The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-12-25
GENRUL AMERIKY BLUE ON THE SIT
UACHUN.
r BEE GUM VALLEY ViRGINSY
n. 2 Weeks too II ristmas.
George Washington BagbH Editor of The
Natice Virginttn, Orang Kort House.


DEER MISTER BAGBY:-Sur, this Is the
very wurst kind at snowy day and as
my stOrke is ted and Kernelier is mex
in sasingers, TEX sica an opportunity
to drap you fu lines and Nongratlllate
you on being the borse dog uf your tust
klas nusepaper. l ail'tno gret shakes
at ritin notes to paper editurs, fur they
is onkomou frackchus bout shootin folks,
and somtimes they gifts kilt tharselves,
when they hcv been indulgin too KARIN :
ly in printin long ridikultis artikuls, on
the far female sext. keepin them frum
ever afterwards bein led TO the himeni-
al alter, and holdin them up fur the
rude finger uf Il unremorseful publik to
pint at. "Then agin, editurs seem to
me to be n onnessary set uf kusscs,
kontinually and often asin fur thar
wages, far and squar, sink or swim,
green or grisseled, volens or noliens,
rite out i'll thar paper whar 1t also ken
be held up to the wide case uf a unre-
morseful publik. Friend Bags, my old
and astemed frend uf more thun rs
Snmers uf standiu, "filr to speke more
karinly, 'sich things ert not to be--see-
in thar is more ways up shootin yaller
sheep steelln koon dorg, than thar is
uf ketchin wild Alagator ia a broom
sage field. ! hev kom to the konklu-
sion that sich things ort not to be, es-
specially when times is as hard as the
fOrrud uf brindle bull-and it is as
much as a mans life is with to wark 2
miles and steel spit knubbin of korn.
But let us hev pece; my objek i'll ritin
is more uf periitikul karakter thun uf
drawin iEviduous similitood. But fur
to speke more karmly; besdorg swig-
gled ef thar is emmy korn i'll Bee Gum
Valley fur to fatten thre muscoby barn
yard brakes, aud es to whete and sor-
GIN, thar must be orltired big krap uf
them artikuls uf horticulture on the
other side uf the wurld, fur they hey
stopt kon,in up on this side, and cordin
to the symmetrical pints uf fillOssifey
thar is Il strong purstlasion thatthe tar
mers round and about Pekin and other
villages uf Southern knote, is busting
forth with the kindly fl'utes uf this side
uf the yearth and much welth.l And uf
korse thar gushin far darters ar injOyin
theselves, indulgln freely in the gret
vortex uf human dissipation, gwine to
bush meetins, rooster fights, cirkusses,
and the sicl like and warrin silk stok-
kins and happy saks full uf raw kotten
on thar butiful and konspicuous backs,
aler Grecian Bend. But digres; my
obieK in ritin ar more uf a perlitikul
karakter, thun uf DRAWN inviduous
komparison. What want to bring be-
fore your fragrant and observious eye
is the present publik statute uf this onst
butiful garden spot uf the wnrld, fur to
speke more karmly, 'sthe valley uf b ee
Gum, State uf Virginny," life or deth,
''anno domini "distreek nomber one,
(thems my own Original konceptions).
In the fust place, kom Onwillingly to
the stay law, as knoted poet sings,
When that butiful burd uf prey
Shell flap her wings and flee away
To the utterinost parts of the dark blue sea
Whar will the Valley uf Bee Gum be.
Ekko away over in Billy Tomsom's woods
answers Muse verons'-tFrench.)
But she's gwine to be lifted Bags, old
solger and no mistake, thar is no use
akrawiishin, the dorg ar ded, old squire
Bultinch's spotted heifer hev gone dry
the kran blarst uf winter nights is up
on us, and whisky is skaser thun tiks
teeth. What hey we to doc good Bags?
Whar ken rest be found ?-ef you ken
suggist anything ceptin fur us to imme-
giate 60 to work and bid pore houses
every other three miles, 1t will be gra-
tooilously. received, | ken not dwell
longer on sich painful thoughts and re-
kullections, they are too much lode fur
the tendruls Hf my bleedin hart. But
eff jest had he voice uf Gustus Sesar
or 10 Brown uf Georgy, my klariun
notes would be hurd all the way frum
the hest peeks up the mounts uf ottar,
clean out to the pee tallow low grounds
uf Buny Visty, asin fur wisdum, asin
fur knowleg, asin fur strength in sicll
times and also asin fur SIG dollars in.
green baks fur to pay parson Harris fur
his dad-hurned old Topped yeard, sore
baked, one eyed, string haulted, wevel
etin, spekley def mar mule; the which
mar mule | bargined fur larst Octo5y
kort, in a evel hour, arter L had tekin
nigh onto a blue buket full ut the very
wust tavurn injun JUICE, and fur the
which mar mule hev been dund kon-
sectively every Sunday arter prechin,
oatel hev been.berated murchly. "Far
wei George" is
When l shell rite anuther note to you,
| will tell you of my trip to Philadel-
ply whar shuk% hands with the gret
Youlisses Simeon Grant nf war notur-
riety, and,a president elect uf the so
called younion, ''amen.
'7 Yourns in the futclier.
.- AMERIKY BLUE.
Major General G. s.. A.
In the Wuds and mannOr uf Jon East
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