The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-22
THE SOSSIDGE.
An Ex-Wiener Wurst Artist Makes a Start
ling Statement.
lst. Louis Republican,

81. LOUIS hepuDncaD.I
81 see you folks up here are maxim heap
er fuss bout meat inspection an rotten meat
an one thing ernuther."
The speaker was a tall, lank, hungry-lOok-
ing man, very shabbily dressed, and bearing
with him distinct and almost overpowering
odor of five-cent whisky. As he accosted
Republican reporter, the latter involuntarily
placed his hand in his pocket in search of a
nickel, feeling it was the usual thing. But as
the stranger proceeded the hand was with
drawn and sensation of relief stole over the
reportorial frame.
''Wat you say bout diseased meat is all
right huff, but wy don't yer say suthin'
bout sossdge?"
rs there anything to say about sausage
that has not already been said?" asked the
reporter, as visions of something startling in
the way of an item arose before him.
well l shed say thay was. Say, do you
know wot sossidge is made wv"
The reporter blushed and acknowledged
that he had never penetrated the mystery.
''Well, Pve been en- Their sossidge bizniss in
Shercargo fer-lemme see-well, putty near
six years, an L kin tell you that they's more
kines er diseases in er sossidge than they Is In
all Their doctor books this side er Cairo. Wy,
my friend, thay amt no meat sold In er
butcher shop kin ho' candle to er sos
sidge, when its feelin' right well, ter knock
er mans stummick silly. Here you ere yell
nothin's said bout inspectors for them air
sossidge foundries. Yes; I'll admit er sos
sidge looks all right hangin' up in er butch
ers windy, or reposin' peacefully tween two
slicer er Dutch bread, but you orter see it
before it gifts ter be er sossidge. No; amt
predjudiced I'm tellin' you gospil. Now,
thar's where you're mistaken. They amt
made outer dogs an cats; that is, they's
other things besides dogs an cats in em. OF
course mean by that, that most all the sos
sidge foundries use beef an pork an NUT
ton with their dog an cat meat; no hon
est sOssidge-builder would use all dog
an cat meat coz it un give
laugh; moren half the cases of hyderfoby
comes fun sossidges; but if yer mixes beef
and one thing ernother with the dog-meat
il wont do that away. l seen sossidge-makers
at all. They might run in cats an sometimes
rats, but they wont use no dogs on account
they're 'fraid her hyderfoby, an that nd
hurt ther bizniss. How do they make sos
sidge? Well, I'll tell yer. OF course, you
mean ther good sossidge, them sossidge wa.
they don't hev ter chain up in the shop ter
KEEN em fun bittin' ter customers. Well,
you go out ter ther stock yards an ask any,
one thar where they keep ter sossidge cattle
They II show you pen with some OF bulls
was ter be seen in this worl an
was ready ter die. l seed er OK
up ter Their stock yards yesterday
wot was workin' in plough about the time
Jackson was 'lected President; its er fact
They'll git him inter sossidge foundry some
day an he'll make more'n er million pounds
er the slickest stummy cakes yer ever seed
Well, they take one er them OF bulls or
oxen, cut il up an mix it with anything
that comes handy, put plenty garlic an pep
per in, cut il all up fine, stuff it inter the
castings, grease the outsides an hang it up ter
SWEET. They does pull OF sponges an worm
out brussels carpets in weeneys sometimes,