He Didn't Understand

"Soy, podner, I want ter fret a mug pincbed, said a man wlth a black eye this morning, as lie expectorated a gilí of tobáceo ppit on the floor of a pólice court clerk's office. "Want what? " asked tlie clerk. "Wanter get a mug pinchad." "Wbat kind of a mug. What do you want it pinclied for?'1 "Why, fur nippinjf some stuff; he collard a couple of cases froin me," answered the touLh. "1 don't see what I've ;ot to do with him. What kind of cases? Are you a lawyer? " "ííuw, I ain't; can't you tumblc to me racket. Yon see, d8 bloke, .liminy Kelly, wuz a teudin' bar in me joint au' lie'g bin knocking down " "You ougbt to get a warrant for assault and battery then. Did he hit you f," asked the bewildered clerk. "Ah, rats! Boy he didn't slujr me. [Ie was dippin' his claws into me boodle. Bin blowin' my rocks ngin' the tiger." "Tlirowing rocks at a tiirer? Where? Dut at the zoölogical garden I suppose? " nquired the now thoroughly bewildered clerk as he leaned over the desk. "Soy, yuré de prize cliunip!" disgustedly answered the bad man. "VVhere wuz you ejikated ? Can't you see dat I want ter get dia mug [pulled for bilging me f" "Öay, my friend, I don't want any more foolishness,'" hotly answered the clerk. "You teil me what you want or get out." "I ain't tnnnkeyln' podner, on the dead square. I want ter have dut crook Jugged. Sposin' you wuz gettin' your leg pulled by a out and out crook what would you do but have him Dabbed." He picked the grassout of hls ears and mouth, straightened out his lmt, and after julling out a couple of teeth, remarked :o the pollceman who had picked him up: "Dis ain't right, my friend, tliey've got a crazy mug in dare, who, becase he could not tuinble to my chatter when 1 wanted ;o get a paper to have a crook whose a ïin bltin into my roll pinclied, flred me