Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1856-12-06

"Well, Sut, what was your dream
Tell us ; if you ever dreamed anything
smar, your friends ought to know it io
the benefit Of your car-ac-ter, for Gus:
NE if you ever thought Of anything smar
awake"
Thus bantered, Sut leaned against the
rough board counter of the doggery, will
tumbler Of whiskey in one hand, while
the other sounded for the bottom Of hole
in his breeches, by courtesy called a pock
et-took small sip, and began to tel
his dream. Hear him, reader, speak for
himself.
Gentlen n, | dreampt an unpossibility
ast mite. | WI. IN Washington City, an
| know never VIII. be thar onless they
take me thar tu hang or cruelty me for
rnken more nur my sheer ov ''the peo-
'e's drink" old Ro. Gut. But in my
cam was thar, an no mistake-Sarlin
eat a thundern big tavern, whar
rung little bells su keep from holler-
Ter the niggers, an maxim noise, an
they called yu su yur mush by rat
big still bottom just fur the sake
noise an whar they took thirty
day fur doin nu,hing fur you ;
hey gin you sass enuf to make
home) fur nuthing at ALL
at ov government !--and darn
Isay!
dream before you get drunk,
Ied cuss you, or let some
or vou.'
owed, Sut sheered into the
in:
.rler supper awhile, | nosed
Ill got inter room whar |
e, an thar sat three feilers play
old sledge.'
id What 2
Seven-up, you drotted weazel-skinned,
lrog-legged son ov kangaroo.
They wer playin seven-up with bran
new keIds, spank span new, an no marks,
every feller for his self, seeming ly. Now,
gentlemen, believe | can smell kerds, ef
they ar in motion, as fur as from here tu
the spring, UT how the devil did happen
III hil onto that room whar gamboling
wur gwine on! But thar did 60 by in
stink, reckin, and the three fellers wur
nobody on year,h but Buchanan, Fillmore
and Fremount, an they wur playin sim
gle game ov seven-up for the Presidents
cheer ov these free an awful United E
Pluribus States, ,hirty-one in number, and
kiverin the whole yearth. Thar wur an
other chap inter that room, with one hand
under his coat-tail, an tother srokin oy
his chin, walkin about sorter keeress
like, but fusi lookin inter Fillmore's hand
and then in'er Fremounl's, and then
winkin and frownin, fust at one oy them
and then lolher. Then he'd nptoe and
Try TO peep inter Bucks hand. But the
old feller hid it under the shadder ov the
table, and sorter looked at it side ways his
self, an was watchin the peepin teller,
too, all the while rite clost. His name
was Seaward, or Hellward, or sum,hin ov
that sort, no matter which. Now, gen.
,emen, kin play old sledge myself rite
peart, and when | seed iha, ii wur game
ov two pluck one, and that Buck-cannon
was bound tu be skinned ef his hide
Gidn't grow fast onto his bones, got as
mad as bee in swarm time, and jist
thought (mind, sed nu,hin) that I'D like
10 mock enuf off ov that chaps skull TO
make huli, ladle, ef dard tu. He is
darn'd snake in the grass, sure.
Well. arler they had played out their
hands. Mr.. Buck-cannon seZ, bowin mi
" purlite ~ believe, gentlemen. made
high lack, and that has sot me six, eff
ami mislakin n" Then both on 'em Fill
more and Fremount, spread all o Bucks
tricks out onler the table ill they saw his
ace ov uumps an the jack ov rumps