The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-09-12
miscellaneous.
Hartford County in 1910.
"Reminiscences of an Old Timer.

"Reminiscences ofan Old Timer.
For the lEgis and Intelligencer.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 2, 1890.
MR.. EDITOR: l sot her to-day thinkin'
about ole times in Dublin and about what L
time we he'd in Bel Air this day fifty years
ago. There was man named Harryson
runnin for President of Amerikey agin' a
man named Vanburin. This Vanburin had
the place then and they lowed he didn t want
TO move, 80 they showed how people liked slider
and how pretty coon skins was, and they got
up blamed lie and sed that eff this Harryson
was elected he'd give every man that voted
fur him barrel of slider and a coon skin suit
O. close l knowd it wasn't SO but l never
sed nuthin'. Everybody but Inc tho't it was
so-leastways all of US Dublin people.
We went to work and bilt good size log
house on top of wagon and that day We
hauled it to Bel Air. When we had the
cabin on the wheels the preacher en- one of
the big men about Dublin asked where they
wus goin' to get the barrel O. slider TO put in
1t.
1 recollect so well seem the preacher give
q loud wink at the big man and knowd
then how 1t wus goin' to be. They sed they'd
find the barrel O. slider, but l knowed, when
seed the preacher wink, it was goin' to be
whisky but sed nothn', fur knowed the
more knowed it the less I'd get. But that
day we got thare with the log cabin, and my!
my 1--WE had fine time.
Afore we got thare men got so tired that
they laid down often the log cabin, and we
agreed among ourselves that we'd let EN- rest
till we got back. We got to Bel Air and, there
organized into long string, en- had man
appointed marshul, spose case he cum from
Marshull's deestrick. He name was Mr..
Samuel Galloway. l spose, too, they made
a man from Marsbul's deestrick marshul,
case heerd that Gineral Jackson, who was
livin' at Heritage, he'd sed that Marshull's
deestrick was a CRATE jackson strong hole
We couldn't do much them days without
Gineral jackson and whisky. l spose that
was case Gineral jackson killed all the British
and we all thought that whisky was the
iount o every blessn'.
But ez was goin' to say, we was parayd-
in UP Main street, and o, we looked fine
With Simon Brown and Rubin Jones in the
lead ant Sam Galloway and his boss pranc-
in up and down Sam Galloway he'd silver
piece of fork hanel in his hand en- it was
big as big fork hanel but il was no longer
| than one side of an OK bow, an he KEEP
fourishing this fork hanel, and every time
he Civ it extra flourish colored man run
out of store with a tin cup full OF whisky
en- begged sum one of US TO drink Mars
Mats helth Jest ez we cum bout whar
Mr. Rouse keeps store heerd sumpin wbiz
and then heerd sumpin go bopp! en- purity
loud, too.
looked aroun' en- / seed egg shell slide
down often the forrid Nv the only man
amung US that he'd bawled he'd. Then the
are got diflrunt from what it he'd been, en- l
tho't for the wuss, l know l Wooder
choaked ell hadn't suddenly thot what CHM
pie thing it wood be to choak on are. Sud
denly one man holered out, "Rotten aig l
seed a fellow throw it." Off they all jump
ed and after the man they took, but before
they went more nor ten feet they all laid down
an it turned out to be disguized blessin', fur
not one Nv US could get on agin an we he'd
double lowauce frum that time out
By the time we got to WHARF Jon Dellum
KEEP tavern most Nv the men had got tired
and laid down in,the log cabin, but the bosses
| followed Sam Galloway and he TUX us out in
the woods back er WHARF a man named
| DICKSON lives, in the Big Woods, an there
they wus a big OK en- sum sheep cooked.
They had supe, too.
We all fell in. l got the lrne leg of a
! sheep en- a woodin buckit full o. been supe,
| en- l sot down on a ole man that had tell
asleep and think l nevur was happier here
| below.
A man named John P. Kennedy, an David
Hoffman an Charles Pitts spoke recklect
Kennedy sed Vanburin, when he wus little
| bow he'd cussed en- swore, en- he sed that nc
| little boy that GUESSED en- swore was fifteen to
be the cheef of this CRATE people. Hoffman
sed that Vanburn he'd the potatoes pared a,
the White House en- that it was wasteful
that he ort to skin them after they was cook
! ed. Pitts sed wurse nor all this. He sed
| Vanburin put an a clene shurt wunst in two
weeks, which made him totally unfit to be
at the head of Dimekratic nashun. Then
| O myl what fine man Gineral Harrysor
wus, they all sed. He lived in log cabin
rooted in with coon skins; that the latch
string of his cabin dore always hung out
when il didn't hang in, en- that his slider wus
always hard but he never lowed it to cum tc
vinegar. Eff it cum to vinegar he sed they'G
be in purity pickle.
Well all things have an end so this thing
had end. But o, my what fine time we
all had gittin' back to Dublin. We lost thu
the driver that night Ell he never turned ul
till after the Mexican war, which was more'r
& wear afterwards. When he cum back frun
the war he sed snakes he'd got arter him Ell
he run clean off en- never found hisself tell he
was 80 fur off he couldn't find the way back
That night / laid in the log cabin consider
in.
But howsomever, the lection cum on er
HARRISON got the place J.; but it didn't do hin
much good, fur he had drunk hard cider 81
hard the day he was augerated that it turned
| to vinegar in his stummick en- be died tina
mite. En- Gineral jackson, he give the plac,
to man named Tiler, en- Tiers wife sh'
died soon after, es she sed, so Tiler coult
marry agin, which he did.
o nv how my heart does long fur then
good ole days in Bel Are. In them day
there wus no Noah Small nur no Johl
Fisher either to worry man eff he choos
to whip one er too Nv his naybers, er maxi
little noize in Bel Are. Look at the Sheriff
now-do. hardly ever see leaner man ant
the resins plane. The peepful air deprived
NV thare natral rights and no man kin git {
huff whisky to make him act like free man
The consekeus is that peepul don't board will
the sheriff like they used to do. Then mos
nv us wus in Jail more or less en- the sheriff
got 40 cents fur days board en- he made Al
cents out Nv every days board. He did thi
cause there wuz SO many Nv 'em. Then al
the sheriffs was fat. Everything is gone bach
sence then Then the ole men tibet he'd DRUM
up all they had was put to keepin' school 81
they could get money to keep 'em in whisky
end they KEEP school all the time when the,
wus out O money to buy whisky. This wu
better than they hev it now. In these day
= they hav big strong young men and wimmil
keepin school, lnstlu Wv naVln cm splnnll
and hoein' corn.
Then o, my what dreadful changes il
religin. These times the basket er the plat
Gums round every Sunday. Then, eff the,
wanted money they Civ it out the Sunda.
before that they would pray tibet your thing
would be inkresed much before next Sunday
I 30 that you mite hev good eel Nv money Il
: give Then good man havin' motifs el
havin' his things prayed fur too, could al
, ways stay away, en- mostly did.
> Then agin' look ct these wires you SCI
strung along the road. Eff l am in Bel All
ct night now en- belong to the scientific
! geogriful, littery en- dramatic club l otfe
feel 80 mulch ELEVATED by the lofty karacte
Nv the discussions that take place that an
f afeerd to go home, because mout be trippe
them internal lines. My wife don't believ
| this but it's 90,