Squatter sovereign., 1856-05-13


down TO your bungy 1ng myself in among
you unasked. spraw my legs about as you
have done, drink upthe last drop Of your
water and make ydlrself generally disa-
greeable, do you think ! should have the
face to demur in case I should be selected
as your victims clear of it,
But those negloes.r queriedthe strang-
er, pointing to the boatmen. {. Why not
kill one of them and cook him. in case the
worst comes to the wsxs e.
6 rorthern aboiifionists liEf. ,yos:. might
very well suggest such course-we un-
destand the extent of your sympathies for
the negroes. very well. But let me tell
you that Louisianians have scruples about
treating Africans in that way" and B. ut
tered this with a good show of honest in
dignation.
But I've got scruples, too, and strong
ones, and I'm"
The stranger had got thus far, when all
of sudden the faces of the boatmen were
lit up with satisfaction, the breeze shifted,
and it soon became evident that the tide
had changed, and that they were making
rapid way back toward land. 1t is almost
needless to say that the Louisianlans anti
cipated. all the while, that the return tide
and sea breeze would carry them back to
their starting point in safety, although
they concealed everything of the kind
from the New Yorker. As the shades OF
evening set in, they landed once more at
Panama, nor was it long before the trio
, were eating and drinking the best their
taven afforded, after fast of thirty-six
nours, and laughing heartily over the
, amusing manner in which they had sold
the stranger.
Some three months afterward, while B
, was vending his way up one of the prin-
cipal streets of San Francisco, he was
suddenly met and accosted by the New
, Yorker, with
' Look here. were you really in earnes
about killing and cooking me at the time
you were cruising out to sea in that
{ bungy?
off the wind and tide had not changed
just as they did, you would not have been
. here asking sucha stupid question rs
The New Yorker continued his way
down the street, marveling.
SEVEN DEADLY S1Ns.-l. Refusing tc
take a newspaper.
2. Taking newspaper and not paying
for it.
8. Not advertising.
+. a. Getting married without sending any
of the wedding cake.
5. Making the printing Office loafng
place.
6. Reading the manuscript in the com
positor's hand.
z. Sending abusive letters to the editor
: For the first and second offenses, NJ
;. absolution can be granted. The fourth il
unpardonable. The fifth is death by tn,
K law. For the balance, dispensation cal
be received by especial bulls from th'
{ Pope Of Rome.
x IN A PEr.-Some men are always il
!. trouble. Do what they will-turn thi
X way and that, and everything is wrong
1t is nothing but murrnuring with then
o from daylight till dark. At their home
a their places of business and in the street
!. they are in pet, and>are eternally max
b ing wry faces:
/, sRather than pass an easy day,
They fret and chide the hours away,
Grow weary Of the circling sun,
And vex that he should ever run
l. The same old track and still and still
d Rise red behind yon western hill;
And chide the moon that darts her light
Through the same easement every night.
a The above, written century and hal
K ago, is as true as when it was penned b
+ Isaac Watts. In our day, we have ju;
E such complaining characters.
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LARGE woNEs.-TaIking about bi
e women, the following good thing is told {
> Sidney. Smith:
Going to marry her, he exclaimed
/" bursting out laughing; g going to MARI
= her impossible, you mean part of her
y be could not marry her all himself.
OF would be a case not of bigany but of trigs
; my; the neighborhood or the magistrate
would interfere. There is enough of he
nj to furnish wives fer whole parish. On
+, man to marry her it is monstrous. Yo
!. might people colony with her-or Civ
oil an assembly with her-or read the ri
al act and disperse her in short, you mig
ID do anything with her but marry her.
m
Ill eB It is so billy in some parts of We
lie mont. that Little boy who fell off a cor
m shed. the other day, never brought up Ii