The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-01-21
WAS ANOTHER CoLUmBUs.
The Virginia City Enterpriee tells thi

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The bootblack at the corner-stard on
g street was looking for a customer.
He was black as the ace of spades, and
as be carelessly brushed off his stand
with the stump of corn brush, he occa-
sionaily paused and rolled his eyes hum
grily up aud down the street.
Presently raw-boned, middle-aged
man, with aconsiderable length ofgoatee
aud not little breadth of hat-rim stop
ped and glanced at the stand with some
show OF interest.
Have shine, boss 90 said the owner
OF tie stand, giving his hair a parting
slap with the brush. ssShine'em up in
halt minni:, sab. You'll Jest have
time to glance over de moruin' papers"
Without deigning reply. the lank
chap climbed into the seat before him.
ssWhar are you a-rollil' them pants
to 20 was his first remark after the pro-
prietor of the stand began to operate.
'sAll right now, boss. We musn't
muss 'em, you see. It's all feasible now"
"Wall, perceed to business
"I'se a-movin' boss; Pse a-moviD,'
sall.n
"WaH, see that you keep a-movill'.' .
s,De people of de Souf," said the boot
black, cooking cunning eye up at his
customer, "'tde people of de Souf (anoth-
er look OF the eye) most allus gives MS
poor culled boys any little feasible jobs
dey's got
ssYou think Pm from the South %
CPS from de Sout myself, sah."
Likely"
s:l's from de souf, sah-from old
Kaintuck, sah.''
sIndeed'' -
'sSartin, boss. rs from Lex'nton,
Kaintuck, sah,o ecraping away with an
old caseknife at the mud on his Gus
TONER'S heavy boots.
ssl'm from Kentucky myself, and from
Lexington" said the man, beginning to
look interested. so you're from Lex
ington, eh 20
ssJess, so, boss. Practically / was
born dar, sah.n
ssLike you, I was born thar
n ice old town, boss"
aVery''
81 golly, boss, eff didn't think from
de first lat / saw in you de rale old
Kaintucky gentleman. You've got a
gOOtl OCskI III SI1S Cut III fOtli0 ~ 0ttA Idh
ana mid'cin students dat used to be
about de ole Transylvany Varsity but
you's aged little, boss-aged le-etle
more than was the boys in dem days" !"
ssI've often seen the old University
cit was fine old town, too. DE
main street was more dan mile long,
dar war beautiful trees, long de streets,
and de orphan asylum, an de baggin
facterys, dc wire works, an de-
's'rhe Lunatic Asylum"
"Yes, boss shore 'nuff, dar was de Lu-
natic 'sylum.''
eAnd the river"
ssAn'de ribber, golly, dat fust big
bend in Town Fork, of the Elkhorn, up
'boye de city-practicaily dat was a
mighty feasible proposition for catfish. 2
ssAmazin'n
| ST say, boss, practicallay, you never
| happened to know culled boy named
Columbus Parsons, as lived out en- de
road to'ards whar ole Harry Clay was
borted-out to'ards Ashland-did you,
sah?''
81 knowe5 a colored boy Eamed
Columbus Parsons, tha. rode 'ole wood
pecker' against sPloughboy,' down a.
/ the Blue Grass course, and won the
puss''
ssDe Lord love us Was you dar
De great hockey! Practically, | am dat
same Columbus Parsons what rode ole
sWoodpecker' and won the puss, down
dar to Blue Grass -
"The Columbus Parsons / knowed
used to be great fiddler; played for
all the balls and parties for miles around. =
"Dat was me, sab. / was de boy
Now you's beginnin' to know me y
s'1'lie Columbus Parsons / used te
know was great singer-was lightnin'
! at all the nigger camp-meetin's.'
4 tsDat was me, Boss I'm identically
and practically dat same Columbu.
Parsons. Yon's got the most feasible
mem'ry dat | ever saw, sah.'
4 a1he Columbus Parsons / knowed
went down to Frankfort and run on tht
river as steward of the Bell Wagner
Yah, yahi You knows me-you
knows me, bo S You knows me like q
brndder, sab Tn dem days didn't put
on de apparel? Wasn't attired Pfac
; tically, sab, yon's got de most feasibls
mem'ry dat ever saw 70
ssThe Columbus Parsons that know.
ed, the Columbus Parsons that rode ole
sWoodpecker,' the Columbus Parsons
! that used to sing at camp-meetin's, th,
Columbus Parsons that was steward ol
: the Bell Wagner-that Colum bus Par
l, sons busted open the trunk of passen
ger, stole thousand dollars and wa
!, seat to the State Prison at Frankfor
tor five years
$ Practically. boss, you's got q power
|, fal feasible mem'ry but dar was anothe
Columbus Parsosls down dar bout lex
in'ton and Frankfort partic' 'larly Sontl
Frankfort, cross de cham bridge da
|, was hoss-rider, singer aud steam
buater, an he was low flung, harunl
scarum, no-acconnt teller. ! guess b
J; mout bin de Columbus Parsons wha
! you KNOW d sah.''
You think so ~
ssSartin, sure, boss; but don't ea
2 muffin about de teller heah. sab; yo
: : see, practically it might injnre my goo
: ! name, sab r.
They have q female barber IN Brool