Nebraska advertiser., 1857-02-19
@rIanllaL C ale.
[NEritten for the Nebraska Advertiser.
1TIEERATMe.
By TON TURNIP.

/ had once the misfortune to be a
bookseller, an itinerant one, / mean-|
one of those who go through the conn
try Chats their story not because
they IiEs the business, or that Kit pays,
but for the benevolent purpose of en-
Tightening the world; for the especial
benefit of their fellow ''hlIman beings .
That's the kind of mission necessity
called upon meto go on, and--I went.
A carpet-bag, a blue, cotton um-
breIla, several specimen copies Of
works too stale to find stale, without
the t, in the bookstores, small, leath-
er-badked blank book to receive sub
scribers names, and l was accoutered
for the ''tramp."
], accompanied by the above men
toned accon.panime,lts, accordingly,
one autumn morning, mounted the vii
lage post-chaise, clumsy, ricketly
vehicle, which piled weekly between
BeanyiIle and portion of country
commonly known as the ''llncivilized
regions" to which /, with the very best
motives, directed my course.
After rolling, rumbIing and tum-
bling over corduroy roads for about
fifteen miles, I got out, at a very small
toEn bid my gruf friend the coach
driver rather brief adieu, and struck
ontinto the country.
I soon brought up to farmers
house, surrounded with stables and
pig-stys IA rather close proximity
among which I found the old fellow
feeding his hogs.
"Good morning, said I, with q
bow.
After staring at me for about a mi
mute, hemanaged to nutter %mOrninY
and then went to punching the larger
''porkers'' to prevent their taking the
advantage Of their smaller brethren.
/ @Has promise Of a fine day. I re
marked.
! A shrug of his shoulders was ny
only answer; accordingly 1 changed
THE subject.
aGOt some fine hogs there" / ven
tured to say.
f.Pooty good, was his reply as h
left off bis admonitory exercise, sa
down his slop-paiI an d looked in m.
face rather inquisitively.
/ "Weigh about three hundred"
aGuess they viii, stranger" h
chuckled, mighty fine hogs, them ?
4 Speaking of hogs, wouldn't yOl
like to buy book on live stock ? !"
GA book, stranger l never know
YOU could fatten the 'critters' Wit
books or newspapers either
i GO, yes Y I returned, @books ar
valuable assistants ia farming general
Ily, and keeping stock, in particular.
sFeed 'em whole, or chopped up,
was his query.
''You are mistaken in my meaning,
I replied. sYou do not feed you
! books to your stock, but from thei
pages learn the proper method Of feed
ing them on grain. .
20, bother to your nonsense, " b
growlingly remarked as he moved Of
@Jist as If I warn't the oldest stoc
!. raiser in these parts. And, continue
2 he, Il amt a goin' to have my 'xper
ence made fun Of ia that way neitl
er."
L went out at the gate, but prompte
by mischievOusness turned, as b
reached his porch, and hallOoed, .sSa,
old fellow better buy abook on geese.
5 Here Tigeri Here POmpl" shOu
i ed he, as he droppe ed his pail by II
door, and at his call two ferociOus an
mails mixture of hound and cur
responded with their immediate pr,
lsence and cOnfounded R0sels.
'sLook thereF' said he, pointing
! my swiftly vamosing form mail hin
4 sake him r
The Toracious Irutes Instantly ODE,
= ed, and before I made three hundre
yards from the house the Ftarnal va
, nints' came 50 elise upon me that
y was obliged to "nsee, which I faces
Ously accomplished by swinging IA.
self into the fork Of q friendly vain