Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-09-08
JoLIEr, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1886
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e t.,shaw, now, Brooks. don't press upon
a body in this uncivil way ltisa long
story and must have tnne.sa = -.
Brooks still urged, and Mac still par.
ried the question till they got into the
house. Rsat 49, - z
i'sNaw, surely, thought brooks, che
viii tell me" But Mac wassrpa quite
ready. ..e
Brooks" says he, shave you any thing
to drink! :
'::'ro be sure | have, said the other, and
immediately had some of his best forth.
coming. Having moistened his clay, Mac
took a seat and his employer another
Mac gave preliminary hem! tie then
turned suddenly found to Brooks, looked
him straight in the eyes, and slapped him
on the thigh
Brooks" says he, "were you ever in
CharleStown?n sA sss5 4l1-s - sJ9s
why, you know / never was, . re lied
the other.Hz9 .}as ~ ~ ! 6aS
swell, then, Brooks,Y says the a.
gent you onght TO go there, The great.
est place upon the face of the earth; they
have got houses there on both sides oftbe
B the road for five miles at a stretch and
d -n the horse track, the whole way
through! Brooks | think met fiycs thon.
SAND people IN minute, and not a chap
would look at me. They have got homes
loere on wheels. Brooks! | saw. one
with six horses hischei 10 ii, anj a big
driver with long whip going ii like a
whirl wind. followed Il 9own he rnad
Tor mile and azhalE and when II s.opped
looked AMI what do you think, there was
nothing tn init but one little woman Well,
BROOKS 70 turned back up the roa !, and as
= was riding along / sees a fancy loakin
CHAP with long curly hair hanging down
his bach, and his boots Shay as the face of
an uP-conn;ry nigger!I called him into the.
middle of the road and asked him civil
qaestion-and a'civil question, yo,IEnow.
Brooks, calls for a civil answer all over
world. ! says stranger can you tell me
where Col. Lamar lives! and what do you
think, was the answered. 10 hi gox
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"Well. Brooks, | knocked along up and
down, and about, until at last | fad where
Col. amarlived, gets down and bang
away at the door. Presently the door
was opened by as pretty a fine spoken
well dressed woman as ever yu seed in
your born days. Books, Silksl silks thar
every day, Brooks! Says sMrs.. Lamar,
presume, Madam, says l." 4 am Mrs. La
mar. sir, "Well Madam" says |. 81 have
come all the way from North Carolina to
see Col. Lamar-to see abont buying a
tract of land from him that's up in our
parts. "Then," she says, SCOT. Lamar
has rode on; in the country but will be
back shortly, Come in, Sir and wait a
while. I've no doubt the Co!o'onel viii
soon return, and she had a smile upon that
pretty face of hers that remindeda body
ola Spring morning. Well, Brooks, |
hitched my horse to a brass thing on the
door, and walked in. Well, when got
in1 see.the floor all covered over withthe
incest looking thing! nicer than any patch
work bed-quilt you ever seed in your life.
Brooks. | was trying to edge along round
it, but presently | sees big niger step
ping right over it. Thinks if that mig
ger can 60 it can go it, too! 81 right
over it'll goes and takes my seat right be-
for a pitcher which at first / thought was
a little man looking in at widow. Well
Brooks, there sot waiting and waiting
for Col. Lamar, and at last, he didn't come
but they began to bring in dinner. Thinks
to myself here sra scrapc., but made
mp my mindto tell her. if she axed me TO
eat--to tell her with genteel how that
had no occasion to eat. But, brooks, she
didn ak me to eats she axed me if1'd be
so good as to carve that turkey for her,
and she did it with one of them lovely
smiles that makes the cold streaks run
dewnzthe smaIfof feller's back. Seer.
tainly Madam, says /, and ! walks up TO
the table-there was on. one. side OF the
turkey great knife as big as bowie
knife, and a fork with a trigger to it-on
the other side. Well [ falls to work and
in the first effort ] slashes the gravy about
two yards over the whitest table cloth you
ever seed in ayeur life, Brooks! tWell!l |
ieltthe hot steam begin, to gather about
my cheeks and eyes. But I'm not man
to back out for trifles SO makes another
effort and the darne1 thing took a flight
and hitright in Mrs Lamar's lap! Well
you sec, Brooks, then was taken with a
hlindness and the nextthing remember
ed was upon the hath kicking. Well,
byIthis time begun to think ofnavigatihg
So goes ant .anddn 5ulfs RosdH and pats
for North Carolinal. Now, Brooks, you
don't b.ame mel Do yo1i'' 'i4' 9 e -
IDEA OF STA RvATIo4.--It. is said that
Queen Victoria, when yeta princess, on
being inforfnudaofsthca starving condition
ofthe manufacturing popuIatian. exclain;
ed-tDear mel how foolish. what do they
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