The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-06-04
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IJp koSc | were not Sotu w -" |
into no Nothun lions mouth. hu' a uv
,nt,,, ma that never lade eyes on befo comes
,,n hehine me to sit my sekri's, I'm oouu
~ kene dark, and the bes' way to 90 tnat Is
fur 10 tell the truth with few tionnsis 70 II.
Nv nepo bow Madison, that waikt WIZ he
nc fur rs Rains's Tayuu (Which thar asnt no
tovnn nor no,bin else thar now, toie Tue
when we shuk haas, says nc.
cole msrsttr, you's gwlne tur, lur away.
1,u ,.te keer NV everything at home, the ana
o,o ,n;s,isS fmy wiie's gittin ioug-sot grey |
barl will. but you take Eeer OF yosel. heep |
20 nvc sIun well back, and don't let nobody |
f,;nG no ,,ert in it, nor pull no wool over IT,
Which I promist him faithful would.
II were dark long befo we got to Moo
York. and were sorry fur that, becoZ they
do say the appearance Nv the barber comm IN
fcum sea, whar thar Amt even X rodes sto
in sight, ar like lookin doun frum hi
mounting on all the Kingdoms Nv the worl.
Which well bleeves 1t from what seen 10
the mite. We stops ten minits to quoruntee,
which is q doctor comm TO the ship in tugg
and takin 'leyeu dollars, and he tells by the
looks of the mummy, or rulher by teeiIn' NV
the greenbaks in the dark, that there amt
nobody abode that's got the yaller.fe'er or
the kolrymorbers-and away we goes.
Here want to say one laist word for The
good ship that fotch nee throo the storm oeio
/ part With her. 1t ar the most compleet
and deliteful skeem for sailin over the Ease
NV the erth on water that ever wuZ or Will
he inyeptid. In bumpy wether it's leetle
too much like rockin logger than you want
TO rock in O rockin. cheer that Amt got no
hack 10 il: but thar's every thing abode that
hart could wish, even down to split-bottom
cheers. and the ouliest thing lackin, as told
Gaming Walker, is a ole.fashun open fire
nls,ce. with blazin log-hre; and that they'll
nave in time, if YOU order it on peece Nv
nsner and hand it 10 the waiter for Wine-
keerd. Steam-pipes under the seats don't
warm country peepul's toes that is usen to
hot ashes on wood hartn.
Bimeby the few ltes on sho' gun to Grease
IN numbers-Do' yit, still mo-, mo- and mo-,
hesp moon the rite ham, lef' ban, behine,
and bsfo'; nunduds, and thousuDs, and mil
yuns Nv lites all aroun' the face of the uni
yarsal erth-a ginr, ] grand 'lumination wv the
Worp: all Albumin on the edgs Nv the SKY,
and all silunt-not 81 SCUM 'ceppin nv the
bip shin in the dark plowin' thro' the water.
Twuz q site long to be remembud. 1t llt up
feelins in me that | can't never tell TO no
man. TwuZ like the TRY furnesls uVali Doun
Belo or the footlltes w the Theater Nv the
Uniyurse. Eff once the curtin Nv day were
lifted on that sene, my soul! what Wouldnt
8 body see! trimtled all over lookln' at II,
but snid nutbin. Thar wuz DO mlslakiL' Nv
it-this WIZ Moo Yok, the CRATE city; and
by George il certiny WIZ CRATE in the bigeist
mespiu' NV the word. And jest to think
that wbareyer Wuz a lite wuz hous, and
to cvry hous duzen human beings, and all
that wuz aseein' wuz only the outside edgls
q The town.!
"Well. don't keer whether it is gas or
kerosene they USES" says to myself, 1.-The
lamp chimbly bzuiss must be good bizniSs
here: eli the chimbys breaks like they breaks
in my country"
you ar quite right, my frend," says Mr..
Opknownster, that had crope np on me IN tie
dark.
apserd him nuthn, becoz | were havln
NV my thots and feelins all to mysei,
plcZaut and quiet, and l dld'n want no H.
terupShun frum nobody.
Presently l sec plais whar the ltes wuz
piled upon ltes till thay fairly blazed.
"Hoo-,ce :" / says; "What is that? Is
they hayin NV the 4tn Nv July here in the
beginnin Nv the muDtb of Apul?" says /.
Sc, mo, that's only the Batry."
81, Barry? Cannun batry?"
Sc s 1ss %eageyer you see h tc thar IS IS
every gun man with blazn "lG ofItn aRP u e
hand That stays thar day and night the whole
year roun to fire away whenever inimy
comes ia sight"
I said nulhin.
"Apd now," be says, "lookn' at that, do
you think the Rebuls could whip the Dam.
yapkyS,' as you cali 'cm?"
My heart sinkd. / turned away, and
didn't want to hay no conversation with
no sich man. He were stral jur to nae,
and what he said were not interestin. SO I
done like the Skurmish boys when they is
crowGd-I ralIid on the resurve, and wiSht
/ had stayd at home. L We're not prepaid
for war so suddin.
has sinse thos Nv eny cuontity Nv ansers,
aud real good ones too but my drolted mind
has got mean way, suinlmes, Nv goin'
back on me, not thinkin'a thot and not buGg-
in peg till the Teller is clean gone, and the
anser gifts so cold it don't taste good
went into the kabin after the strapjur
had used me up so, and thar eycrybody was
biZZy pre- parin' TO leave the ship and 90
home. Then it WIZ my ioncsum stait cum
down on me like bcvy wayt-all the rest
WIZ IT home but me, and whar WIZ
! =? Nobody knowd nor keerd. were
feerd TO leave till daylite, and then
| would'n hav no mo- idee whar to 60
than | did at mite. So l went out ana
NO chit 'em whurl the huge vessel round ana
back her into the Doc; and they done II jest
as ecZy as bacBin Nv cart-all IN the darh
and only dim lamps burhin--and she
wouldn't bust egg.shell when she MT the
whorlt The DamyankYs Is certny good snip
ia merS-but the capting was lshman.
Thar want no Gray nor ox-team Nv epy
kind that I could gee! and / would a gone
up to bed ir MIR. Comfy and Hymans hadn't
kindly offerd to take me in thar hac
Which / thankt um kindly and told I'm to
drop me at leventeen hundred and lerenty-
leyen Leventy.leyenth street.
I.But. my friend" said Mr.. Hymens,
"thatii take you mighty nj up 10 K,nedy."
"Well," / says, "we'll skeersly git thar
tonight, but SO git thar to brekfus don't
keer. The ticket-agunt at Burksvil tole me
the sitty run'd from ksstle Gardin up to
Skinnecktidy, and Pm reddy and willin to
keep goin till git to the rite plais."
But" he says, and thar he stopt short,
like he wuz boiherd.
"What's the name ov the jentilman that
you are going tor" said Mr. Comfy.
"Mr. V. Dabpy," saysI. .... ....
"Dabny, Dabny," says he. "What does
be do?"
"Teaches boys skule."
"Oh!" he says, u know the plais we'll.
And good sKue it is. He's moved down
to 43 east % street. We're all right new.
Drive on, driver"
The driver druv, and away we went. We
dartld here and We dartid thar; we whurld,
and we qurd, and we twurld turnd corn.
der after cornder, houses and wnders and
lights and lamps, and lights and lamps and
wipders and houses and streets-no eend oy
em-and plenty ov pepal and steepils, altho
II wuz micoite. l lookt out ov the hac-
wiDder and tried TO see the tops oy the