The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-11-11
MlDDLESEX.
Some Funny Affairs on the Lowe
Rsppahsnnook-A Surprise
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". ne discovered. TO his chagrin. that al
OF Its ways OF ingress from the outsid,
world. and egress from it, own insid
world, were completely choked up b,
reasons oil many huge skin wolves: ans
that modification had already set in.
Why, said he this rabbit mus
nave been IN the act OF yielding up tn.
ghost when the hawk apprehended il.
have no more meat than had before .
Moral: II man is too lazy to work
Tor his meat, he need not expect the
LORI, nor hawk, 10 furnish HIM with
sound rabbits.
With no thought Of irreyerenee. but ali
Tor him, we give below Bushy mans
enOrt at poetry. This man saws it l.
original, but the Lance man believes that
nc got II rom n quack medicine almanac.
Listen at the Bushy poet, as follows:
Laugh. and the world laughs with YOU:
Weep. aud You weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow it's
mirth,
And has trouble enough of it's own
Sing. and the hills viii answer:
sight Is lost on the air.
Inc echoes bound 10 a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
- Rejoice. and men will seek you;
Grieve. and they turn and 90.
ihey want iull measure Of all your pleas
ure.
But they don't give a d-n for your woe
BE glad. and your friends are many:
lie sad. and you lose them all
There are none To decline your Union
Brews or wine.
but alone, you must gulp LIES gall.
Feast. ard White Fish Bay is crowded
Fast aud you can chew the rag till you
die
Succeed aud give-and il helps you live.
Bot not a son of a gun can help you die.
There is room in the Halls of Pleasure
For a large and lordly train:
But one by One we must all lille on
Through the cattle car Of pain
At Mil Greek wharf is a large. attrac.
tive two-story passenger aud freight.
house, combined.
The passenger department in on the
second hoor; il is for white people exclu-
siveiy-a well equipped annex being IN
pointed for colorcd passengers.
This Is the only up to date" passenger
arrangement on the Rappahsnnock river,
and. probably on the Weems Co =
route, out-ide of their city piers.
So Mr.. Jim Crows law has found ita
way even into Bushy's broad" and
much Travelled stream-Aill Creek.
The salvation Of the great oyster rocks
in aud near Mill Greek largely depends
upon the rigid enforcement of the cpl
law. The principal feature of what i,
known as the Gull law is this: OYSTER,
under inches in length must not be re
moved from the rock. These seed.oys
tiers, when separated from large ones and
scattered, increase very rapidly in siz,
and numbers. lfleft upon the rocks. they
keep the rocks constantly replenished.
Oyster inspectors have much difficulty
IN enforcing this law, so many are the
ways by which the tongers elude them.
some very amusing Incidents occur. In
connection with the inspector and the vi
oiator, one OF W hich we relate, asfollows:
An old, negro oysterman, who was in
the act OF drawing his anchor preparato.
~ to leaving the rock for the dav. and
whose load embraced about ? bushels al
unlawful oysters, espied gasoline launch
coming towards him.
Dat boat is de 'spector," said he 10
himself
With full speed he started towards the
shore, whereupon an oysterman hailed
him thus:
Uncle Jim, what are you running
about"
"Neber mine bout dat. boss: | know
what l does know replied the colored
uncle.
Uncle Jim stopped his boat in , feet o
water. and began to pick out and throw
small oysters overheard by the whole
sale
The gasoline launch did prove to be the
-" Spector, aud, when he reached Uncls
jim, the following dialogue ensued:
lnspector-"Ji jim. Impose a $40 90 fine
upon You, for violating the outlaw.
Uncle Jim--"But, Boss, | is throwing
EN- overheard now"
lnspector-"That makes no difference
the law forbids you from taking then
away from the rock -
Uncle Jim-"Well, Boss, dat is news tc
me; | thought you could throw 'em any
whar, Jess SO dey was put in the river.
The real funny part about the matter
is this: Uncle Jim did not throw ont ar
oyster until he had reached his own mi
vate planting ground.
Edmonds Walker, after an absence O
iour years, on the LIST OF October visitef
bis relatives in Middlesex. He is an en
ployee OF an ocean steamship comnanv
Not even his mother knew that he love-
Middlesex girl; but, on the morning O
his arrival, he manifested great impa
thence to get to a certain place.
"Edmonds." said one of his relatives
you certainly donot intend to leave m,
house before you get breakfast"
"The sight OF Florence will be break
fast enough for me, replied the hand
some seafarer
On the evening Of the fifth day of hi,
visit he and Miss Florence Hall drove nr
in front of the Baptist parsonage, wher.
lives the good, blind preacher, Rev. u
II. Barnes On the next morning it wa,
in more than a hundred moufh-"Ed
monds Walker and Florence Hail 90,
married yesterday evening. Now wha,
will Charlie say ?''
For sometime il had been narrated that
this charming young woman would GER
tainly marry Charlie during the Xmas
week. He was thought TO be her only
fellow Besides, Just two or three DAYS
before she tied to Edmonds, she wrote
in Charles" dear little memorand um
book the following sweet little prayer: