Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-09-16

say is this-if people hasn't had genier
fotchin' up, you can no more expect then
TO behave as if they had been fotch W
genteel than you can make good cegars on
of broom handle.
"Tha are a fact" calculated Billy BON
kers, it'll emphas1sy1for Billy has expert
enced, in his time, treatment at home
mewhat similar TO that complained Of by
Nicholas NoIIikins.
"3ut, Billy, my son, never mind, and
keep not lettin' on" continued NoIikens,
and beam of hope irradiated his other,
wise saturlne countenance: ''the worlds
railroad, and the cars is comin'-all we'll
have to do is 10 Jump in, chalked free.
There will he a time--something must
hqppen. Rich widders are about yet, tho
they are snapped up so fast. Rich wild
ders, Billy, are especial providences," as
my old boss used to say when he broke his
nose in the entry, sent here like RATS TO
pick up deservin' chaps when they can't
swim no longer. Neen you've been down
twy'st, Billy, and are just of agin, then
comes the wilder foatin' along. Why,
splatterdocks is nothln' to it, and wilder
is the best of life preservers when man
is most a case, like you and me-"
"Wel, Pm not pertiklar, not |, nor me-
Yer was. Ili lake wilder, for my part,
if she's got the the mint drops, and never
ask no questions. I'm not proud-never
was harry stocratic drinks with any bo-
DIV, and smokes all the segars they give
me. Whats the use Of being stuck up,
sliffy? LIS my principle that other folks
are nearly as good as me, if they're not
constaLles nor aldermen. cant stand
them sort"
"No, Billy" said NolIikins, with an en-.
couraging smile, "no, Billy, such indowid'
uals as them don't know human natur'-
but, as | was going to say, if there hap
pens to be short crop Of widders, why
cant somebody leave us a fortinn That
will 90 as well if not better. Now look here
WHAT'S easier than this? Pm standin' on
the Wharf.-The itch man tiles to go aboard
the steamboat-the niggers push him of
the plank--in goes ca-splash! The old
gentleman isn't drownded, but he might
have been drowndcd hut for me, and if he
had n bin, where's the use OF his money
them So he give me as much as want
now, and great deal more when detuncts
rigg'er. accordin' to law and the practice
Of vrizcd nations. You see that is the
way the thing works. I'm at the whari
every Cay--cant afford TO lose the chance
and begin to wish the old chap would hur.
ry and come along. What can keep
hm2"
eff it 'ud come to the same thing in the
end" remarked Billy Bunkers, sid rather
the niggers would push the old mans little
boy into the water, if IT'S oil the same to
bin. Them fat old iellers are so heavy
when they're skcercd, and hang on so,
why | might get drownded before | had
time to 60 to the Tank with the check!
Bot what's the use Of waiiin'! COULDN'T
WE SHOVE FEM IN SOME WARM
AFTERNOON OURSELVES-Who'd
know it in "A crowdl"
Now it appears to us that the political
Mr.. Nollikirs, who edits the Globe news
paper, has waited until his patience is eX-
haustcd for somebody to push Mr.. Van Blu
rem off Of the plank, that he may go in
"ca. spiashn after him; but, finding no DEM
ocrat disposed to do this, he has determin-
ed to shore him in himself, that he may
claim the reward of the congress printing
for The rescue.