The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1867-08-22


their soles, and lashed the ground with
his tail, and cast up dust with bis claws
in manner fearful to behold.
"He'll never stand it," said Weed,
"onless he's blind-folded," and Thur
low wrapped Raymond like a wet dish
rag over his eyes, and that done, him
and Raymond pared his nails and blunt
ed his teeth, so that eff the bandage
shood wriggle off and he shood see
where he wuz he coodent hurt anybody,
and shaved his name, till he looked like
a very innocent Lion indeed, so that
his appearance woodent startle them
not used to his fercenis, and in that
condishn they led him very quietly
down to the crowd and give the word
to mount.
Lord. what a scramble ther wuz.
They piled on from the tip NV his ears
to the end Nv his tail, and them wich
cooden git on for lack Nv room hung to
the feet Nv them wich he'd got on, until
It wuzt nothin less than pyramid NV
Democrats.
Finally, when all wuz loaded, the
word wuz given, and the lion moved off,
They wuz delited. He he'd strength
enuff to carry EN-, and he wuz carryin
nv EN- straight on to the White House,
and at a good pace, too Ez they ap-
preached the portals the Ablishin de-
tenders Nv the place opened onto EN-.
"Hold." sed Weed, "wood 700 de-
stroy the Lion Nv the Republic7
"Stay yoor hands," shreeked Ray
mond; "the savior Nv the country is
under u.s.
But they lafft them to skorn.
''Its Brite and Vallandigum, the
Woods, ct settry, we're firin at,"
shreekt they, singing as they fought,
"The Battle Cry Nv Freedom" "John
Browns body lies a mouldrin in the
grave !" and sich other sacriligious
odes. 'Its them we see, and them we'll
kill"
And they blazed away till the whole
mass wuz stretched dead and dyin on
the plain.
Then they came up and began to
turn over the corpses, one by one, I'M
til at last they came to the body Nv the
Lion, wich, peerced thro and thro, was
as dead as any Nv EN-.
"My Cod" sed they, "Tts the Lion
after ALL" ....
"And we've Stayed him." said an
other.
"Well!" remarkt a third, "we Good
ent help it. He wuz 80 kivered up
with this carrion that | coodent make
out wat it wuz they wuz rdin. Let
us give him a decent burial, for the good
he hez done, and forget, eff we kin, the
company he died in"
And at this critical juncter 1 awoke.
| hev an idea that kin see sort Nv
n warnin in this dreem. 1t occurs to
me:
1st. That sf we do ride Grant, we'll
hev to divest him NV his name, teeth
and claws, witch is the identikle quail
ties wich makes him valooable to us.
Cd. That with us on his back, we will
probably succeed in KILN him without
savin us. Grant mite deodorize dozen
or two NV us, but the whole party?
Faugh! 1t would be pint of cologne
to a square mile Nv carrion.
Sd. That eff we wuz wrapt all around
him, the people woodn't be able to see
him anyhow, and wat good wood he do
us?
Interpretin the dream thus, / shell op-
pose his nomination. Besides, / doubt
whether all the Weeds and Raymonds
in the country kin SO manipulate him
ez to bring him quietly into our ranks.
We might possibly go over to him, but
whereforeF How about the .ofises
then7 Eff the Ablishnists vote for him,
and we vote for him, the obligation is
ekal, and between us is ther any doubt
wich he'd chooseH I don't want to
take sich chances. I'm opposed to the
movement. | care not wat others may
do, but ez for me, give me the straight
out Dimocrisy or nothing. Mcclellan
was a vencher wich satisfied me ez to
the propriety Nv undertaken to set a
roaring lion convoyin flock Of peece-
ful lambs into green pastors.
PETROLEUM V. Massey, P. NJ,
(Which is Postmaster