“Jim, giv’ us a interduction.”
“No, Tom, no. Yer don’t know her, an’ yer don’ want ter. She’s de ice-cream fiend of de ward; she’s beggared two newsboys an’ a Italian bootblack, an’ she’s a looking roun’ for another wictim.”
GALLANT.
Girl.—“Don’t be frightened. He won’t bite you.”
Boy.—“I ain’t askeered o’ the dog. I’m a envyin’ him, that’s all.”
EXCEPTIONAL VALUE.
Nurse (in continuation, speaking of her brother in the wagon).—“Yes, an’ he ain’t got no wices at all; he don’t smoke, drink, or chew terbacker, an’ he don’t want no latch-key.”
Friend (on right).—“Lor’, what a husbant he’d make.”