The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1880-11-20

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49, MEMPHIS. .--- 49,
IL RI W. Q, FALKNER,
CHATTER XVI. lconclndeaN !.

.Io, The he HEoni Mr. TpSdpOler was. a
new msRbbeer, totally Yurnaacqpainted
With therules Of thehouse, but pos
s9essed Of any amount toIunnGSn Of egotiSm.
He was a good taIker and had the
impudense Of Satan. He made it
a rule tovote against every meas.
ure introduced BY a white man
and to advocate all measures into,
duced bys.ai rbers of his own colo,
except in casesa where we could
manage by strategy to- make him
| do what we thought was right. l
got one Of the members to make a
motion toindefnitely postpone the
bill, and saw, in an instant, what
a mistake i had made, because !
had induced a white man to make
the motion, and ipstantly, realized
the situation Iknew that unless
! resorted to strategy thatthA mo-
ton to indefinitely postpone would
be lost, and that the bill would be
passed in spite of my efforts to pre-
vent it. As luck would have it,
Mr.. Toadpolo came ana asked me
what they meant by an Indefinite
postponelnent Of the fbilh ? la"r..to
"Why, TOadpoIe," said 1, "hayen't
you got post IN your yard" r r
4 f mo, sir;I has no post in i de
yard" ~
"That's very unfortunate they
have been swindlihg you. [ Post
poue means to poue therpost. You
know what a pone is, don't you!
OF course you do; anybody knows
what a pone is--a pone Of bread Il
a pone Of bread, all over the world
Well to postpone means to- poue
the post; or, in other words, tt
pope every mans post. If yor
have got no post, how can they
pone 1t Have your post put W
at once, and when this bill is lndet
initely postponed, then. the tift!
thousand dollars is to be spent il
the purchase Of bread-pones 0
bread-and every morning the con
stable IN each district is bound i
pone every mans post-that is, t
give every man a pone OF brea
each day. Now, if we can get thi
/ bill indefinitely postponed, don
you see that every post will b
ponedP ''' D7'''S1 1'"''
u golly, boss, rs g'wlne for .pon
ing de pOst"oeoil o. ejdaa.a2 boz
IT Mr. Toadpole went among hi
friends, who looked oupto him as
"A very great man., telling them ho'
their posts would be poned If the
, could get the bill indefinitely pos
poned. The question was put b.
4 fore the Scheme was discovered
.aJ and the bill was killed by oIndei
ii mite postpoHement. Mr.. 1loadpol
10 was highly delighted at the idea ,
20 having bis p6st PPned with 2Brea,
. > and ii vas two OF three days 'bsfor
q he discovered ihe trick that ha
been played on him, Lgegab|yrot
Il There was another important ,bi
before the house that We oYeretan!
lous TO kill, aud | knew that ol
:, only chance 10 accomplish lit WI
to get it acted upon. Before5iToa
= pole found butthe trick, aHtThis WI
- a bill To- appropriate slxtyH tho
II sand dollars 10 pay for pri1tin
which was merely a big Seal, ina
gurated to benefit another gang
tncksters, and / determined to d
: feat it abslkhsgaFdsoIW We, manage
ht 10 have the bill brought NJ, ,iInm
& diatelv after the secret service bi
bad been indefinitely postpone
'ld and when excitement and conf
sion got very high, some oneimac
I'D a motion to go ipto committee,
He fbe whole to consider the bill. v
hu did not want that motion to pr
pi1 vail, believing that if its 'frieh,
en could get II before thea house
sd IhatIshape, tbey%oulc recommer
an lts9passage andiby that tmeans &
~ the. bill through Mr Toagdp1o
nd asked me what was meant by goii
iai into the hole ? + pfetended toal
ilB very much astohisheds ithatnaI
.tu member oF his good sense shpu
tr notsknow what wAsimeant By col
as mlttee Of the whole 49,
don't you know, Mr.. Toadpolt
=: said /, "that those bali tozihg fe
/ els have got sseerel boleshidaw
: somewhere, for The spdfposesofle z
trapping colpred memberss Th
sg have got that hole so well hid III
We have neverbeen able To fihd
W. They have managed to get o
committeei intoit. andlna lmeml
81 Ofolha cNmmiltee has. been seen
heard ,Of any more. The hole