West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-02-20

compared with other seasons
'!ioN 5 the season, hc;p That's what
you want to know Wal, the season 5
on burned haJ n I don't kcor who
knows IT, burned. bad. sin.
The Captain hitchcd his hickory trou-
>cr> and Ollcd his shoulders at the mules
~ ii they were the cause of all tho
trouble. The mules looked troubled and
Wugged their ears CoutcutcdlN
III the canals hHdu bin made free
this year hc continued. ''wr'd had To
give tacm up. II was the only thing
that saved Us from turum' pirates of
buccaneers, | look Fat n CONT able. dc
l. Wal, small credit to any one but
myself II ! ann TAT N conf able. I've
had to work like a gallery slave, sir
lust like a gallery slave. What's the
trouhlc2 I'll toll what's the trouble
Charges i, the trouble; that's what IN,
trouble X. Iurnatiou. mile hiyh. sock.
dulagcr> charges what amt right'n ain
Christian. That's what's the trouble" ."
Look M my two fine canal boats
trim and steady as Sogrrs, sir Look
at these hyar two mules; | rot five
NOR, Just aS hungry II ugly II eNpen.
~iyr, gol dum them The hull outfit
cost mo morr'n $1,000. I'm capital.
ist. that's what am. I'm also work in
man. that's what ann Wall. sir. after
| We worked n pcr,pirvd and swurc N
wmlop d them mules the hull summer
mp and down the OLD Erie Canal. I've
got 5000 left Isn't that lcss'n tothcr
Captains makep Wall. no taint It's
"a good average thi, year
"Ihcsc hyar charge, bsgiu at Buffalo
The grain men don't gives us their or
dcr>, but they let out the hull business
To ~calprIS What i~ sculpcrp Wall,
scalpcc's Il man who scoops YOU sir '
And the Captain reached out his biz
hand, and graspcd at the air i'm illusuH-
tion of the scooping propensitics of the
wicked ,calpcr
"lIc controls the business. and hos "a
. public enemy. that's what he H. Wal.
/ the ~cnlpcr charges us five per cent of
profit for ;hc cargo hc give, uS to carry.
! How many bushels2 Eight thousand
/ for each boat That makes $50 TO the
| burned scalpcr in Buffalo. Then he
give, It's 500 on account n we start
+ out have two stccrin' men at 81 "a
i day each, one driver az so "A month n
/ two more drivers at $50 month. /
/ have seven mules. All Of them have
.
/ are lcctlc ahead on The catin bu,i-
ness, but their grub don cost as much
as the mems But I'm gcttin' of the
towpath of facts, sir, When ! get my
cargo ! have TO pay S2.2j for every
i l,OOj bushels TO the elevator man in
/ Buffalo TO load my boat That makes
/ $50 moro to the elevator man. When
I get 10 New York another slab-sidcd
] al
, charges me half "a cent for every bushcl
/ he unloads. That makes $50 to the
elevator man The elevator man hc
keeps the grain in hi, -torchousc for the
merchant free for thirty days. like
his burned impudcucr. Don't have TO
pay him for it? It's all wrong to make
ms poor boaimcn stand the hull racket
| can talk logic, n ! ain got no book
lurnin', but ! know 'tlin't right Let
the merchant take half share in the
expenses.
I'm the winter do nothin' ! amt
tit for nolhn' but my boats ! live ON
ono of them all the year round with
my wife and ono uf mv children
i other ones Mt school In the winter
] Lodge my boat, iu the Erie Basin, and
II cItFmr $40 TO keep them there / We
rot % feed u clothc my wife u chill
drrn ont Of The 5000 10 I've rot TO h,t
these hyar mule, fairly gorge them
selves. III never get no richer
guess, % II always have ~ work Col
duru il, if hadn't these mules here to
-war al N wollop don't think liied be
worth living Gee mp thar. YOU ugly
bmlo-'
A, the reporter left the Captain was
trOuncing hi, tWO mules and making all
sorts OF comments ON their personal ap-
pcarancc. but they simply ate more hay
and waggcd their ears languidy. A.
j. N,ruh