The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1884-11-01
POiitilss. E'asluns and Sich.
A LETTER.

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per at what wus wonst nnkil Abe
Jobe's crossin NV Bresh erik, then
Nelson's camp ground, then Johnson's
Store, then hisDepot, then Hainesyille,
and lastly johnson City, which it now.
stays, | hev been iutendin ter rite
yer Letter Of kungraterlashun and giy
yer chanse ter git the benefits NV il
by printin up it, and | thought I'd
slip in a bit ur 2 nv muse frum reck-
oy-woods too maik er Mise fuss ov my
letter bein its the fust
Fust-an-fomost then / fell in luv
with the kapshm oy yer paper, when
fust heard squire Kusser a tawkin
bout it. Sez the squire, sez he, Bob
Taller hez put out the all-hredis paper
ever bin got up in the State OF
Tenisee, Washintun kownty, You
knighted Staytes oy Amerika, Johnson
Sitty, an its got the kutest and sig
niiferkantest hedn too it too boot viz,
too witt namely, that is too say, e
THE CoME-IT.
! hub that hedn bckase it means
sucksess, and sucksess signerfes
Come-it, and this is the very same ez
too say the "kurnil in the hikry nut"
or "the milk in the koky" an all SIGH
like rettorrykill an loggickkill fggers
ov speech. Come-it runs fur away
back in the regins ov premundane
jogurfy and furlossr'y and beds itself
| i'll the mud sills ov primeordyl histry,
whar the silvryam surpent opened the
fust skool on this low ground ov sor-
! row, an had the fust wommun fur his
. fust skoler. Nov didn't the deyl
7 Come-d over his very fust skoler in
the very fust lessin? I'd like ter put
peppers on the feller atkin kontervirt
that propirzitshun. I'd smash him
befor a patryottic pubick tell he
couldn't by publikin vote, much less
a dimikat vote, in the fust destrick o,
this State even with swetend Ticker.
While Pm passin, / want to sa,
= right along here by way of a "lapplu,
linggeo" (Which is Dutch and mean,
n five in q hill, Std ov three.) that the
Devl has CoME-IT ever sense, whenevet
+ he kin git kredulus felcls like Bol
Ingersoll and oich too hold thcr year
J. too be tickkiId with his lyin old duhbl,
tung, stid oy hangin or to the word o.
- eyerlastin truth like Niaggary rive
{ hangs on too Lake Ery.
reckon nobody'll dispute my mex
Frosersition which is here laid dow
y cz flat an strait as the fust, too wit
= nsmrly. Kane Come-it over Able
Well its ekally sertin at the whal
le fust Comc-it over Jony, and thel
u Jony, finally and at last, Come-it ove
the whale All in the home strcch dc
N compcrSisliun Comc-it over both 0
cr 'em
k Then before that the hpod Comes
over the Anty deilugins, and Noa
Como-it over the big waters, an tn
wiHe Comc-it over Noah jist like th
" "sack" Conic-it over Sir John Falsta
!" ez whislley will still Come-it over
- :, heap Of fellers whenever they ki
y git it.
- :, | wood like to eoosidatc what | SC
- - out on by telin how them king felel
!: in Egypt Come-it bildin the pirrymiC
: an sich like and then got Como-it ovC
:" by the pirrymids and things. Ho
" Alickzandder Come-it over Greese an
: Come-it in all the big battles he fl
" and how at last Ticker Come-it ov,
!, him. | wood luv too illustrate |
" tellin how Alf Taylor Come-it oy,
" Pettyhonc, Brownlow & Co. in Il
'o Regular Dist Convention, and no
j., Pettybone, Brownlow, Whiskey & G
90 90 Come-it over little ALI in the trap S
: by the spider and show you, by by Il
:, sperrit of sound retributive jestis, he
they cheated, chisseled and Outrage
peepil will Come-it over the fathel
fatherlis trumyirate Of treechrus bu
ng dozers and disorganizers who h
broke up the Republican party in IL
% Deestrict and cheated it out ov O.
Republikin member Of the next Co
gress. Falshud, treechry and cru
the shun hev Come-it good VIII
ing amongst lis, but as Haymun did
do alters triumph over Mordeky, it m
re. be well for the trumyirate rememl
my Haymun and not forget that, in t
my long run, truth and rychusniss "
tti- Come-it over ever combinnashun, a
me shine like the stairs III the heavi
to All ov which, an 4 power more to t
| saim effek, which | mite appel t
nty warrants me in luvin the Mise ma
hat ov yer paper in its heddin which is
will big letters.
The muse I sed | woud maik a fl
with is as follers too witt name
s. Molly Do an Jake Needer got MARI
on the fouth oy this instunt, W
Tvs ekatt, (Which is Itallion an stans
re- frolhck in Ameriky,) an ! kin o
that sorter deskribe the ginral outs
Carl mink up oy the cal fur the edvinrk