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Mr.. Nasby Very Briefly Answers a
) Correspondent - = How he Get
Back From Washington.
CoNFEDhRIr X ROADS,
(Wichis in the esStste NV Kentucky.)
{ nm ~ IL, 1885. }
I received last week several letters
askln me how ! managed to git back
to Kentucky from Washington with
out money.
It is 9 painful subjick, and one I
don't like todwelh onto, but ez a SOL
lum warnin TO other Dimocrats wich
may determine to test the ingratitood
Nv them wich ne hev put into power,
/ narate.
Me and another Keutuckian wlch
he'd bin persuaded to accept a post
offs, and wich he'd wasted bis meens
waitin at Washington tryin to git the
migrate, Cleveland, to also urge him
to take It, he'd determined to shake
the dust Nv that city off our shoes,
thankin Heaven that We he'd shoes
left to shake the dust off NV. We wuz
forst to this conclusion after we he'd
gone without anything to eat fur
three long days. and he'd become ez
arld fur want of likwid refresh ments
ez a lime-kill.
''Better brave the shotgun and
bulldog Nv the irate farmer than the
chill inhospitality NV the Washington
'sloon," sed I.
''Troo," sed my frend, 'sand we
may occasionally find a woman in a
house alone, wich may be skeered into
givin US suthin to eet.''
But after givia it matoor consider
ashun made up my mind that I
wood not walk home, no matter how
good we mite expect to find the roads,
and I immejitly sot about maxim
prepasashens for the jerney.
First stole NV q confidin shoe
maker, wich I knowd, a solid, SUBJ
stanshel leather apern, and foldin
it in three folds, SO ez to present the
greatest Nv resistance, with a proper
degree Nv flexibility, I tackled it
keerfully in the sect Nv my trowsis.
"Wat is that fur?" asked my friend.
''Never yoo mind!" replied. "Et
700 undertake to beet the conductors
atween here and Louisville, you will
assertane wat that is fur. My adj
vice to 700 is to 60 and do likewise. "
Wise in his own conseet he laffed
me to skorn, and started withou,
pertektin his reer, wich no good
General wood do.
OWN to a pervishn they hev In
large cities Nv not admittin 700 to s
sect IN the keers without shown 6
tikkit, we wuz compelled to walk te
the next stashen out Nv Washington
wher We boldly boardid the keers
and sot down. The condukter en-
tered and remarkt, "Tikkits!"
okkepied ez long a time ez possible il
huntin fur mine, every minnit thus
okkepied bein distance gained ez the
trane wuz a skootin along 40 miles {
hour. After a viggerus seerch
concloodid that 1 must hev left il
with my pockit book on the rosewood
mantel NV Parler B. Wizards Hotel
Then the condukter regarded mt
with withrin glance, and pulled
the bell-cord. I remarked that sicf
a indignity ez putin Senator off {
trane becoz he he'd left his poclit
book in his hotel wuz not to be en-
doored, and placed myself in possis
hen fur the fatal kicks wich the con
dukter and brakemen applied vigger
usly.
We wuz both landid ON the sid
Nv the track and the trane glode OF
majestikelly.
| Ez I sot camly and smillin, an,
my friend wuz rubbin the injere'
part and howlin with pane, I smil
linly remarkt to him: "Do 700 ur
derstand, now, the yooses Nv leath
er apern in the sect Nv 700
trowers?"
Then we walked to the next stash
en- and okkepied the time waitin flu
the next trane, eetin crackers fror
the countr Nv 'sloon. We boarde
the next trane, and succeeded
, maxim 20 miles afore we wuz agai
kicked off.
At Harrisburg, Pa, I wuz obleege
to part with my friend. Bein unpr'
, tected, be he'd got so sore that fu
., ther travel wuz impossible, and h
, desided to walk the rest Nv the dil
E tance. He is probably on the roa
8 yit, ef he hezn't persisted Nv thir
e by the roadside. Solid in the po
: session NV that blessid apern I CO..
: tinyood to progress, maxim perhal
|. 40 miles day, and averagin be
s kicked off only about four tim
d eech "a hours. The progress W,
necessarily slow, but I FINELY G.
through to Louisville, and fro
there walked to my old home.
q I hev wun word of warnin to ma
Is to them wich hev permitted the
e selves to be persuaded to take off
y under the moo administrator, al