The Trinity journal., 1856-07-05

bustah got tired of working his rice, sugar
and cotton-felds, and, discovering Cufee,
pitched into him, beat him, cowed him, and
put him to the shovel and hoe Whcrcat
pluribustah's wife, Liberty, became mutin-
Gus, but a Compromise was effected, called
/ Mah-SuC- Dic-SunS- Line But Peace wo'd'nt
compromise, and left the country in disgust.
About this period Liberty presented her
spouse with a sony Younga-Merrkah.
Heir to Cufee and his increase,
Increase yellow, sallow, piebald
Heir to everything his father
Heretofore had been the lord of.
Pluribustah, having become old and de-
crepit, rocked the cradle. When the juve-
/ nile had been born a fortnight, he was MISS
ed from home on Sunday, and was found
coming from a fire up in the Bowery
With his boots outside his brecches,
With hat cigar and trumpet,
Looking like an infant "Syksey.'
1t required all the address of Chief Mat
sell and the reserved corps to convey the in-
fant prodigy back to the paternal mansion.
More than ever in his dotage, old Pluribus-
tah piled and counted his dollars, while
YoungG Merrikah
Kept on getting " fast and faster"
He learned to use the broadsword
Learned from seeing others do it,
For he would not tire his muscle
To ,leo Iaorno1 to ,r,o+;oo tbo Io1l wv,
icction-@ Ia billiards-and to dcmosh
dead heads 1t ten-pns-and to "imbibe'
and puff the weed Yea, he learned all
the arts and mysteries Of cards and ivory
cubes, and about the " cups and balls and
how the joker was managed And he gam
bled and squondered his fathers collars, and
was sweated by the Jews on the strength Of
his expectations. He got in rage with
himself because old Pluribustah wouldn't
die:
And he wished that it was lawful,
For son to choke his father.
Knock his head off, blow his brains out,
Any way to get his money.
A length Pluribustah died while Younga-
Merrkah was at Washington The body
was sent on to young hopeful by Express
Browne, the sexton, waited upon the aillict-
ed son for funeral directions, and found him
deep in game Of Euchre. Pluribustah
was buried, and with him
All the honesty and honor.
With that love of truth and justice
Formerly had ruled the councils,
OF the mighty Yengah nation.
For fortnight Younga-Merrikah was
mourner-he passed the time
Shut out from the world Of fashion
Passed it with his boon companions,
Weeping for the dear departed,
Signing for the dead old " Buiicr.'
Then he took of his sabIea and to his COM
panionS said:
TO Dclmonico's let's hasten
There wen have high old blow out.
In defiance of his mother, ounga-Merri-
kah married strong-minded woman, -
whcreupon Thrift left the country in great
disgust The spirit Of Plurhustah returned
to Earth and raped after his son, but the
with his dcfunct dad, and hid the brandy bot
tie. Finding himself lord and master Of the
Yengah nation, nga-Mcrrkah " let out
a tack" and went it. He built a Crystal
palace, and it was failure he built steam
ers and their backs broke in launching he
tried his hand at Pacific railroad, and
couldn't make it go he attempted to wire
cable the ocean, and fzzled. lie got a smat
tering of foreign languages, and reproduced
the confusion of Babel And he broke his
fathers bargain--broke the promise about
Cufiee:
Did not keep him in the ricc-nelds,
In the sugarcane plantations,
To the southwark of the landmark,
OF the line Of Mah-sun-dic-sun
But he led him up and northward,
TO the prairie fields Of Kansas.
Whercat his mother, Liberty flew in a
rage, and set out from Washington for Goth
am, determined to give him particular Jcs-
se. Missing him at his brown stone man
sion, she wondered where the young rip"
had gone to-to Burton's or the Bowery,
to WalIack's or Niblo's, to see the Common
Council, the Free Lovers the Live Oak
Clubs or the proceedings Of the Dark Lam
terms She knocked at the door Of the Dark
Lanterns, but they wouldn't let her in She
found him at last, listening to Rachel
Making believe" he understood her.
ga-Merrikah discovered his mother,
without hoops, Or silks or laces, and lacking
all the elegancies of a fashionable wardrobe,
and so he cut her dead as blazes.
Liberty saw through the milestone,
And retreatlng to the sidewalk SE..e upbraid
ed her son, bade so"".-oye to Yengah land