TIS FOLLY TO BE WISE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1665, 27 January 1904, Page 27

TIS FOLLY TO BE WISE

‘'.Tevver see Malx Elliott in '‘The On’-y way ?’’ “No, I never seen him. Did you?" “No. I wuz goin' to, but Jim took me t’ a‘dance instead. They played the grandest two-step. It wad 'Annie Ona.’ Jevver hear it:?" “No; but I heard ‘High Water.’." "Annie OmaV a companion to - that. The same man wrote ’em, both." "Atween theatre and dancin’ I could jist’ go crazy." . * "I don’t know why they ever called that play ‘East Linny’ for, d’you?" "Ain’t that jis a gran’ play? I seen it three times, an’ ev’r'y time I ’most beetle red my eyes cut.’’ "I used to like James K. Hatchet till he got married to May. Manning." “I did too. But ain’t his - inishinails J. J, ?’’ “Oh,, you’re thinkin’ of Corbin, this prize-fighter—James J. Corbin." "Oh, ves. Jevver see E. H. Northern?" "What’d lie play? I don’t remember." " r ln the King’s Palace,’ wasn’t it?" “Oh, no. Violet Allen played tliiat." “Oih;, yes, of course she did. D’you read much?" '‘Oh, quite a bit. I read 'Mrs Wiggins in Her Cabbage Patch.'" "Jevver. read, the equal—'Lovely Marv?”’ "No. Is i<t. oui ? I urns’ git it." "T’m. readiu’ Libbly Jean Laury’s last." “Ain't she ]is’ gran’?’’ '‘Yes, indeed. I finished Mary J Clay's 'English Orphant-s* the other day. It was awful sad." "Jevver read ‘Richard Carver?’" "Let’s see —did the same woman write that that wrote, ‘Dora Haddon from Vernon Ha’l?”’ '‘l don’t know. But I think so. I never bother 'bout who writes the books. It so significant." , “It is so. Jevver see Nat Elliott and Maxon Goodwin in 'Our Twenty-First Birthday?’” TT ~ “No, but I seen Annie Hobbs in -Miss Russell.' An' when it comes to N’York I’m go in’ to see 'The Ending Light.’ That’s from, a book by Barnard Kipling. Jevver read his pome, 'The Hag—”’ "Is ■ that the one about, the—the switch?’’ “The what ?’’ • -'J iT ' .. “The switch. Don’t it begin, 'A rag, a bone, a switch. “N0 1 , not a switch; it’s only a rag, a > bone, an’ a bunch o' hair—don’t you remember how it goes?" ■ . "I thought it wuz somethin’ like that.’ Oh. there goes Hortense; I want co see hei about somethin:’.. Goo’-by " " ,r----"Goo’-by; " " —A. J. Klinck in 'Xife "