Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1867-08-10

% aS loH5 do wa StfSS ~
work. Where | shlept last night, a set
az vaggybone navyies was there too, an
some az thin TUX q crown piece out az
me pocket. an left ne this ould brass
pinny ID tie place avit, ~(tlrowing i on
the ~counter) an that's more nor I'd do
wild any mar av he was a Turk"
The baker struck with faddy's truth
full nature, as well as the clear ring of
the 0n7d brass pi.any, tookit up and close
ty examined it, and with a face as grave
as a mute's It a funeral, pulled out his
money drawer and began 10 throw out
shilling after shilling, and sixpence after
s~izpence, until be raised 9 nice little
heap, and her showing ii over to -,
said
=" There's your change I 5.
pence out for the bread
Pat looked on like a man in a dream.
His right hand held the crusty foundation
Of a loaf in ruins-his mouth open to
admit the doomed remnant to destruction
held its position, empty, but full Of as
constituent. At last he stammered out {:
$50 ye want me to take all that, do
YET an thin whin I have the mummy in
an me, you'll want to have me taken up
for passio' countherfts, an'have me trans
phorted. No ! I'll be hanged az I touch
it. You know [ didn't ak to pass that
ould pinny ~ ye at all at all ; an the
diyil recave the ~ha'penny change ! want.
Ye ought to Be ashamed az yerself to
try to take away a poor boys eharacther
that away, so ye ought"
, Look zee here, moy chap said the
baker, seeming to take no notice of what
the latter said, Pm main glad you COON
out SO looky from the coveys wot stole
yer FIVE bob last meet, an gin ye this here
pinny to chatf thee. Whoy, bless thee
mon, it amt q pinny at aw, nor brass
awther ! | noe'd it as soon asst iingled
ont counter. It's a goold doubloon, an
rale ou'd Spanish at that, lad an worth
aw Eve given thee there, with sixpence
out for the loaf Take i, mon, an I'm
main glad to have to give it to thee, that
| am"
Pats face assumed a more troubled
expression, if possible, than before, and
picking up bis change slowly, piece
BY piece, be looked with a woe-begone
'ountenance, and said:
"'Pon me sowl, I'm ashamed SO I am,
or sayin' what did to you, or for think
n 1t at all at all /; an ak yer pardon
or it but wont We take morn s~ixpence
or that loaf? Arrah, do Take five
just to place NE You wont
Well. half q crown, thin No Muir
lher murdher Shute I'd soon make
) fortln' attn bread that a way Well,
d like to thrate ye to a pot av porther,
or yer a dam fine Englishmanl Troth,
wish thin ParliamiDt fellows was like
e, Or some av the spalpeens that calls
hilnsllyes noble, but they're not, bad
uck to them ! an the vaggybones at
that We have to dale wild that calls
h'nselves glntlemin that the clargy tache
IS to pray for, an call our ~shupayriors.
murdher, murdher but that's what
exls me entirely ! Oh, but it's meself
does pray for thin 10 %airnest, but if
~ prayers come right, it's little good it
7li do the whole lock, stock an barrel
Y thin Why. thin fellows wud pick
poor mans pocket claner than the nav
les could ever do it, for divil a rap they'd
I'VE you at all at all | But give me yer
an God be wild ye / must be 60
!, an if yer iver bobbin through the
'orid an happin to come acrass Pat
at Whalen in Ameriky, or the rest av
be world, troth he wont forgit ye. God
less ye, a%lanns, band slaugth ma bou-
hal n
Pat Whaien pursued his wandering
curse until hs nasaed from EurlanJ 80.