The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-27
WATTERSON'S HUNDRED THOUSAND.
TIE NEW HENRY IN.

/ .Sre"e- Washington, Fs}ruary Il, ISL
/ Enter SIR John F;tlstdt Vatterson, Prince
| HerU and others.
/ Sir John Waderson-A plague on all
towards, | say, and vengeance, too. Give
me cup of blue grass, boy Is there no
! virtue extant?
Prince Hewu-IIow now; what mutter
/ you?
IVatterSon-If l do not beat thee out of
thy leadership with dagger of hath. and
drive thy subjects before thee like flock
of wild geese, I'll never wear hair on my
face more. Are you not a coward? An
swer me that.
HeVW-Zounds, ye dull rogue, an ye
call me coward I'll kick thee.
WaH.-l'll see thee damned ere | call
thee coward; but l would give a thousand
eagles if | could run as fast as thou caust
lou are straight enough in the shoulders:
you care not who sees your back. Call
you that backing your friends9 A plague.
upon such backing. Give me them that
.
I'm rogue if | drank to-day.
Heo.-Oh, Watty! Thy lips are scarce
dry since thou drunk'st last.
WaH-A hundred upon poor four of us.
| am a rogue if was not at half sword
with dozen of them !or two hours to
gether. | have ,scaped by miracle. !
.. IN eight times thrust through the doublet:
four through the hose; my bucker cut
through and through; my sword hacked
like handsaw; ecce signum. l never dealt
better SINCE | was man. All would not
do. piSgue on all towards. Let the
others speak: if they speak more or less
than truth, they are villains and the sons
of darkness.
He".-W hat, fought We with them all?
UaH.-All? l know not what We call
all; but if | fought not with fifty of them
I'm a bunch of radish; if there were not
two or three and fifty Of them upon poor
old Watt, then am no two. legged crea-
ture.
Hs'o.-Pray heaven, you have not muir
dered some of them?
HdH.-Nay, that's past praying for, for
L have peppered two of them-two. | am
sure, l have paid; two rogues in Buckram
salts. Abe, if tell thee lie, spit on my
lace. -Four rogues in buckram let drive at
me.
Hetc.-Four, Hank? Thou saidst but
two even now.
Vah-Four, Abe; | told thee four
these four came all afront, and mainly
thrust at me. | made no more ado, but
took all their seven points in my target,
thus
HeT.-Seven? Why, there were but
four, even now.
VAT. In buclsram?
Her.-Ay; four in buckram suits.
WdH-Seven, by this blade. or I'm a
villain else. Ay, mark thee, Abe. TIL.
nine i'll buckram that told thee Of
He1c.-So two more already.
WaH.-Began to give ME ground; out |
followed me close, came in foot aud hand:
and, with thought, seven of the eleven |
paid.
Hem.-Oh, INDUSTRIOUS; eleven buckram
men grown out of two
Watt.- But as the devil would have il.
three miSbegotten knaves in Kendall green
came at me back and let drive at me: for it
was so dark thou couldst not see thy hand
He~.-Why, how couldst thou know
these men in Kendall green when it was so
dark thou couldst not see thy hand >
Come, tell MS thy reason.
hH.-What, upon compassion? No;
were | at the strappado, or all the racks in
the world, | would not tell you on compul
SION. Give you reason on compulsion.
If reasons were as plenty as black berries,
would give no man a reason upon compul,
sion.-Nelo York Null.