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The Political Situation in Babbletown.
BABBLETOwN, May, 1888.
MISTER EDITOR: | have ben caikeralin to
rite you for some time, but have ben KEEP out
ov it by series ov unfortint circumstances.
For one thing, George Wium ct up all the
ritin paper there was in the house an split the
ink weeks ago, an the hens laid so tarnai
slow That liketer never got eggs enuf TO buy
more with. By-the-way, if that boy ov mine
don't make literarian | miss nv guess. He
has got a vorashus appytite for Literature
ALREADY. Only the other day he ct about
shillln>-Worth oY my % cen, dickshunary. Of
| should happen to spell 4 leetle rong in the
futer, you will know the reason.) His literary
taste haint quite 50 di,crminatin as wish it
was. He eats the Argus an Commercial with
the same relish he has for Sunday school
papers.
Bein obleeged to stay at home prtty close for
week or , past to look arter Il litter ov pigs
with vishus mother, | haint ben able to foller
the course of events in Babbetown as close as
I'd like to. Events don't seem to wait for
nybody to git their pigs learnt to drink milk
AN eat corn, but will keep right on happenin
jest AS though there warnt pig in the whole
universe. Instid ov giyin you IL whole cut off
oy the web oy events | shall have to turn you
off today with a few remnants, but can recon-
mend them As bein all wool and yard wide.
have made or 3 desprit efforts TO do some
connected thinkin lately but every one Of til, IN
has resulted in discouragin failure Lat
mite As | was scttin here tryin to frame to-
gether some thots in the best style I'm the
master Oy Rhoda hintrd that it was about
time | was teedin them pigs. l have lived
with Rhoda long euutf TO know the sooner her
hints are taken the better; so | took this one
and pale oY Vittles at once and started for the
hog-pen. When | come was standin in
Pogson's store with that pale ov vittes in my
md, and th' lokal drmokrl>y all a-Iafiin at me.
| must confess | felt pritty cheap,-away be-
low cost, rs it were. Pog,ou said he guessed
the penuts would make it all right, | fur
nshed them. Pogson fines feIIer the penuts
on the smallest proyercation. | think he does
it because he has the pleasure ov the fellers
always on bis mind. Young Croaker says he
does it to sell his penuts and git some to eat
without them co>tin him enythiug.
We are feelin good deal better poitercally
than we was while ago. There was Il lime
not long ago when We felt kinder sick->o sick
that The assurances oy the Argus an CONNER
eial dident seem to do Us mucn good, but we are
brginnin to look n this L, belongin intreIv to
the past. The Demmercratick pulse Is normal,
IN there taint much danger os Il relapse. Ceye-
and has proved himself to he It full-booded
Dtmmercrat after all. Diient he cit site ov
ReIubiercun praise at Il low price, though. lie
got some Demmereratick cu>sin at auction
prices, too.
Drmmercratck rcder>, do the pesky Repub-
ercans keep eternally inquiriu oF YOU after the
good times which Clcyeland's election was go
IN to bring with it. they DO Us Dcmmercrats
here in BabbIetown: I'll warrant they do, for
Rrpublercans have about the same capacity for
meanne~s the world over There is only one
course for lis 10 pursue, an that is to stick to it
that times Is better If anyone presses us hard
on that pint we can say that the bizuess improv-
mcut may he like some ov the cclip>es the o.
NAMES tell Us about--vi>iblei in the north ov In
in the Demmrrcraick camp don't start up biz
ness we needrnt expect anything from row
between Ingland and Rushey. Jinks is vel
come to all the comfort he can git out ov sch
remarks. His Off, is As good as lost to him.
Hon find >ich thing, Il poor exchange, for
D'mocEfi>y offended. As in the past,
Youru truly, JEFF DODGER.