East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-27

town twlNt TWO days, an Iocahohlo
gran chile is missin'.
We is scattered an humbled, an
blessed is the small fry like me an
Newmuu what didn't show ourselves
in any danger: Outen the whole
crowd, kernel, thar's only three of us
ez has got a comfortin thought to
scratch his self with. Fish amt got
his face damaged, somebody's sent
Molly O'Connor a goat, an I've got a
a wife!
Tell you how hit comeabout:
My friend, he said, how / orter be
married; that hit was good thing an
highly respectful in hits influence,
an helped Teller amazingly to work
things, socially, morally, physically
and politically. He had tried it to a
considerable extent an knew.
He could help me to wife ef l sed
the word, an one he knew was
good one in all respex.
Well, he TUX me- to meet her at
Brother Newman's prayer meetin'
whar the small fry Of the Radicals
most do copgregate. She war thar.
Her face seemed distressingly fa-
miliar.
She TUX my elbow, an the street we
shot down for to git to git her roost
were also not unbeknownst to me. l
had performed in some private thea
tricals in that street onst, in interes-
tin little drayma.
She looked bewitchingly like some-
body ez he'd TUX part with me in
the play.
was evidently radically mistooken
She were trainer Of the youthful
mind, bound in morocco. For pure luv
Of tho own-trodden' land seventy
dollars q monthly she teached the in
FAINT Afrikins thar equality with white
people.
Her breath smelt of gin ez l salu-
ted her ruby lips on partin', but she
said it were the juniper-berry, which
maidens of her sex an occupation in
Massachusetts, used ez a tonic.
She's an attachy of the freedmen's
bureau--she must be one of the
drawers of the bureau, L jedge, from
the way she drawed me in-an hits
an orfm thing she drawed me into ef
you 'bleeve Sut
She got me in the ring, an l amt
out yit, an no prospect, so fer as
heerd from.
On the Jolly night of my union with
Dorothy, bein' overcome by the IL
quorary congratulations of my friends,
an in order to soothe my feelin's, an
quietly contemplate the joys an blisses
of welded life jest placed in my grasp
10y that heavenly minded editorial pas
tor Of our party, retired to " our +"
apartment.
l pcssumed gentle snooze as |
heard her approach with her attend
ant maidenS (also of the freedmen's
bureau.) They bein' of that uncer-
tain ago marked by GIN toddies and
eccentric modesty, did not remain any
length of time in the after diskiverin'
me, but hastily fled with gentle screams
of horror.
| continued to snooze.
The gentle Dorothy Ann approach
ed me an feelin'ly an tenderly re-
marked, 'Drat the cuss, he's drunk
Hit was a spontaneous outbreak OF
anecl1shun which mighty brought tears
to my sleeping eyes.
l vert ono eve on the disrobin' of
my unsuspectin' gMtrimonian prize
my pride! My own Dorothy Ami
~ tho .r~o";rots which anshrin O
my Dorothy's heart, she drew forth
pair of canary birds nests.
Oh, how l hev seen thar nests
heave and palpitate!
/ snoozed, and dreamed the dream
1 he'd dreamed of piller fer my achin
he'd and fevered brow.
Her lips parted-her ruby lips,
Lips which though fragrant of the
juniper berry tonic, still he'd kissed
mine with an acquired and experien-
oed juiceness.
She inserted her finger 'twixt them
lips, en-out drapped the mouth fur
niture. Those pearly teeth which she
onst told me never ached.
/ b'leeve her they didn't!
l saw my Dorothy cross a muddy
street one day, an her litter showed
me a we'll filled stockin'.
i opened both my eyes when ! saw
tho stockins como off, an half the FL
lin with 'em!
With considerable effort and men
tai cussin, L continnered t. slumber.
l expected to see an arm OF leg I'M
screwed next, but l was inordinate in
my expectations. She simply remov-
ed all the har from her he'd, leavin' a
few whitey-brown strands scattered
about her skull.
In a moment of tenderness she onst
give me lock of that har kernel--a
lock of that which she was layin aside
so keerful!
She drew on q night cap, an just
give me time to bat my eyes before
she tenderly approached me with
"My own Sut, my darlin' husband"
I arose from my recumbent position
somewhat hastily, an remarked -
"You cussed infunnel humbug you'll
You patched, painted an stnffed dunn
my! You skinney old skeletonl You
bald, toothless ole hagl Do you reck-
on SUIT Lovengood's soinfernal green ez
to submit to this an stay hyar long
% your"
:" Oh, dearestest, desert me not,
thou wunstest didst love, an thou ar
test my husband, SUIT"
Husband! Thunder and litenin'
woman, thar amt enulf of yer for a
husband to git up respectful emo
ton over. Lenl'me go!
She had seized tho extremity of my
evenin' garment. Hit ere tender by
reason of age, an' in that respcck re-