Year: 1867




came in greatly excited. Ha, ia
vored my masters visits heretofore,
but he had made a new discovery.
Opening the doors through to the
street and pointing to me as I hung
in graceful and unconscious inno-
cence upon the hat rack, he roared
at my master. ''I've found you out
ct looked to me that he had found
him in) You are an internal black
leg. Take y our hat (that was me)
and don'tsyou ever show yourself to
me again. THAT was him. Get
out of my house" With that he
rushed at my master, who rushed
into the hall, and rushing me upon
head, rushed out of the hall door,
but not quick enough to evade a
kick from the exasperated parent,
which shot him off the steps into the
gutter before he stopped. I lost
my balance and toppled from his
head into the mud, which was the
first stain upon my hitherto spotless
escutcheon. / mourned over it,
remember, but have since become
accustomed to gntters, and don't
mind them now. My masterpicked
me up, but was too much occupied
with thinking of the treatment he
had just received to regard me.
His feelings were lacerated, He felt
hurt-I know he did, for he went
limbing away with his hand pressed
just below the buttons at the back
Of his coat. Inever went to that
hat-rack again. / went to rack and
ruin, though, but let me not antici
pate.


That night my master played late
at the gaming table, and drank deep
ly to drown the mortifying recolec-
tions Of the afternoon. He began
to show the effects OF his potations
after time, and gave himself up to
revelry He showed me far back on
his head as he roar'd out his bac-
chanalian songs then in moment
Of wild hilarity he used as a weapon
with them to whack his comrades
over the head. Ishowed the effects
of this treatment very soon in wrin-
kles that age alone should have plan
ted there. Towards morning my
master had become Sc besotted that
he was placed in carriage and sent
to his lodgings. | remember how
wretched and mean [ felt, crushed
down upon his head like an exhaus-
ted ACCORDION. He was helped to
his room by his boisterous compan
ions, and left there He managed
to throw himself upon his bed, whe G
he immediately fell into the deep
sleep Of the drunkard, without hav-
ing removed garment, not his hat.
There [ lay, helplessly crumpled up
on the pillow, unwillingly embracing
his throbbing head and nearly stu
pified with his pestiferous breath.
Completely exhausted, fell asleep
myself, and my nap lasted far into
the day. Alas q! it was about the last
nap ! ever had When l awoke /
found myself lying in an ally where
l had been hurled by my unfeeline
master when he discovered the
wretchel condition to which his own
hand had rescued me.
I was picked up by a draylnan,
driving through the alley, who took
me to hatter's and had NE ironed
out for his sunday hat. What q
Notifying sense of faded gentility
came over me whenever l appeared
in public! One day I remember
meeting my former master. Oh
course he didn't recognize me, and
the bran new castor, that sat SO
ljauntily upon his head, turned up its
nose in derision, as it were, as ]
passed by. Howl longed to ''bust'
his crown for him. Ny new master
went with his cronies upon Sunday
to the beer gardens! They drank
excessively Of whisky and beer al
ternately, and a row ensued, il
whick [ received numerous blows
from pop bottles intended for my
masters head, and had several mugs
of beer split on me, which didn't
and any thing to my appearance
Then in the scrimmage my rim
| was torn completely off, encircline
like an Elizabethian ruff, the mech
of this trough from the Bucktowr
precincts. How ashamed | was
Denuded of rim and band, 7 felt
like boy who had been caught BY
the police violating the bathing or
dinance; ! was full of creases, ano
soiled with beer, and the lining pro
truded from several CHASTITY wounds
| My master wore me home, provo
king the jeers Of all the urchins or
the streets.


The drayman discarded me the
next day, and I became the proper
ty of a little boot black. Too large
for his head / gave him such a gro
tesque appeance that the boy was il
constant fights with his comrade who
persisted in knocking me to the
ground and using me for a football
After o few days the boot black be
came weary Of trying to protect me
and threw me into an alley, where
now lie a total wreck and no insur-
ance.


MoRAL-Pride will have a fail, il
not this fall. the fall coming.


| FAT CONTRIBUTOR.


Ex-senator Brown, of MisSiS.
Sippi, OH Reconstruction.
| Hon. Albert Gallatin Brown, OF