Southern telegraph., 1836-07-08

: help me;;' you drink you grog-you fall ba
IN dc chair, and you shut hrss one eve a
den you shut de oder. 1 see no more On
, on de table, so | take up de bottle, ana
say 'masSa Cookie, you 90 up tairsf al
you say yes, yes-direcllye Den hold I
bottle up, and | SAY to you 'massa shall
help your and you say, 'yes, yes, you mu
help me 2 so den | take one glass Of GRO
cause you tell me to help you.
81 didn't tell YOU to help yourself, thougI
you scoundrel''
"Yes massa when you tell me to hel
you wld de bottle, | hey order, and bel
myself Den sar | waits little more, and
say, 'massa, now you 90 up tairs,' and yo
start up and you wake, and you say 'yes
gesi' and den hold up, and / show de bo,
tie again, and say, shall help YOU mas
saP and den you say 'yes;' so | hey orde
again and take one more glass. Den yol
open mouth and snore-so look again anC
| see one little glass more in bottle, and
call you 'massa Cookie, massa Cookie !
and you say 'high-highy and den you
head fall on you chest and you go sleep a.
gain; so den | call you again and say
massa Cookie, here one lilly more drop,
shall drink it!' and you nod you head on
you bosom and say nothing-so not quite
sure, and say again, 'nassa Cookie, shall
| finish this lilly drop9' and you nod YOU
head once more. Den | say, 'all right
and say you very good helt massa Cookie p
and finish de bottle. Now massa, YOU alb
de whole tory, and in all really for true"
| perceived that Cookie was quite as
much amused at this account of Moonshine's
rs Twas myself, but he put on a bluff look.
$50 sir, it appears that you took adyan-
age of my helpless situation to help your
ielE"
"Massa Cookie, just now you tell massa
fawan dat you drink so much, all for good
lature to massa Piper-I do same all foI
,ood nature.'
swell Mr.. Moonshine, | must have some
rog," replied Cookie, and as you helped
ourself last night, now you must help me
get it how you can: giVa you just ten
''Pose you glib me ten shiIIings sar, in
errupted Moonshine, "dat better"
"Cash is all gone. hav'nt shilling
III quarter day; not a shot in the locker
IL Wednesday. Either get me some more
rog, or you'll get more kicks than half
ence."
"You no alb nloney-you alb no tick
ow get grog, massa Cockle2 Missy o.
'ottom, she tell me; last quarter-day, no
ay whole bill; she not half like it; she sayt
ou d--n deceiver, and no trust MORE"
COnfound the old hog! Would you beIiev |
Bob, that Mrs. Browbottom has wanted
grapple with me these last two years
ants to make Landlord of the Goose and
taking her as fixture with the
remises. suspect | should be the goose,
nd she the pepper-box: but we never
ould shape that course. In the first place
ere's too much of her; and in the next
ere's too much of me. ! explained this
the old lady as well as | could, and she
yelled up as big as balloon, saying that
hen people are really attached, they nev-
attached any weight to such trihing OBJ
lcies."
"But you must have been sweet upon
II, Cockler
"Nothing more than little sugar to take
e nauseous taste ofmy long bill out Of her
Duth. AS for the love part of the story,
at was all her own; never contradict a
1y, because its not polite; but, since ex-
aimed, the old woman has hufed, and
1nt trust me half IA quarter-wiJl she {
oonshne?"
"No sar. When | try talk her over, and ,
AXE promise, she say dat all moonshine.
It sar, ! try gain tink know how"
And MOonshine disappeared, leaving US
the dark as to what his plans might be.
81 wonder you never did marry, COckIe,"
observed,
"You would not wonder if you knew all.
must say, that once only, was very near !
And to whom do you think it wasf--a
,man of colour"
Ito be Continued.)