The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-07-31
Nasty Has Another Dream.


had been vainly trying to explain to his
friends at the corners Nast's caricature
of Virginia and Virginins. After
thus exhausting himself he went to bed
and dreamed,
"rhc pikter wuz fresh in my mind.
Their wu2 the independent Republican,
labelled Independent Republikin,' sot
700 cooden't make any mistake, there
wuz
VIRGINIA, THE HANDSOME GAL.
labelled Republican party, soft 700
cooden't make any mistake about that,
and there wuz the Emprer labelled
Blaine soft you eoodent make any
mistake about him, Mr.. Mast hez to
label al his pikters now, sence he has
med the Dimocrisy.
To begin with ii wuz all in the dreem
jist ez il wuz in the pikter, Blaine
rushed furcrd to seize the Republican
party, and the Independent party. Mr..
Curtis, seezcd the gal and drawed her
to one side and waved the butcher knife
aloft and wuz goin to strike.
Their wuz immejitly a trcmenjus
change from the pikter. The damsel
standin for the Republican party wuzn't
Il sm'inkin gal at all, but she wuz tall,
strappin, splendidly proportional fe-
male with muscle onto her. And the
independent voter wuzn't a hardy sol
Ter, with legs like the cedrs NV Leb-
anon and muscle like blacksmith, but
he wuz a thin-legged, narrer-chested,
long-haired,
SALLOW-FACED DUDE,
with his hair parted in the middle. He
wuz a lcanin on the gal instead NV the
cal leanin on him, and the moment he
quit leaning onto the gal, his knees
knocked together and it wuz with great
diflikilty that he stood alone. He wuz
so week without his material support
that he he'd to ketch onto a Southern
Dimocrat, which stood near to keep on
his feet at all, and the shadder NV the
Southern Dimocrat hid him from NOR
tai view. He wobbled.
The order NV things cz WIZ set down
in the pikter wuzn't observed at all.
Their wuz Il variashen different from
wat the independent voter expected.
The fair damsel, the Republican par
ty, suddenly developed a great decl NV
muskeler power and considerable will
of her own. She riz to her full hitc
and fetched the Independent dude one
under the ear that sent him in one di-
reckshnn and the knife another, and
then she jumped onto the two of EN-
and KEEP jumpin on EN- till Mr.. Mast
didn't know whether he wuz Mast or
Curtis, and Mr.. Curtis WIZ in CRATE
doubt whether he wuZ Curtis or Mast.
HEvIN FINISHED THE INDEPENDENT PAR
she rushed over to Blaine, and THROWN
herself in his muskeler arms, reposed
there contidingly and ez quietly ez amy
well-behaved young female ever did il
the arms NV her owncst.
Look here, this isn't the way it is a,
all. 700 must permit me to kill voc
to save yer honor, 700 know. Eff voc
don't, what becomes NV me and Hol.
pe,'S Weekly? This won't do at all
Fall into my arms and be knitted with
out maxim all this fuss. 700 can't
live without me, 700 know
Then up spoke the damsel:
'Excoose me. When Imake change
it won't be to take up with thin
legged, emasculated atomy like you.
| don't like hair parted in the middle.
and can't love abstrackshuns. | don't
need to be killed to save my honor, for
| amt quite so weak virgin ez all that
comes to. / don't wear flowers in my
hair, and | hev quit the bloc ribbon
about my waist some time since.
know my little biz. didn't perpose to
be killed at all. j. G. is a good enufl
spouse for me, especially as he comes
at me squarcly and capchered me hon
orably, and ez for yoor KILN me, 700
poor thing, 700 heven't strength enuff
to strike.
you AMT GOT NERVE ENUFF'
to weeld the knife you hold, which is
nothin but lath anyhow. The only
weapon worthy NV 700 is a knittin
kneedle.''
And she took EN- on her thum male
and cracked EN- ez Kentucky woman
does nits.
amt shoor but the dream was pro-
fcttik. 1t docs kinder dawn on me
that Ha1per's Weekly didn't make the
Republican party but that the Republi-
kin party made Uarpcr's Wcehiy.
And then the story ain't good one for
Mr.. Mast anyhow. Rcpublikiniem amt
the dawter nv anybody. She is the
father, mother, and aunt in the kentry
NV Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Curtis, and .Nr.
Mast. She is stronger than any Nv EN-,
or all nv EN- put together. She doesn't
need any apologists or any pertekers.
She perteks them. And ez she hcz re-
morselessly killed all NV her children
which hey gone back onto her think
MIR. Mast and the exceedingly nice Mr..
Curtis may ez well say their prayers.
Mr.. Mast he'd better quit takin Roman
subjex and fly back to the tropix. The
best thing he can do is to fall back on
his regler pickter nv an elephant with
his back broke by somebody's climbin
onto it. with the legend under. Bro