The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-08-24

= The lady of a Cottage Hill bouse tbf
nurse-girl and cook, held a brief consul
tation, and concluded that an old man
whose toes stuck a rod out of his boots
and the crown of whose summer hat was
held by a hinge of straw and tapped IN
n down in the wind, disclosing the fact
ina the aged wearer was bald, very bald
must be really worthy and they invited
MN 10 a seat in the kitchen while his
breakfast was being prepared. The fra
GRANGE of the frying.pan revived tbe
dropping spirits of the aged tramp and
unlocked his streams of conyersation
which the cold charities of the world had
frozen up. fitting his chair back, he
said IN
"lhe people of the oil regions appear
to get along right slick. Everywhere T
have been things look comfortable and
homelike, and business seems to be crowd.
ing right ahead"
With this as a starter, the old man
carried the conversation through state
and national politics, religion, literature.
&c. ~
81 like my meat we'll done" he suo-
gested to the cook, who he observed was
preparing to lit his steak from the stove:
IAN that reminds me-" he went on
'that the Russians are pursuing an
u~nder-done, wishy-washy course on the
banks of the Danube"
he frightened the cord that held bis
coat together in lieu of buttons, flapned
an ear to unseat a troublesome fy, and
continued:
Dog my cats if it doesn't make me
about halt mad at the Gar. If | had
OF that army, do you know
what.I would do?' and he shut one eve
and glared at the lady of the house as 6
ngly as q catechism. No one :
seemed to know. -.. .. :
81 would push right across exclaimed i
.he old man, striking the sink with his
list, land if | wouldn't make those o
'reasy Turks hunt their holes there's no I
lereafter. All it requires is a pontoon d
ridge and q little git up and 20 long, 81
larry jane" a.
His breakfast was ready, and thrust p ,
ng his legs under the table with the air 3 3
I a "a who had just bought the house
lot and paid the money down, he n,
arpooned a roasted potato and CON n,
IL
"Old Hopandgofetchit, who has COM Il
land OF the Russian zouaves, is in the M
position in the world to skip right
eng into Constantinople and take nos. ~
'ssion OF the court house. Iwould do IL ba
i swear to gracious | would do IT," at,
he reached out and captured a hard.
egg. b.,
81 would do it SO quick it would 5Ie s
axe their everlasting heads swim. Then on'
would take a run across the Mediter. tfo%u
mean, flop down on the Suez canal tow
aus, teal up the tow path and ale III
session OF the mules. Then across the orar,
untry to the Gulf of Mexico. 7 wonld tha
as the hurricane, leaving death and 4
in my-see here. Susan he TIE
breaking short and addressing the carr
ne glfi' Tor the love of heaven, don't han
d the baby with its head down" tha
he Old gent continued to draw in the CT
tuals like a man who hadn't tasted a ann,
for six months, and talking in a wav not,
urn a book agent green with envy, pect
told the woman what Congress ought pset,
o when 1t meets, and finally showed IN
y from the table, wiped his lips wi \ af 90
cloth and asked them if they had !. ~
pair OF pants that wasn't baeped AZ 90,
handed 60 I;po n 70 we're huuted up the +
% VIII. in tnrn ~ sne Iady OF the this
the gaiden patch and kill a few ale y
toe bugs for her. sen q
is hat and Nasal ~ ~ ne gathered ing Ell
Bugs are something with which 7 ont !,
had no experience. | don't know IN"
rom a Jay bird. But a friend If LIZ,
Will be here about noon who can lii !
more potato bugs in a minute III, n IN
mari nn a. sack az ~ leave a Anna
Ta-ta and saoePost n he will Mr..
a, 49,, an ene ageg tramp tipped other
say,! anu was on, MS stomach "W
tD1y or to1t OF nun Ike a bay repeat