The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-06-14

A Daschnanss Ce0pluins.
/ drinks much about dc var and dc draft
and de rebils. and al dsss dings. dints
about EN- more ~ about sayding elss.--i
Sometimes / sets NIT myselfall day on Dc
front stoop and smokes ind drinks hard
cider und does nothing else only dink -
Den my wife she gifs me dc tsiful for
drinking SO much. und says vos peter
go uud see after Jseop, our hired man,
upd not bodder my head NIT more a /
can understand. But tells her, vat vo-
mems knows about war; better she goes
and minds her own business. drubles
myself more about Abraham as about Ja.
cop ~
Ven gifts tired NIT drinking on nv
own stoop, goes down to Hans Butter
foot's tavern, und drinks dere und l selIs
my obinion and some odder enc tells his
obiuion. und we makes him out togedder.
De oder day pegins de draft. DAT bodder
me agin. Some goes in for de draft,
mostly dem 40 Is too old, und won't be
took demself; some goes agin de draft,
und some don't know vich way to goes. but
only goes round und round, uud gets bod.
dered like tam so 40 do.
But nefer mind, thinks i must end
dis ding out, und down goes to Hans
Butterfoot's und hears de fellers bio. |
don't notin nit dat; dey oil bios come
oder way, und don't tiDk dey hat him
rite in der own minds. So 4 begins und
questchum; und l says to Bill PufFen.
stchock:
"vut you dinks Won de draft, dat it
ish rite Y''
Says Bill, mo dink it amt rite.''
Veil l don't believe him; cause be
sheated me vonce init plind mare he
sells on me. So / dries again und
shpeaks NIT Fritz Hockensdspicer.
Fritz" l aes, "vot you dinks Won de
draft. eft it is rite or not 7"
Und Fritz says be "dinks it is shust as
it ought to be"
But don't believe him neder, cause be
runs against me last for de peace OBJ jus
tice, und dey make him de pease; dat is de
justice. IND he ish no more good for
as my cat. So Igifs up askin' somebody,
und make him out myself, / d,nks in dis
shtyle: de reason dey 60 NIT de draft, il
becos dey want sogers. Ell dey don't get
nosogers den dey cant bring on De var.
Efdey don't bring on do war den dcv
don't whip de rebils. Ef dey don't lick
de rebils den de rebils lick dem. Eff de
rebils lick dem, den We all 20 to ter tuy.
full. OATS pooty straight. So much.
Now | must dink of some more; vot is
de next ding? I dinks dat's all rite, but
now / shtops, someding elsa comes doo.-
Let me sees-oh yes; drei hundred dollars
--dat's de ding-dey al bios about de
drei hundred dollars--I dinks 20 myself.
Drei hundred dollars don't lick de rebels
no more as drei hundred cents. vots de
goot NIT dollars /? Peter . goot smart
soger like my Shorge; he Hicks de rsbils
more as SIX hundred, ysw. Nov knows
more as Bill Puffenshtock md Fr;le
Hockendsplicer, both togedder. We wan,
de soger, not de money. DATE where do
bodder is. We purity soon makes MONEY
enough; but paper sogen 10 only eoos mil
wooden guns, so when de draft Gomez
und ven men here il drei hundred dollars
l shtays pehiud and don't fight de rebils
den if I WAS de draft takes dat man; B,
de preeches und say to de tuyful mi,
your dollars, und come along nit me IL,
some oder man as has got no dollars, uut
don't want 70 60 sogerin - bad ~ vo
you do, den pretty aoon | gits 90 much !,
/ vants; OATS my idears. / tells nv Of
woman If deg drafts me l coca myseif.-.
To be sure don't dink dey viii, 'oause
am as more Fifty: but nsfer mind.
should 60 long while. like ny Hhorrs
only deres two tings don's Ike, one
de marchin,. und de odsr l. de fisie (
sooner marches down TO Hans Butterfoot'
und fights ders Ef Shelf Davis come
ders On me, gifs him dan, yoa psttsj
pelieve: but if | goes to Richmond. ma
be Shelf Davis he gives me dam. soan.
how, l shtays At home. Dc oder dav. .
Shorge lie COMES back nit I fuyl0v 81
is 50 much corporal u eyer ~ nd
shpeaks init hin about desc diur,. ro6
gifts you nov what he seq: m.
"Shorge, Asks him, s.yos've bin n,
de rebils and NIT de- army, Of Old ~.
and desc fsllers. vol yos dint6 Of ais drSi
dat all de people blos sooptt".
IND be bays 70 NE. ssOh tnndes -
Wall dats hi obisios1. Hay y kstfA
tsgssz s2ayza4& -