Middletown transcript., 1877-08-18

me snort anu PIE AHuuln VI PeeA.
Jacko's a wonderful fellow,
tell you what he's frst-rate
Just as much sense as a paFson.
See how he scratches his pate
Wants good drink when he does that
Helps him long nightly, you see
Play US a tune on your fiddle,
In the scale Of letter G.
All right a waltz if you want to,
Now mind you must do it well;
Lookout how you dance on that goods box,
1t might turn out a bad sell
You'd fall on the loor-now steady,
Step US off a jig or two
Lay down your fiddle my fellow,
You mean to say you are through2
Two mods Of the head-that means: eyes sir
What again scratching your patel
Strangers, you'll have TO excuse him,
It is getting rather late
We've Travelled all day since sunrise,
This skittish monkey and ],
| With only water and tween times,
Some bread that was hard and dry.
Meat, did you say? Yes, I've bought it,
But that was in better days,
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And hadn't these wildish ways.
I long for good bed, stranger,
| I'd prec' ate it now, you see
These nights are so long and dreary-
Hold out your cap, take the fee.
Drop it right down in my pocket
BY Georgel See the rascal grin,
That means we're to have supper,
And lodge all night at the inn.
No, Jacko, takes more than that, sir,
Well have calisthenics now,
And try to please these strangers. What
Begin 'thout maxim bow2
About face-march you young baboon-
You're doin' that drill first-rate-
Did you say, do mind my troubles2
Well, somehow think its all fate,
And it won't be so forever
We all hope a change Il come,
Perhaps mine II be for the better
Yes, guess, will take some.
This is great plenty, stranger,
l always make it a rule,
Not to drink more an two glasses,
Less it's uncommonly cool
And then l take it for comfort
To thaw these old bones of mine
Give me a stronger heart to go on,
And look for better time.
You see, / wasn't always this way,
Begging round for my bread,
They called me reg lar gent, sir,
Said / was well learned and read.
A girl was the cause Of my troubles,
She promised to love me, you see
Perhaps you think / am foolish
But it made a change for me.
/ went to Fornia's diggins-
Two years l threw out gold;
Came back with just as much money
As lord would wish to hold.
sailed into New York barbor,
Thinking about her all day,
The first thing heard, when landed,
She'd married and gone away.
Ny parents were dead and gone, sir,
And only brother and /,
Were left behind to mourn for them,
Or visit the mound where they lie.
Brother was always the widest
Coolly shot down in a fight,
By the man that married my love, sir,
Do you doubt was crazed that night?
Twas then began this rowing
No Jacko was not with me,
Id chinks by hundreds of thousands,
They went as a bird would fee.
l sailed board ship bound for somewhere
cared not-China hove in sight
Like ssTom Twist, 2 played the celestial, 2
Till tired Of that life outright.
I bought my Jaclo and came home,
Taught him tricks to pass way time,
! still had plenty Of money,
And threw out many a dime
To begging children that came long,
Or men, with monkies, like me,
Earning their bread did not think
Like theirs, would my future be.
Twas here was raised from childhood,
+ Old soc ates have passed away;
Times scythe is a mighty thing, sir,
And we must all have our day.
New faces2 Yes, all are strangers
Our homestead stands on yon hill;
Yes, Just off there in the cleaning,
Beyond the old torn down mill.
You ask whence have they all vanished?
Just look sir, where yonder spire
Rises in the gloomy distance;
There alike, rest son and sire.
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With comrades and maidens fair;
The girls casting back sly glances,
With such an innocent air.
It seems am young again, sir,
When / think Of days gone by;
Of the bee at Deacon Braynards,
When little Kitty and
Stole way from the rest-the moonlight
Shone brightly on the crisp snow.
How pretty she looked that night, sir,
With her round cheeks all aglow.
She was the first that was taken
A link from our set, you see.
So it went on year after year,
Till the last links left in me.
I'm not long for this world, stranger,
Three score and ten are lived OUT
wonder, when this spirits gone,
Will the angels sigh or shout?
You ask how long Eve been rowing?
Well, sometimes it really seems
if I've always lived this life,
The other, only in dreams
For thirty odd years, ! reckon, !.
Pve wandered on like brook,
All seasons; mid storm and sunshine,
Still finding no shelt'ring nook.
With many an up and down, sir,
I've tried to keep straight ahead,
When my hearts been sick, and my brain
'numbed,
But ne er word have | said.
80 oft have heard it quoted,
If you'd in some one confde
Your troubles would seem much lighter,
You'd drift smoother down the tide.
Ny name Is not one you remember
Sprig Lynn-pm known here as jim;
You have heard my tale now, stranger,
And the night is getting dim,
Guess had better be tramping;
Come, Jack, hop up on my back,
We must sleep tonight in some out-shed,
Or stow away in q stack
M. B. Howard, Of Nye county, had
not enough hardihood to be politi-
,ian. He was a candidate for State
and was defeated by a close
vote. That reverse, following many
1thers. denressed his snirits and he