The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-07-30
themselves but not in that indecent style

"Pretty spectacle IL will be now, wont
it9 Forty-six little Africans, dressed in q
simple but chaste garb of white shirts, sit.
ting along bench in Sunday school, prig.
Cling their toes or else enjoying them.
selves Mt races, singing ham fat and do
ing the walk around That's pretty
way to civilize q heathen land. aint itP
For they wont wear any pants, you OBJ
serve. Ifyou 60 to shipping q lot Of pants
oyer there the first thing you know they
will have them tackled on to some idol or
other, or rammed full Of feathers, and be
holding religious service before each pant /;
and rs for socks, why every one rs has
been sent over there has been stuffed with
sand, and used rs war club. That's so,
and I've no doubt that very identical pair
you're knitting on now will brain u stray
pagan some day or other in some muss.
"Mr. wilkins. you know that's not So"
"If you want to do your colored friends
aservice, why don't you go to work and
ship them lot of dclicacics of the season.
Why don't you send out q ship load of
canned missionaries, or something else
that will make their mouths water? Or
you might collect an assortment of second
hand jaw bones, and give them for neck
laces, or send out your own false teeth,
Or"
"Wilkins, I'll scratch"
"Or go yourself, and sec how 1t feels to
be eaten. wont stop you. You've got
my permission, you understand. But /
pity the miserable pagan that stufis him
self with you. You wont agree with him.
You never did with me, my love-"
.'.Mr. wilkins you are BRUTE"
"But for my part think you had better
stay at home and attend to your children,
instead Of fooling down there ut that soci-
ETY. with q lot of tabbies who slander their
ncighbors, and make more mischief than
they do under-clothcs for tho naked Hot
tentOts."
'.NIr. wilkins, that's not So"
"You'd better stay at home and sew for
your family, that's what you'd better do.
There's William Henry been going round
for six weeks or more with only one gallus
on his pants, and looking like he was u de-
formed cripple, with one shoulder foot
higher than the other, while his stockings
have no feet. and the upper part OF them
keep n working up his leg until the boy
nearly goes mad"
"What an awful story, wilkins"
.'And Buccphalus Alexander's best Sum
day jacket has burst out, all over in spots,
ind breckenridge Augustus, having run
all out Of handkerchiefs, has Iatoly been
practising wiping his nose on his sleeve in
church, until was so mortified that / had
to take him out last Sunday and have him
stand in the coal hole and spanked like the
nation by the sexton. Unaffected simplic-
ity is well enough in its way. but that's
carrying II n little too far"
"Nlr. wilkins, now you know that's not
true"
"And as for Mary Jane, she Is just going
straight to destruction. She's got TO imi-
tating your example, and now she thinks
It amt worth while to live II you can't do
something for the heather. So what does
she do yesterday but go and give my best
hat to the boy who swept the chimney, and
II came nearly down to his waist, and she
asked him II hc had ever read DR.. Nc
Phcrson's treatise on the Whole duty of
Man, and he observed that he didn't
know muffin about dat dar, he reckon and
while she went up stairs to get 1t for him
he embczzlcd two chunks of corned beef
and cold potato, and the first thing you
know he will be in the penitentiary, and
all along your blamed foolishncss."
81 declare. Mr.. wilkins, you are scan-
dalous story-teller."
"And there's the boys, 1t was only last
Saturday that they took their crowd up
stairs, and played that the garTct was Af-
rica, and half of them represented hcathen,
and ran around withouta stitch of clothes
on them, and Bucephalus Alexander he
distributed my clean shirt among them,
and they upset all the barrels, fired away
all my old books In skirmish with the
savages, and one of them, who was u cam
niblc, liked to gnawcd the whole thumb of
William Henry, trying to swallow him be-
cause he was missionary, and 1t amt
well yet"
"Pshaw, Mr.. wilkins, you talk like
a."
"And then, what must Mary Janc do,
but try to represent hcathen mothers
wholly unenlightencd by Christianity, Try
ing to drown her infant in the sacred river,
which she represented by sousing the cat
in the bath-tub, but that animal wouldn't
play fair, and liked to scratched the whole
hide of of her, while she let the water run
till the room was full, and itpoureda a per-
feet cascade out of the window, which she
said was to represent the ovcrfiowinS oil
the Nile, like she read about in her Sum
day school lesson. say it's perfectly out
ragcous to bring up your children In that
kind Of style. II You love the heathcn'
why go among them, but don't 20 to pois-
oning the minds Of your innocent of
springs"
"As long rs you've made such fuss
about the sewing circle, Mr.. wilkins, I'll
tell you what I've been making there
"You needn't mind, don't want TO hear
it. I'm tired Of hearing you talk. Just
give me n chance to speak word now'