Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-29
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January IL, 1863.
THE question wat kin l do with my
self" is not solved. Ny return from Moo
York so ignominyusly, on foot, wuz seri'
GUS disappointment to my friends at the
Corners They felt when / left EN- that
! they he'd me fixed for life, and their sorrer
at my ontimely return wuz genuine. Bias
com ez soon ez he saw me enter his bar
weary and foot sore, remarked with pro-
fame eiaculashen that I'd be his room yet
| am man NV ackshgn. To wunst l
called meetin Nv my friends to cJnslutr
the situashen, and to arrange for another !
vencher. | remarkt to EN- that he'd not
lost faith in Moo York; that | WIZ certin
that that city wuz my field. / proposed
that another outfit shood be furnished me;
the same ez before, and that shood hev
one more trial But they yoonanimusly
declined, feelin that | hadn't sufisheDt
control Nv my own appetite for grocery
keeper, and that investments in that direc-
shun wood be a perpetooal waste NV
capital which the Corners Good not afford.
Various methods Nv maxim a liyin were
sejested, but none met my approval One
wood sejest this thing in San Francisco;
another that in Alaska; and each wood
swear that every one wuz the very thing.
Their readiness to agree and the numer-
ousnis Nv the miles the places wuz away,
satisfied me that distance wuz the main
pint with EN-.
That misable wretch, Joe Bigler, hap
pened in at a moment when they wuz q
discussin the feasibility Nv conductership
on street railroad in Moo Orleans-ez
tho the directors Nv the companies hedn't
:. all got dissipated nephews to fill rich, re
sponsible places-when he remarkt that
the obtoosenis Nv humanity wuz one Nv
the wonders Nv the ninteenth century
make Nv him." sed Josef, "a Dime
kratic or gan erinder, saw off his rite leg,
dress him in bloc, git him an instr ,oment
witch will play Dixie The Bonnie Bloc
walks Nv Louisville, Moo York, or any
other Dimekratic city, and his forenoon is
made" 4.
But why dress me in bloc? Why not
in gray, eff play Confedrit to nns?"
"Innocencet Didn't the Dino crsy al
ways wear bloc, while they wuz awhistlin
Confedrit toons? Even in the North they
don't object to q bloc coat, so that they
know there's Confedrit heart under it ?"
But" replied I, 81 wuzn't solier--
witch is, only ez a draftid man, and then
only for short time" AYR ~
"That don't matter" remarked Josef,
mo more wuz the hefG NV the Dmocrisy.
The bulk Nv EN- witch served, served as
draftid men. But that circumstance is in
yoor favor. The regler organ grinders,
them WITCH -wuz volunteers, put onto pla-
card WITCH hangs onto their instrooments,
words to this effect:
.o Enlisted July 10, 1882 - Shot thro the
leg at Anteetam."
You kin put onto your this proud in
scripshen: saa
"Draftid Sept. 8, 1S82-desertid Sept.
&c. 1863 lost rite leg in an encounter with
Provost Marshels, Oct 10, 1868 se
"Sich an inscripshen wood melt the
heart Nv every Dimocratic passer-by, and
they'd I'LL yoor cigar-box with coppers.
Wich nv EN- Good resist SIGH an appeal :
Think NV wat harvest yoo'd reap in
Louisville when Breckenridge comes home,
and in Frankfort when he is inoggeratid
Governor Nv Kentucky It's the dodge
for 700, Parson"
w. thot the matter over for a mint and it
pleased me. The life Nv an organ grinder
: is by no means to be despised It's a.
dreamy poetical, contemplatiye sort Nv
eggistence Ez ther amt no manyooal
labor in 1t beyond the mere turnin Nv
crank, l am satisfied that it wood SCOT me-
Then one sees 80 much Nv life. Constantly
before yoo is ever changin panorama
700 see humanity in all its phases and
when mite comes how sweet the rest how
inspirin the llkker, witch 700 hev honestly
earned by yoor manly exertions!
lis it necessary that shell hev leg
ampitatid ?" askt /.
" {" Certinlyl" replied Josef. ~ 80 ~
Then decline" sed I. "Aside from
the pain | hev regard for them legs
They saved my life in all the ,skirmishes
wuz in doorin my breef term NV servis ez
draftid man in 49, / will not part with
one NV en-"
+ II" This Is trifiln with yoor friends. sir ?
e1acilated Bascom. "Yoo hey the way
. opened for nonist Twin and 700 refooze to
walk ye into it. This cannot be permit
1T cannot be permitted :" ekkoed
McPelter, Pennibacker and the rest Nv
EN-. agTElaE.gs e
Josef hev WOO suff1shent skill to
ampetate q limb?" asks Bascom.
II hev" replied Josef "ef VOC will
furnish me carvin knife and hand saw.
I've seen it done in confedrit hospitals.
Troo the victims dion't most alluz survive.
IF VOC do stand it, Parson, think NV the
glorious life organ grindin is EFF VOC die
under it console yoorself by thinkin how
So q NANAh yoOF CSCdptu
Bring the knife and saw, and somebody
twist Handkerchief about his leg"
e And forthwith they ceased me, throwed
me onto the bar and tied me there, and brot
dull knife and ahandsaw, and that cuss
wood hev hackt into my leg he'd it not bin
for Deekin Program.
"Josef Biglerr sed this more than
saint, "trooly tell us, wat are the chances
Nv his survivin this operashen ?"
ts4a" About one in a thousand, shood say,
and that's why am so anxious to com.
mence?" promptly replied Josef, sharp.
enia the knife Yishusly onto the sole Nv
his boot. aF,wnf5 #naTT
"Then let him upl" eiackilatid the
Deekin hastily, let him up. He owes me
thirty seven dollars, with interest, since
the second day he arrived in this place.
witch he borrered Eff he dies its gone
ct he lives he may strike suthin thatll en-
able him TO pay it" @<fgNx@
Slash away, Bigler y remarkt Bascom
ylshusly, he owes me seven hundred
dollars for drinks sence he's bin here. and
Ell he lives he'll double it in year."
There wuz an animated discussion. ez To
whether Bigler shood go on or stay his
eager hand. Fortunately lowed evry one
Nv the bystanders, and wat wuz more for.
gtunate, the most of EN- wuz better fixed
than Bascom. The heft Nv my indebted
ness to the others wuz for borrored
money, clothin, and SIGH things witch a
man kin git along without. Bascom
2 knows that so long ez live I must hev
his goods money or No noopaxy anJ boxoo