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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
lISSRTON, GA.
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ELBSSTOK, GA.
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ELBEKION, GA.
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Will he glad to show specimens of his work
I to parlies, and no harm is done if ho work is
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ber, for the purpose of doing such work as the
good citizens of Hart may favor him with. Or
ders may be left with G. W. Seidel, Esq., tin til
his arrival.
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MRS. W. SI THOMAS,
PROPRIETRESS,
AUGUSTAGA
ESTABLISHED 1859.
IsTew Series.
GONE FOR THE SUMMER,
New York Era.]
My wife has gone away for the sum
mer and left me in full charge of the
house. T like it $ haven’t had such a riin
of liberty since we were married. I
hope she's having a good time, for I can
now exercise my rights as the head of
the family. Can’t do it when she’s at
home; she'll not stand It. She has rules,
and makes everybody about her toe the
mark. But I've got her now, and am
having things my own way.
This morning I came home quite early.
It was 2a. m. ; I’d been to the club and
got caught in a rain. For half an hour
I couldn't find the key-hole, which must
have got mislaid. I felt for it every
where, and even got down in the yard
and examined every brick, but couldn’t
find it. I was in the act of called one of
my neighbors, and asking him who had
carried off my front door, when I hap
pened to find it and got into the house.
In the dark I kicked over a spittoon,
but luckily didn’t get any of the tobacco
juice or my boots. I hung my overcoat
and umbrella on a prong of the chande
lier, let them drip on the parlor carpet,
went up stairs, and turned in with my
boots on. I thought it wasn’t worth
while to pull them off, as I would have
to get up in eight or ten hours any how.
If my wife had been at home, she’d have
had me looking an hour for the boot-jack,
and I would have lost that amount of
rest, wnich my system so much needed.
Besides, she’d have made me give a full
account of myself, which I don’t like to
do. I never did believe in praising my
self. It’s better to let others speak of
one’s virtue. I can now wear a shirt a
week, and it’s nobody’s business. I don’t
see how I ever did get along With that
woman. The idea of having to put on
a clean shirt, black my boots and brush
up my clothes every morning is simply
ridiculous. It is a miracle to me how I
ever did it and attend to my other affairs.
I now read the morning paper without
being forced to see'anyhmpatienfrwoman
standing with the one hand looking very
miserable, and finally telling me she is
going down town and wants that paper.
Auy one, to look at the house now, would
know there’s no woman about, everything
is so quiet and>comfprtabie and handy.
If I want toulo a little figuring, I don’t
have to hunt fora pencil, or pen and ink,
but I just sit down to one of the tables
and do it with my finger, and there’s no
body to be eternally widdinga dusting
brush around my head and telling me to
get out qjfcffhe way until the house is
cleaned up. These are considerations
that every married man should ponder
over. But when we ponder and resolve,
what good does it do 1 That’s the ques
tion which is now agitating the Ameri
can people. What good does it do?
Not a bit. If these women can't have
everything just their own way, they
swoon off into hysterics. Asa conse
quence, we have to pay a fifty dollar doe
tor’s bill, and stay in the hottse all day
fanning them and promising in the end
“we may be happy yet,” before they
show any v disposition to compromise.
Our wives are petted too much. And
this reminds me that mine won’t yield to
any other treatment. I undertook to
prescribe a more stringent remedy for
her one day, but it threw her into a fit
more like jitnjams than anything I know
of. She broke every plate in the house
over my head, and then I bad to kiss her
before she would promise not to do it
again. That’s what makes me say she is
set in her ways.
There, too, are the piano and 'guitar,
which she kept going from morning un
til midnight, filling the whole neighbor
hood with discordant music. Both are
as mute as the bird-cage which was va
cated last week by a sfcrategetic move
ment of the cat.
The 200 pots of flowers she left me to
cultivate I don’t think will produce much
of a crop. They’re nearly all ripe now,
and there's no sign of a flower yet. I
have watered them twice since she left,
but it did no good. I reckon they miss
her and are pining away because she
ain’t here. In this respect they do not
resemble me to any alarming extent.
The stove and pipe have assumed a
beautiful red tint, and the pots are
bringing forth a fine crop of white-look
ing vegetable mold, which I haven't
learned the name of, but she ll know it
when she conies. The dishes don’t look
quite as bright and clean as they might
but the flies are bad this year, and if I
were to wash them every two weeks,
they wouldn’t present a respectable ap
pearance.
Notice to the Editor.— Please sup
press that article I sent you about my
Spell of Single Blessedness. The old
woman has got back.
A tarred rope is about one fourth
Weaker than untarred white rope. Tarred
hemp and manillia ropes are of about
equal strength. Wire rope of the same
strength as now hemp rope Will run on
the same sized sheaves ; but the greater
the diameter of the latter, the longer it
will wear. One wire rope will usually
outlast three hemp ropes. Running wire
rope needs no protection ; standing rig
ging should bo kept well painted or tar
red.
+ <£?>.
There was a girl at Cape May last
week who weighed 800 pounds. Fact.
It was four barrels of flour.—Phila. Bul
letin. You’re getting along stavingly,
without the cooper-atioa of any one. If
you have any more like that an oz ’em.
[Morristown Herald.
This completes the column.
ELBERTON, GA., SEPT U 1876. Z
THE FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.
The prize fight which occurred Thurs
day morning rear Pennsville, N. J., op
posite New Castle, Del., resulting in the
dhath of one of the principals, was oao
of the most brutal events of the kind
ever known in this country. The sur
roundings and details were simply shock
ing. The principals were James Weeden
and Phil. Coster, otherwise known as
Billy Walker, and the stakes were S4OO.
Both Urn pugilists wore young men, re
siding in the old Southwark district,
Philadelphia, from which city the con
testants and over a thousand spectators
departed Wednesday night cn barges
and tug boats, landing early the follow
ing morning on the Jersey shore, the
fight beginning at half past six o’clock
in the morning.
Seventy-six rounds were fought, re
suiting in the defeat and death of Wal
ker. When fourteen rounds had been
fought Sheriff George Heins, of Salem,
arrived, and ordered the men to stop,
but the crowd completely prevented his
interference with the sport, heaping upon
him a volley of abuse and compelling
him, by their superior numbers, to leave
the scene. It is believed that had he
attempted to have exercised force ho
Would have been pounded to death, if
not shot down instanter. When the
sheriff left round fifteen was commenced,
and continued up to seventy-fifth, which
was the beginning of the end. Weeden
started at once and peppered Billy in
the face terribly -with both hands, and
he could not respond; though he had not
been so weak apparently as this state of
affairs would denote.
His only return to Weeden’s savage
work was a feeble attempt with bis left,
which landed on Weeden’s right should
er. Then they clinched and Weeden
gave Walker the back heel and fell on
him, the crack as ho struck the ground
seeming like that of a whip. Walker
looked very stupid as he was roughly
taken to his corner by his seconds. His
face up to this time had not looked so
terribly bad, but suddenly it seemed to
grow shapeless and became badly dis
colored. His eyes had been nearly
ed and, his lips greatly swollen, and his
left cheek was in a poor plight, but nov/
they were all much worse. Weeden
showed the cut under his right eye, the
gash over his nose or rather to the right
of it, his damaged car and his lumpy
left face, but it was not discolored to any
extent. At the end of this round Wee
den’s friends were wild with joy.
On the 76th and last round Walker
had not recovered from the fall and pun
ishment of the last round, and he came
up staggering. To show his bewildered
state his hands were open and hanging
by his ride, though instinctively he
clutched them for an instant, but did
not bring them into position. He should
not have been sent up s by his seconds in
this terrible condition. Weeden, per
ceiving bis plight, rushed at him with Lis
whole might, smashed him with his right
and loft with the force of cannon balls,
-and, then catching him, flung him down
and again fell on him with his full weight.
A cry went up to heaven from the more
tender-hearted at the cruel exhibition,
while Weeden’s friends cheered him
until they were hoarse. Referee Gorrn
ley called ‘“time” for the next round and
Weeden responded, but poor Walker
still lay on the ground anti was insensi
ble, wholly oblivious of where he was
and what he had been doing. So Collyer
threw up the sponge in token of defeat,
and then Madden and he picking up the
still insensible Billy, laid him in some
brush wood, awaiting his return to con
sciousness. It was now fifty five min
utes past eight, the fight lasting just
two hours.
♦ •
SHE KNEW THE BEAST.
“You see this boss, don't you ?” called
out a woman about forty years of age,
as she drove up to a Grand River Avenue
blacksmith shop yesterday.
The Smith came out and replied that
his sight was good.
“I want a shoe on that hind foot right
at once,” she continued, and she jumped
down and had the horse almost out of
the wagon before the smith readied the
curbstone. She led the beast into the
shop, sat down on the bench and pre
pared to take a smoke, and as the black
smith took down the shoe she observed,
“No fooling, now. I want that shoe
to stick to that foot for a whole year.
You can’t impose on mo ’canse I’m a -wo
man.”
After the hoof had been prepared the
horse suddenly became restive, dancing
around and bothering the shoer so that
he could not proceed.
“Toll don't seem to have had any ex
perience with horses,” remarked the wo
man, as she rose up and laid her pipe
aside. “I know this beast from Ban’l to
Bersheba, and yon jist git back a little.”
The smith retreatod a few feet and the
woman caught the horse by the bits,
gave him a two-hundred-pound kick in
the ribs and yelled :
“Whoa! Charles Henry—git around
there—stand over and take that— and
this—and somo more 1 Now come up
and toe the mark!”
Charles Henry kicked the anvil off the
block as she kicked his ribs, but she
kicked the hardest, and when the horse
shoer stuck his head into the shop, the
horse was half over a bench, but as quiet
as a lamb.
“Now, purceod,” said the woman, as
she picked up her pipe. When a boss
goes to fooling around me and aching
for a row, he’s laying up sorrow for bis
gray hairs ! ’ —[Detroit Free Pixc-ss.
WAITING FOR THE STAGE.
[From tlie YAemitc Correspondence of the
'-Louisville Courier-Journal.]
We were fill sitting oh the veranda
telling jokes and conundrums the other
evening while we waited for the evening
stage, whose passengers we always view
with interest. Mr. Winslow told a yarn
of appdmii'J9e editor that was not bad.
In Ciamu.tali he was met by newsboys
yelling, “Here's your Courier!, Take a
paper, air!
“Go off! I make those papers,” ho
said, annoyed.
“Come along. Bill,” sung the boy at
the top of his voice, “that’s the reason
we can’t sell ’em.”
Mr. Strouch told of a story he once
heard of Nc-ifie Butler, who was visiting
at a house where he was given a Turkish
pipe, called hookah, to smoke. When
the smoke wreaths were curling thick
about the room the professor suddenly
propounded the theory, “Why is this
pipe like a cow ?” The answer heintend
was. “Because it is a hooker.” He was
astonished to receive the prompt reply,
“Because there is a calf sucking it.”
Mrs. Tarbox related a witty retort of
Robert Brockenridge, the doctor, to
Poinda*ter| a lawyer. Breckenridge,
speaking mirthfully of his profession,
said: “Yoff know the fool of the-family
is always made a doctor.”
Poindexter, I’’bowing 1 ’’bowing his head in the
direction of the doctor said pointedly:
“Yes, i never have know an txiv; Ron.”
After tho laugh had subsided, Breck
onridge,- bosriug in like manner to the
lawyer, saij£ with a slight pointing ges
ture in hi*direction, “I haye.”
Whiigthe laugh at this sally was con
vulsing XiXparty I suddenly thought of
a letter jMpy had intended to write to a
Poind and I asked her abruptly if
she had; written;
“No,’ r said she.
“Why not ?" I persisted.
“Because, like the Irishman, I have
changed ujjy placae of residence, raid don’t
know whejre a.lcUer might reach her.”
GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNGTUA.
w: -1
W. W/yL,' thegegrrespondent of the
vtmri. Tfopcr date of the 6th,
writing frd'h’tlm White Sulphur Springs,
says';-
Perhaps in no comj a-y of its size'can
be found more old West Pointers and
army officers th in arc now seated around
the fire here to-night. Ti. intelligence
of the death of Adjutant General Rich
ardson was received with great sorrow
in this circle. The importance of an Ad
jutant General in Virginia has been eon
ceded. Someone asked Gen : N Joseph
E. Johnston, who is her , if ne would
take the place of Adjutant General of
the State, and I learn thal ’ replied that
be would gladly take it, rod further said
that he was very anxious to get hack to
his native and beloved State, Virginia.
This intelligence was soon known, and 1
learn that it has already reached Virginia.
To have Lee’s great lieutenant at the
head of the volunteer military of the
State, would ba to make that force supe
rior to any other.
The last of that trio of splendid sol
diers, Lee, Jackson and Johnston, I can
imagine the enthusiasm his very presence
would create at the head of the Virginia
boys, as the military instructor and dis
ciplinarian of the sons, of his old sol
diers. I can imagine the sudden filling
up of the ranks, the new awakening of
the military ardor all over the State
among the young men; the crowds of
battered old soldiers who, with tear
twinkling eyes and voices hoarse with
emotion, will thank God that the old
hero, grey-haired and grand as he is, the
picture and quintescence of the soldiers'
ideal, the pine tree standing alone and
arrow like in the forest, that band of
Virginians will thank God that their old
commander is restored to his proper
sphere. It will be anew ora in the mil
itary history of Virginia. It seems to
bo the general opinion that his Excellen
cy, Governor Kemper will honor the
State and himself by conferring this
slight token upon the old leader; that
the Legislature would u nimously rati
fy such action, there can ba no doubt.
i..
Gen. Jeff Thompson, whose death we i
announced yesterday, was born at Har
per’s Ferry, Virginia, in 2 826, and about
Lis twentieth year he v . i engaged as a,
civil engineer on the Hannibal and St.
Joe railroad. He was afterward mayor
of St. Joe. His career, a the command
er of an entirely indepan; mt brigade of
cavalry during the war is well known.
He was the very personification of ec
centricity. After the wnv lie resided in
Louisiana,' where he accepted office frefti
the dominant party, He had been in
feeble health for several months, and his
death was not entirely unexpected.
i,—
A curious calculation has been made
in the printing office of Paris newspa
per. Assuming that r. ■ compositor
handles 24,000 letters i Ay, and that
his hand moves one fo >t ■ each letter
in taking and setting th ,io, it will be
seen that his hand trav* ' . >OO feet, or
nearly ten miles a day, and in the course
of the year, including ‘- \ -g, travels
fully the distance -from : to New
York.
The third congressional district eon
vention was in session man forty
minutes. They met, o.\t. I noun-'
Dated Phil Cook by an w in ions rising
vote with great enthusiasm, and ad
journed.
He who would in business rise, mast
either bust or advertise.
Yol. V.-No. Si.
THE SCIENCE 0E PHRENOLOGY.
They had a lecture on phrenology in
Norristown last week by a traveling pro
fessor of that science, and part of it was
quite entertaining. He had on the stand
several plaster heads mapped out in
town lots, and after he explained what
they meant he invited persons in the
audience to come up and let him fetl
their bumps and explain their characters.
Several times lie Lit pretty accurately,
and excited fa considerable amount of
applause, but after a while old D. step
ped up for examination.
He is an absent minded man, and he
wears a wig. "While dressing himself be
fore coming to the lecture he had plac
ed the wig on the bureau and aecident
|ly tossed his plug of tobacco in it
j When he put the wig on it was just like
| him nt t to notice the plug, and so when
i he mounted the platform he had a lump
j just over his bump of combativeness as
big as half a hen’s egg. The piofessor
fingered about a while over D.’s head,
and then said : “We have here a some
what remarkable skull. The perceptive
faculties somewhat strongly developed ;
reflective faculties quite good: ideality
large ; reference so great as to be un
usual, and benevolence very prominent.
SocretiveEcss is small, and the subject,
therefore, is a man of candor and frank
ness ; he communicates what ho knows
freely. We have, also,” said the pro
fessor, still plowing liis fingers through
D.’s hair,” inquisitiveness not large, the
subject is not a grasping, avaricious man ;
ho lives liberally, lie—he—he—. Why
it can’t be! Yes. Why, what in the—!
Munificent Moses! that’s the most awful
development of combativcncss I ever
heard of! Are you a prize fighter, oh i"
“Brize-fighter?" exclaimed D. “Why,
what do you mean
“Never been a soldier or pirate, or any
thing like that ?”
“You certainly must he crazy.”
“Ain’t you fond of going into scrim
mages and rows, and hammering people?”
“Certainly not,” answered D., indig
nantly.
“Well, sir, then your aro untrue to
your nature. The way your head’s built
qualifies you, I should say, in a special
manner, as a knocker-down and dragger
cut. If you want to fulfil your mission
you will devote the remainer of your
fife to battering up your fellow man end
keeping yourself in one interminable and
eternal muss. Ybu’vo got the awfulest
l ump that ever decorated a human skull.
It’s phenomenal. What’ll you take for
your head when you die ? Gentlemen,
this man is liable at any moment to com
mence raging around this community
like a wildcat, banging you with a club
or anything that comes Lundy. It isn’t
safe for him to bo at largo.”
Then D. put his hand up to feel the
bump, and lie noticed the tobacco. He
pulled off his wig, and there was the
plug sticking behind bis left ear. Then
the Professor looked at it a moment in
confusion, and said:
“Ladies and gentlemen, we will now—
the lecture is—that is—l have no more.
Boy, turn out those lights.”
Then the audience lauuged, and D. put
on his wig, and the professor started to
catch the late train.
The science of phrenology is not as
popular in Norristown as it was, and D.
still remains peaceable.
[Philadelphia Bulletin.
- <aaz> *
The Washington National Republican
contains the following editorial .
“Is it not remarkable that the first
tremor or doubt of Republican success
in Ohio and Indiana to corao to us from
any politician off sufficient prominence to
deserve consideration should reach us,
privately, of course, from Carl Schurz.
This man has declared his Republican
truths. If wo aro to have prophets of
disaster, his lips should by all means
remain closed. The Star in reply to
the above, published the following: “A
report is in circulation that Carl Schurz
has written to Ja friend in Washington,
a prominent Republican, that the Ger
man vote of Ohio is almost solid for
Tilden, and that unless energetic meas
ures aro taken to effect change of i pin
ion in that clement, Ohio will certainly
go Democratic. As clilligeut inquiry
has failed to develop who the prominent
Republican is that received the letter,
and as it would seem to be a trifle un
likely that a prominent Republican would
divulge the contents of a letter mak
ing such damaging admissions, it will
perhaps bo well enough to wait for more
definite information before placing Ohio
in the Democratic column on the
Strength of the fact by Carl Schurz.
In explanation of Carl Schurz’s pro
phecies that Indiana and Ohio will go
Democratic on account of a defection in
the German i ote, it is asserted ho has
been requested by competent authority
in the Republican campaign committee
either to change the tenor of his speeches
or to withdraw from the canvass. This
request was based upon the fact that his
speeches refer ’to this timo and have
been confined to tbo discussion ol the
civil service question, and that for this
grand work ho has resolved to assault
in most unqualified terms President i
Grant’s administration. As soon as |
Mr. Schurz received this intimation or j
request, ho became, as it is claimed,
somewhat lukewarm, and the charge is
directly made that he has made over
taros to the Democracy.
♦ *
“A Miss Post is Urn reigning beauty
at Newport, and the young men want to ]
tie to her” This is generally the fate ;
of a rail pretty girl, and she has no do- i
fence
THE OAYE OF DEATH.
' From the Lexington (Mo.) Intelligencer.]
| About fifty years ago a greater portion
:of the South and West was but wilder
| neks. Even in those States tnftt were
more or less populated, there were great
sections of tho country where there
could not be seen any sign of habitation.
Away clown in Mississippi there was a
scope of conn try, about 100 miles across
consisting of a swampy, wild ancldeso
late country, then known as the Tucka
paw country, in which was no settle
ment, and across which was a regular
road of travel. Now, in these old-times
there was a great amount of traffic and
trade between New Orleans and tho
Lower Mississippi, and all the upper
country mule traders from Kentucky
and Illinois would drive mules and
, horses and sell them to Southern plan
ters and return by land. Flat-boats by
tho hundred, from all the upper country,
! from Ohio to tho Rocky Mountains,
! could be seen descending the Mississip
! pi laden with the most valuable produc
j the country could afford. The merry
boatman made the forest resound witn
his song and revelry. When they land
jed at New Orleans, and disposed of
I their valuable cargo, they would buy a
plug of a mule or “mustang," on which
; they would take their homeward course,
I sometimes aloiie, sometimes in squads
| of from two to six.
; About half way across this wilderness
road, a man by the name of Cregol had
located, and built a house for tbo pur
! pose of a stopping placo for travelers,
j This place was known by every Southern
; trader, and with Cregol they all had to
stop, and they were glad to share his
hospitality.
In the Course time of the country be
came settled. Old Cregol had become
immensely rich ; bo waS growing old,
but was halo and stout. Not far from the
house was a cavo in tho hillside which
had never been explored. In fact, no
one had ever entered its mouth, as was
known. Now, this cavo became an ob
ject of interest. Iho dogs, for miles,
around would collect at its entrance, and
create the most hideous sounds by their
unearthly howling. Night and day
would these poor creatures keep liji
their mournful song.
Every person, men women and child
ren, for miles, would como tosoothis
sad sight. But it was noticed that old
Cregol did not go to see this thing.
Why did not Cregol gc ? His neigh
bors insisted that he should go. No
sooner did ho como in sight than t$G
dogs, with one accord, which had, here
to fore, been perfectly submissive, mo
lesting no one, and any one could walk
among them, and they would only howl,
with teeth grinning, and bristles up,
rushed-at him as though they would not
let him como near.
At length it was resolved to explore
the cave, and upon a sot day the neigh
bors met for that purpose, and with
blazing torches groped their way a short
distance on their hands and knees, until
they entered, what appeared to boa
largo chamber. Thej rose to their feet
and, with torches lifted higher, begap to
peer through tho darkness. The first
object they saw was a blue coat
hanging against tho wall of tho cavo.
This coat was of tho old French stylo ;
mado of blue cloth with brass buttons.
Upon passing further on, scores of skele
tons were seen, scattered in every diroc
ton. Human skeletons, wjj.h clothing
of every description hanging to them
which the wolves had torn to pieces.
Among tho party of explorers writ! a
young doctor, -who lived in tho neigh
borhood, As soon as the party emerged
from the cave, the dogs, apparently sat
isfied, ceased then- bowlings and dis
persed. That night a negro came for
tho young doctor. The dogs had col
lected at old Cregol’s and commenced
howling. Cregol was seized with spasms,
and the negro rushed for the doctor.
The next morning, while tho doctor
was siting by Crogol’s bed, who was in a
deep stupor, the door suddenly flow
open, and a tall man, with dark com
plexion, wearing the identical coat
which the doctor had seen in tlio cavo
tho day before entered and passodquick
ly and noisolessly through tfle room.
Boor Cregol, when tho man entered;
rose quickly in bed, and gazed with a
wild maniacal stare at him until ho
passed out of sight, and then fell back—
dead.
He had murdered these men for thoir
money, and that’s how ho got his
wealth.
“Suppose, Bello,” said a poor but hon
est Chicago youth to a Prairie-avenue
girl one day, “suppose that a young man
loved you dearly—very dearly—but was
afraid to ask you to marry him, may be
because he was very timid or felt too
poor, or something, what would you
think of such a case?” “Think ?” an
swered tho girl immediately, “why, if ho
was poor I should think that he Was do
ing just right in keeping still about it.”
The question was dropped right there.
A gentleman who had married a se
cond time indulged in recurring too of :
ten in conversation to tlio beauties and
virtues of his first consort. He had,
however, barely discernment enough to
discover that tlio subject was not an
agreeable one to bis present lady.
“Excuse me, madam,” said he, “I cannot
help expressing my regrets fdr the dear
deceased.” “Upon my honor,” said tho
lady, “I can most heartily affirm that I
am as sincere a mourner for her as you
can be.”
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He bought a cheap coat, and lie ob
served next day that it was mado of two
kinds of clotb, or else it had faded from
sorno previous wear or tear. Ho went to
tlio dealer with fire in liis eyes. Tho
dealer looked at tlio garment without
surprise, and at the Wearer with extreme
wonder. “Vy, mine gootness!” ho said,
•‘you been wear do goat in do sun ! You
dink him mate of shoot iron, boy !”
Robert .Browning call3 the British re
viewers “chimney-sweeps” in his now
poem. When they line at him he had a
brush with them and they didn't soot