Litchfield enquirer., 1834-02-13


 and did tickle aIhazinly and for spell puzzled me tOn-and thought I'd jiat show the Ginerai and see f it wouldn't tickle and paExle hm too, And
 thought I'd lei the Gineral see there warn'' Iee- tle dust in his eyes too, And sol brought tn whnle arm sll of this machinery. And as soon as the Gin. eral sa& me, says he Major whek oB earth have you got there? Why, says l, iis lfie, and I'll tell y0u all about it to rights. And AAced the cups Bot tom up all along in row Iile able, and then gin The giBeral hand full of small balls. Now says I, I'm goiR show you abOht ae cute thing as you' seen m many day-them cups we'll call banks and tiem balls Is the mOny we tcok Gpln Squire Ridde's Bank, the nexl thing is to show you how things are pocket, where always know where 10 6nd it, and divided Il round among twenty ll0ckes, where may he you may, may he you may nOf nd nothin at all ont
 and here says are some leete pieces of paper that I'm gOin 10 make use throw dust with--now says Gineral, look sharp you're goae hook aud line | says |. As Piagy cupniO game, and don't know sartn that can play well Mir. Van Buren and Amos and some more of them foks and 'special- y the Treasury folks, forihey have ben it now off and on ever sense Eve ben here-and Mr. Van Buren tetFd ee unless they could play Sis game welt there was ne use in takin away fhe deposits. Now says Gineral Fl beginYon are sar,in says ,here is ball under every yeE,says tijneral Cor fest put em there, and then begun slidiu r,e cups by each other and Inxin on em, and kept alkin about Glory and RelornI-and the 9th O Jmnewcrry. and the Proclamation, and Veto, and Nallifcajion and some folks beim like Old Romans born command! and others to obey, and on, and jest the Gneral took his eye off the cups and ook'd at me, an was gon to say somthin sapd som cups together and calld out hocuspocus, alicumpan, presto! pluribus unum sine %s ssy saCd factions a here M see much in that Maor-ddn't you says then go mach the better for the game. suppose then says yo" think the balls are under the cups jest you put them To be sure do, says the Gineral, suspected what yon was arter Major, and kept my eye on the cups, and no balls ever get from under 'em without me seein em I'd stake my life ont says the Ginera ble, that every of the cups has got ball under em We'll, says l. Ginera, il wouldn't be fare beitin, and go do you go to work and look. And the Giuer a he lifted up cup, and there warn't nothing der it hut a piece of paper. The Ginerai, he was siumpd he look'd al me and gin his face a twist, and then he look'd in the cup and shook it. Well, says he Malor. that IS pagy odd what has become of that ball We'll, says l, guess the paper will lei; you - and the Gneral took up rha and rubd his specks and read, Transfer draft No. lOl.' We'll then suppose, says the Ginera its all righ(or he st began 10 take the notion of the game) and instead of one ball in the pext cup there is two bas. Pm not sartin, says l, and you better look. And so the Gineral lifted the next cup-and there warnt no balls there nother1o- spell al me- and opened his mouth, then he scratch ed his head and took off his specks and rubd them ag,n, and then he read ,he paper On one side was, written Marqusss of Carmarthen, $250 0O0,6 per Post o1ice lodns and all kverd up with fgera you coold moi see bit oft 1Vhae the paper-the Gin era, he bnkd at it spell and says he, Major, wha, does this meaD-weil, says I, Ginera don't exactly know myself, but suppose its all right for here on one corner limos Kindle'-'O very well, says
 
 honest A,aOs-ny ie ont its all right. But. Major where is the ball put under that cup, says the Gin eral-aint it under one of these cups Not as knows on, says Land with that the Gincra he turned to gin, ilitn the cups and shakin and looking inc to em, and there warnt hall under any one em- iAlIik Eff" T fdnsyer CastEs ana CoHmg ~7"'r and Treasury Wa'rants,' '-ihe Gineral hussled em about to zee fine could find any Of them balls among em-and examined all tire cups ag'n, and he looked under the tables-so to rights, says he, Major, I'm siump'd-I mock under-l'm clean beat, says the G'", hu aAhn with that put my hand in ny pocket, aRd took em out-1ell, says the Gneral that beats all the res- Now, says the Gneral, what game is this, amt tns pretty nigh that, but Mir. Van BuIen says there aint bit of nick kreinancy in ihs ony fnancery, but sup pose it's Iee,e of both on em-Weli says the G'n- era, is plagy cunnin game, Major, ain IT O says I, its uo,hin as play here-you should see Van Bu- eend of table, and honcst Amos at o,her, and some of the folks from York State with the Safe iy Fund cups too, strung around the table, ard a Q" em understandin tbe game nigh upon well as MT: Van Buren, and then they bring in the party cups too-and such movin and hocus pocus work, nev, CT see aiore in my born days-in 'ook'n sometimes l wouldn't bet had head on my shoulders-it beats all naiur, says l.
 Now, Major, says the Oineral, suppose you try it agin, and so as got my hand n, played H over two or three times leeile beter and the Gnerai couldn't see the trick way-or when I'd find him watchn pagy close I'd spread the cups as far as could reach and talk abou, "Glory'' like all rah, and tell about the peoples beginnin to think that some folks was outwittin the Ginera and that Congress wouidnt go ome after they git all the public counts sed, and the peoples money back agin under their control and as the Gineral couidnt way keep his eye all the cups once, I'd hOcns pocus agin. The GiDera couldn't into ii, and he rubd his specks than twenty times, but that ddn't git the dos: out of his eyes, and the turned to and explained all knowd about it to the Ginera. and he tried 1t, and after good many slips--pre,iy much as Major Barry did when he tried i-he got along pretty well, consider ing. Now, Major, says the Ginerai, suppose we try |, with one cup and put all the balls under t. and see how the game works that way. think, says the Gn' eral if you can outwit then may as well qui,.- We'll says l. Gineral that was jest my notion too and ,eld our folks, and ofer'd to bet any on em they couldn't git single ball out or git piece of paper in the place on'i, without my seen II li they ony us i one cup, and not one em would take me up-and I've tried it but it wont work with one cup-you must have good string em. Some Of our folks say they could fix a cup so as to play the game wnh n-Dol they couldn't with plain single cuP-and seein that
 siumpd em about the single cup. they are all at work now in aik parts of the country nyeniin cup w'th springs and screws and slides with holes inside ont
 We'll Major, says the Giperal dont Ike to have dus, throw'd in my eyes, and never did ike ts knd of hocus pocxs work, never understood ''; and don, like this kind of nickremancy, or EnaHcy-ant Il aint to my fancy any ra,e Major, and Il shant be that I'm determiB'd UpOn-and jest then m come a hull raft of our folks from Congress 10 tet the Gner al what was gOn on there; and as had lhs letter write to you, went iBiO the next room and ~hlst was wriin it. I'd hear the Ginerai once and while siormin away about that pagy game of fnancy" ana ,ickermancy." "J'here wont be dollar left, say the Ginera, pay the old sogers their pensions, we don't put stop to this game" a"d ihen ihey al got 10 bjus,erin i" and toe mUs" and we musD't d this and that" Ono, thinks when folks talk of s0
 ,s lime for me to take hand; and is, as was goDi