The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-10-28

friend, I
Tin Flanagan why he's not dead-it
is bu, shor, tune since he took bis soup J"
said the clerk.
"Yis, and be gor it isn't loog till we
give you your ,ay, IT you don't let Us have
the body ;" said Tins friend.
10 short, they would have TIN dead
and they would have the body and they
would 60 up to the roou in which they knew
hin to De, or TO have been, Up, therefore,
they went, TIN bad Just fallen into q
slumber, after haven taken has soup. lie
vas dreaming of the green fields of his
childhood, or, mayhaP, Of that period Ct life
still green in his memory, which the tfosis
Of adversely could never render WiIhered or
arid-;bai period whea the rosy check and
soft blue eye of Peggy FIRST
Caught bis youthful fancy!'
Whatever be was dreaming Of, Peggy
was thinking Of but him. She flew to give
nm an embrace, but before she could clasp
his horizontal form be had awoke, aud
sprung upright 10 the bed as suddenly as il
be had been galvanized.
Peggy tainted inns two courageous,
equestrian friends ran 10 the gale, mounted
their horses aud gallopped home, swearing
Ihay saw Tin FIanigan's ghost that every
room in the Hospital was haunted With
SPereis, aud that they'd never 60 for Tins
corpse again till there lad been three mas
ses said for the repose Of ais sSWi.
Peggy soon recovered, aud instead OF
finding Tim corpse was fejoieed 10 find
him conyalescent.--PicdyuHe
THE HoOSIER AND THE YANKEE.
We we're greatly amused moi long since,
at dialogue We heard between "a Down.
easter and Hoosier from the west. They
sere respectively cracking up their own
localities, aud running down their opponents
/ Al leoglh says, he HOosIer;
"Why, our land is SO rich why, ye
+ never seed any thing SO tarnal rich III youi
life why, how dye suppose We make ouI
candles, eli r.
" Don't know." says the Yankee.
g We dip EN- IN the mud puddlos," say.
the Tlooser.
YES" replied the Yankee, Z" aad
guess there's so much mud 10 your diggio'
that there isn't many places where ma,
could not dip candies in the mud puddles
| have beard of man travelliug ID you
country all day long, 10 the road where lhl
mud was SO deep that you coUld'n diskive
glimpse Of his legs for hours together"
Well, now, just tell Us, Mr.. Yankee,
It is a fact what they do say abou, th
roughness Of your toads down east. The,
do say there are SO many stones in th,
roads, aud the wagons do jolt up aud dow
SO all freely, thai the only way the peopl
ever grind out plaster Of Paris IS by load
lug the big pieces into wagon, aud jos
driving it at moderate trot over one q
your roads and that half miles driY.n,
aill make il all into powder"
There's no doubt but we can touch DR.
land occasionally on our roads. But then
If there are some s,uas 10 the raads. tn
traveller is never way. laid and his bloot
taken By mosquitoes as big as oysters"
"l'li toll you what, stranger, they % say
there ere hull counties down east where the
s,cnee are 50 thick tina, taey have TO shar
Pen tho sleeps noses, 90 that they can re
them between the rocks to ca, grass. Ia
deed, heard one say, who once traYellet
through your county, that he one day sa
whole Geld Of men and boys standing O.
the rocks, each 90 EN- letting sheep dow
BY The hind legs ia among the rocks 10 feed
And IN another LACE be sad he saw ID
farmers shooting The gram N among Ii
rocks 50 rs 10 take roo, and grow"
y d uow, stranger suppose you tell Il
about your oEn coua,ry you're the on
man ever see from tae west that dld'a
die Of fever b'agur; let's see if YOU know c
much abaai ne west as you seem to knot
about tue at
"Weh, I'D Yankee, Ill just ioll you a
atou, II, liza farmer 10 our country plant
his ground with coru and takes FIRST rate car
On Il, he'll eai hundred bushels 70 Ii
acre; Il ha takes middlin' care Of i be-
&c, seventy fYe bushels TO The acre +: and
be don't plant at ali he'll get fifiy.
The beets grow so largo that il take
, three yoke ef oxen 10 pull up full size
ore and then il leaves a hole So large tina
once knew family Of Eve children wh
all iumbled into a beet hole ouce before
got flied up, and he earth caye4 il upo
them and they all persisted.
The trees grow 50 largo tia. | orc
Gn8w a man who commenced cutting on
down, and when h. had cot away 90 on
side for about ten days, he thought he'
es; take look round the Tree, and whe
he got round on 'toihsr SIDE he found ma
here who had been cutting al It Tor Tire
weeks-aud they'd uerer heard one auo,h
eI's axes.
have heard tell, We, somewhat doub
that story, that tho OTTO parsnlps hay
. sometimes grown clear through the earth
and ben pulled through by the people d
',o;her side"
Wal, now," says the Yankee, q rath
guess as how you've told enough, stranger