Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-05-25
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some friend Of ours, who few weeks
ago was poked out Of comfortable
Office up the river, has betaken himself
to Bangor for . time to recover from
the wound inflicted upon his feelings
BY our "unprincipled and immoiating
ADMINISTRATION.
Change of air must have bad IN in
slant effect upon his spirits, for, from
Gelena, he writes Us letter, which.
amorg other things, tells of des-
pirate quarrel that took place on board
Of the boat, between real live tourist
and real live Yankee settlir. The
latter trod on the toes Of the former,
weereup on the former threatened to
"kick him out OF the cabin" the lat
ter.
you'll kick me out of this cab
ing 2"
ayes, sir, I'll kick you out of this
cabin"
"You'Il kick me, Mr.. Hitchcock, ont
ofthis cabing!
AYES, sir, I'll kick you, Mr.. Hitch
cock"
"Well, l gness," said the Yankee,
very cooIly, after being perfectly satiA-
fed that it was himself that stood in
such imminent danger Of assault. IL
guess, since you talk Of kicking, you've
never heard me tell about old Bradley
and my mare to hum 2"
"No, sir, nor do wish" .
"WelI, | guess it won't set you b
much any how, as kickiug's general
best to be considered. You see ol9
Bradley is one of those sanctimonious,
long faced hypocrites who put on .
religious suit every Sabbath day morn
ing, and with a good deal of screw
ing manage to keep it on till after SER
mon in the afternoon and as l was q
UniversaIist, be alters picked me out
as subject for religious conversation
and the darned hypocrite would
talk about heaven, hell and the devil
the crucifixlon and prayer-without
ever winking. Wall, he had an old
roam mare that would jump over any
fourteen rail fence in Illinois, and open
any door in my barn that hadn't a
paddock on it. Tu or three times
found her in my stable, and told
Bradley about it, and he was very
sorry--an unruly animal---would
watch her'-and hull lot Of such
things all said in a serious manner,
with face twice as long as old Dea-
con Farrar's on sacrament day.
IL knew all the time he was lying,
and so watched him and his old roam
tn and for three nights regular
old roam came to my stable about bed
time, and just at daylight Bradley
would come, bride her and ride off,
! then just took my old mare down to
a blacksmith's shop, and had some
shoes made with corks about four
inches long, and had 'em nailed on
her hind feet. Your heels, mister,
amt nuthin' to 'em. l took her hum
give her about ten feet halter, tied
her right in the center of the stable,
fed her well with the oats at 9 o'clock,
and after taking a good smoke, went to
bed, knowing that my old mare was q
truth-telling animal, and that she'd
give good report of herself in the
morning.
hadn't got fairly asleep before the
old woman hunched me, and wanted to
know what on airth was the matter
out in the stable. So says l, go to
sleep, Peggy, IFS nothing but Kate
she's kicking off flies l guess. Purity
soon she hunched lie again, and says
she, "Mr. Hitchcock, du get up and
see what in the world is the matter of
Kate, for she is kicking most power
fully"
"Lay still, Peggy, Kate will take
care of herself, | guess"
"Well, the next morning about day.
light, Bradley, with bride in hand,
cum to the stable, and tru as the book
Of Genesis, when he saw the old roam 5
sides, starn and head, he cursed and
swore worse than you did mister, when
| came down on your toes. After
breakfast that morning Joe Davis cum
to the house and says he
"Bradley's old roam is nearly dead
she's cut all to pieces, and can scarce
" move"
81 want to know" says l, chow on
airth did it happen ~
"Now Joe was q member of the