The Georgetown news., 1856-05-15
The Creased Pole.
SHOWING HOW ZEKE PHILPor GOT SUCKED IN,
AND rHEN AGAIN HOW He DInN'T.

! somewhere near the head waters Of the
PenObScot, aud when he arrived at the AGE
OF nineteen he Lad got his growth and cut
! his eye-teeth,' a circumstance which was
! generally admitted by all who knew him.
One bright morning in June, Zeke placed
his long body in q clean shirt, ran his long
legs through u pair Of striped trowsers,
wrapped a span new waistcoat about his
/ breast, hauled up his stiff cotton dicky and
! tied checked gingham about his neck, and
/ then donnod hir swallow-tdiied coat, the
/ brass buttoTs Of which looked like a row of
newly risen stars Zekc was literally pi-
onecr il the 'BlOomei costume, al least one
would have thought 50 to 8 e him IS hel0w
| stood He disdained to lave biz trowsers
legs dangling III the mud. or 10 have the cuffs
Of his coat stopping in the WashboWl; 80 his
blue stockings perped firth l1m beneath
the tops Of hi, COW hide that looked up full
six. inches to the trowscr bottopas, while his
bony wrist had free scope from shirt-sleeve
or cuff. Zeke's hair, which was no color in
particular, but bore all the lighter shades Of
the vegetable kingdom, was down fiat with
pure bears oil, and directly on the top Of his
head lie put white hat, somewhat resem-
! bling ap inverted butter firkin, and after
gazing at his presentment in tie looking
glass for four and half minutes, was heard
to say:
Thar, Mr.. Zeke Philpot, if YOU don't
slide on that, then | guess what amt what,
that : all !
Zehe was bound to Bosting with geru-
inc load of apple sass, and he expected, ere
he returned, to make slight commotion. if
not more, in the great metropolis. The old
mare was harnessed, and in due course Of
time Zeke aud his load arrived in Bosting,
where the sass was disposed Of to good ad-
vantage, and with $75 IN his pocket, our
hero began to look around to sec the sights.
Hello = exclaimed Zeke as he stopped
one morning before a blazing pIacard which
adorned one of the back walls i'll Flagg al
ley; 'wat'n tarnation's that? A Golden
Ladder-a Road to Fortu-n-e-oh, fortin
that's it-a road to fortin'.'
Zeke went on to decipher the reading be-
meath, and gradually he gained the intelli-
gence that on Back Bay there was to be a
pole twenty feet high, on the top of which
the proprietor would place prize of 5000,
to be owned by any one who could obtain it.
Chances, So.
We'll, tew hundred dollars is some pump
kins,' soliloquized Zeke. I've clum pooty
skinny trees in my day. I'll just walk into
/ that feler's two hundred dollars, rot me if
/ deon't.'
With feelings Of cupidity, Zeke started
for the scene of action, and it was not till
he had run down dozen apple women that
he remembered his entire ignorance Of
where Back Bay might be, and when this
information was gained, he appeared to re-
member that the old mare hadn't been
seen TO.
Zcke was economical in horse keeping
He hired single stall in a small shed near
the Providence depot, bought his own hay,
and took care of his own animal. Thither
he FASTENED his steps, and having watered
and fed his beast, he took from his wagon
box all old wool card and raked down the
mare in the most approved manner. To be
sure the steel teeth moved little more
i harshly over the bones than usual-but then
Zeke was in hurry for that 'tew hundred
was in his eye
Az length, by dint of much inquiry, Mr..
Ezekiel Philpot found his way to the spot
where the people had already begun to col
| IecJ around the 'SOld0H lduuer.
/ Hello = exclaimed Zeke, as he came up,
'whars the chap wot keeps this ere pole"
Il am the man. answered a burly fellow,
with red nose and a pimpled chin, who &C.
cupied a chair near the pole. want to try
chance? Walk up gentlemen, walk up
only three dollars Who wants the two
hundred?'
Hold on, ole feller,' interrupted Zebe,
dew yer mean to say as heow there's teW
hundred dollars in that ere bag upt' the top
O. that polc?'
Certainly
AN eff ] ken get it, it's mine?:'
you can have chance for So, Mr.. Zeke.
'Zackly. Wal, now, there's yer three dol
lars, and now here's what goes for the hull
| lot
Zeke divested himself of his coat, rolled
up his sleeves, and giving q powerful leap.
grasped the pole about ten feet from the
ground. A single second-no longer-he
staid there. and then slipped back on terra
frma. Zeke looked at his hands, and then
down at his striped trowsers. Then he
looked at his hands again; and raising them
nm TO his nose, while deep long smell
seemed to set his doubts and queries at rest,
he uttered The deuce Hogs fat, by thun-
! der =
A broad laugh from tie crowd soon
brought Zeke to his senses, and convinced
him that he had been sold. But ere he
conld find his tongue again, an old salt,
about three sheets in the wind paid for ms
chance. and essayed to climb the pole. The
sailor hugged halfway up, and then he slid.
The crowd laughed again, bat this time
their attention was turned from Zeke to the
new aspirant, and after waiting moment
in sort of brown study, our hero quietly
slipped away, remarking to the red-nosed
man, he was goin' to git three dollars more
he'd be darned ef he Didn't try il AGAIN !,