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Updated: May 16, 2025
On issuing from the podesta with Sheeny's portmanteau and my sword in my hand, I was a little disgusted and annoyed to see our own men in a pretty good column retreating at double-quick, and about four hundred yards beyond me, up the hill leading to the fort; while on my left hand, and at only a hundred yards, a troop of the Queenite lancers were clattering along the road.
I had, as I said, left the podesta with Sheeny's portmanteau, and, unwilling to part with some of the articles it contained some shirts, a bottle of whisky, a few cakes of Windsor soap, &c. &c., I had carried it thus far on my shoulders, but now was compelled to sacrifice it malgre moi.
He was not sure that he could manage the "sheeny," and he did not mean to take any chances with his district; let the Republicans nominate a certain obscure but amiable friend of Scully's, who was now setting tenpins in the cellar of an Ashland Avenue saloon, and he, Scully, would elect him with the "sheeny's" money, and the Republicans might have the glory, which was more than they would get otherwise.
I had, as I said, left the podesta with Sheeny's portmanteau, and, unwilling to part with some of the articles it contained some shirts, a bottle of whiskey, a few cakes of Windsor soap, &c. &c., I had carried it thus far on my shoulders, but now was compelled to sacrifice it malgre moi.
The doorman, too, was human. So it came about that the newspaper boys who ran with messages to the reporters' offices across the street, found them there and held a meeting over them. Rudie, the smartest of them, declared that his "fingers just itched for that sheeny's whiskers," but the others paid little attention to him.
"Take a good look at yersel's, kids," he ordered, "an' we'll go up to the Park an' shine around, an' see how ther swells feels, then we'll go down to Sheeny's an' sell 'em." "Sell 'em! Can't we keep 'em?" pitifully demanded Bobs who had never felt warm in winter in all his small life before. "You wouldn't hev 'em long," sneered Buck.
Half-tone illustrations represented young curates, some dapper, some Rugbeian and muscular, some with ascetic faces and large ecstatic eyes, dressed in jackets, in frock-coats, in surplices, in clerical evening dress, in black Norfolk suitings. "A large assortment of chasubles. "Rope girdles. "Sheeny's Special Skirt Cassocks.
On issuing from the podesta with Sheeny's portmanteau and my sword in my hand, I was a little disgusted and annoyed to see our own men in a pretty good column retreating at double-quick, and about four hundred yards beyond me, up the hill leading to the fort; while on my left hand, and at only a hundred yards, a troop of the Queenite lancers were clattering along the road.
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