The mountain Democrat., 1864-02-20
Ethan Spike On . Loose.
OANApY. 2sd Oct. 1863.

Haow inscrutible is things sometimes
'speria!ly Ely, yOD don't see i'll
AT the very time when | sot in this
darkness Of neutrality-suspicious. on one
side an n she nigger wsitin' for me on
tOther-when even the cerulean vault of
the great epperdemis spread out above
me, were as opuke as a grindStone with
no hole in it-even then deliyerance was
at hand.
Jest as Overstrained mater vas begin.
nirg to ankyle, and ! was on the pint Of
fallin into the 'lovin embrace of the mig
ger and askin her to rock me to sleep
J.eeived letter Gro=> ::,y ::,,::z::.S S-,=::>
4c.as-Yra;N, she = +Acc@Structias PSYooil
Hall and repaintin Bunker Hill-appoint-
in me his deperty for the two C0DadiehS
,sy.clVdiN LNSOrradoo and the Gut Of
Kansas, with salary of one.third Of my
airnins.
OF course ! cut the nigger at onct;
pitred the forlorn cuss and broke the mat.
ter tenderly. fashioned so slcnderly.
Look .herc--you Onmiitigated lie OF
EjipShun Darkness says ], your ebony,
sure enough, but cf you was gOler wood,
likewise precious StunS. an inlaid with the
poriental mother Of all the purls Of Col
gothy, I'd sooner touch skunk
Go ter -, you precious old lump of
doun.trodden humanity--bein likewise a
woman an Sister-lOOk at me! Am a
likely subject to unite my drStinies with
darter Of Hem. Sham, an Abednego p
Docs the eagle mix his inperious destiny
with the crow'S' says !.
Look al me, says ], fUlden the old
blanket she'd lent me raound my manly
proportions like Roman togus, within
these ere folds is inShrined representa-
tive Of the freeSt and almightiest nation
between EaStport and SundOwn! Go away
ngger, would we had never met. 'The
last link is broken which baound thee to
me- Henceforth my motter is Axelsir.
I'm deperty train. runnin through a
picturesque country, with sleepin cars at
tached, an moderate charges. Niger,
farewell
I'D offer thee this hand of mine but
my bleedin country calls, and I'm comm
father Abraham, besides there's a prior
attachment
'Darter of the Pyramids, grand ditto of
the Cheops, and cousin If the SphinxeS,
go Here suthin like a tear glistened
in her eye, as fondly thought. Gt after,
wards rovcd to hav bin in mine,) an
haStencd to add:
20, Susannah, don't you cry for me,
I'm bound to be 4 TTainor i'll the army Of
| But as didn't rightly know whether il
was the other army or tother, didn't fin,
ish the line, lest should give offence tc
the wrong party and thereby iniurc the
cause; so to raound my period and MAKE
the sentence full and f1owin' improviSeG
. thus:
Farewell to thee, Araby'S darter.'
turned movin a graceful ado, whcr
suthIn broke.
Thee goes the poor critters heart,
saws TO myself You've gone and don,
it now, you gay deceiver, says !, apostro
uhisit the fI>i person singular:
One .pore unforunet
Rashly importernit,'
Has bin and bust her bilcr. The sent
ruent was wasted, however, TWAS only the
cnllapSin of fiuc in her cOrSets, caused
h, the irrrpre>>ible conflict Of tumutuon'
emotions. Srltshly Speakin. ! wish i
had bin her heart. The hnrrid critter Ii
on me like wild cat. She claSped me Il
her faithful buzzum till my ribs cracked
asn. The great ra>lin match atwren t
james, the Manchester Pet" and 4. Dhu
the 'ScntIan Squcezer. for the champion''
belt, was but chid'S play to this.
According to the account in the Spcrit
Of the Times, one Of the bottle. e.holdrrs in
the furrin tus>le says to James, Jemes,
saws he,
No womAn's arms iS araound thee thrown.
That makes all the diff renee in the
world. jim wns lucky. Ef he'd sich a
| pair Of black ones as ! lnngui>hcd in till
my face he'd an affinity of color for heru
ra"und him. he'd never got that belt.
won>t hugged bar up in Old Oxford ill
| his eyes flew out Of their sockets one ar.
Ter toIher, like wnds from a popgun, but
the Niger was a high pressure bore con
Structor, an when she left me, an butted
me aout nf the settlement, was as fiat a.
an inch board, an hey had a spine in my
back ever since.
enclose a copy Of my first poster:
No. l.
A CHALLENGER!