The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-01-19
NASBY.
Hr. Kasby Returns TO the Corners
his Reception at his old Home
The Stand the Corners took agalnS
IHnOTatOFs- The uses OF Old Iron.
CoNFEDR1r XRoADs,

HIS Reception at his old Home
The Stand the Corners took against
IHROFatOrs- The uses OF Old Iron.
CoNFEDRIT Y ROADS, I
(Wich is in the State Nv Kentucky, 7
January Sth, 1S71. }
ffHome again! home againi from q
furrin shOre!" Thank Hevin. I'm
wdnst more on familyer ground
among people wich know thoroly,
and who know ana appreshate me.
'iMy foot Is on my native heath, and
my names McGregOrw Thank the
Lord for Kentucky, and peTtikeleriy
thank the Lord for that pertikeler
village In it-COnfederate Y Roads!
I arrived here last night at percise-
" eight o'clock, from Washington.
Rite here I desire to express my Opin-
ion Nv the Railroad Ofishels betwiXt
Washington and Louisville. There
isn't a man among EN- wich is actOO-
sted by humane impulses-nOt one
wich hez the finer feelings NV hum9n-
ity. The brOOtality with which the
conductors wood order two Nv theT
minyuns to seeze me and drop me of
their francs becoz I didn't hev the re-
kisit funds to pay fare, wuz hidjus in
the exfreem. And ! can't say much
more for the passengers-pertikelerly
them Wich sat in seets Contiguous.
The irate conductor wood frOwn-the
braKemen ez they seezed me wood
wear a pleased expression, but the
passengers wood laff Outrite. Sich
frifin with ones poverty is inhuman.
n11n1raf Z
pervent me from walkin on theT
tracks-nor Good the conductors git
ma of ther trains till 1 he'd rid haff
dozen miles. JOodishUs and vehem-
ent swearin that / he'd a tickit about
me somewhere-and a protracted
search for it wunst saved me miles
NV teius walkin.
Foot sore and weary at last hove
I'm site Nv the Crcss-ROads and made
all speed for the Centre. All wuZ
still! The houses on each side NV the
street Wuz dark, (for they won't yOose
coal oil and sense they hev ben be-
reft Nv their niggers they hevn't raised
hogs enuff to afford lard for lamGs) but
list ahed, shinin like a beekon lite,
Wuz the cheerful winders Nv Bascom's
all ablaze. Ez I seed them winders I
Good realize the feelins Nv the temp
est-tost mariner maxim harbor, or q
traveller on the great desert approach
in an oasis in wich there wuZ a gush-
in spring Nv water.
Il Wuz BascOm'si pher Wuz the
two winders all aglowi ther wuz the
familyer clapboard a hangin by one
nail! there wuz old Evans a bein his
- 1900 he tool hwfwI-
out haVin the money to pay for it.
Everthin wUz naterai and normal.
Neererl neererl ] Good gaze thro
them winders! Their wuZ BascOm be-
hind the bar a leenin on his elbows;
there wIz Dekin Pogram a sittin on a
cheer by the fire with glass Nv hot
whiskey in his hand-ther Wuz Nc
Pelter, 1ssaker Gavitt, Pennibacker-
all, NV EN- a sittin by the fire, and all
NV EN- with hot whiskey in ther
hands. entered, but none Nv EN-
recognized in the travelworn strang-
er the once rosy Nasby and none Nv
EN- moved.
'Don't 700 know me-Nasby!"
''Git out yOo impOster! 'sed they all
in korious.
tIt is-no, it isn't-and yetlr sed
Bascom, "pll test him, Whisky did
yOo say?' and helsot out the familyer
bottle.
It wuz a critickle moment-my
identity wuz at stake. AssOOmin the
bland old expression, 7 poured the
glass full and drank it off without q
wink. "G. W" sed 1 with my old
majestic wave Nv the hand, &c. w.
mark it down"
''Tis hel tis her' ejackilated Bas-
com. mo other man nvin kin do
that in that way. Take another"
Wich I did.
The delite NV Deekin Pogram at
seein me wuE tetchin. The old man
throwd his wastid arms about nv
neck, spillin his likker down my back
inside NV wher my shirt collar ought
20 hey bin, and wept fer joy. The
stream Nv hot whiskey meandered
slowly down my body. II wood prefer
it shood 90 down inside" /" ~ sed, but
never mind. It's not all wastid-I
shell absorb some Nv it." Kernel
MoPelter, Elder Pennibacker and
Issaker Gavitt crowded up and con-
gratulatid me on my return in the
most corjel manner.
1--WE knowd yood come back?" sed
Issaker, ''no one ever leaves the Cross
Roads Wich don't come back"
''Trool too troop remarkt that cuss,
Joe Bigler, who entered at the mo-
ment, ''the man wich lives six years
with sich ez yoo, and acquired yOOr
habits; can't live anywhere else, that
is, within the bounds Nv ciYiliza-
shen."
found things at the Corners very
much ez I he'd left EN-. My pertikler
friends Wuz all iiYin, and goin on
percisely ez they alluZ he'd. Joe Big
Ter was still alive, and wuZ recognized
ez the leader NV the niggers atthe Cor
ners, and Pollock Wuz still retaillin
goods to EN-.
They he'd he'd several exciting sea-
Sens. Pollock he'd bought, a year ago,
a waterpower on Buck Creek, neer the
village, and a farm admin, and he
made q serious effort to start an iron
works on it. The innOvatin wretch
he'd gone on to MassychOOsits-hed
enlisted a passel Nv Yankee capital
lists in the enterprise, and they he'd
abslOOtly gone on and built the build
in and got in the heft NV the machin-
cry and wuz gatherin up operatives
in the east to set it in Operashen.
Issaker Gavitt diskivered one day that
the few mechanics they he'd read
nOOsepapers, and BascOm found that
ther WuZn't q Dimocrat among EN-.
The Corners felt outraged NV course
and a meetin wuZ called to take
measures to stop it rite wheT it wuz.
Pollock and Joe Bigler sneaked into
the meetin and undertook to talk ern
out NV it.
"Itll double the price NV yoor
land!n sed Pollock.
iAnd give the Ablishnists more val
uashen to tax us on p'sung out Issak-
er Gavitt.
"Ez ! shell never leeve my land"
commencst Pogram.
''It's leeyin 700 develish fast, oW-
ing 70 yoOr chronic thirst" Interrupt
ted Joe Bigler. 'Deekin, watts the
use Nv yOOr speekin in the land inter
est? IF yoOr venerable bilers hold to-
gether few short months Bascom
VIII hev wat few akers VOC hev left.
Let him represent it.u
'Ez l shel never Ieeve my Iand,U
econtlnyood the venerable Deekin,
wat do l keer wat its vallyoo is.D
"lpu break up our customs" sed
Pennibacker. They'll git turnpikes
and railroads and skool-houses in
next, and then wat quiet will we
hev.i'
"But, BascOm, it'll make more Gus
TONERS for yoor bar" sung out Bigler.
'TroO, but there'd be more grocer
les to supply em. NoII hev all that
/ kin take keer Nv and 1 don't want
no more. Down with these interlop-
ers.u
fDOWn with the interIopers ~ sang
out all NV EN-, and headed by the
venerable old POgram they went for
the Works.