The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1845-02-27

Simon" said he, "yew're poor ig-
nerint critter. Yew don't know nothn,
and yew've never bin no whars. If
was tn turn yew off, yew'd starye in q
week."
81 wish yew'd try me-" said Simon,
"and jaist see. I'd win more money in
n week than you can make in year.
Thar amt nobody ronnd here kin make
seed.corn off O. me at keards. I'm real
smart" he added, with great emphasis.
"Simmon! Simon yew poor unletterd
fool! Don't you know that all keard- play
ers and chicken-fghters, and hoss-racers,
60 tn hell? Yew crack-brain'd critter
ycw! And don't yew know that them
that play kcards oilers loses thar money
and"
"Who wins it all then, daddy" asked
Simon.
"Shet yewer mouth, yew imperpent,
slack jawd dog! Ycwer daddy's try
in tn give yew sum good advice, and
yewre a-pickin' up words that way! |
know'd young man once when [ liv'd
in Ogethrop, as went down to Augusty
and sold hundred dollars with O cot
tan for his daddy, and sum o. them are
gamblers got him tn drinkin', and the
vary fust night he was with 'em, they got
every cent Of his money"
"They couldn't get my money in a
meck," said Simon. "Enny body can git
these ere green lellcr's money; thcm's
the sort Pm a-gune tn watch for, myself.
Here's what can fix The papers jaist about
as nice as emmy body"
oval, it's no use tn argily about the
matter" said old Jedidiah. "What saith
the Scripture? He that begctteth fool
doetl it to his sorrow" Hence, Simon
yew're poor, miserable fool-so, cross
yewer hands,"
'Yew'd jaist as well not, daddy. tell
yew I'm a-guine to foller payn' kcards
for Twin, and what's the use O. bangin'
Teller about it, I'm as smart as any
on 'cm, and Bob Smith SEE them are Au-
gusty felers can't make rent off O. me-
The Reverend Mr. Suggs had once in
his life gone TO Augusta-an extent of
travel which, in those days, was a little
unusual. His consideration among his
neighbors was considerably increased by
the circumstance, as he had ali the bene-
fit ofthc popular inference, that no man
could visit the city ofAgusta without &C.
qnir ing vast superiority over all his
un'ravelled neighbors, in every depart
ment of human knowledge. Mr. Suggs,
then very naturally, felt inelably indig-
nant that an individual who had never
seen any collection of human habilations
larger than LIGHTHOUSE vilage-an indi-
vidual, in shot, no other or better than
Bob Smith-should venture to express an
opinion concerning the manners, customs
or any thing else appertaining to, or in
any wise connected with the ultima Thule
of back-woods Georgians. There were
two propositions which witnessed their
own truth to the mind of Mr. Suggestive
one was, that a man who had never been
to Augusta, could not know anything about
that city, or any place or thing else;-
the other, that one who had been there,
must, Of necessity, be not only wcll-n-
formed as to all things connected with
the city itself, but perfectly an fat upon
all subjects whatever. 1t was therefore
in tone of mingled Indignation and con-
tempt that he replied to the last remark
of Simon,
Bob Smith sez-duc> he; And who's
Bob Smith, Much dues Bob Smith know
about Augusty' he's bin thar, | reckon
Slipped off airly one mornin', when no.
body warn't noticin', and got back alore
night! It's only hundred and fifty
mild. don't know nothin' about it! /
amt never bin tn Augusty--I coodent
find the road thar reckon--ha, hal Bob
-S-m-i-t-h' The etarnal fool! if he was
unly tn see one Of them are fno gentle
men in Augusty, with his fine broadcloath
and bell-crown hat, and shew-boots a.
shinin' like silver, he'd take tn the woods
and kill himself runnin'. Bob Smith!
that's where all ycwcr devilmehts comes
from, Simon
Bob Smiths jaist as good as ennybody
else, reckon; and heap smarter then
sum. lie show'd me how tn cut Jack,
continued Simon, 'and that more n sum
people can du, if they hare bin tn Angus
ty.'
If Bob Smith kin du it, said the old
man, 4 kin tn. don't know it by that
name; but if it's book knowledge or plain
sense, and Bob kin du it, it's reasonable
tn s'posc that old Jeddiah Suggs won't
be bothered bad. Is it emmy ways sima-
Ter tn the rule o'three, Simon?
'Pritty much, daddy, but not zackly,
said Simon, drawing pack from his pock-
ct to explain. Now daddy he proceed
ed, 'yew see these ere four keards is what
we calls the Jacks. Wal, now, the idee
is, yew'll take the pack, and mix 'em
all up tugether, I'll take off a passed. from
the top, and the bottum one of them |
takes off will be one of the Jacks.
"NIe tn mix EN- fust, said old Jeddiah.
'Yis.
and yew not tn see but the back of
the top one, when yew 60 tn 'cut, as yew
call t?'
'Jaist SO, daddy
'And the backs all jaist alike as kin
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