Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-05-25
a Dutehman's COMPLAINT,

ulihS uucn ABOUT de war una dc urail,
und de rebils, and all about desc dings,
L dlnks about EN- more as about anydlng
else. Sometimes | sets nit miself all day
on de front stoop und schmokes, und drinks
hard cider, und does noding else only drink;
den my wife she gifts me ter tyfel for drink
IN SO much, und says vos peter go und see
after Jacob, our hired man, und not boder
! my head init more as can understand. But
| tells her vat shall vomens know about war |?
! Better she goes und mindts her own pisness
| | drubles myself more about Abraham as a
! bout Jacob.
Ven l gifts tired NIT drinkin on my own
! stoop, L goes down to Hans Butterfoos' tav-
ern, und drinks dare, und tells my opin-
and we makes him out togedder De cd
der day begins de draft Dat bodders me
again. Some goes in for de draft, mostly
dem as Is too olt, and Won't be took dem
self some goes agin de draft, mostly dem as
don, Won't to lick de rebils und some don t
know vlch way to goes, but ony goes round t
and round t, and gifts boddered like dam SO
as | do.
But. nefer mind, I dinks must ind dis
/ ding out, und down | goes to Hans Butter
foos and hears de felers bio. | dom make
nottin NIT dat; dey all bios some odder way,
und | don't dink day hat him rite in dere
own mindts. So | begins uni asks quest
| chun /; und | ses to Bill Puffenstbock
''Vot you dinks Won de draft, dat it is
right p
| And ses Bill: mo, l dinks it ish not
right
| Veil, don't believes him, cause he sheat-
ed once nit plind mare he sells on me
So | dries again und spheaks NIT Fritz
Hookensphlicer.
Fritz, l ses. ''vot do you dinks Won de
draft, if its right or not ?'
And Fritz he ses dat he ''Dinks it is shust
so as it ought to be.
But | don't believes him neder, cause he
rund against me for de peace of shustice,
und dey make him de peace-datis de shus-
| tice. Und he ish no more goot for shquire
as my old cat. So | gifsup askin somebody
sthyle, de reason dey go NIT de draft, is be-
cos dey want soers Eff dey don't get no
sojers, den dey can't bring on de war Eff
dey don't bring on de war, den dey don't
HEX de rebils Eff dey don't lick de rebils,
den de rebils licks dem. Eff de rebils licks
dem, den we all goes to ter tyfel. Dat S
pooty straight. So much.
Now | must dink of some more vot is
de next ding | dink dats all rite but
now [ sthops, someding else comes doe
Let me sees. Oh, yes; dry hundred dol
lars-dat's de ding-dey all bios about dc
dry hundred dollars. dinks so myself
Dry hundred dollars don ( lick de rebils no
more as dry hundred cents. Vot's de goot
NIT dollars :? Peter a goot, shmart sojer,
like my Shorge, he licks de rebils more as
six hundred dollars, yes. Now [ knows
more as Bill Puffenstock und Fritz Hooken-
sphlicer, both togedder We want de So
iers. not de money. OATS where de bodder
is, We putty soon makes money enuff; but
paper sojers is only goot nit wooden guns,
so when de draft comes, und ven men ses
here is dry hundred dollars, sthays behindt
und don fight de rebils, den eft | vas de
draft would take dat man by his breeches
und | ses, go to der tyfel nit your dollars,
und come along nit me like some odder man
as has got no dollars und don't like sojerin
SO bad as not you do, den putty soon | gifts
so much sojers as | wants, dat's my idears
[ tells my olt woman eff dey drafts me |
goes myself To be sure, / don't dink dey
will, caus ] am more as fifty years but nef-
er mindt should go a long while like my
Shorge, ony dere's two dings don't like,
and de one is de marshin und de udder is de
fitin. [ sooner marches down to Hans But
terfoos und fights dere. Ef Shelf Davis
comes dere on me gifts him dam, you pet
ter had believe but eff | goes to Richmond,
may be Shelf Davis he gifts me dam. SO
anyhow, sthays home. De odder day, my
Shorge he comes back NIT a flrlow
He is so much corporal as ever he vas,
und gifts you now what he sees
'Shorge, . | asks him, you've bin nit
de rebels und NIT Old Abe uDd desc fellers,
vot you dinks about de draft dat all de bee
piles bios about %
Und he sees to me: 20, tunder
Veil, dat's his opinions Maybe he shall
l.. 10 oh, -
since he goes for sojer He shwares ike
man six foots high, und call mudeer ''ot
woman, he calls me cap, und he kisses
de gals, und he calls Jacob dam fool [
dinks he gets some high offs before de war
is gone GoTLIEB KLoBBERYoSs.
Served the Speaks Ripht.