them and they would be afraid
not to loan him and then they would
come to me about it and I would
have to take what they would loan
him of from their board money.
Well, he carried long knife or
a kind Of sord into cane, it
looked like cane, but he would
twist the top and out would come
the sord, and pointing it at The
bosom of woman who has every
expectation she will soon become
mother and asking her to loan him
her rings is nothing for a gentle
man TO do like he laid down the law
he always was, and then trying to
pass 1t off for a joke when I per-
tected my daughter with carving
knife for | was not scared Of his
sord.
Well, have seen buns and I have
them could scarcely tell which was
which, but admit at the first his
line OF talk had me fooled, to hear
him talk you would think he was
nothing less than one Of these for
elgn powers always getting married
in the big Sunday part Of the news
papers, and even when money at
our house was into it's lowest herb
he would spend money for hair dive,
and when it was at a even lower
herb he nsed to use this here LIQUID
shoe blacking but to my mind hand
some is as handsome does and r
JudPe him by his actions and am
all the time scared nv graz d"hild
will turn out just like him. NY hus-
band wasn't any good neither. but
he would not point sord at wonl-
ans bosom and when the other lady
came who said she was his wife and
/ said to him will pinch you for
bigamy he said "bigamy be dam!
am like Shakespeer 7 take nv own
where | find it" whatever he meant
by that.
Well, I am writing you for more
news about him, II he Is really
drowned in the Suez Canal will
be sure my daughter amt married
and as it Is ] amt sure one way or
the other, that Is the worst Of these
men like him, why he even tried to
make up to school teacher an aw-
+ul nice girl who boarded with me
having heard she had savings In the
bank and once he brought an en-
surance gent to the house and said
he wanted my daughter and me to
ensure our life in his favor he
thought so much of us he couldn't
bear to think Of anything happen-
ing to either of us and the o+her
being unprotected and If anything
did happen he would have funds TO
look after the other one and all the
time it como out later he was telling
this school teacher il anything hap.
pened to my daughter her and him
would get married
Well, he is thereby bad man
and the little boy is always kicking
and slapping and jabbing holes in S
the table cloths and picks up everv
cuss, word he hears and sasse, his
mother and me and if the old liar Ia
really drownd at the bottom Of that
canal it would be godsend and nv
daughter could feel safe to marry
again, she is big enough fool #
ne ever come back alive she world
take up with him again but if she
knew he was drownd for sure NAV
be she would spunk up little and
quit thinking about him and catch
her a beau. He used to smoke his
pipe IN bed and burn holes in the