The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-01-28
NASBY.
Mr. Nnsby aud his Friends Consider the
awestisr Of Bread aud llntter-A Mar
row Escape.

Posr orFrs, CoSTrpsfr x RoAps,
(Which Is in the State nv Kentneky,)
Jan. ID. 1862
The question "wat kin do with
mysolf2" is not solved. My return
from Moo York so ignomiously, on
foot, wuz a serious dissppointr ent Ia
my friends at the corners. They fell
when ! left en- that they had me fixed
for life, and their sorrer ut my ontime.
ly return wuz genuine. Bascom o.
soon ez he saw mo enter his bar wca
ry and foot sore, remarked with a
profane ejaculashon that I'd be his
rooiu yot.
/ an man NV ackshun. To wunst
| called meetin nv my friends to
consider the situashcn, aud to arrange
for another voncher. | romarkt TO
EN- that | had not lost faith in Moo
York that | wuz certin that that
wuz my field. proposed that an-
other outfit shood be furnis he'd me;
the same cz before, and that |
shood hcv ono more trial. But they
yoonanimusly declined, feelin that /
hadn't sufIishont control Nv my own
appetite for grocery keeper, and
that Investments in that dirocshun
wood be a pictorial waste Nv capital
which the corners Good not afford.
Various methods NV maxim A Twin
were sujosted, but none met nv ap
proval. One wood sejost this thing
10 San Francisco another in Alaska;
and each one wood swear that every
ono wuz the very thing. Their read.
mess to agree aud the numerousnis
NV the miles the places wuz away
satisfied me the distance was the main
pint with en-.
That misable wretch, Joe figler,
happened in at moment when the
wuz a discussin tho feasibility NV n
conduotership on a street railroad in
Moo Orleans--ez tho the directors NV
the companies hadn't all got dissipa.
ted nephews to Gil sich responsible
places--whon he remarkt that the
obtoosenis Nv humanity wuz one the
NV wonders Nv the ninteonth century.
"Mako nv him" sed Josef ga Dim.
qkratic organ grinder, saw of his rite
leg, dress him in bloc, git him an
instrooment wich win play Dixie
the Bonnie Bloc Flag, and sich
toons, and plant him on the side walks
NV Louisville, Moo York, or any other
Dimekratic city, aud his forcioon is
made"
"But why dress me in bloc ? Why
not in gray, ef / play Confedrit
toons ?"
"Inuoccuso Didn't the Dimocrisy
always wear bloc, while they wuz
whistlin Confedrit toons2 Even in
the North they don't object to a bloc
coat, so that they know there's a
Confedrit heart under it ?"
"But, replied |, "I wuzn't solier
-wich is, only ez a draftid man, aud
then only for short time"
"That don't matter" remarkt
josef "no more wuz the heEt NV Dim
ocrisy. The bulk NV cm wich served,
as draitid men. But that circum-
stance is in yoor favor. The regler
organ grinders, them wioh wuz vol.
untecrs, put onto a placard wich
hangs onto their iustroomeut, words
to this effect;
"Eulisted July 10, 1sGg-shot thro the leg at
"Yoo kin put onto yourn this proud
inscripshen
iost rite leg in m encounter with Provost Mar
shel-, OFT. ~, 1873.
"Sich an iuscripshen wood melt
tho heart NV every Dinocratic passer.
by, and they'd MI your cigar.box
with copers. WIch NV en- Good re.
sist such an appeal ? Think NV wat
a harvest yoo'd reap in Louisville
when Breckinridgo comes home, and
in Frankfort when he is inoggeratid
Governor of Kentucky It's the
doge for 700, Parson."
| thot the matter over for a minnit,
aud it pleased me. The life NV al
orgau-grinder is by no means to be
It's a dreamy, poetical,
contemplativc sort NV oggisteuco. Ez
ther amt no manyool labor in it be.
yond the mere turnin NV crank, |
am satisfied that it wood SCOT me.
Then ono sees so much NV lift. Con-
stantly before yoo is ever ohaugin
panorama--yoo see humanity in all
its phases--and when nitc comes how
sweet the rest, how inspirin the lik-
ker, wich you hov honestly earned by
yoor maIly exertions
"Is it necessary that l shell hev
leg ampitatid2" askt |.
"Cortainly r. replied Josef.
"Thcn | decline !" sed |, "Aside
from the pain | hcv regard for them
legs. They saved my life 10 all the
| wuz in doorin my brerf
term NV servis ez draitid man in
63. l will not part with one NV
en-"
"This is triaen with your friends,
sir u CALCULATED Bascom. "Yoo hev
Ihe way opened for houist livin and
yoo rcfooso to walk ye into il. This
cannot be premitted."
at cOnuot be premitted r. ekkoed
Pennibaeker aud the rest
Nv ON,
"Joseph, hev 700 suiishent skill to
nmpetate a limb2' askt Baseom.
III hev' replied Joseph "ef yoo
will furnish me carvin knife and
hand saw, I've seen it done in Cons
fedrit hospitals. Troo the victims
didn't most alluE survive. Ef yoo
do stand it, Parson, think NV the
glorious life organ-grindin is-ef yoo
die under it console yourself by think
In how much Organ-grindln yoov'e
escaped Bring the knife and saw,
aud somebody twist a hankercher
about his Leg
Aud forthwith they ceased me,
ihrOWod mo unto tho har onl t,ol ma