Wallace Irwin

Name: Minnie vs. Dannie
Author: Wallace Irwin

Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

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“Minnie vs. Dannie”, published in 1906, is a work by Wallace Irwin. It explores elements such as Dannie, Min and yez.

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ Among the shadows in the rear of the courtroom three figures sat drawn into a melancholy knot; the plaintiff, the plaintiff's mother and the plaintiff's gentlemanly witness. Mrs. Baumgarten, who flanked the plaintiff on the right with a look of vigilant disapproval, was an elderly, full-faced German woman who, with roving black eyes and convex nose, decorated and overtopped by a hat of green plumage, presented the appearance of a warlike and cynical parrot. To the left the gentlemanly witness, a short man of huge shoulders, grinned with careful diplomacy from mother to daughter. ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ The coastwise sailor and the deep-sea tar, world-weary and throat-parched, perhaps from unaccustomed contact with dry land, turn eagerly from the piers to the gaudy-faced saloons which smile brilliantly, like volcanic islands, along the dun and troubled billows of the water-front. The more discriminating 'longshoremen shun these rather too obvious grottos of enchantment and steer a direct course up Pacific Street to scatter careless silver at "The Old Anchor" or "The Sailor's Rest." ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ Plain, common guys like you and me, Otto, it's up to us to economize—but w'en a feller's born like Dannie wit' ready money in de muscles of 'is shoulders, he don't worry. He makes it easy and he shakes it easy—and usu'lly dies in de County Horspital. ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ Always some excitement; an' he never quit a-feelin' proud o' Min an' de way she was nex' to 'er job.
"But come las' May somp'n busted. Dan come up to 'is qui't home nest as usu'l expectin' to be greeted wit' a ton o' coal. No such t'ing. Min had de table all set fer 'im white an' pretty. Floor swept, bed made. Dan walked in an' set down to de table, kind o' watchin' out o' de corner of 'is eye for a chunk o' china-ware to up an' hit 'im. Nuthin' did. Min, who was busy cookin' beefsteak an' onions, smiled qui't an' pleasant an' put de grub on 'is plate as gentle as a maiden's prayer. ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ Jest a small-size Tessie gurl is all yez want—somp'n wit' a pompadour and great, sad eyes what'll rubber inter yer pay-envelope of a Saturday night and pull it away from yez wit'out pain or inconvenience.'
"I says dat to 'im. And de nex' day was Sunday. De Journeyman Butchers' Entertainment and Beneficial Soci'ty was a-givin' ther annual picnic at Shell Mound Park—dat was de fourt' annual picnic dey gave dat summer. Early in de mornin' I dropped Dannie inter some swell clo'es and we went. Took de ten o'clock ferry-boat and say! it was grand. Everybuddy was dere. ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ You don' love me no more.'
"I never seen 'im since, Min never seen 'im since. Wher's he gone? Search me an' de water-front—you won't find 'im."
A tall, sad Jackie with a "Wyoming" ribbon around his cap was eating cloves from the tray on the bar. Two Swedish 'longshoremen sat in the corner, their bland, square gaze turned stolidly in the direction of Mr. Geary.
"Say, Otto, wat's de matter wit' yer steam beer to-night?" asked Hick, shoving forth his schooner.
"Vat iss der matter mit it? Does it nicht come cold enough?" asked Otto. ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ Wasn't I de hand o' Providence dat bumped dem two souls togeder—chucked me pal Dannie up against Min Baumgarten w'en she was de main fairy at a scheutzen picnic out to Shell Mound Park?
"You know Dannie—six feet t'ree of 'im, all man and t'ree fourt's heart. Strong? Say, it was easier fer him to make 'is four and five dollars a day truckin' car-wheels and railroad irons dan fer me to make six bits shovellin' fog off a ferryboat. Seems to me Dannie done more'n half de dray-horse work along de Front. ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ Tony Lorenzo Association from Lombard Street, every Dago of 'em diked out in lily-white pants and red badges; Sunflower Club from Mission Street, carryin' star-spangled canes; Billy West's Highlanders' Brass Band, a-rippin' off rag-time in such quantities dat it almost scuttled de ship. ”

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Wallace Irwin, Minnie vs. Dannie (1906)

“ Dan never et much supper. He went to bed worried an' got up worried. Nex' mornin' he come down early to de pier an' worked like a steam derrick all day, but he drunk neat w'iskey at noon, an' by eight o'clock at night was pretty good wit' himself. Never went home dat night or de nex'. ”

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