Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-06-25

offisis. We have been eating grass like
Nebueoa,lnezzur, scnce 1860. with the
exception of Johnson's blessed ycers,)
and Pharaoh's lean kline Amt nothing to
u. We hunger and thirst for EN-. Wv
course I'd ruther git my place back agin
thro Breckenridge. bat ruther than not
hev il ltl take il from Wendell Phillips
hinseli III Greeley is necessary 10
gilin them 20 fer Greeley. lie may
shift cz fast ~ he pleases, | kin hollow
him. Put that Post Offs in front Nv me,
and Of he Kin shit faster than e'n. l
hev over estimated my powers Ia that
liuo. He will insist upon qaa'ilieashuns
streunuously, but he hez his own stand
ard. He believes that them who nj
mire Horris Greeley are ex-oilisho, lit
for any place under any Government.
and them who don't amt with . d---n
for ANYTHING. am talented admiring
sich men; | am"
PogIam, Penniback. McPelter ana
Isssker Gavitt wuz convinced, but there
wuz still murmurin among the others.
"You idiots" sed Isternly. lis Grant
republican,"
"Hey VOC. ez democrats. everything
20 expect from him ?"
thav DliaI
..Do YOU know tho pekoolyarities NV
the great and good Horris ? We know
what he is to-day; we knew wat he wuz
Yesterday, and such oy 700 ez Kin read
plain print and write without runin yoor
tongues out kin assertane wat he wnz
before that. Wat he haz been 700 know,
but wat he will be only the Affinity who
knows all things kin tell, and NJ one but
himself sspposes he is NV sG.aeieht 40
count TO be made the subject Nv propho-
CIV. We are very certain NV a republi.
kin eff Grant is electsd-we may hcv a
republican or demokrat eff Greeley sue.
cesds. Its en- even chance where he
lites, with the per cent, in our lavsr for
NV course the rcpublikins will make tun
Nv him. witch i. the only thing ha never
for iorgiyes. Ez All uncertainty is bet
ter for US than a certainty, rsh for Gree.
ley"
They wuz coayinst and immejitly n
Greeley Club was organized. In Cincin.
natl he'd eAbark in speckulashun. l
he'd twenty dollars left from the monsy
i he'd borrowed NV Judge Davis commit
tee and invested 'em in fifty white hats
Nv an ancient pattern, expectin 10 sell
'em to the Greeley Club, which | intend
cd 10 organize, at, say. at Sl.5C each.
Alter the club was organized | stated to
'eln that the yooniiorm must be the style
Nv dress NV our beloved chief; white
hat and the lett panloons leg on the top
Nv The boot leg. and that he'd sekoored
white pants enuff to supply the club.
Here difficulty okkurred. In the en-
tire party there wuzn't 4 pair Nv panta-
looms which wuZnt worn off at least
three inches above where boot top
would be, and il bein warm weather tie
aujence wuz all bare footed. However
they took the hats readily, and station
ed myself at table TO receive the cash
for EN-. A profit Of tifty-iiye dollars
wuzn't so bad. Alas how human hopes
are bhghted! Bascom sed he'd take
them hats. collect the money for 'em
and credit me on account and he did il.
| didn't get dollar Nv it.
Iswallowed it ez best | mite, Tor il
amt no good to make row about it. No
man in the Corners kin oppose Bascom,
for he hez all the likker there H. But
we he'd ajollificashen over the orgoniza-
sheu. If it wuz a cheerin site to see fifty
men al in Greeley white hats drinkin
the health ofthe great Horris in Baseom's
new whiskey, it wuz cheerin TO see the
zeal which the admirers NV the white
coated philanthropist, all in whits hats.
went lor SIGH niggers ez they found in
the streets that mite don't despair Nv
seein niggers hogged under them white
hats. PETROLEUM V. Massey.
(Which wux Postmaster.)