Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-05-29
Mr.. Nasty vey Briefly Answers
A Correspondent as to How He
Got Back From Washing
ton.
CONFEDERIT y ROADS,
(which is in the state NV Kentucky
Mn,. 10 lNAn

to Kentucky from Washington with
out money.
1t is a painful subjick, and one |
don't like to dwell onto, but ez u
sollum warnin to other Democrats
witch may determine to test the in
gratitood nv them which we hev put
into power, | norate.
Me and another Kentuckian witch
he'd bin persuaded to accept a post
offs, and witch he'd wasted his mecns
waitin at Washinton 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,
thanking Heaven that we he'd shoes
left to shake the dust of NV. We wuz
lorst to this conclusion after we he'd
gone without any thing to cat fur
three long days, and he'd become ez
arid fur want of likwid refreshments
ez lime-kill.
"Better brave the shotgun and
bulldog NV the irate farmer than the
chill inhospitality NV the Washington
'sloon," sed |.
"Troo," sed my friend, "and we may
occasionally find woman in a house
alone, wich-may be skeered into CIV
in us suthin to eet."
But after givin it matoor consider
ashun | made up my mind that l
wood not walk home, no matter how
good we mite expect to find the roads
and l immejitly sot about maxim
preparashens for the jerney.
First | stole NV contidin shoe
maker, witch | knowd, a solid, sub
stanshel leather apern, and foldin 1t
in three folds, so ez to present the
greatest NV resistance, with proper
degree NV hexibility, l tackled it keer-
fully in the sect NV my trowsirs.
"Wat is that fur?" asked my friend.
"Never 700 mind !" l replied. EFF
700 undertake to beet the conductors
atween here and Louisville, 700 will
assertane what that is fur. My ad-
vice to 700 is to go and do likewise"
Wise in his own consect he LATED
me to skorD, and started without per-
tektin his rccr witch no good General
wood do.
OWN to a pervishn they hev in
large cities Nv not admittin 700 to a
sect in the keerS without shown a
tikkit, we wuz compelled to walk to
the next stashen ont NV Washinton
where we boldly boarded the keers,
and sot down. The condukter enter
ed and remarkt, "Tikkits~ | Dixie
pied ez long a time ez possible in
huntin fur mine, every mlnnit thus
okkepied bein distance gained ez the
trane wuz a skootin along 40 miles
hour. After viggerus seerch con-
cloodid that | must hev left it with
my pockit book on the rosewood
mantel NV Parler B, Wizards Hotel
Then the conductor regarded me
with withrim glance, and pulled the
bell-cord. | remarkt that SIGH i'll
dignity ez putin Senator off tranC
becoz he he'd left his pokkitbook il
his hotel wuz not to be endoored, ant
placed myself in posishen fur tho
fatal kicks witch the cOnduktcr and
brakemen applied Vigorously.
We wuZ both landid on the side Nv
the track and the trane glode oil
majestikelly.
Ez | sot camly and smilin, and IN!
friend wuz rubbin the inferred par
and howlin with pane, | smilinly re
markt to him: "DO 700 understand
now, the yOoses NV leather aperI
in the sect NV yoor trowsers 7"
Then we walked to the next stashel
and okkcpied the time waitin fur TIN
next trane, eetin crackers from tn
| counter NV a 'sloOn. We boarded
the next tranc, and succeeded III max
, in 20 miles afore we wuz again kick
ed off.
t At Harrisburg, Pa, wuz obleege
| to part with my friend. Bcin uu
protected, he he'd got so sore tina
further travel wuz impossible, and Ii
desided to walk the rest NV tn
distance. lie is probably on til
, road yit, eff he hezn't persisted u
: thirst by the roadside. Solid in til
: possession NV that blessid apern
/ continyoOd to progress, maxim pei
= haps 40 miles day, and averagi
G bein kicked off only about four time
/ eech q hours. The progress WI
. necessarily slow, but | finely g
S through TO Louisville, and from thel
' walked to my old home.
/ | hev wun word of warnin to maxi
| to them witch hev permitted thcrselv'
0 to be persuaded to take office undo
c the moo administrator, and want
= 90 to Washington to see about i
= Don't start onless 700 hev retul
!, tikkit. 1t doesn't matter to me, wi
0 hez bin kicked off NV every frame
c the Yoonited States, for l am accu
toned to greet, but to man who
inexperienced and unaccustomed
SIGH things, it is terrible. The col
ducters wear very heavy boots, al
the brakeman, from long eggsper
= ence, hev acquired a skill in kick
that is feendish. They kick with tt
precision and force NV mule, an
= they know the exact pint TO hit to il
, tlict the most agony. Disabled of
! seekers line the road from Washin,
- ton to almost anywhere. 1t is OF
= pleasant to be compelled to lie c
. yOor abdomen mites, even though IL
! hay in barn is soft.
y However, | got home safe and a
:, u here and defiant. Bascom can't +
u fuse me, and Deekin Pogram's hou
:. still stands, and so long ez it stanC
| shell sleep there. lie dare not eje
me by name forse, and l am pro
agin frowns, and hints hev no mo
efIeck on me than water on duck
If" back. Nevertheless wish he'd til
q; offs. shood like to Iced a life tn
- wuz not a perpetooal skirmish.
~ PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
~ (Still in the world
s His Name Was Not Spalding.