Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-07-30
A TCTGII GOOSE.
EXTRACT FROM YANkEE MANusCRlfT PLAY.
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/ 100 Icugn Story -a'iii1-t oS soueH Do ha
kie Nehemiah's goose. Guess You never
heard tell of unkle Nehemiah's goose.
have yel Yesee twas thanksgi living day.
and we all went down 20 grub; and pur-
" nice dinner we had too, all 'cepfih r tar
na' old goose. Ia known her Is far back
IS can recollect. and she VS. mighty
old goose then; and old Sanbo min said
he'd known her darn long while before
the revolutionary war She ought 20 have
been KEEP: FIR the good she had done
When we'd all got squa,;ed down 10 tie
table. unkle Nehemiah say- u me. Jere-
m,ab want you should carve that 60 sc.
Jess SO. SAYS |, exactly. So | went -
work. and the FIRST slash made att. T.
DC dared ifit did'n, turn the edge Of The
knife clean up TO the back.
! JoEcs-IIa. ha, he! That was a
tough goose indeed but how d. YOU get
Z through with IT,
/ Jerry Why YOU sec, | took it out and
laid it on a leg. and went at it 18th an axe.
Jones We'll, that's one WY OF carving,
a goose.
/ Jerry-Yes that's one way bu.it didn't
DO in this case.
Joaes.-Why not?
Jerry -Caus, YOU see every time I'd
strike, the axe would jump ciean back.
without so much as making dent. 'Twa II
no use; you might as well try to chop Oh
surgeons nose with a shinele.
! Joaes.-Woll what finally become OF
fthe goose.
( Jerry-Why. YOU see, unkio Nehemiah
see he couldn't do any thing with her; ST
he flied her full Of eunpovder aad ten
penny nails, aud made bomb shell o. her:
to bio. up a meeting ii white III rIcr.,.---
! Have y9u ever heard tell OF wiit,e nigges.
Well guess not. We call 'ein white ni--
gers, but they call ihes Ives abGIitio ISIS,
/ WI you see, they Were about u hoii .
convention in cur town; but some how OF
iothcr they got smell The old goose, aad
the way they DID evacnlte the place was
really curos We found we comic at ra..c
any KIND OF fun that way, no how: 81 we
kept tins CID goose to Keep the fnuItI 81
J aly with; and when W. did torch oil,
IN sc tarnaly shed ii slie don't sgeak
IN the loalest mann"r--;i.aSie dam .ght
more noise than lawyer Dooiiit!e pleading
a cause IN the ;ustico's cont, and i.-s 4
regular shorter, esp" ciaiiy wien he yes a
little riisd. II wGs universally allowed, al
round the country. that the report made ig
the oil goose, did nonor TO tie occasion.
4 II seems TINT our frontier settlements
are in danger from the ssngu;nary war
now raging between the Mexic lis and
Texans. General GAINES has made rcqui-
isitions upon the Governors of several
States icr troops to enable him to p;es arve
neutrality in that quarter. Gov. AdoaE-
HEAD, of Kentucky, has been called on to
( furnish one thousand men. We hive no
doubt Lu: they Will be promptly raised
and we hope. should this Government ever
have To send additional troops into that
quarter, that they will never return uatIl
Texas shall be entirely and absol' ely
free. From present appearances We do
40; seS low oar government Is 10 sus.s ln
its neutrality, much longer. And If we
must have a war with the Nexicans, the
sooner orr b1ld spirits arc hacked by our
Government. the better. The strife viii
be iut the same, and much misery and
bicodslied may be avoided.
The following handful has been handed
Us bv a friend, and we understand tina. in
ivi;ations are given 10 the young men oil
l. dana. to unite with their leighbors in
itiiiag the rcqnslt;ol ca the Governor of
Kentucky. We have no doubt o. Il read Y
tobedicace TO The call, as wei. on the part
OF the brave keatuckian>, Is the not less
brave Indianians:
To THE YOUNG MEN OF LOUISVILLE
i The State of Kentucky is called upon
; bs his I.xcellencY. JAaE- T. NoaEHEaD.
for one thousand men, who will. when rais-
ed, be ordered to join Major General
GAMES, at Camp Sabine upon the Sabine
River, in Louisiana. Tie Companies
arc to consist of enc hundred men each
1 You viii perceive by the proci4maiion of
the Governor, what duties are fcGuted of
those who may engage IL the service.
Those " ho frs join, will enjoy he high
es; rank.-After the quota IS complete,
all Others will he excluded.
1 propose 10 ra.sc Company forttiritt
q, tits point. aud invite YOU 70 JOIN me.
ay oSn situation, (being graduate Of the
Z. ). lii.l;aig tcadcmv.) conpels me by
every sense Of nv Obligations to the cum
try, TO hold myself al all times really FIR
military service. when the county may
need it. | an embraced in the genera.
call. and 20. am not Wiling to be-
/ lieve that a call for volunteers IN tie SER
/ vice of the country can lie n d., snd iaa;
/ the Commercial Enporim CT the Safe viii
: oe back wafd IL responding % *.