. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. GOING TO THEIR LAST HOME. The latest fanny story to go the rounds at the yardsis this: A man named McGee was killed in a packing-houselast year, and a couirade was sent to his liouse to breakthe news to the widow,and let her down easy. Approach ?ing the house, he espied her at the window. Aie youthe widow McGee? he asked. No, I am not, saidshe; I am Mrs. M .J. McGee. Youre a liar, yourenot, was the retort; McGees corpse is just comingaround the corner I JOE GETLER AND HIS CATS. A PERSONAGE of
. Illustrated history of the Union Stockyards; sketch-book of familiar faces and places at the yards. GOING TO THEIR LAST HOME. The latest fanny story to go the rounds at the yardsis this: A man named McGee was killed in a packing-houselast year, and a couirade was sent to his liouse to breakthe news to the widow,and let her down easy. Approach ?ing the house, he espied her at the window. Aie youthe widow McGee? he asked. No, I am not, saidshe; I am Mrs. M .J. McGee. Youre a liar, yourenot, was the retort; McGees corpse is just comingaround the corner I JOE GETLER AND HIS CATS. A PERSONAGE of great importaDce at the stockyards,and without an accouDt of whom no history of theplace would be complete, is Smut, the enormous tor-. smut ready to retrieve. toise-shell cat, dear to the heart of Joe Getler, the good-looking bachelor who looks after the interests of the Wabash Railway at the shipping pens. 41 42 ILLUSTRATED HlSTORV Joe is great on cats and has invested heavily in thebreeding business, and says, in his good-natured way,Yes, theres money in cats. Smut is an immensecreature, of great dignity of presence and haughty de-meanor, as becomes a prime favorite and the forebear
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