The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-11-16
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. l6.
The Disguised Duke, or, Moses
the Sassy
QUAD J--MOSES

CHAP. MOSES.
My story opens in the classic ireestinks
of Boosting. In the parlor Of aristocra-
tic manshun on Bacon street sits love-
ly young lady whose hair is covered ore
with frosta of II summers. She has just
sot down at the Piany & is slgin the pop
lar peace called Smells of the Notion in
which she tells how with Pensiv Thawrt
she wondered by G beet shore. The son
is settin in its horizon and its gor]us lite
pores in golden meller fluid through the
win and makes the bootitul young lady
twice as bootiful as she was be4, which
is unnecessary. She is magnitisuntly
dressed up in Berage basque Poplin
trimmings, More Antique edges and
DIV carpeting. Her dress contains II
tlounces, brilliantly ornamented with
horn buttons, and her shoes are red NOR
occo with gold spangled on to them, fre-
sentley she presses her buzzum and
starts up in excited manner. ME
thinks" she whispers in clarion tones Il
see voice?" A noble youth, OF rs sum
mers, scrapes the mud from his butes In
the hall and enters. He is attired in
red shirt, and black trowsls which last
air turned up over his butes, and his hat
is bewitching ely cockt on one side OF his
classical he'd Insooth he was a nodle
child. Grease in its barmiest days near
produced more gallenter herow than
Moses. The young lady gazes upon him
Tor few periods, claps her hands togeth-
err strikes position, and rollin her Is
wildly like a expirim infantile COW, cries:
"Ha do my Is deceive my earsight
That frame! them store clothes! those
voice! it, tit is me own me only Moses
and he folded her to his hart. "Methinks
shall swoon, she said and pretty soon
she swoondid.
CHAP, u.-wAs MOSES OF NOBLE BIRTH
Moses was foreman of Ingine Kumpa-
nv Number 40. The 40's had jest bin
avin pleasant fife with the SOS on the
day introduce Moses to my readers
He had his arms full of troffees, to wit:
4 scalps, 2 rs, 3 fingers, 7 ears, which
ne bad chawed off. ETC., etc. When
Elizy flor that was the lovely young
lady's name) rekivered from her swoon,
she asked:
How hast the battle gone? Tell
mel"
"Elizy," said the brave young man
drawn hisself up to his full hite, "we
chawed 'em and smashed their old mer-
sheer all terpieces !"
81 thank the gods" she cried. "Thou
didst full we'll, and hence4th | ware thee
in NV hart of harts And Moses she
continued, lawn her he'd conidingly
agin his weskit; sdost thow know sum-
times think that thow was OF noble
birth 2"
"No !" seq he, wildly ketching hold of
himself, "you don't say so ?"
Indeed do l." she sed. "Your ded
grand fathers sperrit earnest to me the
other mite and seq he, Moses is dis
guised luke p
"You mean Duke" sed Moses.
"Dost not the actors call it luke ?"
she sed sternly.
That settled the matter.
~ have thought of this thing afore,
said Moses, abstractedly. "lf it is. so,
then thus it must be-! 2B or not B.
that airs the question? But no more of
this now. Dry up! 0 life-lite, you're
too mann. for me! He tore out some of
his pretty yaller hair, stamped on the
floor wildly, and was gone.
CHAP III.--THE PIRATE FOLDED.
Sixteen long and weary years has
elapsed since the scenes narrowated in
the larst chapter took place. A noble
ship, the Sary Jane, is sailin from France
IN Amerikv threw the Wabash Canawal.