The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-06-25
Bric-a-Brac on POats and the
Little Blue Jack.
To the Editor of the Morristown Gazette:


Little Blue Jack.
To the Editor Of the Morristown Gazette:
Since l had the pleasure Of meet
ing you, in the flesh, at Tszewell
when we shared each others sor
rows, have been to another com
mencement, at Rose Hill. Va, bu
am now moored 10 my little brown
cottage in the vale. I need scarcely
say / retain many precious souve
Mrs Of brother Manard's exhibition
some in my heart--while others
are stored away in my family Bible,
a huge receptacle not often disturb
ed, save when some one pegs out or
pegs in. I sincerely trust you and
yours haG safe-Q dare not say.
even in a joke, pleasant, what
with rocks, rivers, and caloric) trip
home, Your humble servant had q
glorious time up at Rose Hill, and
was pensively working up his notes
when the GAZETTE came, and I as
certained Poats had adjudged me a
jackass. Now, I likes to be perse-
cuted, and I may be jackass, but
how did P. find it out? 'Tis some
thing more of kin and less than kind.
P says there's little blue jackass
in Rogersville. Well, have no OBJ
lection and congratulate the r. peo.
pie on linked sweetness and unique
proportion. But he says I'm like
that unique Now, P. never saw
me and | never could find HMM
crowd. 1t must be something, l
said. A reference indicates-"I
turned to the Poats' corner to find
about Mckinney, that
not finding anything | felt bad, as l
liked to hear from Mckinney"
What is there in all that? Is every
nan, who is disappointed, in not
eeiog something from Poats about
Judge Mckinney, or every citizen
Who likes to hear about Mckinney,
jackass ex-of1cio?
With regard to braying. Poats.
'ou have a jackass near you-I
laven't. If you'll notice, every
ime a jackass brays, another is sure
o answer-sometimes rather uDex-
'ectedIy-at intervals the gentle
nan will take sulky fits. and stand
n the corner of his lot; eyes half
losed ears set fore and aft-mute.
Sut let some festive brother, on an !
djoining farm, raise his pean of
thanksgiving, the sulks will fly to
be winds, and, raising his anthem,
Id sulks will make Rome howl.
'osts, you we're quiet, and l won
cred what was the matter!
Then his rendering of jackaes yer.
acular is incorrect. He reads, "we-
7aw, we-waw, he-haw, he-haw, you,
.ou, you. This is nonsense, and
ounds like "a man having his tooth
ulled, the bystanders laughing, and
be choice of dental chair at close"
he true cry is, "aw-u-w-, ke-
creech-ke-screech- ke-scree-
h, h,-ah-sumph-ah-sumph-umph-
hut" Of course won't voueh for
be little blue fellow in Rogersville.
Tot much.
Poats terms me an irregular cor
P, this is too thin.
ret another handspike. No one
nows better than yourself, that the
est writer's are the irregular ones.
-ou furnish quantity-I quality.
ring out another horse.
Poats claims be can see no point
] a jackasse's bray. Can this be?
tut familiarity breeds contempt.
IS / listen to the war-cry of the long (
ared chief, can hear the trumpet's
last, the laundering charge, the
bricks of the wounded, the groans
f the dying, and, at the close, the
elf.satisfed grunt of the victorious
eneraI. 1t was the first strange
~ I heard, when coming from the
amy South. I first saw the noun
sins of East Tennessee % long {
ears ago. Since then I have wan
cred in strange lands ana heard
any strange cries; but the strang
st, under all the circumstances, is .
lis bitter bray from the little blue
ick that dwells on the outskirts of
le pretty little metropolis of Haw :
ms.
Let him be brayed in mortar"--I, {
say-ah--
h, Poats, Poats, you've long taken
notes
asst forgotten how you anee wore q
beard like goats.
RRIc-A-BRAC.
A painters apprentice fell of the
.afold with pot of paint in each
md He vas taken nm inaensihle