Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-01-21
MISCELLANY.
MOSES THE SASSY; OR THE DISGUISED
DUKE.
BY ARTEMAS WARD.

Bosting. In the parlor of an aristocratic man.
shun on Bacon street sits lovely young lady
boos hare is cover over with the frosts of II
summers, she has Just sot down to the PLAINLY
& is singin the popular PEGS called Swells of
the Hotion, to which she tells how with Pensive
Thawt she wandered by c beet shoar. The
Son is setting in its horison and its gorgeous
lite pores in golden meller fluid threw the
winders and makes the bootiful young lady
twice as bootiful as she was bed, which is on
necessary. She is magnifcently drest up a
Beragt bask with poplin trimmins, More Anteck
edges G. ply carpeiin. Her dres contains ~
founders, brilliantly ornamented with horn but
tons, and her shews are morocker with gold
sprangles onto them.
Presently she presses her hands to her head
and buzzum, and starts up in a ecsited manner.
"Methinks," she whispers in clarion tones, 81
see voies." A nobul youth of 81 summers
skrapes the mud from his butes in the hawl and
enters. He is attired in red shirt and black
trowsis which last are turned up over his butes,
and his hat bewitchingly cockt on one side Of
his classic he'd. In zooth he was nobul child.
Grease in its balmest dase never produced
more galaEter herow than Moses. The young
lady gazes upon him for a few periods, clasps
her hands together, strikes position, and roll
lin her rs wildly, like an expiring infantie COW,
cries
"Ha! Do my rs deseev my IsiteP"
"That frame! them store close! those vols 1!
it is-it is me own, me only Moses!" and he
folded her to his heart "Methinks l shall
swoon," SEE she, and pretty soon she swoondid.
CHAPTER n.-wAs MOSES NOBLE BIRTH.
Moses was fourman of Injine Kumpany No.
40. The 40s had jest ben havin plesent fite
with the SOS on the day l introduce Moses to
my reeders. He had his arms full Of trofees,
to wit, skalps, Is, 2 fingers, ears, which
he had chop off, &C., &c. When Elizy, flor that
was the young lady's naim) rekivered from her
swoon, she askedP Tell me-"
"How has the battle gomez Tell me-"
"Elizy," said the brave young man, DRAWN
himself to his full hite, 1--WE chewed EN- up and
smashed Their old mersheen all ter peeses"
81 thank the gods!" she crde. "Thou didst
full well, and hence4th ware thee in my hart
of harts And Noses" she continued, lain her
hart confdingly agin his weskit, "dost no
sumtime think thou wastest of noble birthP"
"No," SEE he, wildly ketchin hold of himself,
"you don't say SOP"
"Inded I do" she sed Your ded grandfath-
er's sperret earnest to me the other mite and seq
he, "Moses is disgised Juke!"
"You meen Duke" sed Moses.
"Does not the actors call it Jukep" she sed
sternly.
That settled the question.
~ have thought of this thing afore," sed
Moses abstractedly "If its so then it must be
b or not to B-that airs the question! But
no more of this now. Dry NY. Oh, lfe-life,
your too many for" He toar his pretty yeller
har, stamped on the floor wildly, and was gone
CHAPTER II-THE PIRUT FonED.
Sixteen long and weery yeers had elapst since
the seems narrated in the last chapter took phase
A noble ship, the Sary Jane, is salem frum
Frans to Amerryky, threw the Wawbash Canal.
A pirut ship is in hot pursute of the Sary Jane.
The captng of the S. J. looks fateeged & as
tho he had lost all his parunts. The pirut is
clost on him and he is abowt givin up, when a
fine lookin Teller in russets butes and buffaler
over cut PUSHES forred and SEE to the capting,
sed he
"Old mani go doun stares, Retire to the star
berd bulkhed. lie take charge of this Bote."
"Owdashus kuss!" said the capting, "away
with thee, shell do murder-r-rw
"Skacely," sed the noble Teller, and he drew
dyamund hited sword and cut the capting's
he'd off,
ooh that should live to BEGUN ded body p
sed the capting as he fell to the deck He ex-
pired shortly afterwards, beeing fatally killed.
'Peopep sed the nobul Teller, line the luke
de Mosesr
odd boss, methinks thow art blowin!' sed q
of likewise. Don't print emmy versis on my
deth in the noospapers,' screened the unfortu-
nit young man as he fell ded on the deck, 'for
if you do lie haunt yerp
People! continued the luke, Il alone can save
you from yon buddy and unprincipled piruts
What hoe there A peck of oats The oats
were Immediately brawt. The luke took them
and mowntin the jebpoop he threw them on the
topath. In mint the leedin hos hitched to
the Pirut Bote cum along, stopt and commenst
for tn devowr the oats. The driver holered al
him terribull, but he woodruff buj an inch
Meanwhile the Starry Jane, her HOSES on the
keen jumpt, was fast leevin the pirut ship.
'Onct agn do | escape DEATH sed the luke
between his clencht teeth, still on the jebpoop
CHAPTER Iv-THE WANDERERS RETURN.
The luke was Moses the Sassy. He had beer
in Frans about 6teen years and now he was hum
agin in Boosting. He had sum trubbull in get.
tin himself acnolidged as luke in Frans, as the
Orleens dnassty and borebones were forrest
him, but he finally conkered, and now he had
crosst the deep blew see to git his own Elizy
She nu him at onct, as one of his GERS and a
porshun Of his nose had been chawed off in
nights with oppossishum firemen durin boyhood's
sunny ours. Tina was marrid and went to Frans
to reside in the jewcal pallls which was got up
regardless OF expens. Tha had sevral children
and lived to green old age beloved 'by aw
both CRATE and smawl, as the Poick seq.
The pirut captings was capturd, trid, convict.
i'd and sentunsed to reed all the letters that
Giddings an Wise shall rite for the ensewin 4
years. His friends are endeavorin to Git his
sentunse committed to imprisonment for life |
our each day to be devoted to reedin the Can.
Midday papers. He seq this sentunse is wus thar
luther wun was. Still he don't kare much a,
long as he gifts his meels reglur.
This is my first attempt at ritin tail and it i,
far from bein perick, but if | hev indoosed
foxes to see that cases out of 10 tina can eth
er make life as BARN as the desart of Sary OF
asjoyyus as -four gardin, my objick will have
ben accomplished. Adew.