M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-03-21
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Wat de ledger Says-A COlOTed
Dialogue.
Samuel Johnson MIR. White, does
you eber dispill de expresshun Oh spir-
its when you's laborin' under lusina,
ton oh carmveroa5 detractions wid
literary pussoots9
Brud. White Wha'-wha'--wha,
dati
S. J.--Do you cher, Mr.. White,
read de magazines, de newspapers an
dem like scarificators of de mental.
lects! Jist you glib fo' cents for de
Ledger. Is bin a realin' sich a put,
ty story in da'. Sich q story. 1t was
jiSt de most intcrestinist dat eber was
and dat's a fac done gone for sartain.
B. W.--Bound to hyar dar story
Jist am.
S. J.--Nufto make feller trimmed
all ober. Dem stories are always so
har rerin. Law bress you, honey ,dey
claws You and scars you like a cat does
de mice; dat's a fac, Ji8t think OF a
teIler's beiu' in battle, kiln all de
enemy wild de handle of an ole broom,
catchiI' up de bloody willin ola Fi;z
Clarum de Snortolio, un fiugun him
up moren eleben miles.
B. W.-Jis'-jis' you shut up
Who you spose gw;ne to b'lieve-
S. J.-Dat's what de Ledger, says,
onyhow. Well, den, arter KILN dc
wiilin, de fellin tuck one tremendous
leap after de flying foe from de atumS-
fear, pintin his pistils at de treatn en-
emy wen dc fints strike fah in lis
volver BLOWN up de percussion caps
b. WA wat data How could
a piStil hab fints and percussion caps,
too!
S. J.-Anyhow dat's wot de Lodg.
or says. We'll den dc felIer got par.
ticipated into de briuy deep.
B, WY don't you say de oceanl
S. J.--Kase he didn't fall into dc
ocean. Twas into de briny deep
Anyhow dats wot de sun Gums into
his eyes, and he cit blind and swim
Iortcen thousand miles
b. W.--Oh, shaw. You git out.
Who-who's gwne to swaller dat q
Blind man swim iorteen thousand
miles. Yah, yah, yah.
S. J.--(nettled.) OATS wot de
Ledger says, anyhow. We'll den, de
chap Gums to dessert island whar
dar wasn't muffin to eat, I'm nobody to
tank to OBJ any consequence, I'm no
slety wuf mentiopin, un dar lie Ibis
for foyteen years.
b. W.-See hyar. Jis tell us how
that man lived for iorteen years with
muffin to cat.
s. J.-Dat's wot de Ledger says,
anhow. Well den, de mans true lub,
wot he hadn't seen for nineteen years.
b. W.-Now-now, how you going
to tell me ano gal mained true iol
nineteen years, and she neber seed 10
man in de whole tine!
s. J.-Well, dat's wat de Ledger
says; and de chap he started one NOR
ming Tor to swim after a vessel, kase
he seen bis sweetheart abod, up in de
riggin. You sec she'd gone to sea
despised as a sailor.
B. W.-'Sguised, you mean.
S. J.-Yes, yes--skized, dat's wot
de Ledger says. An only think, it
shos jist wot true love kin do, and
amt it wonderful now, and das's jis a
tac--dat gal jis went and dressed her,
se}fupin sailor clothes and dere wasn't
won sole abord, nor der captin neither,
didn't know she was a gal.
B. W.--uow de debil, den, did dat
chap dar, way off on de dessrt island
know who she was, hey! Spanify dat,
ifyou please.
S. J.-Well OATS wot &c Ledger
says. And de chap he jumps into the
sea tc swim to de wessil, but jis den
dere spring up tremenjus gale, and
washed him off cher SO fur, till he
Gums to de foot OBJ a fortyfdecation,
and kase it was arter dark an de front
do was shut, lie jist climbed up to one
oh de mUuf OBJ de cannons and creep
into de cannon, and lay down and
went to.sleep.
B. W.-Now stop dar. | should
jis like to hab you expressly to me
how a mans gwine togit into de monf
90 dc cannon?
S. J.-Well, dst's wot de Ledger
says. An while he was asleep, dere
com on war in de night tween de
two countries, and de cannons were
all fahed off.
B. W.-Wot! Wild de man in 'em |!
S. J.-Dat's wot de Ledger SAYS.
And he got sbooteG back into de wer-
ry indeDtical island again de night de
ship had got rocked, and eberybody