Trolley Folly

Trolley Folly

My friend the Seor Don is of a precise and military bearing, clad with a dignity that enhances his scant five feet of stature to herculean proportions. He is a handsome little man with pompadour hair and a bold Wilhelm der Kaiser mustache. His speech is exact, somewhat cold, yet with a flavor of melancholy to it, like the style of Thackeray. When he expresses himself in English, it is with seriousness, that seriousness which marks all his enterprises, but it is with some honest mistakes concerning the language as a whole. A fine love for our free institutions is also91 characteristic of the Seor Don. I can not tell you how his sad story of the little canoe affects me. I may only try. When I am to mek retoorn to Puerto Rico, Hooaleece (which is part of my name on the Spanish tongue), said he, I have bear in my mind the indolence of those people. Not like that rooggd American who enjoy the manly art of boxing the eye of hees frien, or to mek strong resistance on the field of the ball of the foot, or splash trough the water in aquatic spooorts. No, hombre! Not sooch do they mek in Puerto Rico. Nuzzing more rrrrobust than to smoke cigarillos and to drink chocolatay, and I say, Thees ees the end of these people. What manner of civilizassyone will mek the drinking of chocolatay and the perpetual smoking of cigarillos? That of the conqueror? No. That of the arts? No. That of what, then? That of nuzzing. 92 Well, what then? I say, I shall to missionary these people. To them I shall introduce the can-ooo American. It ees a beginning. Bimeby the boxing-glove, the ball of the foot, the base-ball, but gradooallypoco poco. At first the can-ooo. There it ees to sit still, after the manner of Puerto Rico, becows, if you are not to sit with precceesion, that can-ooo will to set up, and some man must fish you. I buy can-ooo. I have it transport at mooch expense. I veesit Seor Crdova at hees home upon the sea, and there also has arrrrrived my little can-ooo. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 57494
Author: Phillips, Henry Wallace
Release Date: Jul 12, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Gruger, Frederic Rodrigo, 1871-1953 , Widney, G. C. (Gustavus C.), 1871-1955