Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-09-18


a delIte to en- to pay..out our mummy Of
they got anything whatever for It,
But they woodnt do what Bacon
most desired-that Is 10 say, they
woodnt stand his watcred whlskey,
They said to him, "Ei s2 dirk
amt high enuil, charge "a. it's all
wun to Us. Set EN- up agin.'
Aud the barroom full would step
up and take suthn, aud the>Inan who
askt them wood throw down on the
bar a peek Nv our corrcncy and tell
Boscom to help himself,
Bascom come TO us and begged
that we shood let him suthn that he
coed yoose to rcs,ock his bar. lie
sed the dealers in Louisville laiied at
him when he offered en- our mummy
for likker. and he he'd but two barls
left
And them two barls wuz vizably
shrinkin every mint, 1t seemed ca
though the populis got insane for
likkcr at the very time when we
didn't want en- to have It. For the
first time in my life l wanted the
Corners TO be tcmprit, for every drop
drank from the barls brot our bank
much nearer its end, sot opposite
Bascom's and saw the crowd so in
with sinkin sensashen that was akin
death drink by drink it went, and az
cf they coodnt eggsaust 1t fast enuff
by the single drink, they got to comm
for it in tin dippers.
allow does it hold out 2" wuz the
message sent at 10 A M.
The answer came prompt:
"105 A NJ. Wup bari untutched,
twenty gallons in the other and sinkin
eny mint. b.
Then sent this.
$40. TO- Fill her up with water.
Keep Jefferson DAVIS pourin in.
Hold the fort. NJ
And the answer came /:
10. is. Jeffson Davis il a histin in
water ez fast ex he kin carry it. Mrs
Bascom il rinsin out old barls to
wich, she adds kyan pepper and cam
tene. Et | he'd sum Scotch snuff it
wood help. Will hold out ez long ez
it is possible. But it is terrible. A
man jist came in and demanded gal
lon. b."
Then an expedient segestid itself to
me. sent this note:
"Time is evrythin. Bust the spiggot'
N"
Which he did, thus keepin the
wolves at bay for an hour, while it
wuz bein repaired.
But why harrow the public buzum
with the details NV this painful story.
The end wuz enevitable Drop by
drop, drink by drink, pint by pint,
that likker WIZ ebbin away, and each
drop weakened the bank. The likker
wuz our life blud, and ez it flowed We
wilted.
Watrin the barl wuz merely palia.
tive; and it wuz with a feelin Nv re-
eet that l saw Geo w. throw up his
hands and exclaim : "Its all gone but
a gallon, which shell keep for my own
yoose. Its all gone and I can't get
,nuther drop in Louisville.
And he dropt his he'd despondlngly
IN u pile Nv about $4,000 Nv our
which he hadn't taken Of the
oar and wept despondinyly. ,
"Why cannot yoo get more = de. 9
handed the excited popnlis.
Becoz I aiLt got no mummy but his
md yoo coodnt get barl NV whiskey g
n Louisville for car load NV it. 4,
attempid to reason With the peo- /
be. I told EN- wun reason NV our t
yelth wuz that we he'd it in currency t
hat we coodent send it away from 8
,ome, thus keepin our capital within ,
ourselves, but they lcfoosed TO lsen Il
o me. They id my bank they u
Id me, and tLey went for the bank l
warm that eff thar wuz anything thar t
hat Good be converted into likker S
3ascome shOod hev it. O
1t is Onnessessary to remark that c
hey didn't find anything. Antissapin an |,
'npleasantnis we he'd removed the val. h
'coables to place Nv safety, wich b
vuz the underside Nv my bed at Dee g
lin Pogram's. s
They demanded that the mummy c
hey he'd be redeemed IN suthin they .
'ood yoose, but Nv course we declined b
. discuss the matter, referin them TO
he terms on the ishoo ez expressed
N the note ez well ez their own en- d
|orsment NV the skeem. Il
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