The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-17
MOZIS ADDUMS In MERRYLUN;
Or, the Advenchers OF a Leckcherer
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Seein evrs body had his'n or hern he'd
throde back and thar mouth garpin like
fiax-brake, opined my mouth and
throde back my he'd, and then seen a
big paintid pickcher on the seelin NV
the Heethun Codes stript start nakid
and kickin up thar heels in most
kassikil maner, and assd man the
meenin NV it.
| "They ar havin nv high ole time,"
he says, ''coz the rebellyun ar squsht. z
"Figgeratifly speekin ?" says.
NO." he says, Gin ded ernist."
"Jest So" l anserd, ssaxcent on ded
But it peers to me like they got the dill
lirium trimmins, evry wun NV um, and
IN g5in up thar to see bout it.
So up clum-a terribul jerny and a
heep NV steps that makes your knees
ache-until ut last cum to the steepest
kind NV steps, when, all NV sudding,
poleeeemun jumpt out NV hole in
the wall. grabd me by the koller, drug
me in the hole, and says ''stop sir"
l says 'tcertny; what fur ?n
Well," he says, ''thar is sum very
riffined, pollisht and cultyvatid yung
ladies in tiltin hoops, the daughters NV
Senytur Sumbody, rite ahed NV you,
and you mought Expose uih,''
"Nuvver in the worl," l says; 81
would cut of my right arm befo would
tell livin bein one word about the DO
unfochunit creeteers. Eff you'll Jest
let me ketch up with INN, Ill tell urn
so."
"No you DON'T" he says; and he
hllt me back in the hole, while he
poked his he'd roun the kornder and
watcht UNI keerfully to see that nobod-
dy warn't lookin at um till they got
clean out NV sight, and then he loost
his grip and says to me, he says, snow
you kin go,"
1 were arterwurd told that this man
gets two dollers day to keep bad boys
and men frum folerin on behne arfter
the ladies goin UP, and bein sworn to Sc
krussy, 1T don't make no diffrunce bout
him, you know. Ireckin he's married
man. and l don't keer mutch if he aint.
When | got jam up aginst the big
pickcher,.it were all one CRATE dobb,
and the meeIin NV it were all lost in
the overwhelmin legs NV the figgers,
which them pollisht ladies wus studyin
ernistly with spy-glasses, in the vue
no doubt, NV ritin literary artickils
about um. Ennyhow, / heerd one NV
UNI say it were called freshco paintin,
becos they puts fresh coat NV paint
on twicet year, which pruyd she were
highly cultyvatid. And | thought eff
her feet warnt no prittier than her feet,
ures, that watchmun doun stars ought
to be pade mo than 50 day fer keep
in ennybody but hisse,f frum lookin
at Inn. a
| went on as high as l could goe and
got on the outside NV the Doam, and
lookt over the bannisters at the scene
which were very pritty, dar say, but
not to me. For thar lay Ole Firjinyer,
at the feet AS it was NV this prowd ed
dyfiss, and lookin oh SO sad in spite
Nv the sunshine. 1t made me mad as
fire to see Gen. Lees splendid estate
all cut to peeces and turnd into Yam
ky berrying groun and free niger
viliige but when bald hedded little
ole Yanky, standin by me, begun to
tell hatchit faced yung Yanky how
skeered to deth they all wus in WASH
intun and how perfeckly eesy the place
could NV hav bin took artter the battil
NV Manassas, it made me that sick at
heart that run clean doun to the bot
tnm NV the Rotunder as hard as [ cud
staiv, at the resk NV upsottin lerge
number NV cultyvatid wimmin and |
would'n NV hav keerd wrn red cent eff
had upset um all and broke thar blaim
erane-necHs and thar pleggtakid books
sankles at the sam time. But l thot
better NV it when had dun culed doun
a littil, and would'n hav hert har NV
thar cornfoundid heds fer emmy eonsid-
erashuu. Me and Deece Buttfur has
high regarde fur the far sex.
were glad to git wunst mo into the
fresh ar and fetch my breth free agin /;
so | went oil into the frunt yard and
thar | seen that retchid ole Rebill,
Jorge Washintun, stript to his waist
lookin like man that had jest set doun
arfter bein took frum the whippin post
his shoulders lookt so invitin and his
crimes so crate that, eff cud NV cut me
a good hickry ennywhar about thar,
wud linkt nine and 30 into him about
rite-and he set thar, half naked, and
shakin NV his fiss at cullud womun
(she rizembuls Unc ,JiRi's Locky, fur
all the worl, with ole-fashiun hoss-cav-
lyrymun's hat on, but her holdstirs and
hcss-pistuls is gomez standin on the
very peek NV the top NV the Captul.
And | assd a man that wus kIinkin
and peckin NV a salt and peper rock
with beetle and cole chizel, who that
ar womun were, and he said she's naim