The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-12-19
believing his lips and with utteranyes

believing his lips and with utterantes
unfit for ears polite. The young lady
had thrown back the cover of the bed,
exposing a snow-white sheet, but un.
der this fair disguise were the morn
ing's briers, upon which Jim Lord had
like an athlete thrown his body, wholly
unconscious of the results of the fall.
Jim Lord, said Port, never mentioned
this feat Of gymnastics, afterwards, nor
had the young lady, as long as Jim
staid there, to make but single bed.
Jim looked not under the bed to find a
man, but under the spread for briers.
And don't repeat this to blame Jim
in the least.
"But why don't you give us some
thing solid?" asks the reader. "YOu
are one of those gimlet-headed, blaze
faced nincompoop5 we are accustomed
to follow, and we want to hear from
YOU"
Avast, thereto Helen Blazes, of
ancient Troy, for your solid food. She
has plenty of it; if not, apply to the
next gossip, or congressman, you meet.
And then pump him. My reputation
is as nothing, and for that reason I
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learn that which could not even hope,
vain as / am, to tell you. And it may
be-as it frequently has happened-I
could tell you nothing you do not al
ready know. What presumptuous
ass would be, then, to tell you that,
as if you could not read, 60 through
the multiplication table, or, like a de-
cent body, think for yourself
.syhe glorious privilege of being indepe end
ent.''
The reader shall know, however,
since he must-that the personal pro-
noun We is here on a narrow neck OF
land, not connecting two straits, but
simply nigh-cut from bend to bend
in the winding Ouachita, harboring
naught of ill will, stexcept these bonds"
pressed it, Honi soft Q,ti mai 81 21e'ase. 1
am not sure the quotation is correct;
that is the readers lookout, not mine.
On this peninsula-strait should have
said,-I have been busy piling up
knowledge, and I fancy, at this mo-
ment, I know more about farming
than the late DIR. Greeley for whom,
following the Monroe Greeley Club,
but like Peter did Christ, ga far off,"
L voted for President of the United
States. This lore shall be housed in
definitely and safely guarded, so that
my friend Kennedy shall some day
ascertain to his discontinue that 1 am
not wholly ignorant in matters per-
tanning to agriculture, even though I
may not haul years cotton crop for
shipment on boat and then have to
haul it back. But forget that steam
boats and planters do not always
travel in the same rut.
This promintory, as I observed,
whereon this present lighthouse stands,
is quiescent, Notwithstanding the near
approach of the Winter solstice. The
great ships go booming by, bound
through Eads' jetties to this and the
other foreign port, or over Rock Island
to that famous pleasure resort, Hot
Springs. Our last vessel was the Little
Bob B., q taut little vessel-a right
tight little man of war-bound up and
for any port in a storm. She was deep
in the pillows, but was buffeting with
her piddle-paddles as only the Little
Bob B. could. With a powerful field
glass, not unlike Burnside's, saw this
sturdy craft courageously passing a
bending oak, and waved fond adieu
to the heroic pilot in his coop,
evidence all but him had fied,''
and dropping tear to the memory of
moor Casibianca- onions to be
praised II sought the stately man.
sion near by and sat down to this
prosy task.
A task which I was about to finish
o, this cudgelling of the brain; this
thing of 2eecessity-when the foul fend
suggested had not responded to the
weary longings of Mr.. Atkins, the
loc,Nn, tene,as, for the return of the head
of the TELEGRAPH. Our substitute
will see that we are not so far removed
from the Office as to be beyond ear
shot, but too distant to have our medi-
tations disturbed by the threadbare
topics of politics and the Exodus. We
read his well-written article of last
week on the latter distressing subject,
and it brought tears to eyes unused to
weep. We may say, however, that we
wept alone, not even the darkies, who
have plenty Of ready money for their
present wants, joining in this sad de-
monstration of sorrow. 1t is likely
some of the ragamufiins may emigrate
to Kansas; it is still more probable that
all we worthy colored people will live
and die where hoe cakes and rations
of picked pork, wood and cabins