The Columbian fountain., 1846-07-04

Rev. J. 1. WARD, Assistant Editor.
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ner oIu man ufinkt up so much on il--like
the rest OF them plaguev men that is al
ways drinkin up the wimmins camfire
and number, 8 drops and corgials and 50
| forth
Nov ant says !, I'D fix um, I'd put
half pound of red pepper in pint Of rum,
and pint of camfre to quart. guess
twould be SO alfred strong they wouldn't
take but one drink
You talk so like tarnal fool, says she,
wont stay another minit.'
!, Now, says unkel Zeke, says he, arter
he'd smoked out 2 pipes of tobacker, enow
~ Tell you my plnlon, rum is good in it's
place, IT'S as good as ever twas. It's good,
take little when you're goln out in the
cold; and when you've been out in the
cold TAX little. It's good when you've
been out in the wet, and it's good when it's
very hot weather.
Yes, says |, Il spose it's good to cool
ye when you're hot; it's good to heat ye
when you're cold it's good to dry We
when you're wet, and it's good to wet ye
when you're dry. Why, guess says ],
it's like that are animal that turns all kinds
Of colors in minits and nobody can tell
what color it is, and so they spute about
it.
It's good says he, to take little
when you're hayin, in famnation hot
weather-caus you see great many is
killed every year, drinkin cold water
THAT may be, says |, but you never
heard of real cold water man that was
killed in that way. It's the rum folks that's
killed them times, caus the rum has burnt
hole in the stumacl, and the cold water
runs thro'.
It's dreadful good to keep from kechin
cold when we're washin sheep says he.
But why don't the sheep koch cold ,
says /. And why didn't you koch cold
that hoppn cold day, when you was bap-
tzed in the pond, and didn't take Drop
says !.
$ 1t don't do to compare speritual things
with things of airth,' says he. But no
IT'S good for cuts and wounds and bruzes.
! really believe it's better to stop bleedin
than that ere Frenchman doctor's new wa
ter that he's found out, SO when man cuts
his he'd of, and they put on sum Of that
stuff twill grow rite on agin in mint
As to cuts" says ], 81 guess if you'd
put the rum on the tule that did the cuttin,
the wound would heal up plaguey site
quicker
It's good thing says my upkel, 10
keep in the house, in case of accident and
sickness of all kinds"
Yes,' says |, / knowed man to fill
up his jugs 3 times, caus he was afeared
his folk would be sck-but he couldn't
keep mite, the jugs leaked so at the top
on EN-. But Pll tell you unkel, what
great cure it done, says l. You no Mike,
that's jest com from Thomaston college,
and gon to live with his wife agn, that
loves the critter as well as Mike Well,
they had rum plenty, and when they
couldn't drink it all in the day, they'd lay
abed o. mites and drink, it up. Well the
Iicker got short, and Mikes wife crowd
sick so they got the jug filled up, and the
folks in the house that they'd fix it so Mike
shouldn't drink it-so they put in holl
lot of red pepper and kan, and told Mike
he must set up and keep-wettin cloth in
the medisin, and lay it on her stumack.
Now Mike was cunnin dog-so he sot
the jug away to let il settle, and drinkt it
all up afore mornln; but KEEP wettin the
cloth i'll cold water and layin it on her
stumack, and in the mornin she'd got well,
and thot the rum kured her but guess
Mixes throat was sum hotter than Bel
shazer's oven.
ours to sarve,
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