The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1861-10-04


immeji,ly ushered before him. He receive
me kindly and axed me to sit down.
"I have cum to pay my respects to yo'
Mister Napoleon, hOpin to See you hale an
harty."
al am quite WE'LL" he scd. "Air yo'
well, sir?"
"Sound as GUS :" I answered.
He seemed to be pleased with my ways
and we entered into conversation at onct.
"IIow's Lewis?" axed. and he sed tn
Emperor was well. Eugeny was likewis
well, he sed. Then asked him was Levi
q good provider? did he cum home arl.
nites9 did he perfoom her bed room ut on
seasonable hours with gin and tanzy? Die
he 20 to "the Lodge" on mites when ttsr'
wasn't any Lodge? did he often hav to g
down to meet friend? did he hav exten
sive acquaintance among poor young widdcr
whose husbands was in Californy? to all o
which questions Prints perlitely replied, Civ
ing me to understand that the Emperor wal
behayin we'll.
II ax these questions, my royal duke ant
most noble highncss and imperials, becaw'
I'm anxious to know how no stands as Q
man. know he's smart. He is cunnin. h,
is long-heded, he is deep-he is crate. Bu
onless he is gOOdhc'l come down with crash
one Of these days. and the Bonyparts will b.
Bustid up agin. Bet yer life?'
"Air YOU preacher, sir?" he inquired
slitely sarkasticul.
"No, sir. But bleeve in morality.
likewise bleeye in Mctin Houses. Show the
place where there isn't any Mectin Houses
and where preachers is never seen, and Ill
show you place where old hats air stuffed
into broken winders. where the children air
dirty and ragged, where gates hav no hinges,
where the wimin dir slipshod, aud where
maps Of the DEVILS wild land air painted
upon mems shirt.bosums with tobacco jooce!
That's what | II show you. Lot US consider
what the preachers do for us before we aboose
EN-"
lie sed hedidn't mean to aboose the clergy.
Not at all, and he was happy to see that
was interested in the Bonypart family.
"It's n crate family" sed /. "But they
scooped the old man in"
"HOw, sirv'
"Napoleon the Grand. The Britishers
scooped him at Waterloo. He wanted to do
too much, and he did it! They scooped him
in at Waterloo, and he suhsekent,y died at
St. Heleny There's where the greatest
military men This world ever prcjuced pegged
out. Ii was rather hard to consinc such a
man as him to st Heleny, to spend his larst
days in caichin mackeril, and walkin up and
down the dreary beach in military cloak
drawn ii ly round him, (sec picter-books.) }
but so it was. He'd of the ARMY Them
was his larst words. So he had bin~ lie
was CRATE! Don't wish we had pair oil
his old boots to command sum Of our Brig
ades :"
This pleased jerome and he took me warmly
by the hand.
"Alixander the Crate was punkins,"
continued, but Napoleon was punkinzer
Alic wept becaws there was no more worlds
to scoop,and took to drinkin. He drowndid
his sorrers IN the aowin bole, and the flowin
bolc was too much for him. 1t ginrally is.
lie undertook to give snake exhibition in
his boots, and it killed him. That was a bad
joke for Alic!"
"Sincc you air so solicitous about France
and the Emperor, may ask you how your
own country is getting along'"s sed jerome,
in pleasant voice.
"It's Mixed" scd. "Bnt l think we
shall come out all right"
"Columbus, when he diskivered this mag
nifcent continent, could bav had no idee OF
the grandeur it would one day assume" sed
the Prints.
at cost Columbus twenty thousand dol.
lan to ft out his exploring expedition" scd
/. "If he had bin sensible man he'd hay
put the money in hoss railroad or a ga,
company, and left this magnificent continent
to the intelligent savagcs, who when they
got hold Of q good thing knew enuff to keep
it, and we wouldn't have seceeded, nor rc'
belled, nor knockt Liberty in the head with
a slungshot. Columbus wasn't much Of a
ieller. after all. 1t would hav bin money In
my pocket II he staid to home. Chris. men,
well, but he put his foot in it when be sailed
for America"
We talked sum moro about matters and
things, and at larst I rix to 60. al will now
say good bye to you, noble sir, and good luck
to you. Likewise the same to Clotildy.-
Also to the gorgeous persons which compose
your SCOT. lfthe Enperor's boy don't like
liyin at the Tooleries, when ho gifts older
and would like to imbark in the show bi.
ness, let him come with me and II make 4
man Of him. You find US sumwhat mixed as
before observed, but come again next yeal
and you'll find US clearer nor ever.