The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-07-25
Nasty has Another Dream TO Which hi
Appends Moral Reflections.
CONFEDERIT y ROADS,
(Which is in the State NV Kentucky
,JOOly z 1884

W men Is Ill INC Cidte NV hell lucky =
Jooly 7, 1884.
am gettin to be second St. John
in the matter NV dreems. | am not
eggsackly certain whether it is inspira-
shen or cold pork witch perdooses the
vishuns, but they seem to hev some
meenin, and, hencely, | give EN- to the
world.
he'd vishun last mite, witch left an
impress on to my memory so strong
that when | awoke it was with great
diflikilty that restrained myself from
goin immejitly to Bascom's and awak-
enin him and demandin sustancr
But ! wuz compelled to rename and
toss onto my weary piller, for | knowd
that Bascom wood not arise and open
his bar at that hour, if st. John hisself,
will his revelashuus in his hand, shood
appeer and ask for suthin. Bascom is
horribly sot in his ways.
In my dreem | was on a rock-bound
coast afar from the hants of men. 1t
wuz a island in the mids nv the oshen,
a bare rock ez it were, with nary a veg
etashen, rock without shade and
onto witch the pitills sun VIM beetin
onmercifully.
Onto the island wuz badly worn
out female, holler-eyed and gaunt, and
kivered not at all presentable. Eff |
he'd son | wood not that he shood Sc
lect SIGH one for his wife, for more
battered face had never seed on fe-
male afore. And hoverin about her
WIZ three more Just like her.
"Who are yoo?" sed |, "anyhow."
Then up spoke the female,
"My name," sed she, DRAWN long
sigh, sis Dimocrisy."
"And who are the three witch mite be
sisters nv yourn, witch is clinging to
your skirts!"
"This one is Slavery, this tother one
is Secession and this third is Repoodi l.
shen. We are quartette, alluZ to.
gether and never separated. We are
four in one and one in four"
1t okkurred to me that it CONSTRUCTED
a four flush which | should not desire
to draw to, but held my peece. NJ
matter how ugly a female may be, she
will resent being called ugly. | he,
he'd to do with females, hev made
honest but inioodishus remarks, and
am bald.headed. | hev paid for my
wisdom.
notist a number of men dodgir
among the roX, pickin up wat they
Good, all NV them in the last stages NV
| distress, and | asked who they wuz.
"These gentlemen 700 see abou
among the roX, pickin up a livin ez beS
they may. are INV vassas. That strap
: pin young Teller is my only son anC
chief support, the Solid South. Tha
big Injun over there is Tammany, ana
the rowdy lookin teller in the red neck
tie is Irving Hall. They are rather {
diversified lot. Theirs Free Trade ant
Perteck shun, and there's Honest VI m
ey and Flat Money. It's ruther large
, family and no two of them alike. They
a quarrel like calls and dogs, and find i
q difficult to manage EN-
1 looked EN- over and noticin that NJ
a two NV EN- seemed to hev anything il
| common, except an intolerable hunger
D | conclOodid the lady must have bin ex
G tensively married, which she blushing
: ly assenled to, so blushingly that i
+ likewise occurred to me that she hedn'
alluz tarried till the ceremony wuz per
< nOunst. This Judgment was partly
: based onto her persnel appearance anC
/ partly on the dissimilarity nv her of
= spring.
! shooden't hev picked her out to b,
the superintendent nv ladies' semin
+ airy, anyhow.
y swat place is this"
I "rhis is the Island nv Defect. w,
4 hev been here twenty-four years. Th,
i. feend Linkin exiled us, and we hev bin
+ here subsistin on wat we brot with us
h We wuz pretty well fixed, for we he,
d controle Nv things for many years be