MORE WIPE THAN COUNTRY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2092, 6 November 1880, Page 3

MORE WIPE THAN COUNTRY.

i The other night, soon after a ward meeting had opened, one of the eleotors present began edging for the door as if he meant to leave the place. He was soon stopped by a friend, who said : " Don't leave us now, I want you to hear what that speaker is saying. Hear that ! He says we must triumph or the country is doomed." " Yes, I know, but I've got to edge along towards home," was the reply. " Home ? great heavens, how can you talk of going home until he has finished that speech ! There he goes again ! He asks if you want to see grass growing in the streets of our cities—our fertile forms returned to the wilderness—our families crowding the poorhouses until there is no longer room to reoeive another ? " " No, I don't know as I would, but I guess I'll sort, o' work my way out." " Wait fifteen minutes—ten—five—wait until he finishes. There it is again! He asks whether you are a freeman or a slave ? He wants to know if you have forgotten the patriotio principles defended by the blood of your grandeires—if you have forgotten the sound of liberty bell P" " I don't know as I have, but I must go—really I must." "Hear that—hear that! He says your country will bless you." "I oan't say as to that," replied the man as he crowded along, " but I'm dead sure that the old woman will if I don't git home in time to put this codfish to soak for breakfast!" " Great guns ! but do you prefer oodfish to liberty ?" exclaimed the other. " I don't know as I do, but I git more of it." " And yon will see the oountry ruined—see her go to destruction ?" "I'd be kinder sorry to see her go down hill," slowly observed the delinquent as he reached the door, "but if you had a wife who could begin jawing at 10 o'clock and not lose a minute until daylight, and then end up with a grand smash of crockery and a fit of hysterics, you'd kinder stand off as I do, and let this glorious old Bepublio squeeze through some mighty fine knot-holes."—" Detroit Free Press."