Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-06-22
LITTLE JOHNNY.

The buttigote it isent cattle, an it isent
pigs, an it isent a colt, cos it is more like
Sleeps, only no wool, jest har, an the lit
tie ones is a kid My sisters yung man he
says line kid my own self, but that isent
so, cos the Bible it says man is maid In
the imidge of his maker. Buttigotes is
two kinds-Billys an Nannys. Tho Billy
it has got beard, but ole CATER Peterses
he'd is bold, an Missis Doppy hern has
red hair like it was hous fire. If was
red heded would run way, but the but
tigote it stomps its feets an looks mad,
an then Bildad, that's the new dog, he
runs away his own self, but the cracky
die is the king of beasts.
Uncle Ned, witch has ben in Injy an
evry ware, he says one time there was
cracky die witch ct a natif niger. That
made the king of the natif niggers real
mad, an he set to his priminster, IF you
don't fetch me that diles ears afore sun set
lie have yourn." Cos that was the way
witch the king he dismist his cabinet ofcers,
just cut off their ears.
The prime he cudent cetch the ollie, so
he sed to his proseshion, the prime did, II
don't bleeve his dam majwesty knows wot
die looks like, we will jest fool him."
So he cut of the ears of jacus, an the
proseshion thay bore them in triumf to
the pallice, but the prime he hid hisself
for to see how 1t wud wurk. Wen the king
he sec tho jackuses cars he looked sollum
out Of his eyes an rose up his skepter,
an then he bime by smiled real sunny
an sed "Behole the powerfleness of Ngim-
pun, soverin Of tho Psalm boes-rather
than to face him in his rath the mitiest
stateman in the world resines!"
That made the prime feel like he was
sick to tho stummick Of his belly, but wen
my father he is sick he grones otfie an lays
it to tho Demecratecle party, but wots Of
that got to do with buttigotes?
One timc thare was whickcd buttigote
witch wanted to be king Of oil the butti-
gotcs in tho REGION where he lived. So he
went round maxim speeches with his
mowth, like Cerncl Irish, an saying the
king witch thay had was scalwag. He
said: Look round you an sec how you
suffer! Inquirer, study, investigate an
be come scusblo of yuro mizzery! Wy don't
no more sircusses come, SO you can cat the
big buti1e posters? Wot has went with Of
the paper golfers an the hoop skerts witch
use to enrich the vacant lots like grapes
upon tho vines or weat in the fecld? Hoo
made the shaprel oil cut down an tho bricrs
cleared way? Wy has the yumans stop
ned wearin kid gluyes an took to dogskin?
Teller slaves, how long do you mean to
submit to sech tranicle dcspit?'
So the buttigotes oil rose themselves up
nm kid the king. an wen he was ded thay
got to gather to chooze a new one. The
Teller witch made the speetchcs he wanted
TO bo chose. but thare was uther fellers
which was wiling to king for a living, an
thay wudent keen still. So the speetchcr
he sed: "Iet the bost man win. Over in
that grove old farmer Hayseed's boys have
hing nm n rhinestone by a rope. We will
put our sells in line an but it, an the first
Teller witch ticks it shall be king"
Thay said that was fair, an the CANDIDATES
oil ouorled for places at the he'd of the line,
but the spcetcher he was real modest and
| he put hisself at tho tail end. The first
Teller he butted the rhinestone an he fel
| ded The next one he laughphed skorn-
fie Taught an wacked it til he was ded to,
an then q other one he was gcther to his
fodder, an other. Bmc by ole gray
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got Oh pile of stones an lifted his voic up
an sed:
| "Fellcr citizens, line no speccher, but
tharc is sumthing the matter. The way
things is wurking now the last galoot in
this prosestion can seez the rains of power
an set in tho seat Of othority with o,lt a
contest an hold imperiol swa over a ma
ton of Nannys an kids I moove that we
hi him of an spill him with Of tho fine
cloathing an pizon oak witch he can cat
vile he lives An I further moot that VIC
elect the rhinestone for to be our king"
The other buttigotes thay oil scd it was
a whack, an the Teller witch had been jest
q gettin reddy for to but he scd hooray. Sc
the rhinestone rained nanny years over a
happy an prospous people.
If 1 was a king, Ide col my peoples tc
gather an talk of my crown an kick it, an
smash nv skepter on the priminsters he'd
an say, .'There, pore fellcrs, take yure lib
ty, an make me president, an let me live
in q wife hous an give me oil the candy
witch want"
| Kings isa CORY nusence, an the she ones
ia a queen, an their young is called a
prince. A prince Is lest like a boy under
his close, but he mussent play humble
the peg nor suck egs. An if tho little she
Aihss was Aouii ..us ' ~ ~ Gov W.
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