The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-11-25

IL Laeeeruel Alley. and chased us 4
take aesh here and harm Us again
rFulano, Wadc's horse had tralnplet
10 death a villain u that name wht
attacked them on the Plains
The likeness, look, voice and nam,
we're presently accounted for.
You're looking for your brsihei
out from Sacamenicr bout now,
reckon, said the trader.
lie wur comm cross lots with 4
man named I.arrup, pariner Of his'n
Like enough they've stayed over win.
Ter in Salt Lake. They oughter rak,
down a most mountainous pile thar.
Mormons Is flush and sassy will
their dimes senee tho emergration.--
Now thar's yer bill Of sale, all right.
And thars yer money all right
That ares wut | eail screechin
good price for an old, one-cyed nigger
1 Fourteen hundred dollars--an all-fred
| price.
Eight hundred, you mean.
No; fourteen. Yer see yer noi
up Ter taime on the niger question
/ | know EN- like church steeple.--
When ! bought that boy, now comm
three years, | seed he wuz a sprightly
niggcr, one er yer ambishus sort, what
would be mighty ap, TO get fractions
an be maxim tracks, unless i got 9
holt on him. So, sez | TO him, Ham
you're a sprightly niger, one o the
raal ambishus sort, now sincher p
| lie allowed he warn't nothin else
Waal, sez |, Ham, how'd yer like
ter buy yerself, an be free niger
an hev house o yer own, an wom-
an oyer own, all jess like white folks I
Lor, sez he, 'Massa, I'd like it o
heap
Waal, sez |, you jess scrabble
round an raise me seven hundred
dollars, an I'll sell yer ter yersell, an
cheap at that So yer see he began
to pay up, an ! got holt on him.
He's a handy niger, an a poplar
niger. Hekin play on the fiddle like
taime-.pooty nigh a minstrel is that are
nigger. lie kin cut bar, an fry a
beefsteak with ayry man. He kin
drive team, an do a little iiner work,
an shoe a mule when thar amt no
reg'lar blacksmith round. He made
these yer boots, an regular stompers
they IS Hes one o them chrrupy,
smilin' niggers, with white teeth and
geateel manners, what critters and
foaks naturally takes to. Waal, he
picked up the bits an quarters right
smart He's been at it, lammin' ahead
raal ambishus, for bout three year.
Last Sunday, after church he plunk-
ed up the lasI ten Of the six hundred.
So | allowed 'twus come time to sell
him. He wus gittin his bead drawn,
an his idees set on freedom very on
healthy. ! didn't like TO disap'int him
TO the last, so ! allowed 'twus jess as
well to let you hey him cheap TO 60
down river. That's how TO work
them fractions runaway niggers.--
That ares my patent. Yer kin hey
il for nothin'. Haw T! haw
Haw haw haw You are one
er ther boys! I'm dun sorry that are
trick can't be did twicet on the same
niger. | reckon he knows too much
for that
sWsaI. suppose we walk round to
the calaboose, fore we go back TO bed,
an see eff hes chained up all right
They went out.
Biddulph spoke first.
Shame 7
Yes, said Brent; do you wonder
that we have to run away 10 the
Rocky's and spend our indignation on
grizzlysS'
What are we going 10 do nowY
Try to abolish slavery in Hams
case. Come; wen go buy him a
fle.'
We seem TO have business with
the Murker family, said I.
"a hard lot they are. Representa-
+ tive brutes +
i am getting knowledge Of all
classes on your continent, said Bid
dulph. Some ike better than 9TH
/ ers
Don't be too harsh on US malcon-
tents for the sin Of slavery. II is an
ancestral taint. We shall burn il out
( before many decades
/ You had better, or Il teiH SET yo1