Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-02
How old Jake won the Cheese.

Some years since I was employed as
warehouse clerk in alarge shipping house
in New Orleans, and while in that capacity,
the following funny scene occurred:
One day vessel came in, consigned to
the house. having on board q large lot of
cheese from New York. During the voy-|
age some of them had become damaged by
bilge water, (the ship having proved
leaky,) consequently the owners refused to
receive them; they were therefore sent to
the consigners of the ship, to be slowed
until the case could be adjusted. i discov-
cred few days afterwards, that as to per-
fume they were decidedly too fragrant to
remain in the warehouse in the middle of
June, and reported the same to my en-
ployers, from whom / received order to
have them over hauled, and send all that
were passible to Ceard & Calhoun's auc-
tions mart, (then in the old Camp street
Theater), to be disposed Of for the benefit
of the underwriters, and the rest to the
swamp. ! got gang OF black boys to
work on them, and when they stirred em
up, be the bones of Mol1 Kelley's quart
Dot but the smell was Elegant intirely.
i kept respectable distance, believe me,
for strong niggers and strong cheese, on a
hot June days just bangs all common
essences, including certain 'varfn1nt1 we
read about. r~s7f ias -Tg-- -FETJa
Presently the boys turned out an inn
mense fellow about three feet six inches
3, across the stump from which the box had
rotted in the center space about ten
inches was very much decayed. and ap-
peared to be about the consistency of
mush,of blush tint-caused by the bilge
water. The boys had Just set it up on its
edge on bale of gunny-bags, when I'no-
ticed over the way q big darkey (then on
safeJ from Charleston, South Carolina, who
was notorious fer his butting propensities,
having given most of the nfggers in that
vicinity taste of his quality in that line.
4 had seen him and another fellow, the
night previous, practising; they would
stand one on each side of hydrant, some
ten Yards distant, and run at each other
with their heads lowered, and clapping
their hands upon the hydrant they would
butt like veteran rams. A thought struck
me that might cure him of his Dragging
and butting, and at the same M man time nj nave ~.
and called "Old Jake" over.
.::They tell me you are great fellow for
butting, jake" .
Zee. .,.I is some, Massa, dat fac-I done butt
sssie wool 'tirely orr OBJ old Peters head lass
night, and Massa Nichols was gwine to glib
me gossl l kin jiss bang De head or any
nigger In desc parts, myself kin!"
Z. la.Well, Jake, I've got little job in that
line for you, when you haven't anything
"rs on hand for all dem kin OBJ jobs, my
self, l is"
''wen you see that large cheese back
there"
~ dus dat! Idus myself"
a. Now if you can butt dent in it you
shall have il"
"No, Pm not Jake-just you try me-"
,"Wot2 you glib me hull of dat cheese If
4 butt dint in 'um ?" e'ra
Z. s'"Yes.T ss-s ss4ss -.e1 st
1si .De Tor I'll bust 'em wide open will
myself. Jess stand back dar, you old Or
leans nigge's and clear de track for Ole
Soul, Carlina, ease Use comm myself
Ia And Old Jake started back some fifty
feet and went it at a good, quick run, and
the next Instant I heard dull, heav
3 sound, kind of squash, and Old Jake's
p head disappeared from sight, with the top
/ lust visible on the other side, as he rose
with his new fashioned necklace, the soft
rotten cheese oozing down all around him
as it settled down so that just his eyes were
visible. From the center of it Jake's voice
was scarcely audible and half smothered
as he vainly tried to remove the immense
cheese. T. a.
orr ,O-o-o-oi bress de Lor l--Lif 'um mp
Gor-amighty! u :.
Meanwhile | was nearly dead, myself
b, having laid back on a cotton bale holding
myself together to keep from bursting
while the boys stood round Old Jake pay.
: ing him off. 81 oEl.s1 5l1o. 1911
-H 1.De Lor / how de nigger's bref smell
You doesn't clean your teef, Old Jake ~
Z = 4I saw, you didn't make more dan four
times dat ham, did you, old hoss p'
. e g.,Well, you is nasty nigger, dat fac 7
- swell, you is de biggest kline OBJ Welsh
Rabbit-you isT -
.sWhar you get your bar grease?' s
~ And thus the boys run Old Jake-now
half smothered-when / took compassion
ON him, and told them to take it off. Jake
,'s didn't stay to claim his prize, but put out
growing.
.Gor-amighty done got sole dat time
I,se a case OBJ yellow fever-I is myselfP'
old Jake was never known to do any
more butting In that vicinity after that.