The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-08-20
CUFFEE AND THE FUGITIVE.

Another fugitive slave case is reported to have
| been among the incidents which occurred here and
in Putnam a day or two since. The hunters were
| from Parkersburg, Virginia but the game had got
to cover before they arrived l. in the language of
Cuftee, dis was good for de woOdchuck, but bad
for de dog."-Zanesoihc Courier.
The above is suggestive of a thought or
SO. And first: the original and genuine
bit of wit of Cuffee finds scarcely an equal
within the whole range of witticism. Its
appropriateness to the case in hand; its
tantalizing effect upon those to whom it ap-
plies--unless it be they are void of feel
ing, for man-stealers, woman-whippers, and
baby-sellers, it is believed have no feeling;
still, if they have any even for the steal
ing, the buying, the selling, the fogging,
the branding, the burning, and the doing
of other and worse violence, we say that
the effect of Cuftee's witticiSm must be, to
say the least, truly tantalizing. " Dis was
good for de woodchuck, but bad for de
dog" The poking of such fun on the part
of CuAee, under such circumstances, at our
Southern brethren, is touching them IN
tender place. Only think of it! After
having run the game all the way from "ole
Virginny1 to the gates of Canada, and then
to miss it! What chasel Our eyes run
down with tears as our mind gets absorbed
in the subject What anxietyl-what
heat!-what straining of nerves!-what
looking in the long, dim distance for the
game!-what shutting up of the north wind
for the scent!-what terrible howlings just
as the track freshens upland then, what
hurrying up of pace!-what stretching out
of limbsl We can see them now as they
streak it
Ger hill and dale,
Through wood and vale,
On mountain top,
And meadows green,
these cursed twolegged dogs of Cufee's,
and then at last-at last, just as they get
their teeth set agap to grasp the flesh of
their victim, 10 and behold it is too late!-
too late!l He is gone-gone under cover
of Canada! In the language of Cufee,
" Dis was good for de wood-chuck, but bad
for de dog" Poor dogs! With heads
down and tails skunk, eyes sheepish,
tongues out, and painting, what a sorry fig
ure they cut, as they are seen by more
eyes than Cufee's, sneaking back to I" Ole
Vmginny," looking SO cheap that you may
purchase the whole pack for a trihe less
than a bull-rush!
These delightful little chases, which
prove failures now and then, get in the pa
pers- these abominable Northern papers
very much to the chagrin of the dogs and
to the annoyance of the masters, who
would, of course, prefer to herald only the
successes of the chase.
But there is another thought that Cuf
fees wit suggests, which, to our mind,
would, if acted upon, prove more tantaliz-
ing still 1t is that these two-legged dogs
these hounds-be not permitted to re-
turn to g Ole Virginny" or any other spot
south of this human hunting ground, at all.
Rather make a monument of their bones.
Dogs, SO far as we know, when dead, have
never received any such little attentions;
but as these of Cufee's are not of the or
dinary species, let the fleeing fugitive
save them from the obscurity to which
| they would return, like other dogs, and