The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 354 pages of information about The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 354 pages of information about The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862.
  Ner wun’t hev creditors about a-scrougin’ o’ their betters: 
  Jeff’s gut the last idees ther’ is, poscrip’, fourteenth edition,
  He knows it takes some enterprise to run an oppersition;
  Ourn’s the fust thru-by-daylight train, with all ou’doors for deepot,
  Yourn goes so slow you’d think ’t wuz drawed by a last cent’ry
          teapot;—­
  Wal, I gut all on ’t paid in gold afore our State seceded,
  An’ done wal, for Confed’rit bonds warn’t jest the cheese I needed: 
  Nut but wut they’re ez good ez gold, but then it’s hard a-breakin’
          on ’em,
  An’ ignorant folks is ollers sot an’ wun’t git used to takin’ on ’em;
  They’re wuth ez much ez wut they wuz afore ole Mem’nger signed ’em,
  An’ go off middlin’ wal for drinks, when ther’ ’s a knife behind ’em: 
  We du miss silver, jest fer thet an’ ridin’ in a bus,
  Now we’ve shook off the despots thet wuz suckin’ at our pus;
  An’ it’s because the South’s so rich; ‘t wuz nat’ral to expec’
  Supplies o’ change wuz jest the things we shouldn’t recollec’;
  We’d ough’ to ha’ thought aforehan’, though, o’ thet good rule o’
          Crockett’s,
  For ’t ‘s tiresome cairin’ cotton-bales an’ niggers in your pockets,
  Ner ‘t ain’t quite hendy to pass off one o’ your six-foot Guineas
  An’ git your halves an’ quarters back in gals an’ pickaninnies: 
  Wal, ’t ain’t quite all a feller ‘d ax, but then ther’ ’s this to say,
  It’s on’y jest among ourselves thet we expec’ to pay;
  Our system would ha’ caird us thru in any Bible cent’ry,
  ‘Fore this onscripted plan come up o’ books by double entry;
  We go the patriarkle here out o’ all sight an’ hearin’,
  For Jacob warn’t a circumstance to Jeff at financierin’;
  He never ‘d thought o’ borryin’ from Esau like all nater
  An’ then cornfiscatin’ all debts to sech a small pertater;
  There’s p’litickle econ’my, now, combined ’ith morril beauty
  Thet saycrifices privit eends (your in’my’s, tu) to dooty! 
  Wy, Jeff’d ha’ gin him five an’ won his eye-teeth ’fore he knowed it,
  An’, slid o’ wastin’ pottage, he’d ha’ eat it up an’ owed it.

  But I wuz goin’ on to say how I come here to dwall;—­
  ‘Nough said, thet, arter lookin’ roun’, I liked the place so wal,
  Where niggers doos a double good, with us atop to stiddy ’em,
  By bein’ proofs o’ prophecy an’ cirkleatin’ medium,
  Where a man’s sunthin’ coz he’s white, an’ whiskey’s cheap ez fleas,
  An’ the financial pollercy jest sooted my idees,
  Thet I friz down right where I wuz, merried the Widder Shennon,
  (Her thirds wuz part in cotton-land, part in the curse o’ Canaan,)
  An’ here I be ez lively ez a chipmunk on a wall,
  With nothin’ to feel riled about much later ’n Eddam’s fall.

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