Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-09-25

SotitiiIuCH. SACCccSi1l@tQ= =tIlG ufoN
ME baWitched, whose mysteriov7
1 misadventure las caused their grie1
f The be(lass IS fe-baried, the cla,
11oor stamped smooth again, AMI
with early dawn the fellah sets Of
to the fair Meanwhile the tl1re,
rogues bad bethouSl1t =tlternselve
; that, as he would not fail to come
: thlther on precisely such an errand
! 1t would complete the hurforistit
7 perfection Of their roguery coult
they but sell him, at 8 fair price
bis oWnsstolen ass again. Accord
ingly they cropped it, and they
docked it, and they played sucI
t1nker's tricks with it, tbat there
was every reason to believe its own
dnped owner might be duped again
10th he who had lain IN fictitious
| agonies apon the ground, and he
who had 4personated the gietim o1
Eevil magic spells, were naturally
disqualified from making in the
matter an appearance which might
at once have set the p1undered one
upon his guard. Therefore, to the
knayish partner who last night had
ridden of the donkey in the dusk
was entrusted the delicate task of
re-selllng him by daylight 10 his
lawful owner. =.
Whatever might have been in
other respects his intellectual defci-
eneiesy he was no bad Judge of a
donkey, this same credulous fe1Iah;
and with half q glance he had dis
covered that the brute which the
rogu'sh Bedoween had in tow was
was deserving Of a eloserinspection
Upon making it, 8 shadow Of a
sh de Of 8 suspicion may have
crossed his mind that he had seen
some such g donkey once before :;
but, SO plausible and ingenious ap-
peared the vendor, SO totally '@trans-
nogrihed" the patient animal that
a bargain, in its main details, had
been struck Of. course both buyer
and seller had gesticulated until
weary, and sGreeche until hoarse.
Minor details only had now to be
settled with precision, such as the
value Of the amulet, which. for ap-
pearance sake, had been fastened
round poor brownies shaven neck
by those sharp Bedoween practitio-
ners-such as the 'lnmbe~. of paras
to be deducted from the value=ofI
three several piastre= pieces, *which,I
though rendered as part payment
by the fellah, were Indignantly re-
jected by the other, IN consequence
Of having had a small round
hole drilled through it near the
edge. sQuatted upon the ground,
and endeavoring to bring the dis
cussion to some amicable termin=
alton, swindler and sWindled, rock
and pigeon, are. dipping their beaks
IN scaIding coHes-grounds, when,
stifening his legs, and erecting bis
cropped ears, the subject Of the
transaction begins q long, discord=
ant brav..4U jumps the fellah, and
drops, as he does SO, the sealdng !
coffee upon the bare legs OF the
BedoWeen.
: ssAyannt, magician = cries he
: such as thee a good fusslal- |
man maketh no bargain know
thee now, and thy letesta BE dom |
key likewise! To-day he brays,
iust as I have heard him bray q
thousand times before. Last night
be spoke plain Arabic, and his
ears were no longer thar mine are:
He is donkey or man, as best suits
bis eonyenience- Last night he
took. my money bag who knows T
# ! should purchase him again,
whether he might not turn ont
Jim or an etreet, and twist my poor
mock ior me IN the palm Wood, or t
turn me into a donkey myself, and
break my back with dnlra sacks,
as be declared that { broke hist"
Gen Jackson once said that those
who do business on borrowed eap5-I
tal ought. to break. The Boston T
atlas and Bee wonders what the /
old hero, were be aliye, uonld say /
sc The present Federal 4 dlni n1stla- /
i 11ion. which doing basiness o.