Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-02-20
TRINITY JOURNAL.
SUIT Lovegood's Dream.
PLAYING OLD sLEDGE FOR THE PRESIDENCY.

your car-ac-ter for, bless me, if you ever even
thought anything smart when awake.
Thus bantered Sut leaned against the rough
board counter of the groggery, with tumbler
OF whisky in one hand, while the other sounded
for the bottom of the hole in his breeches, by
courtesy called pocket, took small sip, and
then began to tell his dream. Hear him, reader,
speak for himself
- Gentlemen / dreamt an unpossibility last
mite. were in Washington City, and know
never will be thar onless they take me thar tn
hang or cruelty me fur drinking more nur my
sheer of the peoples drink-old rot-gut. But
in my dream was thar, an no mistake-sartin
sure-at n thunderin big tavern, whar they rung
little bells to keep from hollerin' arter niggars
and maxim noise and whar they call yu tn
-yur mush by rattling big still bottom, just
fur the sake Nv the noise and whar they gin
yu sass enuff to make you fte (at home) fur
nofhin' at all. Darn the seat NV government
Darn the legs and body of goyuf nment and
darn everybody, say !
% Tell your dream before you get drunk, you
long-eared cuss you, or let somebody tell it for
you"
Well, arter supper awhile, | nosed round
until got intu a room whar seed lite and
thar sot three fellers playin NV old sedge''
- Old what ~
{. .Seren-np you drotted weazle-skinned, frog
legged kangaroo ~
[This was addressed to young specimen of
OUeuttOUS
diesimus, who shone resplendent from K in
tights, small cane and watch ribbon and had,a
iaudable desire to learn something of the hidden
mysteries of - old sledge.'' He played :. on an
asthmatlc trombone and schess > when in the
city
They were playin' seven up with bran new
kerds, spank, span new, an no marks-eyery
felier for hissef seemingly. Now, gentlemen
believe can smell kerds, eff they are in mo-
ton, as fur's from here to the spring, ur how the
devil did happen to hit ontu that room whar
gamboling wur gwne on 3? But thar did go
by in-stink, reckin and the three fellers were
nobody on yearth but Buck-cannon, Fillmore
and Freemount, and thay was playin' single
game NV seven-up fur the Presidents cheer NV
these free and awful United Pluribus States.
thrty-one in number and kiverin the whole
yearth.
Thar wur anuther chap inter that room, with
one hand under his coat-tail and tother strokin'
NV his chin, walkn' about sorter keerless like,
but fust looking inter Fillmore's hand and then
inter Frecmount's, and then winkin' an a
frownln fust at one NV EN- an then at tother-
Then he d tip-toe and try to peep inter Buck $
hand. But the old teller hilt it under the shad-
der of the table, an sorter looked at it sideways
hisself, an was a watching the peepin' feler too,
all the while rite clost. His name wus Sea-ward
or Heli-ward, ur somethin' NV that sort, no mat
ter which. Now, gentlemen, | kin play old
sledge myself right peart, an when seed that
it was game NV two pluck one that Buck
was sure to be skinned eff his hide didn't grow
ontu his bones, got as mad bee in
IN times, and | jiSt thot (mind, | sed nuthin J
that I'd like to mock enuff off that chaps skull
70 make built ladle, eff dared tu. lie was
darned snake in the grass, sure. ~
Well, arter they he'd played out thar hands,
Mr.. Buck-cannon sez, bowin nifty purlte q
believe, gentlemen, made high, jack, and that
has sot me six eff amt mistaken" Then both
uv 'em, Fillmore and Freemount, spread all O
Buck S tricks out onter the table till they saw
his ace NV trumps and the jack NV trumps which
he had cotched from Fillmore with the king an
then thay agreed he six. Sea-ward sed
q Yes reckin that is the state NV the game"
Fillmore, then, as modest Il ffteen-ycar old
gal, sed, | made low you kotch my JUICE with
yer old ace, Mr. Buck-cannon, that sits me
three" All agreed that count and Free
mount, leaning his chair back, whispered behind
his hand tn me, { an id low it too don t
you think so ? an his black mus-tush-us twisted
up like ontu two corkscrews. Freemount then
sed, made game, and that sot me six with WI.
Buck bowed agin to that but Fillmore sed -
SIR, I'll count game with yu this is not ad-
Zactly accordin to understandin', Si-r-r ;
fur the fust time he looked like he mought be
made to ite Sea-ward frown'd, shook his head
winked, and sweat nightly. Freemount did so,
too, an all at old Fillmore but it warnt no use
count game he would, and Freemount beat him
= and Fillmore 3; Bucks deal Free
mounts beg or stand.
Buck licked his thumb and dealt em slow an
careful looked at Fillmores kerds as he got
'em from the DEAL and it lik d tu knocked me
down. Thar was the ace, the king, the queen,
the jack, the ten, an the JUICE NV trumps Thinks
l, O, Lordy an then looked at him, an thar
the old feller sot his belly kivering the chair
all over, an nearly out tn his knees, as solemn as
big, and about as wise as an old Dutch squire
tryin a bastardly case with good proof agin
the daddy. tell you, boys, he looked jist like
he had his fust big horn Nv whisky fur the mite,
and felt it in his boots. | thought o, Lordy !
agn.
Buck never turned up his hand but axed Free
mount what he intended tn du. He looked at
his kerds, sorted EN-, then looked at 'em agin
then up at the lamp, then at Buck, scratched his
year, shot up his eyes, and very slowly sed. Il
beg By the jumping Jehosephot Buck, run
em quick an tho t it no harm tu look at old
Phil He fotch'd low, cocky sort NV grunt
an then he blowed | swar. the wind that cum
out NV his nose, mouth eyes and years, lik to
put the candle out
lodged an TUX peep intu FreemOunt's hand
and ! now swear, that when mans six on a
big game of seven-up, I never seed jist sch
kerds. He hilt tother three aces, bound tn be
high let what wud cum-in out-an-out President
at that. Thinks ], o, Lordv, Buck 20, Lordy,
make the President outen that darned muie-eaten
Freemount when, eff Buck didn t turn jack jist
as easy as eff thar'd bin ffty-two in the deck; ;
an then only smiled loud fur President! Fill
more rared back ard outen his cheer an tainted
as comfortable on the floor as an old made at q
quiltin when the kisses begins. Freemount 5
eyes turned green the har un the back NV his
he'd rose up like the teeth NV a comb his mus
tasb-ns turned up towards his eyes he brayed
like mule an at one jump kivered old Fill as
he lay, an then sot in to bitln an ehokin' an
maulin' NV him, Like the devil heatip hominy.-
This sort Nv excitement fotched the old feller tu.
an as soon he felt all that was gwine on all
over him, inside an out, he sot rite tu htln like
an old hoss, an thay had it, looked at Buck
(who still held the kerds in his hand, with the
lack turned up trump as much as tu say, shell
part EN-? He shook his he'd, an put my
hands in ny pocket an KEEP out thar way. lnes
fit some time, tell ye; har, wool, FUR ana
feathers few sorter like ginin cotton. Sea-wara
cut dirt as soon as that awful jack wus turned,