Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-08-19

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By Theodore TheodolShus Mudhen e q.
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DRAMATIs PERsoNE.
Gop. Lucas. Mr.. Philpot.
Mr.. Loom. Mr.. Quicksdnd.
,. Driuer.
! Scene-MAUMEE TURNPIKE.
Mr.. Philpot. Gov. shall help you
with that rail ?
Gou. lfyou please.
! Mr.P. Do you think we will be able
to feel the wagon from the land
Gou. 1t is rather doubtful.
Mr.. p. Now let's thrust it down and
see. ''
Gou. think it must be farther ahead,
those bubbles there, must be caused by
the horses breathing. Poor fellows |
pity them.
Mr.. Loom. DO you feel any thing!
Gou. No: we cant reach far enough
out.
Driver. We must make raft.
Coz. All hands take hold and make a
raft. 1t is the only alternative.
Mr.. Loom. There are four dead horses
floating near, | think we had better use
them, they appear quite buoyant.
Gou. That's a good suggestion. We
will lay rails across them, and then
by floating into the middle of The
puddle, think we shall be able to fish up
the trunks.
Mr.. Quicksand. LET'S sit down and
calculate. IL.
Mr.. L. Sit down on what
Mr.. p. On our fist.
Gou. It's no time to calculate now. |
would as soon think of sitting down if
there was an army Of Wolverines at
my heels.
Mr.. @. ] should think Gov. you would
prefer fling to fishing in the mud pud-
die.
Gop. Well, | am not over anxious a
bout doing either, but when million of
freemen call upon me, to lead them to
glory, OF course one can't refuse.
Mr.. p. Come, come, this glorifica-
iion business won't buy our children
frocks, we must make the raft soon, or
we shall never find our baggage.
They proceed and finish the raft.
Gou. The raft is now ready; we must
now contrive something to fish with,
Mr.. L. Necessity is the mother ofin-
ven ton, ii is an old saying, and believe
it to be true one, at any rate we can
now have an opportunity of putting our
inventive powers into operation.
Mr.. p. | think we had better lash one
Of our boots to the end Of this rail.
Coz. That will do; here take my
pocket handkerchief and tie it on.
Mr.. L. Now push out, and we will
bob in for eels.
Gov. Do you feel any thing Mr.. Phil
pot? s
Mr.. p. Yes, / have something hook
ed on the boot, but it feels rather light.
Gou. Pull away.
Mr.. p. Here it comes.
Mr.. L. 1t is nothing but string Of
dried apples. m
Gou. Try it again, Mr.. P.
Mr.. @. Have YOU got any thing this
time? 3sssTs li9gls A9 a,,n.. y vs,.s
Mr.. p. Yes | have something that feels
heavy this time.
Gov. Heavens its corpse, a child,
poor thing we must bury it.
Mr.. r.. Had we not better find our
trunks 6rstl its getting late, and it will
be dark before we get the child buried. !
Mr.. L. Let the trunks go, if we fish
there any longer, we will have a years
work on hand in paying up sections.
Gou. If there are any more dead bod
les here, it is our duty to fish them out.
Mr.. p. Let them fish them out who
put them in. IA t,5q
Gou. | hope you don't accuse any one
of so base an act. s4s-
Mr.. P. Not directly. a MIX
Goy. don't understand you.
Mr.. p. Why, ] have this much to say
aboutit, if the Legislature Of the State Of
Ohio did not put them in here, it was
through their negligence that they have
lost their lives.
Gou. Mr. Philpot, this is not exactly
poetry, but it is thetruth, / will do what
/ can towards mending the matter
for the future. ! will recommend the
matter stoutly in my next message the
necessity Of improving this road sitis a
disgraceto the State,
EXIT.
The Gov. kept his word, but the Le-
gislature didnot do their duty.
Ala Wing convention Of delegates
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