Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-04-02

'"a" PcoP'e, tcHye.- -FOUR dogs, viii
collars on, set upon Hec. and if he didn'
shcw them the real Maine grit, ther
r there's no pine trees down east While
he was wol!opingcm the boys kept 4
sInsnng out to him, go it my rum 'un
that's the sort, my sun.hower. "-HeS
: isn't hansum but prime genteel; but he'll
whip his weight i'll Catamounts, as YOU
, well know. HIS fur is SD thick, that the
deev'ls couldn't bite thro' it," That's
u circumstance"
, While we were stopping TO see the
hight, agrimmy teller OF coal carrier, run
agin my team. "Vere the crickey YOU
going" shouted he. "To trim your iack.
1t, or rather frock, for he had no Jacket
your hawbuck," answered by this
time, my corruption was up, and longed
to show him the pluck of man that could
hest an OK, and cat him afterwards. But
the people interfered aud saved him
bloody licking
lie dio'nt know. was the toughest
hand at wrastle in our town, except Jem
Smith the blacksmith, aud | M aler of
hIm, no day. Don't tell him | said SO
though, for it may breed i'll blood-no,
that lear him, the pairing of turnip.
I've got a world of curious things to tell
you on, but ha'nt got time now. I've
seen the Legislator making laws, and seen
The houses and the streets, and some queer
looking bodies in them, which will de-
scribe another time. But of all the brave
shows I've seen, give me the Theater for
my money. They have great many of
EN- lspos,, Tor they adver,iscs lots of 'em.
haven't been TO but one Of the houses as
yet, and cant saw any thing Of the others,
of course. You know / always make a
pint to tell the truth always, except when
1t IS convenient to stretch the string a
little. never told that shirk Of tax
gatherer, blast his picter! how,much
was worth, into fifty dollars. hut that's
neither here nor there-I merely write
these remarks to let you know thut wont
tel! you about the other theaters here,
which 1 have never irequented rs they
tell of the crickets doing
| fellow showed me and Hector the
road to The Theater, for two cents, which
| look to be cheap for the money. He
buggered my eyes" for not gi.ing him
more cents than that, but he couldn't come
his nonsense over me, what knows the Diff
terence between "A pig and pie ask
ed goodnatured looking gentlemen, at
| the box offs, what he would charge me
Tor ticket these hard times. / offered
| to pay him III butter and broomsticks, or
any other wooden ware. He rather laugh.
ed at me, as | concluded, and telled
me he couldn't make no such swoop.
| told him, my butter was the raal stuff,
and the brooms would sweep in no time.
He said he couldn't trade, and "tha,'s
circumstance" He asked one dollar
for box ticket equal to eight broomsl
and fifty cents for pit ticket [equal 10
four brooms. | bought after a good
deal of chaffefing, pit ticket, and paid
him down twenty-five cent peace, with
the edges clipped off and three four-pencc
half pennies and six cents, raal good mon
ey. 1t was like drawing the eye teeth,
paying away all this cash-but was bent
to cut dash, and darn the expense, |
say -
| didn't mnch relish the notion of go
ling into the "pit," as he called it, for our
parson says it is as bluc-bIazer Of
place. kept red eye, tell we as l
went in, resolved to keep clear of paril,
but | smelt nothing but lamp smoke, OF
which there was enough to single meet.
ing house, to be sure. slowed away my
cash in my boots, for fear some body might
mistake my pocket for his own. And
that's a circumstance" Such accidents
do happen sometimes, am told, in the
best regla,ed families. When got IN,
couldn't see, for The sould of me, there
was such blaze of light. Deacon
| Swipes's barn burning down couldn't hold
! a candle TO it, no how. As soon as
could git my eyes to see what was GO
ing on. | tared like rat in a cats mouth,
or Tim Richards when he's courtinu
cur Nancy. His eyes, you know, twinkle
then like frog under bucket Up
on looking round, | saw, that the iel-
ers in the boxes had better birth Of it,
than Hec and !. So guessed it would
be good move to climb up. | pointed
Hec " the way that he should CO." and
he made but one jump of it, into a gem
tIeman's arms, who was looking very
amiabIe at a heavenly looking lady near
him. IL he didn't start like cat from
the kitchen window, then Sam Patch was
a fool. The young woman bless her
pretty face screamed and better scream
ed, go la and o me" but it wouldn't
do. Hec had got fairly up, and was wag-
glng his stump Of tail, and bcck'ning
me TO followed, {" So indeed did," or
rather would, if the teller in black whis-
kers bad let me. lie raped my knuckcs
shrewdly, as | was struggling to climb
up, with the tarDa horn handle Of his
ivory headed cane, and was forced to
let go. When l did, ] fell on the should
ers Of Teller, which broke my fall and
his back.