The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-31
S. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 81, 1875.

0ECEMBER 81, ]
Fee flaw tum, I smell the blood of
an Englishman, etc.
And still on we battered, and
the sun began to decline, aad the
wood TO darken, and still we pat
tered on. I was just thinking Of
turning tail and slipping back
among the panthers. and musqui.
toes, and rattlesnakes, when, o be
joyful, we burst on a clearing, and
there was a nice house in the mid
die of it, and out came the dogs
jumping to welcome US, and mig
gers no end with white eyebslls
and grinders like snow.
They pulled him off his horse,
and in we went. There was his
good lady, and his daughter
beautiful girl, and such a dinner.
We sat down, and 1 maintained
modest taciturnity for some min
utes: "The silent hog eats the
most aoornG." After dinner he
shows me ali manner of ways of
mixing the grog, and I show him
one way of drinking it,-when you
can get it. Then he must hear
about the elephant. So I tell
MIN the jade's history, but bind
him to secrecy.
Then the young lady puts in.
$50 you are really an English.
manY' and she looks me &ll over.
"That you may take your oath
of MISS" says I.
"Ohw says she, and smiles. /
did not take it up at first, but I
see what it was now. Me stand
ing five feet four, did not come
up to her notion as the Father of
all Americans. "DDes this great
people spring from such a little
stock as we have here?" thinks
my young lady. / should have
up and told her the pluck makes
the man, and not the inches; but
1 lost that chance. Then, being
pressed with questions, I told them
all my adventures, and they hung
on my words. It was a new leaf
to them, could see that.
The young lady's eyes glittered
like two purple stars at stranger
with the gift of the CAB that had
seen so much life as had, and
midnight came in on time. Then
was ushered to bed. Now up to
that time l had always gone to
roOst without pomp or ceremony
sometimes with a mould candle,
but oftener with a farthing dip,
which have seen dart its beams
: out of bottle Instead of q fat
candle stick.
This time a whole cavalcade OF
us went up the stairs: one blackie
, marched in my van with two
lights, two blackies brought ur
! my rear. They showed me into q
beautiful room, and stood in the
hali-light with eyes and teeth like
red hot silver, glitter'ng and dia
? bolical. thought, of course
, they would go away now. No
[ they. Presently one imp of dark
ness brings me char.
i, l sit down, and wonder. Othel
/ two lay hold of my boots and whil
them off. This done, they buz;
: about me like black and whit,
? fiends, fidgeting, till l longed TX
i punch their heads. They pull ny
coat OF and my trousers; they
!, then hoist me into bed: this dom
[ first one makes run and tucki
4 me in, and grins over me diaboli-
t cal; then another comes like /:
E batteIing ram, and tucks me il
l tighter. Fiend three looks at tn
i work, and puts the artful touche
}, at the corners, and behold m
wedged, and then the beneficen
J, fiends mizzled with hearty girl
that seemed to turn them all ivor,
Y l could not believe my senses:
e had never been tucked in sine
my mothers time.
t In the morning, struggled out
1 and came down to breakfast
r Took leave of the good Samaritan
: who appointed two of my niger
e to see me out of the wood; mad
f my bow to the ladies, and ava
e with a grateful heart. The mig
s gers conducted me clear of th
g wood; and set me on the broa
: road. Then came one of the pill
t poor fellow has to stomach
e / had made friends with the daI
kies, and now l had not even
n few pence to give them, and sue
q little would have gone SO fs
1 with them! have often felt th
l. bitterness of poverty, but never
d do think as when 1 parted wit
h my poor niggers at the edge of th
wood, and was forced to see theI
n go slowly home without a fal
n thing.
a l wish these few words coul
travel across the water, and m
1 good host might read them, an
}; see l have not forgotten him a
d these years. But, dear heart! yo
d may be sure he is not upon th
st earth now. It is years ago, an
d the man that had the heart TO ha
g Dor q stranger and a wandere
t. why, he would be one of the fir
1T to go.
}! We steamed and tramped U
u and down the United States {
r. America. On our return to No
st folk she broke loose at midnigh
4 slipped into the town, took up ii
trees on the Boulevard and sire,
l ed them fat, went into the ma
m ket, broke into a vegetable sho
munched the entire stock, next
l. a coachmaker's, took of carria.
Sc wheel, opened the door, strip;
ne the cushions, and we found b
N eating the stufiing.
Id One day at noon we found on
ne selves fourteen miles from t
Id town, I forget its name, we hs
IS to play in that very night. d
OF Galfott had gone on to reheare
in ETC., and it behoeves US to be ma
nd ching after him. At this junctul
old Tom, being rather drunk, fet
K, q strong desire to be quite drum
w and refuses to stir from his bra
to dy and water. Our exchequer y
I. in no condition to be trified wi
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