The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-06
me Josh Rulings Papers = Mono
CRAFTS.

The Domestick Nan is nv q maskuline
and feminine tendency-hslf and half
and sometimes more so. is.s Il
Hecan most generally be found at home
when he amt wanted. IA
He is a kind Of second lutenant in his IA
mily, under half pay, with promise Of pro-
moshun, a.
He can beat his wife bilin soap, or nussin
the baby, and she can beat him in the 4th
Ward running for perlice constable.
He is always ready to do ennything-
when his wife IL.
els kind Nv spy in the household, and
IL treated as such by the whole family. The
servants larff at him, and the children don't
fear him.
He is as fierce as an old hen setting on
one egg, and just about as dangerous. :.
His wife married him, not out OF love- gu.
out ov pity; and pity never changes lh'o
respekt, but generally into disgust
The Generous Man.-Generos,ty IL I'm in,
stinkt-a kind ov natral crook-a "eHo
child ov the heart. ,c.:
II ia d;ffrent from profusion profusion IL
most alwus the decoy duck Of vanity.
Generosity il diffrent from charity char
;tv IL the impulse Of reason.
II is different from justiss justiss is Six
teen ounces to the pound, and no more.
Generosity is something more than JUS
tiss, and sumthing less than profuslon IT IL
the good q man duz without being able teW
give emmy reason for it.
If man il alwus generous he will alwus
be right, or will have good excuse Tor
what seems tew be wrong.
Generosity il bravery, and it IL truth
no one ever saw generous man VINO was q
coward or liar.
i Generosity sumtimes may lack prudence,
but it never lacks faith, and faith has won
holier laurels than prudence ever did.
The generous man chastens hiz gifts with
the assurance that the giyer is az happy In
the gift az the receiver il.
He takes the fust swaller out ov the dip
per, and, smacking his lips, insists upon our
drinking the balance awl up. ;,
Poverty has no power over generosity,
enny more than it haz over love.
This il my idee ov the kind ov generosity
that am writing about.
The Black Man emigrated to this free and
Plus kuntry about 200 years formerly, IN
the lower story Of vessel he Wuz klnaly
furnished with a free ride, and some rice
and water for vittles.
Immediately upon hiz arrival he COM
menced Dizziness for other folks, on our
eastern coast, and had plenty tew do.
He wuz very Economical in hiz habits OF
cloths, wearing but fu, and those seldom
made out ov cassymere.
He occasionally changed his lokation,
moving into an adjoining State, but in these
Journeys he wuz always kindly furnished
with guide, so that there wuz no danger
ov hiz getting lost.
In these trips he seldom took his family
with him; they were either allowed to re-
main at hum, or made excursions in search
of work tew other States, under the gul-
danse Of experienced guides.
Once in a while the Black Man would
stray away for to the cold und bitter North,
and git cruelty lost.
Hiz guides would mourn for him then,
and sarch for him, but his family soon got
reconciled tew the loss.
Everybody sed, WHARF he lived, that he
was the happiest critter that had ever been
discovered yet with nothing tew do but work,
and kind guide tew watch over him awl
the time, and mourn for him when he got
lost.
But the Black Man is very phoolish
critter.
After 200 years ov this bliss, he grew
cross tew hiz guides and wouldn't follow the
guides, and the konsequentz is that the
guides have got mad, and | am atrade that
the Black Man will have tew take care ov
himself now.
He will find it very different from what
it was before.
He haz got tew educate his own young
ones now, and learn them how tew spell
corrktly, one ov the most difficult things in
the world; and he haz got tew vote, and
heep his familee together, and pay when he
rides in the street kars.
| am afraid the black man haz made
mistake; if he haz, it IL a bad one, for his
guides never will take him into their hands
acain-no, never They are mad, and
don't like the way the black man quit
them when they wuz driv with dizziness,
and after they had TUX SO much care Nv
him for so many years.
I feel sorry for the guides; they alwauz
seemed tew have great interest in the blak
man but they are mad now, and | don't
know ez I blame them much, for blak in
gratitude il the poorest kind Nv pay.
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1t perhaps would be well enuff for me tew
staff, for the benefit Nv new beginners, that
the blak man formerly resided in Afrika,
before he cum here to look for work.