New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-08-27
From the st. Louis Republican
Catching u Tartar.

There were four of them and they were
young bloOds; young bloods. You have
| seen a young blood. He is the son of his
father and his father is rich. lie is called q
young blood because he bleeds the old man.
| The young blood tolls not, neither does he
| spin-but his head spins once in n while.
Well, there were four of them, 1t was Sun
day night. They had been out to Rinkle's
| and were coming home on the st. Charles
| rock road. They sat in Il two-seated buggy,
drawn by Il dashing span of bays. Presently
| they came to the large open common at the
| intersection of the rock road and Kings
| highway.
| Here an episode occurred. You have all
| seen an episode.
1t is something sudden.
| And so unexpected.
1t scizes you with amazelnent. Transiixes
you with awe. In this instance the episode
mashed your hose.
| a countryman was driving home in lowly
truck-wagon drawn by an aged and methodi-
cal gray horse. The young bloods came
dashing up with their prancing bays. The
young bloods were beery.
But the country had about two drinks
OF whisky in him aud hence had the advh-
! tage.
A gill of whisky contains the same amount
of fight as a gallon of beer, and then it is so
much handler and less cumbersome.
The young bloOds drew rein and the coun
tryman hollorcd whoa. The V. b. asked
the C. if he could tell them where they were
going.
The proEne C. told them 'to hell
Then one of the V. b. said "you'rc a
blankcd - liar"
At this the countryman laid down his lines,
and got out of his truck wagon right into the
middle OF the road, and made speech as
follows: "You ROSTERS lit OH the wrong
fence. just one of you stay in the wagon
and hold the horses aud the other three git
right out here. | ken lay all the dust be-
tween here and town with We. oh, I'm the
Teller that ken keep the flies of. Pm better
than any muskeeter bar. Just one of you
hold them hOrses--my old mare III stand
without hitchn'-and the balance jist waltz
to Joseph right here now. Come on! git
Outw And the irate countryman announced
his firm belief in the canine parentage Of the
young bloods Then he danced and pranced
up and down the road and kicked at the
horses ears and gyrated his long arms and
threw his old SLOUGH hat high up IN the air,
sob, Pm a catamount, l am. | like to be
stopped III the middle of the road do. I'm
a iour-year old bull PAWN up big clods right
out Of the ground, l am. I'm whole men,
agerie of royal Bengal tigers, and Il cage full
of grizzly bears. I've lit in the ring l have.
Git out here! Git out, say, and Ill show
you whar you're gOin'!'
Then three OF the young bloods pulled oil
their coats and accepted the pressing invita-
ton. The other sat in the buggy and held
the horses. He was the lucky one. lie
could go to see his girl the next night, if he
wanted to, and not have to tell her that he
had been out to the base ball match and
got hit with the ball. The best place in that
vicinity was in the buggy, holding the
horses.
Well, the three bounded out. Then the
cOuntryman set those long arms going, and
the three Immediately imagined that the hot
spell had brought on tornado, accompanied
by an earthquake and enlvened by rapid
strokes of lightning.
That cOuntryman seemed to have about
fifteen fists.
"I'Il tell you whar you're goin'," he
yelled, as the first of the three tried to climb
over the fence of his east ear.
a "Thar's whar you're goin'," he shrieked,
, as the second of the three executed back
somersault in the ditch.
"An' this is the way for you to travel"
he yelled, as the last of the three tried to
: balance himself on his nose in the middle of
the road.
:, lie started for the lucky fellow who was in
u the wagon holding the horses, but the lucky
J, fellow let the horses go and got out of the
way.
! Then he made another speech, as follows :
"Oh, I'm an earthquake, ! am. Pm vol
canO right from the bowels of the earth.
e Give me some more nuts to crack! Give
il me room! Give me some more raw meat to
G chaw up"
The three slid off behind the fence, down
- to where number four sat holding the horses,
S and then slid softly into that buggy, and the
If buggy slid quietly into town, and then the
three slid furtively into a drug store. They
had been out to see the base ball match and
), got hit with the ball. They knew where they
= events they did not inquire of any more
countrymen, quietly driving home in their
Is truck wagons.
Complaint is being made that colored gen
= tlemen who sport white aprons at the sum
= mer resorts conduct themselves this year u