Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1859-12-26
GETTING SHAVED IN CHARLOTTE

aiut got much beard but what little ther. i; s :, :;
the worst Kind of beard In the first place it is more
IKE Berlin wirc-tough and hard-than an animal or
or other substance. Some people, Won know contend
that the hair aud nails vegetables nasmuch as thew
continue TO grow after body is dead. In the nex
place my beard crops out a. all of angcs-that on
my chin growing downwards like body elses Will,
that on my cheeks upwards and that on nv throat
emerges sideways in every direction, like the RAYS of
starhsh Lastly my skin exceedingly tender NV laws
very hollow, and my neck scraggy and auted as A ca.
checuc Corinhian column-if you can imagine sueh a
thing. The consequence Is that can't shave mysclf
even II knew how to sharpen razor, a feat which
have never and shall never perform That's certain for
I've tried and tried till there is no use in irving Ia
deed it Is impossible for barber shave me clean
on see he can't get at my beard, and if he could he
dare not shave both ways for If he does he leaves nv
face as bloody a bAck-heart cherry lust skinned =
Leander Harrison the best barber in the State according
to my thinking will tell you that NV beard il the worst
beard that ever disfgured a human visage
How serionS thing il is 90 be able to shave my
self you will be able TO understand as tell you
how got shaved in Charlotte. Listen:
In the year 1850 ls5l-the date Is not important
started from town-what town on horseback
horses back? hyou had seen my horse you would at
once have detected my business lie was snowy horsa
and his trappings down the very martinralo we're
spck and span Siddlebags were new and full of
new clothes. Umbrella new hat new gloves new
whip rew--in fact the whole turnout rider included na,
that slick vanished look that things have when fresh
from the hands of the cabinet was five aud
twenty years old, and the summer just closing
Surely you mast guess that although | was not going
the fall. eN '''
The day was fine. had plenty of excellent cigars
and never felt better in my life. Our appearance "our
meaning the horse and myse) attracted the attention
ot 1'eTyNody We passed. We especially pleased
IN the compliment passed upon ny one of a rroup
oil small lac goes who assembled round Us when we atom
ped at woebegone house the roadside to get drink
OF water he compliment raE :hus: "Unh eff dat AR
amt dc poo white man aud dc pootyi,t boss and br
die whit may nuvver" Under the impulse of this
praise We struck on gay into that lonesome road thai
leads TO the particular locality in the county of Charlotte
which was the goal of my ambition For twenty miles
We passed not solitary traveller and scarcely a human
habaiion recall only single log hut on the left hand
side of the road Some sckly tobacco plants
crowded 10 the very door of this hut showing that
was inhabited bu; living thing was visible Firy
yards down the road overlook draggle tailed rooster
who ran out of my way and hid behind a chestnut tree
bronchitis Ny horse switched his tail if TO resent the
insult and on we went along the lonely road. began
TO feel not comfortable in the saddle had been at
starting, and my high spirits abated. As had never
been in that section before il became very certain
that my invarabe rule of getting lost had been bro
ken. But there was the " MAN, plain road and all
had to do was to follow it, So followed IT, And tho
trot OF the snowy horse became harder and harder
Nothing but the eyerdeighfu and continually recurring
reverie in which had been ndulgiug from the moment
-et outsustane while that snowy horse tro,ted har
der and still harder along that dreary road through the in
terminabe chestnut woods All was rueIy ava
kened from my delicious day-dream. The horse had
stopped.
And this is what made him stop