The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-14
TFrom the NY. Spirit of the Times

How Uncle Billy Poplin did" the Landlord.
Mr.. Editor-In one of the larger towns that Dor
der the eastern bank of the Connecticut, in the
Granite State there lived not many years SINCE an
eccentric old fellow called UNCLE BILLY PoPLIN !;
or, more familiarity, and for short, Uncle Billy. Now
Uncle Billy had a sort of continual hydrophobia,
which led him to regard everything of an aqueous
nature with utter adherence and, like many of
the reading community of the present day, he felt
uneasy without his regular allowance of Spirit -
But as Uncle Billy had nothing but work and
wits to enable him to enjoy his daily rotations, and
his age, about s., preventing him from realizing
much revenue from the former source, he was often
hard up for change and therefore had to set the
latter engine in motion, which was acknowledged
by all who knew him. TO be of several horse power.
Having now brought my character upon the
stage, will tell you how he did, the landlord
One warm Jay in the latter part IF summer, the
old man found the drinking hour of II A. NJ. rapid
Iy approaching and without the means of purchas-
ing his usual dram; he sat in the shady porch of
the village inn, trying to think OF some way to raise
drink. when the landlord, who had just returned
from piscatory excursion with fine lot Of trout,
accosted him with
HulIo, Uncle Billy haint got fine string o.
trout! If had peck of new potatoes now, I'd
have dinner fit for king"
A bright thought struck Uncle Billy, and start
ing up he said Look here landlord, if you'll give
me a quarter, I'll get you the pratles in time for
dinner
Agreed, said Boniface.
Uncle Billy Immediately took basket and hoe,
and started off to get the "prates" He returned
in less than quarter Of an hour, showing that he
did not go far for them.
He delivered the potatoes and after receiving the
quarter, was about to return portion Of it for a
dram, when mine host requested to know where
he got the vegetables as he should like to get some
more. Uncle Billy answered him by saying,
e Stand the drink and I'll tell you" The drink
H. H.,
nation as follows:
"YOu will find plenty Of 'em in your garden,
down under the hill that S where got these"
"Done brown!' - said Boniface. Won't you
take cigar, Uncle Billy?'
'No, / thank you, said the old fellow, with a
chuckle of satisfaction d" never smokes after a
free DRINK"
One day, when the landlord was busy attending
to the stage passengers who had Just arrived, Uncle
Billy, whose pockets were again in their oftentime
condition of emptiness, came hobbng up the street.
as fast as his legs could carry him, with" Mr.:
brown Mr. Brown the cows are in your garden
k " Well, IN busy; go and drive then out as quick
as you can, and then come up and liquor"
Uncle Billy wheeled, and putting himsen over
the road like lame duck, soon reached tne garden
and drove out the kline; and having returned look
his dram with good relish after the EXERCISE ana
sat down in the porch to rest himself IN snort
time, Boniface who had now got nd Of the stage,
went down N the Garden to see how much damage
the cows had done. He could see no gap in the
fence. and but few tracks in the vicinity Of the bars
SO he concluded that they must have got in at this
place in consequence Of the bars being left down by
accident
AS he came back, he saw Uncle Billy sitting in
the norcb complacently smoking the stump Of
nine the stem Of which was just long enough to
brins the bowl exactly under the point Of his nose,
which looked like coal, ready to drop in for the
purpose of lighting the said pipe
IL H.
pose the cows got In 81
I" Got IN 2" says he, why, TUX down the bars
and druv EN- in, to be suree' II. VIII
ClarsmoHt VII, June, 1913.
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