Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-04-10
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY'S LETTERS.

N ADD LEI i GhS.
MIR. Nasty and his Friends Prepare for
Protracted Drought-the Curious Result
OF the Preparation.
CONFEDRIT Y ROADS, (Which is in
the State of Kentucky,) March q,
1S74.-The weather is gittin milder
and milder, and there is no possibility
Nv our stavin off an attack upon Bas-
CONS, wich is our fortress. Joe Big
Ter and Pollock ever sence the faleyoor
nv the last croosade (wich was post
poned on account of the weather. } hev
bin perpetooally and persistently in
hamin the minds NV our wimmin, till
they hev their rage worked up to de-
gree that is terrible. Mrs. Pollock and
Mrs. Bigler hev bin putin on all their
store cloze, and goin out all day callin
on the wives and dawters Nv our citi-
zens. For instance, they'd 60 to Luz
.cindy Gavitt (Issaker's wife, all rugged
up in silks and furs and dollar jooelry,
and sich, and tell Lucindy that eff Is
saker wood only save his mummy instid
NV spending it at Bascom's shee Good
hev all these things jist ez well ez not.
And then all the woman in Lucindy
wood be stirred up, and she wood more
than howl. When Lucindy saw that
these two wimmin he'd actooal stockins
on, she swore that she wood never rest
till Bascom wuz busted.
We knew Nv all this and trembled.
The frost was Citing out Nv the
ground; fair, warm days wuz comm
on, and the raid onto us Good not be
much longer postponed. Our wimmin
Good git out eZ soon ez it wuz warm
enuf for EN- TO go ont without shoes,
and We knowd that when they Good
get out they wood.
"Will they come in and smash in
the barrels: asked Bascom.
.'Precisely So"
"What kin We do:" groaned Deekin
wus u tue ca Ao,a
anser from every wan NV them.
This is wat We kin do" sed !
promptly. "Let G. ". take the bar
rels this afternoon. and roll EN- out into
his barn, where these cussid wimmin
can't possibly find em, keepin single
demijohn-an hours supply-in the
bar. Ef they come and smash, why
they kin only smash gallon at time.
Ioo kin draw out gallon ut time,
and the enemy kin never git at our
magazeen. Hev spoken WELL"
Like a sage-like sage. 1t is
well-it is we'll '"
Bascom consented, and We all turn
ed in To help him roll the barrels out.
Never did men work with such zeal.
1t seems rs tho there is suthing inspir
in in the rollin NV barrels. | Good
work at ii forever.
We got EN- all safely in the barn,
Bascom drawed out demuohn, and
We felt comparatively safe no matter
what should happen.
Night came on, and at 10 =. NJ.
left Bascom's to 90 To my humble bed
at Dcekin Pogram's. Ez and | ap-
preached his dwellin and | fell into a
trane NV thot. | he'd only he'd five
drinks, and | felt a longin for more.
| wanted to be filled up for wunst-to
hev, for one time, all that | Good lay
to. thot TO myself there is them bar
rels in BaScom's barn. Wat is to pre-
vent me from gittin bottle and goin
there. and draw it full, and for wunst
in my life hev a self-satisfyin fullness:
Nothin. | he'd marked the locashun
NV them barrels. and | Good 90 in the
dark to EN- ez well ez in the glare NV
the broad day.
determined to doit. Invent to my
room and got bottle and went thro
the alley on which the barn Stood
Caushusly scalin the fence | crept into
the barn, and crawled up to the barrel
wich he'd the fawcit in. | wuz envel-
oped in Cimmerian darkness. Ireach-
ed out keerfully to find the fawcit,
when | heerd II rustlin sound as tho
somebody else WIZ neer. l laid stiff
on my abdomen till the sound ceased.
at is nothin," | scd to myself, and
crawled up closter. Confoosh'n! My
hand struck livin human body
Drawn back hastily, my boot struck
dll ODstdCIc, NlCll, ca el lHe eACldHitSH Ii
wuz wrung from it, remarked, ''Thun-
der!' Just then a match WIZ drawd,
"a candle wuz lighted, and-Tabloo.
There stood Bascom erect, with a
panied expression onto his countenane,
and on their abdomens, each with Il
bottle in his hand and crawlin towards
the barrel, wuz Deekin Pogram, Capt.
McPelter, Issaker Gavitt, Elder Pen
nibake, and evry wun NV them wich
wuz in Bascom's when the arrange
ment wuz made to move the barrels,
and wich assisted in movin EN-.
The thot that had okkurred to me
he'd likewise okkurred to all the rest.
l wuz the only one who had presence
Nv mind. | dropt my bottle after l
! riz, and springin to my feet, l denounct