Judge — August 15, 1885 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. Some of us pride ourselves 2 our know of our ther tongue, upon glibness, or or, or foree with which we it toe ress what we to say, but the one us who has the greatest com- mand of the language must admit that, in the mouths of some of our adopted citi- zens it surprises us with the depths and curves tan. gles which it is capable of assuming. Our friends, the = Italian bootblack, the Ger- ds GERMAN BARBERTEIC —— man grocer, the Freneh mil a a liner and the Chinese wash- erman answer our questions -y day in ways which make us pause and consider how little we know of the lan- ) after all. asked the youth who was strummin harp on a steamboat whether he spoke English. Ife shook his | head and nodded to his companion with the flute. “Ie big-ga fool,” said the flute play- ! er. ‘* He been dis-sa country tw ar-a and good. Me been he month-a JULIAN RALPH. AUTHOR, or THE SUMS it tlubble (trouble) —Joss ed in twe ty words. uda person in Ninth Phere are three Ninth nsburgh, and th one aklyn, TD went the nd in South three that wei | then dropped into a cobbler’s sho spair. “For gracions sake, how many Ninth streets are there in Brooklyn?’ 1 said to the cobbler, a jolly old man with a great that left nothin: ad enough pride and confidence in ‘ his English to write a dictionary for his fel- low countrymen, Once I was reportin, ing in Red Bank, } a negro camp meet- d was sending column a day of ric ‘Mrican dialect i of his daily paper. ‘The good dominie di except two little twit who was thus entertaining the Yah,” said he, ¢ ¥ greatly pleased exposed me, “ Dar’s a missubble scoffer an’ | to find another man ubout the lo- site in dis yer tent,” said he: ealit ayin’ low fer to redicule ebery slip ob | yes de tongue in dis camp. He am_ nuffin’ but a leetle red fox, and yer know what yer got fer to do when de fox am layin’ low—den low, too. He hab his « b our day in der min’, tam wrote in der Ifoly Writ dat der Kingdom ain’t fer no kind ob Here Der fox got to hunt his hole dat day, sh he diwenty owid, und I * Dot's so. drying to find some don’t found owd noding: What a volume there in that! He laid his whole brain and life bare before | me in a sentence. How very funny are some of the efforts of Germans to speak our lang They per- sist in talking German among theniselves most of the time, and only inglish wher they meet those who cannot “sprech- en Deutsch” with them, One of the most entertaining of the many of this sort whom Inumber among my friends is Policeman hnneiderkase, of this city. He is a great here was picturesque English for you. On another occasion I ind a ‘Testament close to a figure of Joss, with some lighted tapers befo t, in a Chinaman’s room in axter street. deal more of a philosopher than a policen “Tello, John,” said I; “you've got Joss | and yet he keeps his post quiet and ordc and the Bible, too.” ind is a credit to the force. His post runs “Ess,” said the Chinaman, “me lead Bi- | from the stylish houses t yet remain on Jul alla’ time. He belly good. Second avenue, past the brick dwellings of Some day 3 | moderately well-to-do folks on a cross street, and over to the tenements, beer saloons and | little shops on Avenue A, so that he rules a veritable little world. is sayings, scattered along his b nd on the cor- ners, are wise and sometimes humorous, and his doings and adventures may from time to time be worth reporting. He usually prefaces whatever he has to say with the remark oL vil choost gif you a leedle blain Eng- lish.” 1 aid that so often that it isa by- word in that neighborhood, and the little rowdies often hail him, f afe distance, with the phra ello, Blain English, how you vos, anyhow. But he doesn’t mind a little funat hisown exper says. “1 used todink T vos doing vell ven | | Leould shpeak so goot reo meals. aday und my f ts uf vood and t denements gorner groce otf pllar a yeu ur blendy Dat’s more nglish, onder bolice T sayt py shpeak Cherman py me [got yoursellif a | | ! divorce, alretty.” Dis is der gundry for me, | I got more vages und pedder di farder or my grandfarder got py der olt gui- dry, so Phaf adolilet dis yundry und shall shpeak nodings oxcept Unided Sdates so long vot Tif. Next week Twill have oliceman Schneiderk my vife ‘uf you a long talk with SCANDALOUS GR Bethulia eried, city bred A week after my } T wed the MMAR. with seorn was born jon-b | And was your reputation healed? Or were your n Or was the gr fault ex Tn fashion She answered still, “TL look with scorn | On ladies eity-bred; A week after my was born T wel the onion-bed.” VIsCOUST TOW MALION, Heavy Purses. We made a cool hundred Western Union. thousand in * suid the tirst young gentle- sa po! of atoc! fifty million loan, of money,” said the second. We're busy with our hardly pays; no end of bother! shan’t net more than half a million by it. Anything new?” * We are thinkin etting up a branch f office in Berlin, with ten millions capital,” said the first. re you going to take charge of it?” “No, Tcouldn’t live out of New York. By the way, can you lend me five cents to ride up tow It’s after half past four?” said the firs “‘T would if [ could, but I had to borrow my fare my [ lost my last quarter bet- ting on Boreas inst the field.” Who are th apitalists?” I asked the gateman. * Brokers clerks; five dollars a week.” comicbooks.com