Litchfield enquirer., 1834-07-17

business, aud Git things lack again 10 law rad com
mon iussier The country has go, ennf Of esOrS aRd
reform, and the vicors have got siies enu for Que
SPELL and the Oay peaceabe way 20 gi the ccns'y os'i
OF the scTare for the people whose pockets have t
pay for all this glory and pies' tn turn Tight,o, aud
at the next election That gnes 20 Congress
unless I've is of the right kind ofsuf. NogOOd farmer
expects to raise clean harvest Of wheRt IL he
don't look sharp and Gull out Of the seed wheat he
plants, all the smMIly grams and tue dock seed, ana
wild Inions for i lie plants any Of them he will he
bOthpr'd most rlaugiy when griDdin time comes; n
handful ofwiId Unions will spill hull gris and all
the family will be eaiin lnOny bread and Vuddin the
hull season threw st or want "i leee care ." plant
ia IiDle
IL wont do no good be hotlierin yet about who s
TO be next PresiIienliis time emf To select miller
when we've got the harvest ho@e and all ,nrsFh' q
out il will be eOur TO that we get good honest
miller then. But IL we begin now aore we have pient-
ed CROP aud say, SO and so shalt be ourhlI-
ler and body else, some other folks who want to be
mlers NAV 90 10 work ist ont of spite, and sap his
mill dam or cl,I his gearing and then we shall GIT into
4 dew ieln and be neglectn the cost important part
Of our business which first TO GIT clean crop and
then seec, the most homes. miller 70 grind LOT u.s.
We have got plagy raft "t garlic, and mullen, ana
dock weed 10 the present Congress- and that the Fea-
son the harvest ani worth n0hn The Senate Is the
hest part ont and f want for some folks there, things
would he pretty squay, and there wouldn't be SEED
eunf left III piaut a new crop. / don't believe in
all creation we could find set OF folks who deserve
more the support Of every hones man and true airoi
10 the country Than the Se".'e we've 90. now aad
see how they battle agin the storm that Is all the while
peltin agin eln, cant help thnkin OF time 1 had
once with Capt. Jumper, the fret time he made Urn
in the Two Pollies' from Kennebeck 10 Charleston
The Two Pollies' pretty new thea, and Capt
Jumper was shockin proud on her; and went along
with him with notions, helm my FIRST trip lntrads
10 foregn parts. We wentRion4 spell pretty smooth,
aud The Captain was all the while boas,ing Of the
Two PoIlies = and well he might, for che was a
peeer and called after his wife aud eldest da'er
and they both named Polly. Well, jest as we got
u. C..S q mn n
sharp right shore. and the Captain he taek'd and
tack'd one way and toiher, but alt The while the Two
Pollies kept gHH nearer and nearer the shore, ana
Capt Jumper began 20 look pretty s,reakea LAS a,s
10 gun round il way, as the wind e now blow.
10. wish, says he, had never LEI the Two Fol'ies
git SO near IT, and Enever will agln, git her out oil
this scrape' and with that he cald all hands, and got
up his best new cable, nigh upon as thick as my leg.
and he hitchd il on the biggest "ncaor aboard and
lei il co. and took in all sail; this Is the last hope
now. says he, Tor all on 1s.' Ihe waves came an,
smashim along ono ar,er another, and the Two Poi
lies for spell went along with en- sometimes one ee"d
frs, and sometimes another.
Capt. Jumper said il want no tinie now to make
long speech and all he had say about u was that
the anchor hooked good holding gronnd, the Two
Pollies would by the blessing OF Providence, he saw
ed provided didn't finch from our duty, aud that
was tina, rs soon the anchor did gH hold aud the
vessel faced The storm, must quit The bows, but
keen all the while tending the chaiing mats, and see
that the cable ddni chae of, and Keep every thing
well creased there II can DEPEND says ne1 on lnat
ere cable il we do our da,y by iand jisi then sure
enuc the anker got hold, andihe Two Poiies faced
right round head IL the storm, and every wave that
come she'd smash her right into y, and split u
clean through and il would break aud smash right
over her and we was NIL Us wet rs dock rats
The storm whia,le and it Numbered and ligh'eDed,
and the Two Pollics' rold and tumbled and bonnc-
ed and ,humped agin the waves like all possesi.-we
all sprung it, and Capt. Jumper took the lead, and
we kept wem the chain mats and keptthe grease go-
in. If this cable says he gifts chnted on by our neg
iect there is noihin will us-and Mouldn't give
two inch pine plank for the Two Pollies' and all on
board, and Kept al il ill ar,er mid nghi, when
the storm give way and The VIVID shifted aud by day
light it was blowin st totlle way, and right of shore,
and clear sky = and now says Capt. Jumper, my
boys lets all on us thank God for n his marcies, for
there ain, one that haini got mnch TO he thanku
for this ,ime,' add that up aRker aud iuckd
on the canvass, andthe tive Polles strcaked out q
thai ere scrana aho.lt tl,s s,.isi te
used t0lsear Capt. Jump6rien about that ere peri
pre.ty often; and when would try TO CORNER hin
about his yeniurein so near the land 10 that quarter
he'd try 10 gil off by ieiin the that as the Two Poi
lies was brand splinter and the rocks all alonl
there plapy old &c she had gone agn en- they wouit
had the worst ont; bat when he ielTd the story
folks who knew more about the major ont than did then
he would always say if hadn heen for bic men stan
din by the cable, and keepin il well greasd and wei
matted ne strong MS IL was, il would chaid OIL and
that would hen the last of 1.-Two Poes' and Capt
Jumpcr-and suppose also OF
j. DOWNING,
Major Downingyisle Militia, I'd Brigade.