| Show I I 1 CLAIMED TO BE A MORMON CLAIMED I A Charming Colleen Refuses to WefL I the Fraction of a Mat II I I One of our prominent merchants was I recently in the City of Dublin and had I occasion to visit a photograph gallery in 1 the endeavor to obtain a negative of along 1 long lost relative There was about twenty young Irish girls employed retouching re-touching coloring and printing photographs photo-graphs and they watched our California friend with considerable interest a he r went through files of negatives and held each one up to the light in his search for his friend At last one of them bolder than the rest approached him and said timidly And what wasyez looking for sir For a picture of a friend said the merchant boldly And what was yes anyhowan Eng i lishman mebbe No Im an American Ah the dear soul And where did yez come from From Utah Salt Lake said the San Franciscan for fun A Mormon are yez Yes j and I want fifteen wives Youll do firstrate for one and I can take fourteen four-teen more all sizes and ages Comedown Come-down to the wharf tomorrow and Ill see all your passages are paid The colleen blushed and curtsied and finally said Yer honor youre a fine looking man and Id be proud to be called your wife I would but Im not hunting a fraction of a man and thats thrue for me meThe Californian met the proprietor of the gallery the next day at dinner and heard him tell their mutual host how a blackguard Mormon had been in his gallery and tried to induce every girl in his employ to emigrate S F NewsLetter News-Letter |
