East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-10-28
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Tom Ioatherman.

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our fortune to possess the brilliant inn
agination ola Raphael, we would paint
a fancy sketch more potent than Ian
guage can express. The allcgorieal
expression should be immaculate beau
ty and the design wholly original
at.least only gathered from the many
traits of our estimable friend In the
foreground we would represent mon
strous oyster pattie out of the center
of which slowly energies jolly round
figure industriously eating its way out
of the crust. As it makes itself VISA
bic, the beholder recognizes Tom. In
the distance we would paint magnif-.
icent precipice over which would pour
and foam a perfect torrent of cham
payne. Further on you should have a
glimpse of the sea with innumerable
oyster boats, filed with that delicious
bivalve and on the shore q party of
natives in red flannel shirts, turning
over with leavers and huge timbers
an immense green turtle. Near the
cascade should flourish a grove of
trees bearing instead of fruit the most
beautiful of roast turkeys imaginable,
and the most lovely of lobster salad,
and in the-shade thereof would be lit
tie pigs in great numbers running
about as in ancient time, crying for
somebody to come and eat them. The
sky should be a gridiron and every
star broiled trout, and if the moon
could be stuck into some obscure cor
ner, we would paint it the exact re-
hex of a Hamburg Cheese. APP
preaching Tom in the capacity of a
waiter, with face like a boiled pud-
ding and offering him bowl of cham
payne from the cascade, should appear
the GODDESS of Beauty. upon a high
bleak rock in the distance would sit
the Goblin gaunt Hunger, bowling
out his doleful discomfort. The pic
ture would be at once original and
striking, but then it would require
wonderful skill and experience
Therefore we can only introduce our
beloved FREUD as he is-the simplest
aad most genial of good fellows loving
all mankind and especially woman
kind, and as free and jolly as the
birds Of spring. And yet Tom Leath-
erman was not without his troubles in
life. Not that he ever suffered from
actual want or dire privations, but
imaginary grievances played the dick
ems with him. His were not numer-
Gus troubles, but were all summed up
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eat. The great fear that haunted him
ut night and colored all day dreams,
was that some day actual starvation
would take him off. 1t enters into
all his thoughts, and clouds all his en-
ioyments. The breakfast bell to him
is the sweetest music that ever awoke
q responive chord i'll his heart. After
breakfast his whole hope is lunch and
after lunch all his aspirations and the
ultimatum Of his existence to which
he hopes to arrive is-dinner Take
him out into tho glorious freshness Of
morning where the balmy air is an
excellence, divinity, and he will awake
every echo in your soul by exclaiming
fSs if inspired, "What a morning for
suipe or mushrooms % And yet Tom
enjoys travel and all the beauty of
SCENERY that fall within his vision
Capt. John Cook, Sir Beniamen Frank
lin, and other ambitious travelershave
been content to put a girdle as their
footsteps around the earth, but Tom
has spent his whole life in hazardous
and oft repeated journeys from the
kitchen to the pantry, from the game
closet to frying pan, and from the
cookstove TO the table. And yet Tom
is not content. He daily begins a
new journey and at night instead of
wrapping the drapery of his couch
around him and lying down to pleas
ant Dreams, F" very laboriously Jugs
out his patent pocket cook stove and
in the dead hour of might broils dead
snipe.
But take him away from civilized
life and you bring out all his virtues.
In camp he is always jolly, always
cooking, and always luxuriating in
the dirt, smoke and grease, and odor of
the camp. 1t is there pleasant to see
him daily delude himself with the
prospect of further starvation, while
rounds of venison, ribs of elk and
smoking steaks of Bear meat are piled
before him or aro undergoing the ma
nipulations of being done to a turn
under his hands. To hear him there
in his ten thousand anecdotes Iand
songs, is enough to make one enthu-