The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-04-13
LoTe and TalenfInes.


il you ever was IN love-
Well I was. boss
With who. blackee p
g. wid cebberal gals replied Cesar,
among the most prominent Of which. was Miss
Chloe Carter and Dinah Dinglenose.
DID you marry either of these critters,
blackees'
sGoramiRhky. no guess didn't answer
Ceasar You don't kilch this nigger in dat
Kind of d scrape. in 4 hurry now tell you
Vas cher you ia lnb nlassa 2
Who me 2 said Zephaniah. Yes hlackee,'
returned the Yankee. in a tone of solemn
earnesness was Ia love, once the most dis
tressinest kind. The gals name that fell
ii love with was Polly Dingle, and she was
tsln most beSutifnlest critter in the counten-
hnees that ever you hearh tel on. She was
50 darpation hansum that the sun daren't
shine ON her for fear Of being eclipsed got
my brother Hezekiah tew write a valentine
tew her which read like this ere:
Polly Dfarle love yew.
Farvsnt-Iy and kindly few,
And Il ysu viii give yewer coneent.
6traightway to court yew and viii went,
And after that if we spree
with pew and Yew with me
We will be married sud denly,
Aud then one flesh and blood Wen be
Aud 20 Il fong h iife alnusinely,
Fe< further particewlars please enquire
0fyour devoted ZEPHAKlAH
Al,. blackee, continued ZephaTliai,, after he
had FLASHED reading the above precious etfu-
siotl Of The heavenly Nine you can't think
mhsk shocking effect shat poetree had on
Polly Dingle when she came tew read it,
Why, arter she had finished readins ont she
shed altlle sisen on tew quarts on the salti.
est kind Of tears that you ever hearn tell on,
then arter them was dried away she had
<Senty tem conuiption fits, and finally, about
week afterwards, she wound off By rnnninxr
away with wild Irisher. just from Corrick--
But did love that critter, biackee, Oh, ad-
door htT most shockingIy as my brother fIez-
ekiah Expresses Il, ] could basket in the moon
shine fhsr smiles, year in and year OUT. /
could bAI Jewpiter What do yew think of
THAI heS blackee ?
thinks anassa, dat dat's about de hardest
case Of de lub kind dat ebber cum under dis
nigga ctmprehension
= had y letter from gal critter once
blackee, and came tew me all fixed up catty
corner ways like an obtuse angle triange. =
What sas der in it boss 2
ssNall pan recollset exactly. blackee, but
the words ;alnI something Ike this ere:
sDEzREse SEPAS Al :-Yew cant imaggin
how my heeTt oeots every time put my penn
onto this paEer It goes aip.aap4 flip,
lest Ike the arlapper Of tarnal ginger mill
y, SephriersI I do love you the most shockinest
k;=d, and can't help tellin you SO. if ti's nr-
maidenly. II yew think Of goin' ont a slay-
ridin next Sabbaday night shall be at hura
and also your obediept servant TO command
ERsEyEkENoE p PRoTEcToR
p S Den' get a wild hoss as he might
possibly snfau;picate us into snow bank, and
fhoreby rewin fnr life the best einghanl caler-
cho dress belofging to yewr, sP. P. P.s,
There amt that charming letter, hey
blackee p
We'll, Il is boss responded Cesar and ii
puts dis nigga ID mind OBJ one which he re.
sesypd from ct'lored gal, in South Carolina
which read like dis ere:
DRAR G C1EzARz-D De superfiewinse of nv lut
not bein' able 20 spress itself IN words, I is on.
~ EwiHe TO say dit if you will come down heal
in Souf Carilina, sit shall 'scend upon yewl
woody heaa IN one vast catarac OBJ slmighty
bliss
Amen. 'DINAR SuNURAKs
Dare. massa Sniegins continued Caesar
when dis nigga fuss read dat letter. it rnelted
his braek heart directly into ice
Zephaniah mizzled.