The Portland daily press., 1879-04-04
NaSby.
Success of his Labors i'm California-He
Adopts the Costume and Customs Of
"Rals" American Citizens,

From the great and good Mr.. Nasby's last
epistle to the Toledo Blade it would seem that
he finds himself in the tallest kind of clover
and that he intends to stay there as long every.
thing is so much to his mind BY noting
the signature at the close 1t will be
seen that he makes slight change 10 his name
to suit the exgencies Of the occasion:
The great work Nv this noble assosiashuL
progresses splendidly and beyond my widest
antlssipashuns. The Irish servant girls con-
tribt librally. My pay liz reglar and libral (ez
the pay nv reformer ought alluz to be), and L
hev more shirts, and stockings, and handker-
chers and sicb, than ever seed afore
though them artikles amt ez essentshel to me
ez they ar TO those most accustomed to em. 1
amt blotid arstocrat, and nsekently kin git
on without these superfuities, tho when they
come into my Dossessession kin utilize em.
am savin the most Nv EN- agin my return
to Kentucky, when they will do to sell, to sup
| ply the acto0al necessities nv life.
These latter menshuned articles we git en-
| tirely Nv the dangerous Chinese. They are
| heavily engaged in the laundry bizns, thus
| takin the bred out nv the mouths NV the Irish
| wimmeD, and ther amt any law here sgin de-
| spoilin the heethen. We stashen sctive and
| muskeler members nv the sosisty at corners
| Nv certain streets wher they leen in uncon-
strained attitoods agin the wall Nv the 'sloon
| that okkepes the posishun, and keep their
eyes Uubs AEcocuLy Ouluy mdu Is seen 10
| approach, tskin washin home, and trottin
| along 10 deep, desinin way, plottin the down.
| fall nv Amerikin institooshuns. He approaches
little dresmip, ef he is q moo conner, wat is in
| store for him. He thinks that noble
| hearts and wstchful eyes and brickbats aud
| sich waiting for him, and he trots along.
| Suddenly the strong hand NV an Amerikiu
| seezes the monster by the throte, and the Amer
ikin war.cry, "Be JabersP' and "Oireland to
| the rescoop' is herd.
| Strickan dunh with aaknni an m at,t tha artfol
| heethen sinks TO bis knees and prays for mercy
! in his ontandsh gibberish Other strong
| hands seize his baskets, and breaking his bam-
boo pole over his head we stalk hawt tily
| away-with the cloze.
! 1t struggle between st. Patrick aud Con.
| fushus-between enlightened Chrischauity and
! heathenism. In the interest of CHRISTIANITY
| we generally kill the heathen with a brick or
two, and ef he hez any money we git gloriously
| drunk on it, thus cele bratn, in trooIy Chris
| chen sperit, our victory over the blind devo-
| tees Nv idols aud sich.
| The only drawback to this is, the heather,
ez rool, hez very little money, and shirts and
| sox aud handkercherS and sich hev becum so
| commOn-there hevin been vigrous raid onto
| the hosts Nv sin lately-that the sloon keepers
| won't take em for drinks any more, aud there
| is, therefore, occasionally thirsty Ohrischen.
Barney O'Shaugbnessy stated great trooth,
| Yesterday De sed 1t wuz provldenshul that the
Irish people wuz raised up to preserve Ameri-
| kin liberties Dnnis O'Hoolahan ruther
| spilled it, tho, by remsrkin that the Irish ought
to hev somebody's liberties to preserve, ez they
hedn't preserved their own very much. ,'Ef
we can't bate the English" sed Dlnnis, i've
kin bust the haythen. and that's something
| Hurrooi Ould Ireland furever!"
shell stay here ez long ez there Is a dollar In
the treasury. hev short black pipe in the
rim nv my hat, kin smoke black plug tobacB-
or, aud got ez full ez the best nv 'em on ST.
Patrick's Day. Ez you will see, hev chang
ed my name slitely, for obvious reasons.
| MICHAEL O'NAsBY,
| Preseryer Nv Amerikin Llbitles.