The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1857-05-23
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There is no denying that there is a class OF
individuals whO seem to think that there l.
nothing in lille SO desirable us being intimately
acquainted with prominent pubic characters.
We have read Of ma,.y such, but Major Luckey.
Us described in The following, is most decided y
Just y. y htickleberry nboye the perslnlmnu I" q.
many Of them.
Whenever the Major has a stranger in the
neigl,borhood, he opens wide and spreads hint
se,f,' and with y success that leaves lis nothing
to desire. The following scene took place BIZ
tween the Major and Colonel Peters, z. late
arrival from Vermont.
Major, ! understand from Gem q, mbs tina,
shortly after the revolution you visited ilug.
lal,d. linw did You like. the jannt ("
sCapitaily! 4 hadn't bern IN london five
hours before Rex sent fr me 10 play whist,
and q drnced Of q time VIC had Gf It"
"Rex !-whai Rex.?'
My Rex the King-George the Third
The game came III al Windsor Castle, Rex
aud playing against Billy Pitt and Ned
Burke. and it resulted rather comicaily."
. How sou"
As NC were playing she last game, Rex
said, in rather . familiar manner, !" Major, |
sappt,se you are acquainted with Charles
Washington, are you nutY'
/" No, sir-ee." said |, Il am not-bnt / tell
you wllo is acquainted wiih-George Washing
ton, The Father Of his Country 4.
Father of rebels r says he. !. He was a
cursed rebel, al,d had served him right, would
have hung him long ago.
:. This uf course rled me to that degree, that
just drew back and gave him u blow between
the eyes, That felled him like Il bullock. The
neAt moment Burke and Pitt mounted me.
and in less than ten minutes my shirt and brce.
ches were SO torn aild tatterrd like that OF
Lazarus. This gave; me rather II distas,e for
English Society, so ihel Xxi mor,,ing / sci.
sail tor America. Six weeks after, / landed Al,
Washington. The first person / met after en-.
tering the city was g..
Q!-what Or
" Why, that old Federalist, Quincy Adams.
dc wanted me to play pine-pins with him. |
did.so, and won $2O0 at two shilings a game.
and then had a row."
About what"
He wanted to pay me off in Continental
money, worth a shilling a peck. / got angry,
and knocked him into a %spittoon. While |
still had him down, Jim came in and dragged
me off to the White House,
!" What Jim?"
way, oIH 4nulilSDll. i went and Dtavcd
euci;er for two hours, when Tom came in, and
insisted that | should go home with him.
What Tom 2"
Why, Tom Jefferson. Jim, however, would
not listen to it, and the consequence was that
they went in to fight. In the mids, of it, they
fell over the banisters, and dropped about fifty
feet. When l left they were giving each other
!. fits in the coal cellar, How it terminated
never could learn as just then Martha ran in
md said must accompany her to Mount
Vernon to see George"
What Martha ~
Martha Washington, wife of George Wash
lngten. the old boy that gave Jessy to the
bloody Hessians."
About here, Coombs said The stranger began
to discover that he was swallowing things.
The next stage that came along be took passage
Tor an adjacent town. The Major, we believe,
Is still living, and still insists that the wollopine
he gave George Rex is " the greatest and best
thing on record" I