Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24

WWmteQ TO see "Der AhGAt0F."
He entered the Journal office with
the smell of buckwheat cake on his
garments and blood in his eyes
He had on an army overcoat, a
plush cap and a frown darker than
a thunder cloud folded three thick.
He looked at the foreman who was
just sitting down to give man cred
it for seventeen cents of subscrip-
ton, and sternly inquired:
where ish de aiditor?'
He just stepped out, a moment
ago.
'Shtepped oud, Ell? Ven viii he
shtep imp
Expect him back verysoon. Any
thing can do for youY
'Maype he knows ! vosh go0ming,
und dots NY he shtepped Oud !?
well, / couldn't say as to that.
'Goodn't, Ell? Well / Wait Iced
le, und he gooms back, eh?'
Il think he will be in, sir, in few
Moments
Il half a leedle bishness NIT him,
What vas he peen zayin' 'boud me
in don INl5Ola7laL.'
about you? / don't know, sir
Wall, by shimminy, he says /
Vost got drunk und reised some hale
Won tay und shoost zee 'bOud dat
Think you must be mistaken, sir,
Il
sDink I vos, eh? Maybe I get
some friends vet tOle me bout dot !!
/ find oud all bout id, py shimmy !!
L find id oud in dwo minds! He
zay vos drunk and makes some
doubles and when he gOOms pack /
shoost see 'boud dot. plack his
eyes, py shiminy, und gick him and
knog his prains out, maybe, for dot.
Shoost LET him goom pack und /
show him all 'boud id.
Somebody's been putting up q
job on you, fear, observed the fore
man. ...
Il dond got any foolishness NIT
YOU, / Wait till he gooms pack und |
got some satisfaction. / gick him
right away down shatairs so gwick
der leedle cuss vOdt find ond vOs
allied him, / bald your
But, my friend, guess you don't
know him. He is twice as big as
you are, weighs two hundred and
forty pounds, and got lots Ofmuscle.'
HE vOs ferry large@
We'll about the size of Atkins
down here, the Banner man,
'Ish dot so? Adgins vOs stoud
man.
yes, either of 'em can pick up a
INa r,.o1 of onIf o,,1 thrOxrr if a onrocs, tho
road without a grunt.'
'Pp shimmy, ish dot SOP
yes There, there, there comes
the editor now,' cried the foreman
aiming his finger at Capt. Fuller
1.-TWO hundred and fifty pound man),
who was just coming down Bridge
street.
dot vos der aiditor? Well, ef he
didn't say noting bound me dot
vos all right
Let's see, your name is?
'Yaw, dot ish my name.'
We'll come to think, believe he
two ago that you got drunk at IS
saloon, kicked out three or four
window lights, smashed up a few
chairs, and tried to steal five cents
of small boy to buy another drink
with
'Vos dot all he said?'
Il believe he said that a man who
would conduct himself in such AN
outrageous manner ought to be tar
red, feathered and rode out of town
on a rail-
Il think he closed by remarking
that If he'd been the owner of the
property, heed have smashed you up
into a Dutch cheese in less than two
minutes
'Und dot vas all he gay about me
in dose papers"
well, that is abOdt all I remem-
Der now
We'll, py shimmy, vas pig fool
of / got mad 'boud a leedle shokes
dot / go right avy and dOnd gay
nottings 'bOud id. Does veliers VOs
dryiA' TO put some shOb on me. Day
gay he vOs hurt mine caracter, und
/ know it vOs a tam lie all der While.
Ply shimmy l wish / vOs pig as Adj
gins, put some head on dGze vel
Iers, you baid.'
Just thon the devil i'm the press
room gave Comanche war-whOop
and the foreman heard man going
down stairs us though his satanic
majesty was after him. - LOtceU
Journal.