The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-08-02
Live Yankees.
ny JOSH pIl.LINas,

Live Yankees are chuck full ov karakter
aud sissing hot with enterprise aud curl
osity.
] III bid we find them loan az a hunters
dorg, with parohed cOunternance, reddy
| fer grin, or fer u sorrow ov elastick Rtep (;
! thorttul, but not abstrukted pashunt, be-
kause ounnin ever watchful slo to anger;
avoiding fghti but rezoluto at bay.
! In dress alwuz sliS, but not stuck up ;
their harness alwuz betrdyn them wherever
they go.
The Gil ov their laugwidge IL their dezire
tew plezc, aud their greezy words foreshad.
der a profit.
They are natral mekanicks the histry ov
mans neeessitys IL the histry ov their in
venshuns.
The Live Yankee haz no hum hix luv
ov invenshun breeds luv ov change, and
wharever human trail shows itself we iind
| him pantin on the trak.
| He never gifts sick at the stummuk in a
| furrin land, or grows senterinental the
buty ov river tsw him iz its capasity for
steambote; it's slopa banks checker into
bildin lots, and it's poetry watcrs might do
the drudgery ov cottin mill.
| He looks at q marble pyramid, guesses at
| its hight, calculates tho stone by the perch,
aud sells the magnitsent relick in Boston
at profit.
| lie climes the Alpin nights, crossed by
conkerin heroes, aud IL struck with the
psoprierty ov tunneling it.
He sits, cross legged, beneath the shell
tering rine and listens tew the oneazy see,
soes ths warm promise ov the grape, and
| forgettin the holy menrys Ov the land ov
song, grinds the smilin vintage into wing
and makes happy bargin.
| You can meet him in Consten tornople,
maxim up in grimace what he lacks in lang
widge, spreadin plaster with hiz tounge,
for the man ov Mahomet.
Go where you will, from the numb-pal-
sled North tew the swelling limberness ov
the South, from the top ov earths murnin
tew half past eleven at night, aud the ever
lastin Yankee you will find, either vehe.
ment in an argue, or pnrswazive in a swop.
| His religion il praktikal. he mourns over
the heather, ard iz reddy tew save them by
the job. 1a ,sta
He luvs liberty with AIRED pepper enthu
siasm, and fully beleafs M England kan
whip'the universe.
If the phlegmatick Englishman brags
about ruast beef and hz ansesters, Jona-
than haz pumkin pie and grandpop tew
match them. ~ .euas u
If the Frenchman grows crazy over a
frigazes ov a frogs hind legs, Jonathan
pulls out donut and a Rhode Island green
ing. aa ta.Ha
II the dusky Italian talks about the mad
vOEnits ov Vesuvius, Jonathan turns in the
water power of Niagara.
In argument alwuz ernest, and In reazon.
Ing alwuz speciOus, this progressive phe.
nomena tramps the world with the skeleton
ov patient right in hiz carpet bag and, in
hiz ever open hand and face q pleasant
HeoR air yer Z"
II you would save yure pride from bein
saud-papered, risk it lot IN a dicker with
Jonathan.
His razor ia the true Dsrbaseus, strapped
on the wand ov Midas fer golden harvest,
biz Ranctitt il often shfew dness, and hiz
sweet SAVIOR iz often the reHekted halo ov
the comm shillip.
Copstitushuuay y aud BY edukashun hon.
est he IL alwuz rsddy tew cry fer the deeds
dun in the boldly, his hospitalitys and char.
itys are ceremonial dutys, and il hiz reli
gion il sometimes Only the severitys ov
sabbath it il bekauze hiz bias IL the thurst
ing impulse ov creatin genius chained tew
the more sordid pashun fer lucre.