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About Weekly Chemawa American. (Chemawa, Or.) 189?-198? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1903)
2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN. wake hove I sane sich indacency as a Ainjun School Mess at the table. The superintindirit a atin iverything in rache ov him, and shuvin it down his neck wid his knoif till shure I tort he'd punch a hole in his socks. And the government wash-woman, weighin a hefty hundred and forty pouns, wid a appitite thot dillikate that she is afther atin nawthin but a cup ov tae " and a schmall, little speckled dish ov crame ov whate. The loikes ov thot, now, whin the government's a payin ov her fer washin for nointy-five Ain jun kids. Whin Dinnie McFadden wor a courtin ov me I wor washin fer siven ov the foirst families on the block and I had a appetoite thot I could ate a peck ov petaties and a pail ov buttermilk the sizeov thot and three pounds ov biled pork ivery day, thin slape as paceful all noight as yez own swate, innocent little darter Mary and I'm as dacent an Oirish lady as enny governmint wash-woman, will yez moind thot, Mr. Stamps. Thot old maid from Missurie is af flicted wid the noightmare all day if sha do not be havin toast browned on all sides ov it ivery day and the old goirl from Massachuets raises the divil's own toim if sha don't be havin poi threetoimes ivery day, includin Sunday and Lint. Ah, bedad, I tort I'd die whin the hindoostral tacher tried to blow the foam off his coffee and siled the Kin dergartner's shirtwaiste across the ta ble, and the doctor spakes from beyant and says,sayshe: "Mrs. Fadden,bring the gintlemon a fresh mug and a pret zel, if he ho v the price ov it hitt." May the Saints hove mercy on me soul whin thot Noawajen farmer comes into supper after fadin the govorninint hoses! If he'd hitch" himsilf in the barn and sind a horse in to represint him at the faste the butter would not git offensive so quake. I do balave he'd not be after knowin the diffcrimr baytwain a bunch ov halliatropes ami a pound ov limberger chas if the nose ov him wor as long as the illifants. They all's a savin money. Tin y want sivinteen dollars fadin for iviu dollars and a half and kick up tin divil's own ruckshuns about the mix ov the mess bills, and hold indicia shun matins under cover ov their lock ed dures, and thin snake out ami swipe half a doozen mess pois to tat wit fifteen cints worth ov apples thy buyed down town. The oldgoirl from MassaehiiM wor a kapin tab on and whin only three pois wor diskivired and the nix: day, sha presinted a pairper, loikin a! me ov her, sha says, says sha, Mr. McFadden ,yez cooked noine pois vi tiddy and I now foind but three, (:: gers never loie where are thini I says, says I, jedgin from yez ov,:. old hat-rack ov a flgger the dn maker or some wan wor after taki: liberties -wid the good Lords unvanK -ed truth. Will yez paste thot on t!. top ov yez rigger now and hadaii;.: The superintindint sint fer me a:.: whin I walked into the arflice j !. sent loike anny lady, he swelkd r; loike a toid and sed sich disresptrt : a governmint empliee wor pregudiv.:.' to a good dissiplin, and could not 1 tolerated unliss improved. Wan thim Ainjun School Suyervai wor a settin thare wid his 1 parted on wan side and then, ov him parted in the middle, riz
