The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-17
The Aigger.

The Aigger.
En- folks at thess moved thrum the East
Haint gut the least
Idee of Aigger, thess a-talA
Haint no Aigger hee-yar css FalH
Haint seed Aigger aDywhawr
Tkess sence the War.
Nowadays. Teller gifts the ehills
Thess well quit payun boardun biilA
Yusen to be, eff Aigger tuck
Holts on feller, II thess I'D whe&
HIS ap-tite up-harder he shuek,
The more he et!
A Teller ats bea
Round hee-yur when
Terry Hut wair thess in the bresh.
Hez seed the right Aigger, thess plum frssi4
Apt to feel thess ornerry mean
Time the pawpds uz turnun green.
Thess long when Dswg-days como
Et a Teller swum.
Thess on the Wabash
Git hvvered nth affair yeiler scum,
Tn ct thess, thess, q mess trash.
He gut ut shore!
Cawn-trairyest Aigger to kee-yorst
Thess git cut un set en- the sun,
Lack a torkle oR eend of u log,
Feel too ornerry fur dog!
Thurreckly the theng has taken hits track,
Streakun un streakun up yer back.
Zef a slice
Thess plum ice
Thess a4meltun long the skcn
In freezun eni
Draw Teller ento knott
After spell, he gifts SO hot.
kassiun roun I'M makun fursa.
Tho-un the kiyyers evvurwhurA
Feller'd thenk
Hes thess Ash, TO see him dreniE.
Longs uvver kin hold the cup
Ua en- turn roun nm tho ut up2
Thess when the theng hez gut you bet
Thess hot enough to thess about bie.
Hit starts dad burned orneTry sweat.
Smells zef yous bout to spild
Worse un q key-yarnl
Smells fur's thrum hee-yur to the harnl
That air sweat that usen to pour
Clur throo I'm throo ar feather-bed.
Tbess onto the hoori
Kun en- a stream plum outen the door
AT is, a-peerntly hit ded;
Ez the feller said.
Gran-pap Beaseley first moved heeyuS
Pole he'd Aigger fur seb-en yur.
He gut thess thin as airy rail
I'm powful palei
His neck turned kinder green un yeiler;
Affair color stuck to the felier.
Thess plum up tell the day at he died.
He he'd Aigger-cake in bis side.
Thess big, purity nee-yur.
Ez kag beeynr!
Made Pole med
TO tell him he hed
Third-day Aigger, sometimes brung
Enfurmation en- striffen Of the lung
Take the fellers maidjur thess long Down
Ez you brung the doctor up throm town.
Curp- jestuf chills OF thess the same,
Airy Difference. thess Oh the mama.
he'd the second un, wunst comup On.
Third un-a feller's ez good as gene
Pap bridled ar mare, nm thess tuck acrost.
Found Dock thess sleepen en- the hay
Hedn't TUX his close of, night ur day,
Fur leb-en weeks un nuyyer he'd lost
Airy sech case. But no WAR thea
So drunk, at hit thess tuck thee. four men
To hep at Teller awn-too his boss!
Pap said hit did
He thess laid whurp, un he thess rid
Plum thoo the woods
Tight OF he could.
Rid thet mild up ar place
Middlun good time fur quawter RACED
he thess piled off, un stumbled en hee yua
Tried to sit down on o shadow of chur.
He SEE: Young Teller you're mighty sich
haint gut hee;yur o minute too quielse'
What you thenk at Teller dot
Thess gimme lemon-up whisky schsw.
Thess thrum the minute at 1 commeass,
Hewitt had airy 9 Aigger sensG
You unnerstan--
j keep tibet medsun thcss ava han.
Thess. thesS sosst
i ken take q doast,
Ef feel lack
Aigger sneakun up my back
Shorestest way
Stub take more or less uyver day.
Cur-ker-mers mighty Aiggerish mesA
Teller thess
Cut of the eends un slice um thin
Let the vinegar git soaked in,
Tn eat passel-hits thess enough.
Shakes thess ad-burn my hide
Eff heint thess tried un tried
Shake the clabboards often the ruff
Thess asst Snirymuss eft she haint hiit
NE thrum shakun often the bed,
BY settin on the end of the quilt.
Shuek the teeth right ou.en my bead.
Leave hit to pap.
Wsosh may drap
Right en- my tracks
lie them haint Jacks!
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cans membrane" but has no roet TO which
.ceable. "Maidier" would never be suspaote
saning measure" Mess G. trash refera 90
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taoe, cucumbers, onisns, radishes etc. "Cai
pm careless. '.Apeorntly'i from apparently. .
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4 efforts to convey the Hoosier dialect pronu
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