The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-20

along tOWahd US:
"Oh, they railroad and they stage coach,
They steamboat and canal
Dey all combine in a fast freight line
To take me to my gall.
Den | was rome, gone, gone,
Den | was gone, gone, gone,
Fob they old Kaintucky land.
"Then Colonel Cahtah throws away
his seegah, sab, and says to me: It's a
shame, Colonel Gutrippah, sab, to heah
that heavenly music without stimulants.'
Il concuh in they sentiments of my
old friend, sab, and having a decantah.
two glasses, and a pitchah, We once mob
set out on they verandah.
Then We heah Uncle Ike talking and
laughing with two or three men, sab,
and once IN a while he all runs. he alls
ingahs across the strings: (Plunk tie
PUNK, tie PUNK
Then they all join in, high soprano,
baritone and bass:
Il am going fab away, fab away to leave
you all;
| am going down the Mississippi rivah,
| will take my old banjo and sing a little
song,
Way down In my old cabin home.
Heah is my old cabin ho-Oh-me,
Heah lies my sistah and my brothah;
Heah lies my Hife-they joy of my
life
And they child in they grave with hi,
mothah.
Colonel Gutrippah, sah. says Colo
mel Cahtah, that thah song makes me
beilah like a calf
$50 it does me, sah,' says L. and |
wiped away a teah as big as a Estah
goose egg.
Then when they music stops, they
voices of the night grow still, sab, as If
waiting foh mob. They bull-frogs and
tree toads, sab. lean on each othah's
shoulders. and gasp fob pleasuah; they
gnats and mosquitoes feels too good to
bite; they night-hawks and bats rest from
they ais labahs; and spill all my southern
blood if you all could hiss on my livah-
colored, lop-eahed hound to bite a yellah
nlggah a stealing my watahmellons. Such
is the power of music, sah."
Its wonderful, colonel, said the re-
porter.
THE MAN NEXT DOOR.
Now, sab, they is nothing | like so
well as a banjo. But a banjo can be car
ried too fab, sab. They othah night they
man in they next room to mine, sab,
tuhned he alls banjo loose at they house
when | usually retire. BE began somc-
thing like this:
(Plunk &c plunk, te plunk),
1.-The prettiest girl | ever saw
Came over they creek to ArkAnsaw.
She struck they town Oh a green bay
boss
- wish to inform you all. said T.,
that they Is several other gentlemen in
they houses besides yohself. They WAS
a doh between Duh Apartments, with an
open transom.
They feliah dida't say anything, sab,
but | know he all was making faces at
they dor. Pretty soou he commenced
again.
tPlunk tie PUNK, PUNK tie plunk,)
Don't let they camel swallow they
coon,
Noh they zebra elo pc with a brand new
moon
Keep they clown in thy g and thy oys-
ter in thy pit,
And Iii give a dollar and half for it,
What kind Of a circns show all YOU
all having in than, sah?' says l.. Put
up the banjo, man You all can't sing
no moh than a Poland China hog, sab
"'Do you all pay rent foh you alls
room. sah! says the man.
Yes sah,' says |.
"Well, say, says he. L pays reLt for
this, and if you don't like you alls neigh
bahs, sab, you all can move out
eff | heah any mob of that thah
cussed condemned banjo, sah,' says |, Il
give the coroner a job in they morning.
sab, which will save you all the expenses
and trouble Of a revival
They cuss laughed at this in a SASSY
mannah, sab, and began again:
(Plunk tie PUNK, tie plunk,)
"'I'll bet ten dollars against a cent,
That they Eighteenth ward for Logan
went.
1t this tuhn's out as a los a hit,
I'll get a dollar and a half for it,
I'm coming fob lou al, sab. SAYS I, |
jumping out of bed and taking a cahviDg
knife outen they bureau. Look out.
sab, fob l am a cyclone in a randy des-
ehtI'
"'What you all going to 10, sah,' saws
he. They doh is bald on this beah
side. DO you propose to climb ovah they
traDsom, sah?'
This remark suggested q line of &C.
ton 10 me, sab; SO [ put one foot on the
bed post and they othah on the doh-knob
sab, aud was able to look ovah and see
him, sab. He done saw me, and laughed
again in a sarsy mannah.
lie me sing you all anothah vehse.
sah,' says he, and he turned her IN
again.
(Plunk te PUNK, tie plunk.)
But l was too quick fob him this
lime, sab. | done threw they knife al
him, sab, but he all saved his life bv
up they banjo, catching thew
Snife, but cutting a hole about elevdn
inches long in they sheepskin, sab. He
lone throw it lack at me like lightning.
sab. | wasn't looking fob this. sab. apj
q lodging ] done fell to the hoh with
considerable force, sab. 1t made such a
ali a. to knock off they p,astering Of
hey room below me, sab. They man in
ned than, sab, was cussed neal scahed 70
leath, and 10 running fob thev bell null
he all stuck he ais legs up to thew hin
q a stove-pipe hole sab. He all had on
undarclothes. sab, and they man
him bugun to yell like the devil,
ah. He all told a watchman, who come
running that buhglahs were breaking {
INTO he alls room, fob he all had seen n ]