The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-08-21
Nasty Has Another Dream.

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he'd another dream last mite, which
left an indelible impreshn on my mem
ry. don't understand why | shood
continyelly drecm, but vishuns come to
me now nitely. | can't,sce why. 1t
can't come from fizzekel causes, for
live rcglerly, ez allus hev done. fill
up reglerly at Bascom's, every mite, the
amount hist in depcndin onto the tenn
per NV the old man, or whether Their is
stranger from Louisville there, and
roll off toward my peaceful couch about
II, and sleep ez hev alus done.
Why, then, should dreem more now
than used to-?
In my dreem last mite mcthawt the
old giant Dimocrisy, was trottcd out to
be put in order for the regler four
yeers' race. His old grooms and back
ers were with him, but it looked cz tho
by common consent they had turned
over the keer of him to a new lot which
he'd him in hand. There wuz George
Wilyum Curtis, and the editor of the
Moo York Times, and Henry Ward
Beecher and Il lot NV fellers from Mas
sachoosits witch WIZ a examinin him
critically and maxim sejestuns ez to wat
shood be done to improve his con-
dishn.
George Wilyum looked him all over
keerfully.
"There's too many spots on him."
wuz the remark.
"Here is a very sore spot marked
Slavery another 'Seceshn,' another
Free Trade another States Rites an
other Repoodiashen,' and a dozen 9th
ers. which are positively blemishes.
They must be removed"
'Troo," sed the Massachusetts fellers,
''but doubtlis they are only skin deep,
and can be easily rubbed out. The
first thing to do, therefore, is to rub
them out"
''Eggsackly," said Curtis. eve will
percede to rub them out"
The old hackers smiled sardonic
smile, for they knowed the giant better
than that, but they cheerfully furnished
brushes and concentrated lie and all
sorts NV powerful soaps, and George
Wilyum, Mr.. Beecher and the Massa-
choosits fellers went at it,
They applied the soap and the hot
water, and they scrubbed at the spots
an hour or two, till they wuz owt NV
breth, but it didn't somehow remove
Them. In fact the frickshun made EN-
shine out all the more prominent.
They stopped and gazcd at EN-.
"Trooly," sed George Wilyum, ~
lev scrubbed faithfully and hev re-
loosed the size of the giant an inch,
but the spot remains dolefully plain ez
ever."
"Verily,' sed the Massachusetts, fell
ers, "the spots we hev bin workin at
Ire not cradicated by no means; OH the
they are even more disgustinly
visible to the naked eye"
enthey commenst agin. The body
Nv the giant was bein visibly rcdoost
under the operashcn, for it seemed ez :
,ho all there wuz NV him was dirt, but
he spots remained.
They WIZ puzzled to know wat to
make nv it. Finally, Henry Ward
Beecher, who had scrubbed more faith
July than any NV them, took pen
,nife and jabbed vishusly around the
pot lie he'd bin workin at, and made an
'ggsaminashen, and threw down his
rush and soap in despair.
: ats no yooso!' was his brief re-
mark. "Scrubbin is in vane. These
pots are not merely skin-deep-but !,
hey go clear through
"Troo," said George Wilyum Cur
is, 81 hev made the same diskivery.
let us cut them out"
Then the old hackers interferrcd and
rehibited it. Eff 700 cut EN- out
90 cut en- out 700 kill the giant. It's
orn in the flesh and can't be eradicat-
d. To eradicate the spots wood be
eradicate the giant. It's of no yoose.
zoo must take him ez he H."
The Massachusetts fellers took one
rand look and one smell NV the giant
arkiss they he'd been workin at, and \
oldin their noses retired with great
apidity. George Wilyum Curtis and I
ienry Ward Beecher tried to git away,
ut they had permitted the giant to get
grip onto EN- and they cooden't. and :
hey laid down beside him. Jist then
awokc.
Thcr is moral in this dreem which ~
o one knows better than | do. The :
act is Dimocrisy is Democracy, and it
int Rothin else. Horris Greeley tried
} reform us, but it ended i'm rooinip
iorris without doin us any good. We re
re now tryin TO hide behind Cleveland.
III Cleveland is too thin, and the peo- L
lie see through him. Behind him is
ne same old earkiss. George Wilynm 3.