New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-15
How Squire Skaggs got Skinned by the
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from the Savannah News.l
"You see," said the Squire, pitching his
voice to an exeget icai altitude, SIT wuz
sorter this way. Last Chuesday wuz week
ago. l sailed down from Gwinnett to
Atlanty with seven bags OF cotton. AFTER
l sold EN- | kinder loafed roun' lookin' at
things in general an feelin' just as happy
as YOU please, when who should run agil
but Kurnel Blasengame. Me an the
Kurnel used to be boys together, an we
WIZ "a thick as five kittens in rag basket
We drunk outen the same goard, an we
got the lint snatched outen us by the same
bandy-legged school teacher. l was gitten
as lonesome as a raIncrOw, atOre struck
up with the Kurnel, an was glad to see
hin-durned glad. We knocked 'roun
town right smartually, an the kurnel in
teriuced me to whole raft of fellers-
mighty nice boys they wuz, too. AFTER
supper the Kurnel says
whar we kin talk over the ole times sorter
comfortable an ondisturbed like
".Greeable,' says |, an We walked
souar or go an turned into alley an
walked up narrer par OF stars The kur-
mel gin a little rap at a green door, an a
slick lookin' merlatter popped out an axed
us in. He wuz the durndest peritest mig
ger you ever seen. He jest got up an spun
aroun' like tom cat with her tail atire.
The room was as fine as fiddle an full of
picturs an sofys, an the cheers wuz as saft
as lambs wool, an thought to meself that
the Kurnel wuz lugsuriant cuss. Thar
wuz a lot of mighty nice fellers scattered
roun' a latin an talkin' quite soshable
like. Aperient, the Kurnel wuzen't much
sot back, for he sorter LATED to himself an
then he says:
".Boys," says he, Il hev fetchsd up a
fren'. Jedge Hightower, this is Squire
Skaggs, of Gwinnett. Majer Briggs, Squire
Skaggs.' an 80 on. all 'rOun. Then the
kurnel turns to me an says:
"'Reely, l wuzen't eXpectln' company,
Skaggs, but the members of the Young
Mems Christun Sosashun make my room
their headquarters
l ups an says wuz mighty glad to meet
the boys. l used to be a premativ' Baptis
myself atore got to ,cussin the Yankees
an l hev always had sorter hankerin'
arter pious folks. They all LATED an shuck
hans over agin, an we sOt thar smOkin' an
a chawin' jest as muchuel as you please.
disremember how it come up, but presently
Majer Briggs gifts up an says:
".Kurnel, what about that new parlor
game you got out the other day 2
ooh says the Kurnel, lookin' sorter
sheeplsh, that was humbug. l can't
make no head or tall outen It.
"'Fll bet l kin manage it, says ledge
HightOwer, quite animated like
"Tll show you how, jedge, with pleasure
says the kurnel, an then he went to a table,
unlocked box an tuck out deck OF
keerds an whole lot of little whatyOu-
maycallems, similarly to horn buttons, some
white and some red"
Squire Skaggs paused and supplied his
tireless jaws with fresh quid of tobacco.
'It amt no use to tell you any more
When them fellers got done larnin' nae that
game / didn't have money enough to
take me down stairs. l lay | looked a
leetle wild, for when the Jedge closed the
box he said:
"'We hev had pleasant evenin', Squire.
You'll find the Kurnel waiting for you
on the steps, an he'll give you your money
back
- amt never laid eyes on the Kurnel
sence, an when do thars going to be
case for the kurriner-you mind my words.
l seed Rute Lester next day-you know
Rufe; he's in the Legislature now, but
used to give him pop corn when he wuzen't
SO hight seed Rute an he sed wuz tuck
in by the Pharoah men. Tuck in amt no
name for it, Derned if didn't go to the
bottom an git skinned alive"