Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Some Slack Heather. [ARTICLE]

Some Slack Heather.

Senator George, of Mißsitsippi, is one of the most bow-legged men in Congress, and, by tbe way, there are a great many of them It is one of the traditions of the country where he comes from that his trousers are cut with a circular saw. The resuh is that these garments are usually conspicuous for a baggy appearance where they are widest. Senator Vance called the attention of a group of his cqileagues standing in the lob y of bia "hotel to this interesting phenomenon and then remarked: “i never gee a rear view of my old Iriend George without ’ thinking of the story of an old tar-heel down in North Carolina wbo went to a circus for the first time in his life. After that memorable event he was sitting around the tavern fire one evening relating his experience to a group of liis cronies and, regarding them with an air of superiority, under which ihey were. Meekly inquisitive. One of them timidly asked. “‘Didyou see the bar at the circus, Uncle Did you see tlie bar?’ “‘ faaa,’ responded the old man solemnly, ‘I done seen the bar.’ “‘What sort of a bar -w-as it, Un«le Zoke? “‘Waal,l never done seen a bar afore, but I Tow that it, raought be a right smart of a bar.’ “ ‘Did you see the camel,Uncle Eeke?' “ ‘ Yaas, I done seen the camel.’ “ What sort of a camel was it, Uncle Z.-ke?' “ ‘ Waal, I never done seen a camel afore, but I Tow that it mought be a right,smart of a camel.’ “Did you see the liox, Uncle Bake?’ “‘Yaas, I done seen the lion.’ “ ‘What sot tof a lion was it, Uncle Zeke?’ “ ‘Waal,l never doneseeD a lion afore, but I Tow that it mought be a right smart of a lion.” . T “ Did vou see the elephant, Uncle Zike?’ “ ‘Yaas, I done seen the elephant..’ “ ‘What sort of an elephant was it?’ Waal, I never done seem an elephant afore, an’ I Tow that it mought. be a right smart of an elephant; but it ’peared to me like as if he had a heap 0’ 1 ack leather about his pants.’”