The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-11-10

corner, be met q company Of Rremea return
ing from driTl with their attendant crowd Of
beys;in meetingso many he go. turned entirely
around, and wondered why they all should
change their course SO suddenly, not having
discovered that he, instead OF them, had turn
ed. As a great many big men ; have done
before, who think the world is getting " iser-
by joining them, when IN fact they are only
learning to go with the majority. The fremen
have put up their engine and dipersed The
boys bad nothing 70 look at but each other
and one spying the condition Of ssmmy's 10.
expressibless inquired if he carried his proyis-
ions that way. Another asked him il he had
lard to sell, The third said he must be a tray
cling butter pet Il was. some time before
Sammy realized the truth tha.h he was the object
of their enquiries. Never dreaming that his
dads smartest son, or His butt, could be the
butt Of %ridicule in any crowd, and a
chastising the whole tkii, tuck and bilin on
'em.' Suiting the action to the thought. he
downed the nearest speaker, aud gave another
a punch in bis abdominal that made him see
stars, but ere be could PROSTATE any more Of
them, his enemies fell afoul of him in such
numbers that had he received all the blows in
tended for him he would have been a Jelly
but discretion being said 10 be better than
%valor, Sammy sloped, the whole crowd in full
cry. lie soon lett the whole pack behind, as
no one wished to out strip his companions SO
far as to have the action to themselves. The
race rather put the signs and strange sights out
OF Sammy's head, and he peeped into the door
as he took ii to be, that his Dad had entered.
Not seeing him, he concluded he was in the
back room, and ye,y quietly and patiently turn.
ed his eyes to the variety Of fine goods stored
away upop the Shelves One Of the clerks
asked il he would look al something.
Why says summy,'I amt dOin' potHin'
else.'
Presently he.began TO get a little uneasy, and
asked the young man what kept dad 50
tarnation long in yon house, pointing to the
counting room. Upon being informed that
Dad had notbeen there atoll, and seeingthe shop
keeper making preparation to close the doors,
as it was getting late, Sammy bolted out, and
10 king around HIM, with a lonely goze and
fully apPrecialing mis- awful condition, in being
lief, alone, moi seeming TO think the different
persons passing to and fro were Of his WI
species, be raised bis voice and cried out, s0h
Dad,' After staring around a d listening az
tenlivgly as a lost man wouIdin a forest, he be-
en- 10. get sfdgityl aud reared, You Dad,
dod dang tall, told you you wOulq loosen
me now dang # you ain'i-' AT Length
happening to r~ecoilect that others migl 1 kn w
where, his, parent was, he inquired Of a gentle
.maa If he had seen Dad Who is your
'Why dang il don't yon know Dad? why
he's pap said Sammy, looking at the per-
son as much as to Say how | ply YOU poor
ignorant mortal, not 20 know Dad. All this
time night was closing, and the person adj
dressed passed on. Sammy. quit chewing his
cake, ard struck atraiI, every fifty PAGES cry
ing cut, ! Oh Dad, i told you would los en-
mey until fortunately he met his Dad, who
had walked several mueS in search Of his thir.
lingands who had considerable difficulty to
make himself kowh, as Sammy would not
take time TO be convinced, 81. anxious had he
become to find his Daddy. Next day Sammy
kept close to his paP's skirts and was actually
carriedhc again. Sammy is one of the big
politicians Of the day-and he's soenin Con-
gress Hall.
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