The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-04-01
Not that Columbus.

The OootblaCk on the corner s'anu vi y
street was looking for customer. lie was
as black as the ace of spades, and AZ he care
lessly busted off his stand with stump OF a
corn.brush, he occasionally paused, rolled
his ewes hupgrily up and down the street
Presently a tall, raw -boned, middle'aged
man with a considerable length OF goatec,
and but a little breadth of hat-rim, stopped
and glanced at the stand with some show OF
interest - =
"Haye shine, boss!" said the owner OF
the stand, giving his chair parting slap win
the brush. "Shinc 'em in half mint, sah'
You'll just have time to glance over dc morn
ing paper"
Without deigning an answer, the iahR chal'
climbed into the seat before him.
"Whar yer roofing them pants toy was
his frst remark after the proprietor OF the
stand began to operate. -
"All right now, boss. We mustn't muss
'cm YOU see. It's all feasible now, sab"
wall, proceed to business
"De people OF de Souf,'' said the boot
black, cooking a cunning eye at his customer,
de people of de souf (anothcr look OF the
eye) most allus gives US pore culled boys any
little feasible jobs dey's got"
"You think I'm from the SOUTH!
"Ts from dc Souf, myself, sab"
"Likely."
rs from 0e ooui, san rum Wv "
tuck, sab"
"Indeede'
"Sartain, boss. Is from Lex'nlon, Ken
tuck, sah.' scrsping away with an old cast
knife at the mud on his customers boots.
I'm from Kentucky myself, and from Lex
ingtos,' said the man, beginning 10 look IN
terested $50 you're from Lexington, Ell "
Jess so, boss Practically was born dar
sab"
Like you, I was born there
mice old town, boss"
Very" o. :.
tust, dat saw in you de rale old hain'ucE.
gentleman. You've got good deal OF d'
cut of some of dem law and medicine stu
dents dat used TO be about de ole TransylVa
MIA Varsity, but yous aged little, BOSS
aged a lee,le grain more dan was de boys II
dem days"
ave often seen the old University"
at was a fine old town, too. DE mail
street was more dan mile long: dar wa
beautiful trees long de street, and de orphan
asylum, and de baggin iacterys, de wlr
works and de-
1.-THE lunatic asylum
ayes, boss; shure 'nuti, dar war de luns'i
sylum:"
IAN de ribberi golly, boss, da, fust biI
bend IN Town fork of de Elkhorn, up 'oov
de systematically dat ar was might
feasible proposition for catfish"
Amazing
II say, boss; practically you never hap
nened TO know a cullua boy named Columbu
Parsons as lived out on de road to'ards wha
old Harry Clay was horned, out to ards ASH
land-did yer sah?'
II knowed colored boy named Coiumbu
Parsons, that rode old Woodpecker again:
Ploughboy, down at the Blue Grass cours
and won the pus s." ~
"De Lord love US! Was you dar! ID
great hockey, Practically, l am dat sam
Columbus Parsons what rode ole Woo
pecker aud won de pus down dar AT Blu
Glass"
The Columbus Parsons | knowed use
he q great fiddler, played for all the balls an
parties for miles around"
Dat was me sab. was de boy. No
you's beginning to know me-"
The Columbus Parsons l used TO kno
was a great singer-was lightnin' al all II
niger camp meetings.
"Dat was me, boss. I'm identically ar
practically dat same Columbus Parson
Yoa's got the most feasible mem'ry dat ev
saw, sah.'
columbus Parsons 1 knowed went dow
10 Frankfort and run on the river as stew al
of the Belle Wagner
yah, YAH You knows me-you do, yC
knows me, boss. You knows me like
brudder, sab! In dem days didn't put
de 'parels Wasn't ! attired! PractIcall
sah, you's got the mos, feasible mem'ry dat
ever saw"
The Columbus Parsons that knowed,
y, Columbus Parsons that rode old Woo
.er, the Columbus Parsons that used
sing at campmeetings; Columbus Parse
that was steward on the Belle Wagner, th
Columbus Parsons busted open trunk
longing to passenger, stole thousand d.
lars, and was sen, 10 the state prison al Fran
fort for five years"
Practically, boss, you's got powerf
feasible mem'ry, but dar was anudder Coiul
bus Parsons down dare bout Lexin'ton al
Frankfort particularly South Frankfort, ere
lie chain bridge-dat was boss rider,
dler, q singer, and a sieamboater, an he "
low flung, harum scarum, no account !
Ter. / guess he mout 4 been de Columb
Parsons what you knowed, sab
You think soy
"Sariis, sure, hoss, bu; don't say nuf
about de fellow heah, say. Gou see. prac
al - frf r-rul va1fnp sab y