The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1893-03-23
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de unthinkin an pivoted min; it am
Of'en called de public 'pinion- after
little reflection. it all SINNERS down
to one man. In de columns OBJ las
weeks MIRROR, | fin l is laid up wild
de rheumatism, an dat am public pin
ion. Now dat dOg-gOn'd editor who
wrote dat, hab seen me ten hours day,
ebbery day, TO two weeks, shov'lin'
snow an knockin' down icicles- an dis
am actual fac'S.
Profit an Loss. Now. let me see; [
has comm extra janitOr duty, three
dollars an forty-eight cents: Chicago,
IllinOy, fO' hundred miles: de elebenth
day OBJ May, 1893, an sproutin' 'taters,
one dollar an twenty-five cents now,
dis am all profit. Fallin' down stairs
wild porcelain cuspidor, one dollar an
quarter; mistakin' myself to be at a
picnic, an carvin' de barber chair wild a
razzer, fo'teen dollars; dog gone. but
how could possibly, clean done gone,
an so far forgits myself like datD stub
bin my toe an spillin de beans
ober de wall. six dollars dis am all loss;
an, only two through trains daily-its
no use talkin' | can't see inter dis ci-
pherin' no how. Beeswax s de boy can
do de tigurin
De bigges' surprise oh all my born
days wuS de meetin' OBJ Gunnysack
Beeswax in dis yere place; not de fac
OBJ his bein' yere-but de fac OBJ seein'
him, wus what surprised me. l can dis
remember mos distinctly bout thirty-fO'
year ago (summer fo las' me an Bees
wax played shinny tOgedder in Missouri;
an 'tuaS den an dar he got de name
of Gunnysack Beeswax. We wus ten
din scrub-Oak picnic, got up an COM
posed oh us slabe chilluns OBJ de neigh
bOrin' plantations, as wuS cuStum-
ary wild us ebbery huckleberry- season.
Each one contributin' sOmethin' in de
line OBJ edibles. We had mos all de
luxuries, mentiOn'ble, from hOe-cake to
honey an raw sorghum; an u.s. picca-
ninnies, used to regale an gorge our
selves, in fashion mos TREMENDOUS.
De technical po'tions, an mos classical
elements OBJ de provision we allus laid
aside fO' de aftermath, or desert, as de
white folks calls it. BeeSwaX, had at
Oevre, an deprecated he OF missiS' eel
1dl OU OOuU IL UCCl1 pOuu OuSdt
which he brought as he contribution,
all wrap'd up in big gunny-sack bun,
die an roun' dis, as desert, we all con
gregated ourselves on dat joyful Occa-
sion; an arter undOin' bout six yards
O burlap-de horrible truth dawn'd up
on us, an nervous prostration spasmOd-
ically follow'd. Well. OBJ course, we
done de bes' we could, an completed our
repast wild libber an fried oniOns-but
from dat time on, we alluS called
him Gunnysack Beeswax Gunnysack
allus wus de luckiest dog shoOtin' craps
an playin' penny-ante, | ebber seed; in
playin' penny ante, he wus allus sho' to
lay over me jes' one pint; fl had flush,
he'd hab full-hOuse; fl had three jack,
he'd hab three queen, an so it went on,
in all de realistic facts OBJ life. Our
limit never went beyOn' chick'n or
watermelon, an | mos centrally went
de limit wild chick'n; an when you
calls it to mino dat counts fO' me an
Bill GoOgins raidin' de hen-roosts, dat 1
tOle you bout week fO las. 1t wus in
de paint shop, ThankSgivin', dat fust
run across Beeswax in yere, an it done
my OF brack heart heaps OBJ good to re-
count dem by-gOne episodes. Gunny
aXed me wha' brought me yere; an
tole him de whole story, OBJ how had
married two wives got two year fO'
bigamy. Den | ak wha' brought him
yere, an (yaw! yaw! yaw! dog-gOne my
buttons! de same OF BeeSwax- one
head OBJ meD he tole me, he had mar
ried three wives, got three year-an'
mus be yere fO' trigamy! An l jes'
mo- dan drown'd dat North Hill band
wild laughter. OLD JAYsON.