Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1883 — The New Member. [ARTICLE]

The New Member.

The new member remained in town. “I tell you what,” he says, “the President is a trump. I went up to the White House the other day to see about making Mariar Price’s daughter Postmaster at North Fork; and the President, he was takin’ a lot of other fellers in to lunch with him. So h’e says, kinder friendly-like, ‘Come, won’t you jine us and take some lunch and a glass of wine?’ So I bowed and I said, Tm your man, Mr. President.* So we went m and sat down, and they had some of them pesky finger-bowls with lemon in the bottom of them. When the raw oysters came on they seemed mighty stingy with their lemon, so I took a nutcracker and I picked the lemon up and put it on my oysters. They had been tellin’ about the way the President used to whoop up the boys in New York, ana, when they see me goin’ for the lemon, some of them fellers stopped and began snickerin’ and laffin’; but next thing the President he fetched up his lemon with a fork and put it on his oysters, and them chaps stopped laffin’, and looked as solemn as a funeral after that.”— Washington letter.