Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1859 — “Mohawk Dutch.” [ARTICLE]

“Mohawk Dutch.”

Tlie following story is good because it is true. We had it from the lips of a good woman, who was told it by the principal actor herself! “Ven 1 first come to Filadelfy to serve, I was very uncivilized,” said Katrine, now a tidy, intelligent servant in a respectable family; “I laugh mooch, and I fee! mooch ashamed to remember how I behave ven I know 60 little. Shon—that was my beau then—Shot), betook me to the tlie iter one night, when I been in Filadelfy three weeks. We sit in the gallery, and we not see good, and Shon he said he would get a petter seat. So he puts Ins leg round de post, and shlides down mit de pit, and“ Tie looks up and calls out, ‘Katrine! Katrine! room down! tisli a goot view here!’ and I leaned over, and said I: ‘How can I cornu, Shon!’ And he said: ‘Just shlide down.’ So I puts my legs round de piller, an ! ?-bi ; n s dovfen too. JJondcr! how de peo[ • ! Dey laugh so dev play no more d. : upon the stage. Eve- 1 ry body laugh, ; ■!, and whistle cil over de house! I was ;t> h ashamed den, though I knew not any ! >rm! But now, I plushes every time I din! J.” I The HV.vZ road (lazetle, of Chic s sound on . .iickles question. It si - ‘ln our opinion Sickles was guilty! ol v : dering a great ..ndrel, for a low-! min. woman, who w o .ot worth making | such a fusa about ” True as preaching. ‘