The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-02-14
MOZIS ADDUMS IN MERRYLUN;
Or, the Advenchers Of = LeekchereE
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TIE sTRAINGE NAN UNDER THE cAPTuL.
Bein monsus tired IVA seein the Cap
tut NV my billuyid country, With Lin
kumEinside.and Washintun vu. in the
yard-it were spring item, and eff he
had Jest slipt OH his 0snabugs slrirt he
wood bin Jest rs cumfuttubbil and a
good eel mo decent; bein tired l say, l
started down town like milk and ci-
der filly with a yung man goinge coatin
on her back. But the Captul bildin
stretches outfits wingses like Spred
Eyle that's bin killed and fell Nat on
the groun, maxim NV a very bigg show
but bein very ded at the sam item
Emerryky in efeck.
So, ruther than goe all the way roun,
I indevvud to maIk my way thoo, and
peerce the senter, like Jinncll 10 JON
sing at Seven Pines. l suck seedid,
arfter fashin. The first thing knowd
was that, instid NV comm out on tother
side, got tangled in my mind, lost my
bearing, and foun myself In long
passige with pritty painted rock floor,
sumthin like ole fashun quilt, with a
heap NV doors on both sides, names
printed In gold letters over the doors,
&c 4th, setry, tell at larst cum to a
Refreshmint Room, havin nuthin in 1t,
rs fur as l could see, excepting NV a
mulatter niger man that stood inside
NV roun fence, whar thar was rite in
the middle thing that lookt to me
partly like a biskit block and partly
like onfinnisht pulpit.
Feeling thursty ast the Niger for a
tansey dram, but he said he didden hav
nun, and then ST, gimme sum plain
whisky, reckon you've got that ct you
got emmy thing"
Sc, sGot nuthin but ale"
"Well," ST. IL don't luv it. but blaim
| take it, that's bettern nuthin. Hand 1t
over" At "f
He lookt at me like he didn't like the
way talkt, but were rather afeard to
| say so, But instid NV drOrin the ale
out NV a kag or pumpin it out NV sill
yer plated mehoggyny thing like a kind
tiv sort NV Remarkable fodder cutter,
he took glass tumler, put it on The top
NV the biskit block, Civ it -shuv, and
away she went, tumbler glass and bis
kit block top both together, doun, doun,
doun fur into the bowls NV the erth.--
And the niger put his he'd doun the
hole and mumbeld sumthin that ]
couldn't understan and that soundid
horrybil to me. The thought fiusht
acrost me that it were free Niger
plott to berry me alive, coz come from
Ole Ferjinny and fit in the Waw, and
I was preparrin for to do my derndist
ruther than perish he'd fomust in SIGH
narrow hole like that, when--all NV a
sudding-I hearn another dredful vols
down the hole--peard to me 1t riz fruin
| about ten or fifteen graves deep-and
here come like litenin t &C tumbler glass
| full NV ale and the top NV the biskit
block. both together, and stopt jest as
| plum and eesy as strikin a bushil NV
meal with red oak striker.
l newer see prittier meshene in my
life, and were that pleasd and rillcevd
that ordud a nuther glass NV ale jest
to see 1t do it agin. And it done itjest
as eesy and plum as at ferst, and they
tell me it nuvyer misses and nuyver
| spills drop NV Ticker. and they call it
n Dunn Weighter, becoz It don't skersely
| way nuthin, but goes up and down like
feather. wisht had one to fetch
water frum the spring and ice frum the
| bottom NV the ice hous.
After this advencher, l thought
were certny done with the Captul NV
my adoor'd country, but warnt, for q
| still S.rainjer rencountcr happind to
me, as you shill heer.