The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-06-18
,.slIe,, when he drew out q willow flask. IL
K sufficiently deadly weapon In some hanas,
ri,,a,,, hnt IL dnnsn,t. scare me as o loadetl

know. but it doesn't scare me as Q tos.ueSI
revolver does, somehow ), o.
g Stranger,n eaid my visitor as ne As tlt.
fask down on the table, I" our folks mere mas
rot temperance on the brain. Ieetotai ao-
s'inence has struck In. Thar hain't becn
bar open goin' on two Years: s-good tiI ,ls,
no doubt. for them as can't govern thell
appetjte for liker, but it's kinder rougn Oh
the bows as occasionally likes drop. anu
;i,s roucher on strangers as stops IN tn1
town-eiycs EN- bad idea of the place.
sac We when We KUN in, and ! thousht !e
looked drv. SO made bold to walk up mere
and Offer YOU a dram outn my partlGllaI
flask. It's good you can pend ont. Iuie
old Bourbon whiskey, right from eilieinr
natl" ,r;ond .,
said I, 81 thank you for your ea.icln. ,.o
thoughtful kindness. AneXrerience Oh sew
raj years in observing the effects OF n','ei.,
natl wbiskey satisfies me that you nave soSa
rood article there, and one that ! collid surely
warrant. But don't feel the neeo oi "ps
' I" an right, old Cap" said my caller, taxing
a long pull at the flask himself. All liRnt'
YOU don't have to. If you get dr5' 'nous -
II was a pleasant afternoon, and sa ,1,
tered down on the street for Wafk. ! Nv
landlord was sitting on the front step. III
that desire to make it pleasant Tor me WIFI
was so marked a feature in our !'rss Il.ci
view, he introduced me all AROUND. IL 'n &c e
| is ANYTHING like better than ahotnel IL 10
being introduced all around 10 parry, Say az,
twenty-five or thirty. You hnow ,heni al,
the next time you see them, you KNOW: aa ~
c,lI their names so readily. And 1t IS so
pleasant TO be suddenly and unexpectedly
i.,IIed ,,nou 70 converse with twenty-five or
thirty strangers. particularly when you are
no. in q humor to converse with your uiost
common forms Of American lntroauctloil'
and YOU know how it is yourself.
| T at length mentioned that was gong 10
take little walk, and Immediately coupe
Of nv new friends volunteered TO accompany
me and show me the town. Alter seeing
thc town. which didn't require much tlme'
MS il wasn't very large, they were very
anxious that | should see their new race
| track.
OF "a naturally yielding nature Gas the track
was when 1 left, complied. pralscd their
track, as they seemed to expect shouid; :. l
oulogized their entrance-gate, --admlred thelr
rate. YOU know--extolled the tlckctofnc;e'
and lavished words of commentator on the
Judges stand. That stand, l told theIhi
could stand anything, and very inhocently
inquired if it could stand treat
! Then they insisted OIL taking me upon inc
Judges stand, but / stoutly resisted that,
though finally compromised by looking
into n little room beneath the stand called the
iudee's room. Once in there they shut the
door, and-you may not believe it, but 1t Is
so.-each of those young men drew a flask
ont of his pocket and offered me drink.
will not repeat to you the indignant and
scathinc rebuke administered those young
men, and it Is hardly necessary for me to say
I cnpticd their flasks--both their tasks
right where stood, as a Salutry warning
To- them against trltling with the temperance
regulations of their native town or attempt
Ing to lead an innocent traveller astray.t
| / positively never had so many snares laid
for me and temptations laid before me as
had in that temperance town, where they
didn't sell Il drop. They were most gene
rous and hospitable peoples though, ard did
hate TO set 4 stranger suffer. They didn't
seem to care for themselves, but liked to have
little within reach when traveller came
along.
Wealied with resisting these clandcstine
| invitations TO- "take Snthin',' at last an
| nollnced my desire to go to bed. a colored
man showed me up to my room, and asked
if there was anything l wanted. i told him
no. He hesitated, walked to the stove, and
poked the fire: then turned his attention to
the lamp to see if that was properly trimmed
and burning, got a. far rs the door, and hesl
tated again. "Well, what do you want
GeorseS" said l. | always call colored
iiiaii George, because more than half OF The
time that is his name, and when it isn't he
likes to he called George, because the iathel
of his adopted country was.
suppose l know a dozen colorcd mer
whose names were originally Peter, or Julius
Cesar, or Ephraminodas, who have gone
and got their names changed to George be-
cause they liked to hear me call them George
so we'll .-.
"What do you Want: Gcorge?'
ooh nuthin', sar,' said George, turning lii&
old soft hat OH his thumb, and leaning against
the decreasing; "but thought here hi
head dropped in an embarrassed way.
"WelI, what did you think, George ?
said I, encoHraeingly, supposing he wanted
RIGA.
"1f you will 'scusc me-. replied George
at length, giving up scratching his shin and
scratching his head, a thought, bein's you;
4 stranger, heah-" .r. A.-.e
"Well, George, go on"
."And the license laws little clus--"
"ies, jes' 500 ...
"You might want Il little drink fore YOU
goes to bed. Now, in my pocket jest got
He got no further in his speech. but he
tjes' "got" out of the door and down the
stairs in about two jumps, for he saw by thE
excited way il which was paving around
the stove that was looking for the poker.