The Shasta courier., 1853-10-22
Sublime Dragging.

Few men have ever gone to Congress with
more fun and popularity than the Hon. Leslie
| Combs, of Kentucky. In the way of anecdote
he is unequalled. while his mode of telling sto-
ries imparts tone to them that no one can ap-
preciate who has not made his ACQUAINTANCE.
Among the !" characters that Mr. Coombs
knows like book, is old Major Luckey. whose
taste for Dragging amounts, at times, to the SUBJ
lime. Whenever the Major has stranger in
the neighborhood he g. opens wide and spreads
himself" and with success that leaves us
nothing to desire. The following scene took
place between the Major and Col. Peters, a
late arrival" from Illinois.
:. Major, l understand from Gen. Coombs,
that shortly alter the revolution YOU visited
England; how did you like the jauntl
.Capitally had not been in London FIVE
hours, before Rex sent for me to play whist, and
a devil of time we had of it,
" Rex what Rex 1"
''Why, Rex the King--George the Third
The game came off at Windsor Casle-Rex and
/ playing against Billy Pitt and Ed. Burke-and
resulted rather comically."
. How sol"
'.As we were playing the last game Rex
said, in rather familiar manner, "Major, l
suppose you know Charles Washington, do you
not No sir, says |, but III tell you who |
do know, George Washington, the Fatker of his
Country. Father be d-d, saws he; he
was cursed rebel. and had ] served him right,
he would have been hung long ago This, of
| course ried me- and to that degree that Just
drew back and gave him blow between the
eyes that felled him like bullock The next
moment Pitt and Burke mounted me. and in
less than ten minutes my shirt and breeches
were SO torn and taitered. that | looked like
Lazarus. This gave me rather distaste for Eng
lish society, SO the next morning / set sail for
America Six weeks afterwards | landed at
Washington. The first person | met, after en-
terng the city, was G."
90 what q ~
"Why, that ID old federalist, Quincy
Adams. He wanted me to play nine-pins with
him, and | did SO, won 5000 at two shillings a
game, and then had row.
About what?''
" He wanted to pay me off in Continental
money worth about shilling a peck | got
angry, and Knocked him into a spiitoon. While
| still had him down, Jim came ill., and dragged
me oil 10 the White House."
"What Jiml"
"Why. Jim Madison, / went, played euchre
for two hours when Tom came in, and insisted
that should go with him."
"What Tom?"
'Why, Tom Jefferson Jim, however would
not listen to ii, and The consequence was that
they went into a fight. In the midst of it they
tel. over the bannisters, and dropped about fifty
ieet. Nnen lell they were giving each other
h IN the coal cellar. How it terminated
never coGld learn, just then Martha ran ill.,
and SAID L must accompany her to Mount Ver-
non, to see George
8 What Martha do you meant
Martha Washington wife to George, the
old boy that gave jessy to the Hessiaus.'
About here, Coombs said the stranger began
to discover that he was swallowing things"
The next stage that came along, he took passage
IN Tor an adjacent town. The Major, We be-
heve, is still living, and still believes that the
walioping be gave Louis XVIII is = the d--st
best thing Oh record" ="