Natchitoches union. [volume] ([Natchitoches, La.]) 1859-1864, 1862-08-07
For the Union.
Mr.. Flights Breakfast Table.

patlcnce, perseverance, ana patrl0tlSm
are running off at my fingers end, and
you sit smoothing your mustaohes as
if nothing was the matter. Here's
the miltipitcher and not drop of cof-
fee. Dinah says there's not another
grain in the barrel. You've "iust
taken mint jullep and don't care for
coffee Z" Well / dol cant stand
this state of things. Think / "ought'nt
to complain while others are suffering
SO much 7 Well, If it would do them
any good for me to do without coffee.
! expect | could do it, but here the
times have been Citing so hard harder
and hardest, and I've been good pa
triot through it all-made all imagin-
able compounds Of cornmeal, mullins,
cakes, bread, puddings, eat them in
peace, and blessed the rulers paid
dollar bar soap, so cents spool
for thread, wished the Yankees at the
bottom of the Red Sea, and blessed
JEFF. Davis, Gov. Moore, and all their
grandeurs didn't mend my babys
socks last night by a tallow candle
which kept us more spottering than a
Yankee cannonading, and tailow 1oiH
be tallow all you can do to it, the more |
you put into it the worse it burns, but
this doing without coffee, can't stand.
"Coffee's o dollar pound, and you
can't afford to buy it Ny Grand
Mother did without tea, and / can do
without coffee 7" Mr. Fidgit Pam
ashamed of you. Why couldn't you
say "Great Grand Mother as if any
baby who looked at me, wouldn't
tao,c that my Grand mother must
have lived after the Revolution. Every
body knows, that Pm the meckest Gre
lture in the World, but / will have an
answer to this question. Why is cof-
ee a dollar pound Just as like
ss not,it didn't cost the merchants more
han IL cents and they ought to be
atisfied with reasonable profit. "The
'alue Of an article is always proper /
Toned to its scarcity, and il is worth !
What it will bring in market, if You f
ould get dollar pound for t
our cotton, you'd get it2 MAY be t
on would, if you had to sell it to d
hose cold hearted Englishmen, or
,iscrable Yankees, but I'd be asham :,
d of you, and you'd take it of your .
'iends and neighbors if they wanted ;,
for clothes. Suppose you could buy y
Il the corn at dollar Barrel and =
ut it in your magazines and sell it =
II ten dollars, | wonder. what people
'ould think Of you? Amt that what
ou call monopoly I" If baby gets "
'e fever, ! shall have to pay 25 dol W
rs bottle for quinine, and | guess a
lat is just as needful as bread Poor q
tile dear | don't care how much it .;
'st | shall get it. "Told me before 81
had right to take what
ey could get Il knew you said so, 81
I'd | don't pretend to reason the thing OF
1t, but am very sure it never can
right to speculate upon the ncces- az
ties of the people, when they are all &C
tfering in q common cause. ] won W
r if the burden don't fall on all alike? e
the planter does not pay the luer- de
ant, it will be because he can not is
Il his cotton. Wish "wouldt talk til
much, | don't know anything about til
, laws of trade, political economy su
d all that--cant bear stroug mind tic
woman, and detest bluestockingsl"
:. Fidgit Pm ashamed Of you you bo
ow, ] never wear anything but th
ute, and as for strong minded wo- he
n, | don't know anything about
m, and don't think | ever gave you
7 trouble in that way, but | do like Il lhe It
ong coffee, and intend to have it, lol
know the reason why. Tired Of Uul =,
'wering questions--wish / would be 'llt
ct, and eat my breakfast" Well |
'ays hare remarked that You gentle by
4 like better to talk with other peo. or
S wives than your own. | shall OF
somebody else about it, and one ner
fg I'm determined upon, after this the
is over, shall buy all my ribbons the
laccs of the merchant who sells
coffee the cheapest.
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