The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-01-04
No. 146.

700 NOll 10 waste eily tune On tndt'
| mourn becoz l loved him and becoz
NV the misfortunes wich druv him to
premataor grave A. Linkin is re-
sponsble for this dark shadder onto
my pathway. John Cutie had three
hundred niggars onto lnz plantashons
and in biz hose in town-these wuz
wrencht from him by the Proclama-
shen and turned out frmo his paternal
hare 10 starye, witch the most NV EN-
are industriously doin at about IS
per day. He he'd them NV all hues
there wuz the full blooded black, and
disgustin mulatter, the pleasant quad
room, and beautiful octoroon, and
them witch he'd so nearly lost the cnss
NV nam ez to he hardly distinguisha-
BILE from the pure Caucashun, and it
wuz noticeable that the nearly white
niggers on the Guttless plantation wuz
all beautiful Tee Guttless themselves
wuz perfeck specimens NV manly beau-
ty, and it probably he'd its eifeck up
on the blacks. The Niger is imi-
tative animal.
1t wuz this Robin nv him NV his
property this oyerturnn NV the nor
NAL condishun nv things which killed
John Cutie. He never held up his
head after the Proclamashen, but
faded away pike frostid flower
wuz in Mobeel last week on biznis
connected with our college, (it wuz
solicitin funds to endow my professor
ship and felt that Good not levc
the city without droppin dozen teers
or SIGH onto his grave. | felt ez he
he'd contributed at vaTious times SO
much to moisten my clay, that it
would bt ungentlemanly not to doc
sunthin towards moistenin hizzen.
And in pursuance nv my resolve, /
wendell my way sadly to the cemetery,
and findin the tomb. strucc an atti-
TODD NV despair, and leanih pensively
onto the monument, stroye, to the
best NV my ability, to weep. but it wuz
futile endeavor. My eyes woodent
give Gown. | strove to recall his viz
choos, but SIGH is the weakness NV hui
man nacher that, whenever his form
rose in my memory, my mind invol-
unfairly wandered to his whiskey, and
my mouth would water to sich AN ex-
tent ex to moDopolize all the moisture
III my system. l Good hev spit onto
his grave, but weep | Good not. Alas
for poor humanity
While wuz standin there tryin to
weep, and maxim a bad fist nv it,
notist three bootiful Young ladies APP
proachin, with baskets nv hot-house
flowers n hanging onto their arms. L
recognized EN- to wonst They wu1
John Guttle's daughters, and they wuz
a comm to strew flowers onto the
grave NV their paternal ancestor on
their fathers side. 1t wuz teechin
site, and feelin that l WIZ an introod-
Ell, not bein blood relashun and only
connected with the deceest by notes
NV hand, withdrew short uistants.
Skasely he'd they got to the tomb,
when from the other side approached
three more ravishingly bootiful young
ladies, with baskits Nv hot-house flow
ers onto their arms. The last ones
resembled III a strikin manner the
fust ones, ceptin they wuz shade
darker, end their hare waved bootiful,
whereas the hare NV the first wuz per-
fectly strate.
The two parties faced each other on
opposite sides NV the room, and party
number one glared fercely at party
number two.
"Lize Flora janet scd the old
est NV the party Number One. wat
are 700 dom here"
Sisters sed the eldest NV the par
ty Number Two, "We're here dis
chargin a fillyel dooty. Beneeth
J these sod lies the remains NV our
/ fathers, and we are goin to strew
these flowers onto his toom. Jine us
/ in the strew"
Father shreeked the three NV
party Number One. "Yoor all mig
J gais and wuz servants unto
, Our haif-sisters," sed spokesman
, NV party Number Two, "but Linkin re-
/ moved the cuss nv Ham, and wer
/ now free and hev ez much rite to
strew the grave ny our common parent,
l wich wuz John Cutie. ez 700. Oh
, our sisters, onr father wuz good man
e let us bedew his grave with oui
S tears and
Nat lnpuuehce shreeked party
: Number One in ali korious.
"Impudence yoorself !" retolted par.
ty Number Two, gettin red in the face
1--WE are John Cutters daughters
precisely ez much ez 700, and the on
ly advantage 700 hev over us is in the
ant icle NV mothers. 700 thsee he,
one, witch wuz John Guttleses wife
while we three hey three--one apiece,
eggsackly -wich wuz John Guttlesei
servants, but we cannot nevertheless
stihe our emoshuns. l shell com
mand myself, and thus proceed to per
= form an act of iillyel dooty."
And she histed out the flowers anC
a commenced to strew.
q The tother ones wuz a gettin hot
! Tho Oldest wun Good stand this impu
y dence no longer, and droopin her las
- ket, went for her, followed by her sis
I tiers. 1t wuz u spirited conflict, ant
y lasted perhaps four minutes, or until
" parted EN-, when they gethered them
\ selves together, and departed ON
,e party went one way, and tother, 10th
: er.
Of Fillyel love he'd done more in III