Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-05-31

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A SHREwD TRIcK.-Davy Crockett stories
were chiefly made up from incidents that oc
Cured in his early life in Botetourt county.
He was born and reared 10 German settle
ment upon Purgatory mountain.
Some of our elder readers may remember
his famous anecdote about Abram Fulwiler
and Peter Snyder, which, being rather bias
phemous, We shall not repeat. We will, how
ever, tell good story about that famous pair
which has not yet seen the hight.
Peter had drunk himself out Of mill. house
and home-there were no homestead laws in
Virginia at that time. 1t was consequently
often hard for Snyder to make raise" to get
drink and many and ingenious were the ex-
pedents to which he rcsorted for the purpose
of filling the inner man with whisky. On one
occasion he perpetratcd the following rusc
On hot day in August Peter and his
'drouthy crony," Abram Fulwler, were lying
down in the shade OF locust on the banks Of
Purgatory creek. Said Peter ''Abram, is
you dry % "Yes, Peter, id dry" We'll,
Abram, L II get some whisky from Cartmili's
grocery" ''De ID you will !-where's your
money" You let me aone-Ill manage
dat.
So he went off, Got Two bottles, and filled
one Of them with water. Then he returned,
found Abram waiting, and showing the latter
the empty bottle, said he knew how to fill it, "
lie put the bottle OF water IN one pocket and
the empty one in the ether. The twain then
started for the grocery.
Arrived there Peter placed the empty bottle
on the counter, where it was soon filled with
the ardent, which the old topper slowed 10 one
Of his pockets and was retiring, when the store
keeper bawlcd out Stop there, Peter; pay
me for your whisky" Isn't my credit good
for quartz Indignantly replied the latter.
NO" answered the former; ''leave, the
money or the liquor" "We," "rejoined Pc
ter take your id whisky''-and placing the
bottle OF water on the counter, he stru.ted out
in fury, with the bottle OF whiskey in his
pocket.
About half an hour afterwards the store
keeper smelt at the bottle, found it filled with
water, and rushed out after Snyder; tut he
found him and Fulwer both goriously drunk
on the banks OF Purgatory creek.-NovoH
Journal.
Boy AGA1N.-A company of gentlemen were
not long since, Willing an evening away oy
singing songs and relating anecdotes, when one
asked f1r the sorg of "Would were boy
again :" at which "Old Pluto" (Johu X. Love
low, who was present, broke out as follows
"A boy again Who would be boy again II
he could; to have the measles, mumps, and
itch to get licked by bigger boys, and scoded
by elder brothers; to stub your toes; to nave
the belly-acho from swallowing cherry stones
to have chapped hands and frozen toes !; to slip
On the ice to do chores to get your ears box.
ed to get spanked with slipper; to get Whal'
ed by thick headed schoolmaster; to be made
to stand up as the 'dunce' Tor the amusement
of the school; to have visitors come to school
and tell you how miserably weak and stupid
YOU were whtn you were born, and to ask you
what would have become OF you at that inter
esting time in your life if your parents had pot
been so patient with, and kind to you, (ot
course, it was all ones fault that be was born,
and his parents were in 20 way concerned rim
tercsicd in the matter) to eat at the second ta
bic when company comcs; to set out caooage'
pants because sou are little, and consequently lt
won't make your back ache much to be made
10 90 10 school when you don't want to 20; !;
get spelled down in school; to lose your
marbles; to have your sled broken; to get
hit in the eye with frozen apples aud soggy
snowballs to cut your finger; to lose your
knife to have hole in the rear OF your only
pair OF pants when your pretty cousin from tne
city comes to sec you to be called coward II
you won t ght at school; to be whaed at home
if you do fight at school to be made to 20 to
y sr'f lIt Clp
have 10 fire crackers on the Fourth or July,
no skates on Christmas to want Il piece OF
bread auti~butter with honey aud get your ears
pulled to be kept from the circus when 1t
comes to toWD and when all the other boys
90 to Get pounded for stealing roasting ears
to get run by bull dogs for trying to nip water
melons 10 have the canker rasb catechlsm,
and stonebruises to be called up to kiss all the
Old women that> visit your mother TO be scol'
ied because you like Maggie Love better than
your own dear sister; to be told at what scoreh
ing times little boys will have who tel hes aLo
are not like George Washington aId-"hy
who'd be boy again!
THE RED SEA.-The Red Sea is SAID to be
the hottest place in the world The atuos-
nhere for about fifty miles on that sea Is steam!
and sticky Every thing IN the shape OF lroI
or steel about ship takes on a,coat Oh fuS'
During the summer months no one travels or
The Red Sea unless compelled by business OF
military orders to do so. In the winter ane
snrinp The passage is delightful. Yet navlga
tom in that body OF water Is always attendet
with many dangers. The Red Sea is long ant
narrow. with sunken rocks and projecting reefs
md counter winds prevail, which produce dan
serons currents. There arc three lighthouse
in the sea, whill. must be kept by saamander
like men, since the thermometer runs up
one hundred and twenty degrees IN jury an
approaches ninety IN early Sptlps'
BABIES. The delight of days, the termel
Of the nights elegant in iull dress but horr
bic in dishabilc beautiful on the smile i .;