The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-02-02

out over your right arm, Magsnan, and carry /,
me down stairs, I'll see you out" I said !
couldn't think of such thing, but he would
have it, SO lifted him off his throne. He |
smelt strong of Maideary, and couldn't help
thinking L carried him down that it was like
carrying large bottle fulhof wine, with ray-l
ther ugly stopper, good deal out of proper /
ton. 9-i1 ns X g4a- zss1.rif..
When / set him on the door-mat in the hall, I
he KEEP me close to him by holding ON to my
coat collar; and he whispers:
81 ant 'appy, Magsman."
9'What's your mind, Mr.. Chops y
eThey don't use me well. They ant CRATE
full to me. They puts me2on the mastle-piece
when won't have in more Ghampagne-wine,
and they locks me in the sideboard whenI
| won't give up my property Jsx q ai5.soss
SECT rid of ,em Mr.. Chops" ialss!se.i ..9
"I can't. We're in Society together, and
| what would Society say?'' e
I aCome out of Society,"" says /. 5
"I can't. You don't know what you re talk
ing about, When you have once gone into
| Society, you mustn't come out of it"
"Them you'll excuse the freedom Mr.. Chops
were my remark, shaking my head, grave, 81
think it's a pity you ever went in:
| Mr.. Chops shook that deep Ed of his, to a
surprisin extent, and slapped it half dozen
times with his hand, and with more Vice than
1 thought were in him. Then, he says, "You're
a good feller, but you don't understand. Good
night, go along Magsman, the little man will
now walk three times round the Caravan, and
retire behind the curtain" The last see of
him on that occasion was his tryin, ON the ex-
tremest verge of insensibility, to climb up the
4 stairs, one by one with his hands and knees
4 They'd have been much too steep for him, if
he had been sober; but he wouldn't be helped.
1t warn't long after that that I read in the
newspaper of Mr.. Chops being presented at
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and I've noticed in my life that it is sure to
be printed that it will be recollected, whenever
it won n't-s'that Mr.. Chops is the individual of
small stature, whose brilliant success in the
| last State Lottery attracted so much attention"
Well, l says to myself, Such is life ! He
| has been and done it in earnest at last ] He
has astonished George the Fourth Z.
! (On account of which had that canvass
new-painted, him with bag of money in his
hand, presentin it to George the Fourth, and
| a lady in ostrich feathers fallin in love with
him in a bag wig, sword, and buckles correct.)
/ took the house as is the subject of present
nquiries-though not the honor of bein ac-
quainted-and l run Magsman's Amusements
| in it thirteen months-sometimes one thing,
sometimes another, sometimes nothin particular,
but always all the canvasses outside. One
night, when we had played the last company
out, which was shy company Through its
raining heavens hard, L was takin pipe in the
one pair back along With the young man with
the toes, which I had taken on for month,
(though he never drawed-except on paper,
and heard kickin at the street door. HHal-
loa !' | says to the young man, "what's up r.
! He rubs his eyebrows with his toes, and he
says, sI can timagine, Mr. Magsman' which
he never could imagine nothin, and W, was mono
tonous company. e
The noise not leavin off, laid down my
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and opened the door / looked out into the
street; but nothin could see, and nothin was
I aware of, until turned round quick, because
some creetur between my legs into the
passage. There was Mr.. Chops!
s'Magsman" he says, ''take me, on the hold
terms, and you've got me if it's done, say
done !'
was all of maze, but said, seDone, sir"
"Done to your done, and double doneH' says
he "Have you got bit of supper in the
house?" l esl - .-.s 20
Bearin in mind them sparklin varieties of
foreign drains as we'd guzzled away at in Pail
Mall, was ashamed to offer him cold sassages
and ginger-water; havin a chair for his table,
and sittin down att on stool, like hold times.
! I, all of a maze all the while. e1
! It was after he had made clean of the sas-
sages, (beef, and to the best of my calculations
two pounds and quarter, that the wisdom
was in that little man, began to come out of
him like prespiration. a'7 - 7-- io
"Magsman," he says, "look upon me? You
see afore you, One as has both gone into So
ciety and come out" 72i
| E'Oh! you are out of it, Mr.. Chops How
did you get out, Sir p, p. 'r*-3.
"SoLD oUTp' says he. You never saw the
like of the wisdom as his Ed expressed, when
he made use of them two words.
any friend Magsman, I'll impart to you
discovery I've made. It's wallable; it's cost
twelve thousand five hundred pound it may
do you good in life. The secret of this matter
is, that it amt so much that person goes into
| Society, that Society goes into person"
| Not exactly keeping up with his meanin, L
shook my head, put on deep look, and said,
''Youre right there, Mr.. Chops" e9
teMagsman," he says, twitchin me by the leg.
fsSociety has gone into me, to the tune of every
penny of my property"
felt that went pale, and though natrally
bold speaker, couldn't hardly say ''where's
Normandy Pr, ere p5 trr-- s.
"Bolted. With the plate," said Mr.. Chops.
"And tother one meaning him as form
erly wore the bishops mitre.
"Bolted. With the jewels" said Mr.. Chops.
I sat down and looked at him, and he stood
up and looked at me.
"Magsman," he says, and he seemed to my
self to get wiser as he got hoarser; 'Society,
taken in the lump, is all dwarfs. At the court
of Saint Jamess, they was all a3doin my hold
business-all goin three times round the
Caravan, in the hold Court suits and proper
ties Elsewheres, they was most of EN- ring
in their little bells out of make-believes.-
| Everywheres, the sarser was goin round
Magsman, the sarseris the universalinstitutionw
perceived, you understand, that he was
soured by his misfortune, and felt for MI.
Chops. e-4 i be- ii5i5ai1a b.s.
GAS to Fat Ladies, says he, giving his Ed a
tremendous one agin the wall, ssthere's lots of
them in Society, and worse than the original.
Hers was a outrage upon Taste-simgly a out
rage upon Taste -awakenin contempt
! its own punishment in the form Of an Indian p
Here he Civ himself another tremendous one.
..BQt theirs, Magsman, theirs is mercenary out
RACES. Lay in cashmeer shawls, buy bracelets,
strew 'em and lot of ,andsome fans and things
about uonr rooms LET 1t be knn1En that Won