The Placer herald., 1858-09-25
'But-What?' ses |.
'Jist .tr your mouth that uay dgainP ses

| .But-What. ses !.
Jist .fr your mouth that way againn ses
he
4 done it, jist like was gwine to drink,
and I'll be cussed if didn't think the whole
on 'em would go into fits. they yelled and
whooped like gang of wolves. Finally,
one of 'em ses, don't make fun of the unfor-
tunate; he's hardly got over ben' blowed up
yet. Less us make up puss for him. Then
they all throwed in and made up five dollars;
as the spokesman handed me the change, he
axed me- 'Whar did you find yourself after
the 'splosion?'
In a fiat boat ses l.
'How far from the Ere aklinY ses he.
why ses |, Il never seen her, but as nigh
as | can guess, it must have been, from what
they tell me, nigh onto three hundred and
seventy-fve miles, You oughter "a seen
that gang scatter. AS they left, ses one: Its
him. Its the ugly man of all!
'Knockin' round the place, came upon
one of these fellers that grinds music out'n
mahogany box. He had little monkey
a!ong-the peartest, least bit of creature,
yu ever seed! Well, bein' fond of music
and varmints, gifts pretty close to the ma
sheen, and id if twan't hard to tell which
got the most praise, me or the monkey
However, at last | got close up, and the
darned thing ketched sight Of me and
squalled! 1t jumped offn the box in a
fright, and hanged itself by is chain. The
grinder hoisted it up again, but it squalled
morn ever, and jerked and twisted and run
over the keeper, and jumped off'n bis back,
and hanged itself again. The sight of me
had run it distracted. At last the grinder
hilt it to his bosom, and ses he:
Go away oagly man-maungkee fraid
much oageyn
Ses |, 60 to the devil, you old heathen-
you see he was some sort of a Dutch chap
or another-if you compare me to your
dirty monkey again III throw it hell ards,
and split your old box over your head.
And ses he right off again 'Maunkee ish
pretter ash dat oagley mansn
Ses l. gentlemen, YOU hear this critter
compare me, free Amerakin, to his id
heather dumb brute Of Afriky;' and with
that fetched the monkey salin' that sent
him a whlrin' about sixty-fve yards, over a
| rick wall. and the next mint the Dutchman
and his box was the worst mixed up pile of
rags and spinters you ever seen in one mud
hole. About that time, too, there was a
pretty up country runnn' on top of them
cussed bricks as you'll commonly see |
lay up two or three days, and at last made
my passage up the Wetumpky, in the cabin
How was thatg | asked
AN old lady that was along, lowed that
it was dangerous for me to stay on the deck
as | might scare the machinery out of joint
So they took me in the cabin afore we start
ed, and reckon was treated nigh on to a
hundred times afore we got to Wetumpky'
That's not the way you told it the last
time, remarked Mrs. Wallis.
Thunder Squire, did you ever hear such
wimmen folks-I've hardly had chance to
edge in a word tonight. Well my last ex
perience was about year ago. got ketch-
ed in a hurricane; it was bowin' like the
devil, and the thunder and lightnin was tre
menjus-so | gifts under big red oak, and
thar sot 'twell the lightnn' struck it.
was leanin again the tree when the bolt came
down, shivern' and splntern' all before it.
1t hit me right here-and them
Good heavens did lightning disfgure
your face so?'
Disigure thunder. No. The lightnin'
struck right here, as l was sayin', and then
it glanced
Good Lord look down. calculated Mrs
Wallis.