Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-01-23
Nasty.
J "a eosyEDERIT x ROADS,
.. (Which is in the Staff Nv Kentucky,

he'd departed this life and gone to that
other and better world where the wicked
Geese from troublin and the weery are at
rest, and was profoundly shocked. John
Cutie wuz my friend, and | much fear
his like | ne'r shall look upon agin. He
wuz a democrat Nv the old skool, one Nv
the few links witch renamed to connect the
present generations with the past. Well
do | remember the gellorious old man !
How often hev set in the square room
in his country residence, and drunk Wills
kew and water with him till we neither
on us could see hvle thro a forty foot
ladder; how many times hez he logged
niggars for my amoozement, to show me
the proper Way Nv managin Nv en-: ard
how many time hez he lent me small sums
Nv money, varying from five to thirty one
dollars akkordin to the state Nv meller-
mis- he wuz in when ! approached him on
tho delikit subjik! Alas! poor John
Cutie! Leu not the skoffer say that ]
regret his death because his sons will be
apt to try and collect the notes the old
man departed holds Nv nine No! no!
they know me too well to waste eny time
on that. | mourn becoz | loved him and
becoz Nv the misfortuncs which druv him
to prematoor grave. A. Lincoln is re-
sponsible for this dark shadder onto my
pathway. John Cutie he'd three hun
.dred niggers on his plantashons and in
his house and town--thesc wuz wrencht
from him, by the Proclamashea and turn
ed out from his paternal care to starve-
wich the most Nv EN- are industrously do
in at about So per day. lie he'd EN- Nv
all hues--there wuz the fall-blooded
black, the disgustin Mulatter, the pleas
ant Quadroon, the beautiful 0ctoroon, and
them witch he'd so nearly lost the cuss Nv
Ham ez to be hardly distinguishable from
the pure Caucasian, and it wuz noticea-
bic that the nerly white niggers on the
Guttleses plantation wuz all beautiful
The Guttleses themselves wuz perteck
specimens Nv manly beauty. and it prob
ably he'd its efock upon tho blacks The
niger is a initiative animal.
1t wuz this Robin Nv him Nv his prop
erty-this overturnin Nv. the normal con.
dishu Nv things--wich killed John Gut
tie. He never held up his head after the
Proclamashen, but faded away like fros-
It'd flower!
Iwuz in Nobel last week on biznis
connected with our college, Gt was solisi.
tin funds to endow my Professorship,)
and | felt that | Good not leave city with
out droppin dozen teers or SIGH onto his
grave. felt ez he he'd contributed at va
rious times 50 much to moisten my clay, !;
that it would DO ungentlemanly not to do ,
suthin toward moistiinin hizzon. And
in pursuance Nv my resolve, | wepded my ,
way sadly to the cemetery, and fndin the -.
tomb, struck an attitude Nv despair, and :,
leanin pensively onto the monument, I
strove to the best of my ability, to weep, 1.
but it was futile endeayor. My eyes !;
woodent give down. i strove to recall his
virchoos, but SIGH is the weakness Nv hu-
man nacher, that whenever his form rose
in my memory. my mind inVoluntarily r
wandered to his whiskey and my mouth \
would water to SIGH an extent ez to mo-
nopolizc all the moisture in my system. Y
Good hev spit onto his grave, but weep
Good not. Alas for poor humanity W
While I wuz standin there tryin to
weep, and maxim bad fist Nv it | notist
hree beautiful young ladies approachin,
vim baskits NV dollhouse flowers hang.
n on to their arms. recognized EN- to
yunst. They wuz John Guttle's daugh- ~
ers, and they wuz a comm to strew fOw- j
RS onto the grave Nv their paternal an
estor on their fathers side. 1t wuz a s,
echin site, and feelin that wuz introo- +
Ter, not bein a blood relashun and only
onnected with the deceest by notes Nv
and, | withdrew a short distance Skase-
y he'd they got to the tomb, when from
be other side approached three more raw =
shiny beautiful young ladies', with bas- ~
its Nv hot house flowers onto theirarms.
he last ones resembled in striking
lanner the fust ones, ceptin they wuz a T.
,ade darker, and their hare waved boo :
full, whereas the hare NV the fust was
erfeckly strate. '
The two parties faced each other on OPP
,site sides Nv the room, and party Num-. wi
,r One glared hercely at party Number esi
wo. sft y n u
'IizeI Flora janet" sed the oldest
: the party Number Two, 1--WE are here
schargin a fllyel dooty. Beneath these
de lies the remains NV our fathers, and
3 are gpin to strew these flowers onto q
q toom. Jine us in the strew" l8 ~
fnFatber % shreaked the three nv mar.