Life — December 29, 1892 — page 29: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

oN \\\ EN THEY RETURNED TO AUNT MARY OTIS AND 3USS DOLLY THEY FOUND THAT THE FORMER LADY HAD BECOME HYSTRRICAL WITH THE UNWONTED EXCITEMENT.” kem from Sligo, but I was born an’ raised in de Fourt’ Ward.” “ Then you are not related to the Keiths of Boston ? “No, leddy. I was never in Boston but onct in me life. Dat was when Dodger Carey licked Ma- Z honey. Dat fight was a daisy an’ no mistake.” What had Mr. Mahoney done to the other gentleman ?” “Nuttin. It “Indeed. was a it took him sixty-tree rounds to do his man = ting fight, twenty-five hun a ‘\ side an’ expenses to de loser. But Aunt Mary turned a helpless look to Lansdale and Dolly, but those young people were too much interested in their own talk to notice her distress. In despair she renewed her conversation with her hero. After a little she found she could grasp his meanings better. He displayed a curiosity to know why so many ladies should be traveling together on Christmas eve, which she gratified at length, explaining to him the soulful ambitions of herself and her associates, with regard to the temperance cause in Central Africa. In return Mr. Keefe told her many strange and startling things about intemperance drawn from his observation and practi- cal knowledge. He expressed his wonder that so many ladies should expend their time and energy on Central Africa, when there was an excellent field for their labors at home. He emphasized this with tales of misery which, rudely as comicbooks.com