Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-21

baby start an hour sufficiently early to enable
him to return in season for breakfast. pro-
missed to do so, and then turned into my nest
of pine straw and one blanket. Twas the
best we had in those days,)
Next morning, Just as we were discussing
our pork and sapjacks, John returned, and
calling Raws one side, while his eye glared
like cats in strange garnet, he said to him,
rather con6dentially-
Say, Raws, do ye smill anything quare
about meg" ga
Raws took a snuff, and recognizing the oder /
peculiar to skunk, replied" Yes, John, you
have been in bad company"
"Faix, an ye're right Raws-diviliSh bad
company, to me sorrow | say it."
"Why, John, had better opinion Of you
than to think you had been trying to coax off
one Of Mother Corduas lap dogs"
Coax the divil an is it lap dog ye call
i'm? Bedad, but lisa qlare consate the ould
oman has, to be shure, to be havin' the likes
o him for lap-dog."
"If you did not want him to follow you
home, why did you not drive him back e.
"Dhrive i'm back is it ?-drive i'm back
did you say! Bedad but the smill of i'm nd
dhrive an army back? IT'S to me indivers to
take i'm that I'm OWN my present on-christ-
ian like slnill III tell ye Raws, met the
little divil in the thrail beyant had me
picks sharpened, and was coming back as fast
as liver my legs could carry me, whin | seed in
the path atore Inc mighty dacent looking
ch, -xrb,f o &c n a n -
bers, says [, jist mind the brush he carries wild
i'm, don't he hold it so nate and thrim; an L
list thinks to meeself woulden't that same be
q beautiful thing to clean the sand out of me
gold dust wild. So / walks to i'm quite aisy
like, cxpectin he'd be after lawn me; but divil
a foot did he stir, but seemed quite content
that | should take his brush SO says |, me
honney, III take that same consate out OF -Je
in jify. Then | seized hould Of me pick
wild both me hands, and aimed to strike i'm
bctwane the two eyes. But bad luck to that
same pick handle for being two inches toe
short, for by that same toxin l am OWN the
divish smill that's about me-"
did he run away from you then, John 2
inquired Rays, while his efforts to look sobcl
started tears into his eyes.
Run, is it? Faith an he din't the divi
Of an inch but OWN to me convanianco te
i'm he just squared himself about an'--bc the
! howy pocker but thought livery 'potbecary!
shop in ould Ireland had ocen turned loose il
; my pockets. BE jabers but he tuck me full
in the face and eyes wild his hastely stuff
Murther and turf hut that same bates me Ell
sirely. Och but didn't the powers Of i
make me fall fiat upon me face to get cleal
of it; aud then | rowlcd meself down the bill
the matter of twenty fate or more. an he niyel
. stopped at ALL Thin commenced having
up and ME head it is that is nearly off with
the striving | had to kapc from turning my
self inside out. Och the dirthy black guard
: And it is rally a lap-dog, Raws ye call i'm q
9" Yes, John, that was Il California lap dog.
, "Howly Paul it's mcself that don't ad
mre the consatc OF yez in the matter Of lap
dogs 1t is my opinion that the same dog ii
closely related to the divil. Och bad luck
) to him may Inver be the owner of one o
his kind. But will this same bastely smil
) ever lave my clothes, Raws O.
20, yes, only dig hole in the ground, ant
> bury them Tor q mouth or so and the smell
0 will leave them"
I "A month is it an what am to do in tn
u maneime sorra a rag have but these bar
II rim one ould red shirt. Och, the murtherir
y villain sure he is Sutans own kin is tina
same lap dog" ......
John put his cloths out on probation" y
Raws advised, and sent to Roses Bar for
'e new supply. During the day he occasonall
popped out of his tent, in full digger uniform
70 viz: that rel shirt and boots, and oace starte
fcrccly to attack, with the same short handle
f. pick, the remnant of a white shirt, which frol
" the tent door he discovered partly hidden b,
r. hind the root of neighboring stumb, and
Sc his rage at the entire race of California lal
= dogs, conjured into "a resemblance Of one Of
muskey enemies.