The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-03
A DARKEY's DOUBLE.
A Chance Meeting of Kentuckian who
had Feasible" Memory


The boot-black 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 q corn brush he occasional
ly paused and rolled his eyes hungrily up
and down the street.
Presently O tall, raw-boned, middle
aged man, with q considerable length of
goatee and not little breadth of hat
rim, stopped and glanced at the stand
with some show of interest.
Have a shine, bossT' said the owner of
the stand, giving his chair parting slap
with his brush. Shine 'em up in half
mint, sab. You'll jist have time to
glance over de morning papers"
Without dsigning an answer the lank
chap climbed into the seat before him
"Whar yer a-rollin' them pants tooT
was his first remark, after the proprietor
OF the stand began to operate.
"All right now, boss. We mustn't
muss 'em, you see. It's all feasible now,
sah."
wall, proceed to business"
us o movin, boss; rs a movin, sab"
"Wall, see that you keep a movin'."
~ de people of de Souf," said the boot
black, cooking a cunning eye upon his
customer, de people of de Sogf Ganother
cullud boys any little feasible jobs dey's
got"
you think I'm from the SouthT'
IFS from de Souf myself, sah."
Likely"
"I's from de souf, sah-from old Kahn
tuck, sah."
"Indeedr
'Sartain, boss. Is from Lex 'nton,
Kaintuck, sah." scraping away with an
old case knife, at the mud on the soles
of his customers boots.
"Pm from Kentucky myself, and from
Lexington" said the man, beginning TO
look interested. 80 you're from Lex.
SJes. so. boss. Practically was born
dar, sah.''
Like you, was born thar"
Mice old town, boss.
Very"
II golly, boss, eff didn't think from
de fust, dat saw in you de rale ole Kain.
lucky gentleman. You've got a good
deal of de cut of some o. dem law and
mid cine students, dat used to be about
the old Transylvany Varsity; but YOU
aged little. boss-aged le-etle grain
more dan was de boys in dem days"
I've often seen the old university"
at was fine ole town, too. De main
hbTCCb wa AlOIO budu u1llc lOuk5 udT Wal
beautiful trees long de streets, and the
orphan 'sylum, an de baggin' facterys
de wire works, an de-"
"The lunatic asylum"
"Y Yes, boss; shore 'nuff, dar was de lu
natic 'sylum."
And the river"
"An' de ribber; golly, dat fust bis
bend in Town Fork Of de Elkhorn, uI
'bove de ecity-practically dat was a nigh
ty feasible proposition for catfish"
"Amazin'."
II say, boss, practically, you never hap
pened to know culled boy named Co
lumbus Parsons, as lived out on the road
to-ards whar ole Harry Clay was borneC
out to-ards Ashland-did yer, sahT'
II knowed a colored boy named Co
lumbus Parsons that rode ole Wood
pecker against Ploughboy down at the
Blue Grass course and won the puss."
de Lord love u.s. Was you dar? d.
great hokeyl Practically, am dat same
Columbus Parsons what rode ole Wood
pecker an won de 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. l was de boy. Now
you's beginnin' to know mer
know was a great singer-was lightnin
at all the niger camp-meetin's."
tr dat was me, boss. I'm identically
and practically dat same Columbus Par
sons Yous got de most feasible
mem'ry dat / ever saw, sab"
THE Columbus Parsons / knowed
went down to Frankfort and ran on the
river as steward of the Bell Wagner"
"Yah, yah; you knows me--you knows
me, boss You knows me like brud.
der, sahI In dem days didn't put on
de apparel2 Wasn't / attired2 Practi
cally, sab, you's got de most feasible
memry ever saw
"The Columbus Parsons that knowed,
the Columbus Parsons that rode old
woodpecker, the Columbus Parsons that
used to sing at camp meetings, the Co
lumbus Parsons that was steward on the
Bell Wegner, that Columbus Parsons
busted open the trunk Of passenger,
stole thousand dollars, and was sent to
the State Prison at Frankfort for five
years"
practically, boss, you's got a powerful
feasible memory, but dare was anoder
Columbus Parsons down dare bout Lex
in ton and Frankfort-particl larly, South
Frankfort, cross de chain bridge-dat
was q hoss rider, fiddler, a singer, and
n steamboater, an he was a low-hung,
harum-scarum, no-account feller; / guess
he mout bin de Columbus Parsons what
you knowed, sab.
"You think soH
"Sartin, sure, boss but don't say muffin
bout de feller heah, sab. You see, prac-
ticslly, it mout injure my good name,
sab.