Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-01-28

A CHANCE MEETING OF A KENTUCEIAS WHO HAD
FEASIBLE" MEMORY.
From the Virginia CITY Enterprise

FEASIBLE" MEMORY.
From the Virginia City Enterprise.
The Doot-blaek at the corner-stand on c
street was looking for customer. He was
as black as the ace of spades, and as he
carelessly busted off his stand with the stump
Of corn brush he occasionally paused and
rolled his eyes hungrily up and down the
/ street.
Presently a tall, -boned, middle-aged
man, with considerable length of goatee
and not a little breadth of hat rim, stopped
/ and glanced at the stand with some show of
interest.
Have shine, boss ?" said the owner OF
the stand, giving his chair parting slap
with his brush. ''Shine EN- up in half mint,
sab You'll jist have time to glance over
de morning paper"
Without deigning an answer the lank chap
climbed into the seat before him.
" Whar yer a-rollin' them pants to ?"
was his first remark after the proprietor of
the stand began TO operate.
All right now, boss. We mustn't muss
en-. you see. Its all feasible now, sab. "
wall, pereeed to business"
is a-moyin', boss Is a-movin'. sab. ~
wall, see that you keep a-moyin'." d"
lie people Of de Souf,'' said the boot
black, cooking cunning eye upon his Gus
toner de people Of de SOgf another look
Of the eye most allus gives US pore cullud
boys any little feasible Jobs dey's got"
You think / IN from the South ~
Is from de Souf myself, sab"
Likely"
is from de Souf, sah-fron ole Kahn
tuck, sah.'
Indeed? ?"
'Sartin, boss Is from Lexinton, Kahn
tuck, sab, scraping away with an old case
knife at the mud on the soles Of his custom
er- boots.
I'm from Kentucky myself, and from
Lexington" said the man, beginning to
look interested. 80 you're from Lexing-
ton, eh ?'
"Je-, SO, boss. Practically was born
dar. sab"
Like you. was born thar. "
Nice old town, boss
Very"
"Golly, boss, ef | didn't think from de
/ iu5r dat | saw in YOU de rale ole Kaintucky Y
/ gentleman. You've got good deal of de
clt of some o dem law and mid cine students
DAT used to be about de ole Transylyany
Varsity but you : aged little, boss-aged
a le-etle grain more dan was de boys in dem
days
We often seen the old university
at was fine ole town, too. De main
street was more dan a mild long dar war
beautiful trees long de streets, and de or
/ phan '~ylum, an de haggin iacterys, de wire
works, an de
The lunatic asylum
Yes, boss shore 'nuG. dar was lie luna
ii, '~ylum7
And the river"
An de ribber golly, dat fa.t big
bend in Town Fork Of de Elkhorn, up 'boye
ie city-practically dat was mighty feast
/ Die proposition for catfish. 50
"Amazin'.
81 say, boss, practically you never happen
encd to know cullud boy named C5lum-
bus Parsons, a. lived out on the road to'ards
whar ole Harry Clay was borned-out
/ tl'ards A-hland-did yer, sab ?'
Il kn5wed a colored boy named Columbus
. Parsons that rode ole Woodpecker against
Ploughboy downAt the Blue Grass course
and Won The puss"
DE Lord love Us Was you dar ? De
. LaiAA ANhNN laN kAlhA4fs aAl LaL saint
/ Columbus Parsons rhat rode old Woodpeck
er an Won de puss down dar to Blue Grass -
The Columbus Parsons | knowed used
10 he a great fiddler played for all the balli
and parties for miles around. .
.'Dat was me, sab. was de boy Now
you'~ teginnin to know me ,"
The Columbus Parsons used to know
was great >incer-was lightnin at all the
niger campmeetin :"
Dat was me, boss. I'm identically anC
practically dat same Columbus Parsons
You've got De most feasible mem'ry dat
ever saw. sah.
The Columbus Parsons knowed wen
down TO Frankfort and ran on the river a
steward of the Belle Wagner
Yah, sab you knows me-you knows
me, bo-- You knows me like brudder
sab In dem days didn't put on de apparel
Wasn't attired Practically, sab, you
got the most feasible mem'ry dat eve
saw p"
"The Columbus Parsons that | knowed
the Columbus Parsons that rode ole Wood
pecker, the Columbus Parsons that used t,
sing at camp-meetin 5, the Columbus Par
sons that was steward On the Belle Wagner
that Columbus Parsons busted open tn
trunk OF a passenger, stole thousand dol
lars, and was sent TO the State Prison a
Frankfort for five years
practically, boss, yous got a powerful
feasible memory but dare bout Lexin 'toi
and Frankiort-partic arly South Frankfort
cross de chain bridge-dat was hoss-rider
a fiddler, "a singer, and steamboater, an
be was lowaung, harum-scarem. no-ac
count teller ! guess he mout bin de CO
lumbus Parsons what you knowed, sah.'
You think so -
"Sartin, sure, boss but don say nuthl
bout de ieller heah, sab. You see, pract
caiiy, it mout injure my good name, sab.
OuRIous CnINEsE CusMoNs Miss A. I