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MISCELLANEOUS SELECT JO ys.
Jedediah Par. Ken-Tear's Parin' Bcc.
You nevor went tu a Fnrin Bee! Well, to fell the fair truth I never did tu only one, and Mir me into hoop-poles if I ever dow npi i. It ata rale scroamcr. for tint matter, both on account of what happened there, an J wlial b';fol afterrd9. You see Col. fJristlo m-d; the party. You Inow Col. Gristle I '.-ost. IIs's tho Major of cor regiment thow wo call hirn Kurnel out of compliment. ' 'Well, tho Cel. an J his wife, arid eoraen Hecky, modo the froliek, and in course 1 tad an invito and so did a!! the nlls and fellers for miles round." It was gvn' t bo a famus one ifldr mother sho wrn! up to help cozzon Uocky ' jitout the fixins tho day pfore, and when she como hum that nitc,;by golly! if my mouth didn't water, when sho told ovar about tho ovensftill of punckin pies of dornuts, to say tiothin about tho 'lawns enko and now cider, already nnd stowed away in tho back buttery. Sho said how the Col. wos goin' tu sot tho two birch laLlcs i:i tho fore room, and kalkorlatcd tu fix s inio boards in tite kitchen tu put the rcet of the vittles on nrtor ibey'J doti pairiu', and as thoy expected about 4UII told and thoro wan't chcors enuf for all tu let, they had got tu cat staudin', which was tho notfpcrlitcr way, and tho Col. ho knew for ho j lad been to tho Legislntur all last winter and, iced how tho great folks dun it. Gracious' thawt !, if I don't make up for that thow, I can J cat a much agin that way it goes down ao much j itrntor. Well toards nilo tho next diy, while I j
wfttgcltin rodJy, who should cum along bit Jim Spooncr. Jim arid I had alters bcon purty thick and told each other cvory thing. 'How air you, Jed,' sez he. Oh, rito as a buk,' scz I; 'how is your's?' Jest about so, only a lootlo tailor goin up to tbeKurncl's to into.' Yes, by hokoy!' 'if I can over git these oro tarnal boots on." Poro saft sof o into 'cm, scz he, aud they'll go on ns smooth as ilo.' They was a bran now pair of caff-skin nnd I bad Lccn tugin at the strap half an hour afore Jini cum, so I run for tho sopo dish and in went near a pint cf mothers lest, and sure cnuf, on they went squash! 'U'liy, you darned fool!' says Jim, you ortcr porrd the sopo out a fore you stuck your feet in.' Welt, never mind,' sez I, for I was in an orful hurry, cus it was gettin lalo, 'never mind
tby feel cool and c mfortablo jest now and mob-
wc!I tried to pull tho bones out. so I seed I must grin and bear it for sartin, ihow I coodn't stand up straight for tho life of me. When wo got in they was all at it bizzy cnuf; sum was parin', sum was corin', and sum was stringin, anil liiey was nil torkin and laffiin lick all nutur. About a haf a dozen fellers was down on a bench in
J ono corner, with basket rilo.aforo them and if j tho pairins didn't fly oil in what fol:3 call a tangint, then 1 never seed one. Then tharo was about as many moro gals and ! ftdlers cuttin oli'tho huts nnd tijis, and a parcel : moro was a cuUtn' out tho cores, whiio a airnightv lot wu9 stritJgin' as if fjr lifo and no Inters. 1 1 hunted around 'till I found a needle, but as 'gittina placo to st:.ud at tho table, that was ! another sort of affair, and arter tryiu' all around j 1 concluded to giv i! up and go to corin'. f Dut while F had been trvin'togtt a placo at the
I lopg tab'o, Jin Spoonor liad isjsinuatcd himself intu the only vacant place there, so I had to go to cuttin' or dew not bin'. And what 'in ado it worsor than all tho rest, I : had to stand along side of II o t t y G a w k i n s;
' she wur I'io most hurnb'w: ral in our
Janco liint time
Ma
cd I, thirikiu to cn"ajo he
but she curled up like a
sed sunithiu I soed haf a
vou wi
I iho next, then
oro uani ou now;
of beer juice, aiid
1 uidn t heer, when tunuu mv eye dozen fullers lukin at me, ccnamost
a
pint
reddy to snort rito out. Jus-t then the dandy cum struttin along with Prudence, and as the)' got closo to nc, Prudeuco scz she to mo in a sorter
d somebody's pinned the dish c!olh
I fe!t mad enough tu rare rile
tin.
,7'
And I i nil wet nsatiou.
her eyes and disporsitioii was putty much
tlioy was both as cross as a saw hoss. mouth was put on all of a scrow, nnd her
parts; a liko Ilur
noso
was so big that Mike J.,ongly sed 'it tuk tu hankorchcrs ter blow it.' I didn't feel very good natured myself, cu for ono thing my toes was so soro, and cuz for another thing I didn't tako much of a shino tu Hetty. Howsumovor, wo got along pretty well considorin', cus you soe I cud tork across tho table, and if my toss hadn't kep mo trcdin' up, jest liko a gander in a cold mornin', fust on ono and then on iho olhor I shud felt tolorablo contended. I was orful glad when they sed supper. We'd got tho apples o!l paired and strung, and pilod up in tho clothes press and a master hocp thcro was of them tu, and then wo went to clearin' up and shuveled the pairin's and cores up intu tho shod. Then tho gals set tu nnd swept all tho skatcrins intu ono corner, and it had just begun to sound liko Eabel broke loose, when Col. Grist'o say's supper's reddy.' Jcminy! how quick they all stopt. Prcttv soon however
thoy bogin tu paro o'.T toards tho kitchen and I soed a dandy sort of a fellor from tho vil'ape ; shinin' up tu Prudonco Pnrr as much as tu say 'with your leavo Mis?, I'll wait on you.' Thinks ! I now or never, so I stepped up putty quick, nnd i stickin out tno font to mako a bow, I struck it ! full forco ngin one of the bench-legs, j 'Damation!' sed I; and didn't I dubblo out aI bout tho quickest! Tho gals all tittered, and
io gais ail titter
Uiosopo will soften tho lether, and oil we start- , somo of tho feliers Jailed rito out. el. 1 had an my new drab trow&ers. W'o had j But when I'd got strnto ngin oc wiped tho terse jurt got tho cloth hum from iho mill, and Ant j out of my eyes. Prudence had gone ofF with tho Kitty sot tip all nito to finish them for tho occa- ; dandy, and I felt considerably warnblecropt, I
ion. My cent wa9 only cumin tu years oiu, and 1 felt that I warn't to bo snoezod ot by foks what had'nt got no noses. Jim and I had agreed
ituro iianti that uo u borrow Wcacou limonu s old mair and wngen, nnd so bring homo some of tho gals; so wo went intu tho old Deacon's to g;t horns wo went along. Tho old man was pesky ftarci sho'd cut up 6omo infarna! caper with us, cbz, you see, sho wos sorter skilish like, and bolides ho nowd that Jim was raythcra wild feller, and didn't keer no moro for a ninepenco than a l!uo cat docs uhen her back is up. Put I told him I'd drive nnd to kcerful, nnd to clinch tho tr.ntter wo paid him twoshillings down, and promised hi in tho other the next day, so ho told us if wo thought wo could cr.tch tho beast we might try it, nnd out wo went to tho pastur. iut tho old niair was as shy as a black fox, nnd wouldn't be como over so cus v. Sho laid her ears back on her nock, and rolled out tho whito of her eye, n, much n'ito say nothin trreen hero youngsters, '
i . i
wnispc-r. "Jci.
on your oacu: l-'lamnntion, bu
up in ici d. Who ou nirth.' sc-il I, 'has did
kicked it oJl'iu Ic3s tliau no time. 1: v and greecy, and I felt n sorter choKin
jiial aj though I could h:no cramcd it down sumbody's rucu, grecco r.nd ail. At that iniuit I s-'tii a chap lutein mity no.vin' and solium, with a cot: founded ugly wiuK out'n ono corner of his i. k-h v.j I was biiin 1 jest let tho disholo:li drive. Ono corner of it too:; tho solium chap across the mouth and slippin o:I" the whole consarn went, s!;. i! rite into the t.rgger'a fiddle!
trow oat
ducce, so as tu ask her to rido hum wi:!i mo, which wood bo handy all around, ns her folks lived jest beyond our house, but tho fust I noed, sho was already, and whose arm shood sho bo on, but Jim Spooner's. 1 Cum, Jod, sez he, flare up, the maro's waiting; whore's your gal? I felt so dumfounded like tlsat I didn't know what tu think. Tho dog sho is, sez, I; well go rite out and get ia and 111 bo thoro in taw seconds. But cum tu look round their warn't nobody goin our way but what had got fellers, except Ilettv Gaukins. Thinks I, I'll
stay all nite and cort Liz, but jest then I sec Mike Loag'y with ono arm around Liz's wasls, and look in' as noin' as a coon in a cori.-:ie!d, so I soed it was verv nlain that it was Hetty or hum alono,
: nd to r:ir sed sho di
tho matter short I axed her.
Sho
1).!' sez blacKV, 'who do dat?
nassy pot-rag at a nigger? I say imssa Gristle? some body chuc:c dis cuss nassy dish rag rito in do fiddle, ho spile him liroly; do bow be gicccy all ober and do tringa, dere bo no turn turn in "em. I seed I was in it, but I was tu ina.J tu back out. I threw it. sez I, 'but not at you,' and I rolled bade tho cuiFs of my coat. 'Now if any of you want to try tho tiles jest cum on; I'll settlo with tho nigger for tho fiddle' Tho solium chap wiped his chops, but I seed ho
winKcd out the totlscr corner of Ins eye. 1 toit
so riled I forgot all about
Col. Gristle cum along
him nnd told him I didn't cum to his house to bo
insulted in that way, and git in a muss with a nigger, and that I was a goin, rito burn; sol wood in less than tew rninits.
didn't kcro if sho wo at with mo sooiu as j
how 1 had cot a wagon, so wo went out and turnbled in. Thair warn't only one scat, so I sot in Hetty's Ian and Jim sot ;.i Prude's lap, and off
we the
started. I didn't feel
road, and I guess tlrj
dam ! for we hadn't "ono far
liko being very long on old maro didn't cither, foro her taio begun to
wl ha
.Ish, whish and her for r ft el kept comin doun
I Ui I Ultu
putty soon
ho took tu a clean run, jump from ou stono tu
' which iliac;? tho wagon
. another as if" 'twood shake jour l.ver out. I 'Iluld the critter in! doant let her break,' sez S Jim
Never fear, scz I, '1 il letch hor up easy any time. Jo3t then wo cum tu a litt'o peace of doun hill, which was as ruff as a kats back when sho is skeered, and I set out tu pul her up, but tho more I nulled tho wussor sho run. I braced agin tho
eat for sartin, Jemiuy! Fru louce, but your bunnit is liockod intu a cocked up hat! With that ho wiped the gurry ofl from bis face uuJ pulled the punkin seeds oat of his h-iiv. 'But Jod! si-z he, 'whir'n the rest of your trowsis? -'Say nothin' about the trowsis,' sez 1,'whar's the Deacon's mair?" Sureeaufl sed Jim, and we started for her. . " We found her oa her sida iu tho baru-ysnl, and if she wasn't us near ded as enny of its, then ho fleli don't kick orer easy for as sure as nig, tho biu 'u broke rite iu the swivel, aud we'd pulled the hedstall fcuamost up tu lb old sarpmt'a shooldors tryni'lu hold her ia! If flie warn't chocked for wunce, then I'm mistaken. Put howsuniever we got her uj and took the harness olf, and put the wujron together, and when that was don, the way th old r.mir went inta the paster aint notliin tu nobody. Thair is sumthiug connected with this Farin Hee that I will never tell tu nobody and that is wheather tho Deacon ever got his uther shilHn, and another what mother sed about my trowsis next niorniu', and another how I got my boots on now, to be fare, I shooi say they was both found split up in the iustop the next day. But thure is some uther things that I'd as leaves fokes wood no as not and one of them is that my shin was scraped from the nee hall way to the nnkel, ou Uia wagon railiu' when we went over, aud another is, tliat Hetty Gawkins got a cut on toth?r side of her face, which mnkes her mouth draw douu on both xiiies alike, and now she's iioar liumblier and crosser than ever. Whether I ever used any moar salt sope in mv boots is nobody's business. Respectfully, yoo'rs, JEDEWA1I PARSLY. Pcrtatur Holler, Down East. Jeiiuewary 1th, 1 hundurd i: -10 siit.
Rail Road Djvidxds. Frcm tho annual reports of Massachusetts railroads, wo gather that upon tho Lowell road a net incomo of $177,U25, or nearly ton per cont. upon its capital, was realized during the last year on tho Maine 123,1)01, or about scvon por cent, upon its paid up capital on tho Providonco 11)7,65, or ton per
cont. on tho Worcester WJ.i-'i), or a shailo
t my toes, ami just then foro part and told Clotty to hold on behind, and I over eight per cont. ou the Eastern 23J,30i and I wahced rito up tu j then I gavo ono almighty tw ich! sumthing giv 1 or ovcr ton )0r cont on je Nashua 6JliSl),
way; though 1 couldn't ten wnat u was, nut " j or 13 per cent on tho Now liodford 61S,7'28, or
seomea as ii i u sp.u mo cmura j " j twelve por cent on tho INorwich 7U, U7U, lor
to her ears, but it didn't stop her no moro than it
I wood du tu chano litonin. On she went, faster
'Vou sham do no such thing,' Jed sez he, I ain't and at every plunge the o.d wagon seat and all g.iu' to hnvo enny Kwarrelin in this placo, so ! thar was on't would jump as much as tew foot just taKo my darter Liz, and stand up along with j rite on end sartin. Tho trees and fences flow by tho rest. I'll see that Jaso tunos uo tho fiddle. ' us so ouick we cood not count 'cm, and the moon
I soon seed a litt'o spunk goes a great way
somo times. Liz cvenin,' now cum
went at it down out-side, up
rito and left, puttin
of mo all tho
regular, and we
tho middle, cast off,
in the double shuillos and too
who had fit
up tho work
which was almost down, kept rolin and tumblin about orfully, while ns for tho stars the sky was all cuvcrcd with little shiny specs, that kept dancing and chittcrwooin about jost liko tho sparks in a blacksmith's chimny. Tho gals scrcomed.
i-l It . I 1 I ' I I I . 11 1 -1 n ... n 1 1. ( ! rt,J
ana too ana nocl nuo an nauir. nowovor t anu Jim, no got noiu in u;iu iuiu, unu mmciuu wool sumtimr s make a slip on the high notes and whoa! and I griped tothcr and hollered whoa! but then wo cood hear him, 'tain do tish rag!' Pru- thar was no whoa tu her sho only pufi'ed a litt'o deuce Parr and tho dandy fellor seemed mighty harder and made tho firo roll out of tho rocks thick all the limo nnd I didn't liko it putty well, terribly. 1 thort for a niinit tho jeugmcnt was Vou see, I allers took a sorter likiu tu Pru, and I cum, and wo was death on tho pale boss! When kinder thort she liked me tu, but I seed it was no ' we got oppoiste old Squire Gawkins, Hetty sung
so I concluded to hold on and watch out liko a pig under a gate to git ou ou woui:
did lddced, so I did, and I dida t try enny moro on 'cm, but limped intu tho kitchin nnd dohed into the eatihles. Tli3 supper went off put
ty fair. Tho fellers helped tho gals in app!eas nnd dor: tits, nnd linger ten, and pie?, and lots of j now cider, and if I had not got my toso trod on I
everj' litno wmie, l snoi tu!c ralocomlort. After a while they went tu drinkin' toasts, and kissin' jjTasso9 n nd crossin' tumblers, ccc. and was bavin' a fust rnto spr-l! of weather, when Joe , Spraig steps to Sally Savage. j 'With your Irnvn Miss Sallv, I should liko to , tako a crossdianded drink of sider with j-ou.' , Oh I'm as 'greeablo as a chip-basket sez Sally, so they filled up. and standin' kinder facin' with their tumblers in their rito hands, the' locked their rito arnri nrd bojjnn to swaller. Dot rss Joo got his about half down, sum infernal scamp cum along behind, him and pricked hirn rnamot to tho bone! 1 was standin' rath.er afore hirn nnd
uso now
'cm. Putty soon it cum their turn tu lead off, and if Allcurly didn't trot out fair, then no coalt ever did. He sartinly did du it up in putty good
i sli'e, considcrin', only ho put in tu much mctai forical work, but ns for the double shulllcs, ho ! conld't hold a candle tu sum -of us. Pru was a
loud one nt tho work, and the way sho rattled tho
Sho coodn't speak at once, you no, on account of the motion, and sho screeched so you mout have hcord her tow miles. 'Hold your tung, you infernal wild-cat!' soz Jim, 'or this old she-devil here aiicad will lead us all intu eternatj- in less than no time.' Prudence blubbered, and put her arms around
shew leather was ominous of a swift destruction . Jim, nnd hugged about the closest. I kinder felt
ecd oil" sho started ou a tall trot, her tail switch-
Polly wags!
wnsn t there a messf And then such a roar: 1 ; wouldn't been in Joes shuzo for a kwart of beech j nuts. Sally's frock was oil 3ilod, nnd her new koller wilted down just liko a piece of whito blndJder. Howsoever thoj' wiped lier down putty t dry, nnd Cuz. Rocky said sho didn't think tho sider wud stain 'specially if she put her frock ai soko as soon as sho got hum. But tho dandy
chap said as how it wud take the culler out n
of heel-taps. Allcurly seemed to bo putty ambishus to throw oil his passes, and j'tst as ho got doun tu tho lower end, I seed him tryin tu duvtail a pigon wing intu sum of his queer crankums, when Ltchin' doun ono foot rayther hard, ho trod on an apple prain' and both his heels fljw intu tho air kwicker than you cud count half. , Ono of tho settlors took Prudence in the stnm-
I.nr threw ono of tho
rito undor tho
oiT,
own kerthump, right on tho
ck. Crickerv! how tho dishes' 1 iV I 1
a norso laii, I guess you never
lut sho changed hor nnnd wren
sbe got most thero and turned for tho barn-yard. In he went, feather white, nnd brought up all Wnndin' ngin tho hn--rack. Soon ns sho stopped Jirn slipped otTand put tho bars up, and then had her w hero we could handle her. Wo oon fixed the old vixen into tho toggery and ftartej. Arter wo got out of site of the deacon's I guess sho got her pay for the ground and lofty tumblin sho made mo perform, nnd the way sho took hor feet away from tho ground was a korfcontu horso-shoc.. Wo see'd lon fore wo tret
mack and ccnamost son
windows: tho other hit Ikq Miles
smeller and p'onjiv noar nocked his noso
whi'o Allcurly cum d
bottom of his b: rattled and sicli
heard on. 'Uring the chicken up to tho doo dish,' scz Jim Spooncr. 'Givo him of tho pcriushun,' sez Sal Savage, 'it will calteract tho nsshead.' Ho's gat the porlusshun cnuf, I guess,' sez Mike Longly,
! 'only jost look how lus trowsers is split up, and i maj' 1 bo catermaulcd if his trowsers wan't all i busted out from his wa'tsbans clean down, hafway
1 1 his boots airth; and wurms, how ho cid
s strapped down orful tito
when he
kinder got up on his laigs, ho clapped both Ins hands behind him, and sorter backed oiTto tho
kitchen, and the last wo seed on him lie was out
tho viliago like de
al look moro shnmder
arr did tor a consi-
come out'n a hogshed, but of a good clean barrel, ; Jorablo sooll arterwards, for what with the mor-
, t i. : if 1 .1 I 1 ' . , . 1 . . - ,
rather side on him and I seed him jump, nnd then
mg this way nnd thatliko all natur, clear to tho .'- tother end of tho nastur. A weary chase wo i 't ui but U wasn t no go tho crder squirted bad of it. I tel yo, afore wo cud corner her. At ";,.t ?f 119 no!P' anJ l,!ro his .tccih- n.nd nt bst h"
last we got her in between tho fence nnd a bi2 ; fnrly buslctl up rito m &.-i ly s free!
rock, nnd Jim ho crept by on ono side, til at last I made a grab at hor forctop. But no sooner did I lay my l.nr.d in her than
ho wheeled on her hind feet, inli.o twinkiin- f , llcr wilted tiown just like a piece ot white bind- Uown
a drum stick, and landed ... a mneh n, tr.tv d- Howsoever thoy wiped l.er down putty ; loo!i! H;3 trowsers w
feet ond over end intu a brush heap. LVmsarlf ! t,.rv nnJ Cuz'. I?ock-v. snu . di(Jn,t thin tho : and they was a snug fit besides, and so
tbe"Rip,'ses I, and I picked myself up almost tho quickest and w hen I looked round for tho mair
nay 1 bo blasted if Jim wasn't on her back,
oat halter or
orst kind fur
think's I or
broad-cloth
isted if Jim wasn't on her back, with ic.P sa,i' ,ow " V , laKG l"f, cV"C'r Jl I k'chen, and the last wo see bridle, gripin' her main liko tho aich s.tujT' 'f .d",,n j.T 8U,m .,kpr,y, tu f' in the rode, streakiu it for 'or tho orchard. Ride small my lad! tLrnct Col. t.nstlo d.dn t ielisr. it much to have . strucilon. 1 ll0Vcr seed a g vou'llg.tthe lint brushed off your : his sider cone.1 a aas head; he said it d.dn t even J of !lcrso!f tiMn Prudonco P
and ho himself seed to theclensin' on't. And as
tu his allcurlys. ho did not see anything mora all . curly than the furrez tho dandy chap word on tho side of his face, and ifhe didn't mind his eye ho'd pull somo of his all curly out for him. ! But tho village chap warn't to bo put down so ho went on to'splaiu how that alkcrlies ment sallyratusand parlash and stnf, nnd finally perswaded 'em to put on sum pcrlusion sallyratis. Sal i sed sho did'nt think much good on't for it wood be putttn' tu Sals together and sho didn't believe
ta tho Kurncls that there was to boa loud ono they'd agree anj how, and as fur pcriushun, they
wiarc that evenin, for tho winders wcro all litcd up both in tho forcroom and in the kitchen, and every now and then, as wo got nearer, wo cood Mar somebody or uther roro right out a laffin. 'Put oq tho Rush, Jed,' sez Jim, "they'll have
'line fun outaforo we git thair.
had got enuf of that areddy. Howsoever thoy
rubbed her all over wherever the sider went, aDd may C be twisted intu a pigtail, if in half a nour she didn't look as Jim Spoonor sed, like a whitod sepulchre only wussor. Her frock was sort of pinkish, and wherever the "Dcrlusion went it took
Not as you nows on,' sed I, 'thair's cood fish ; out a" he sider culler, and that was jest no cul-
J tlio sea yet that s only Mike Longly tafrin nt omoofhia own nonsense. 1 can tell Miko'a boopas fur as I can hear a hoot-owl.' , ith that we shuv up to tho door and Jim he jumped out; I followed suit, but by the powers! 8o sooner than my feet struck tho ground but I curled up like a treed forkentine!
Klly graghious! Jim,' sez l,if my feet ain't all jolly!'6
"!, sed he, 'didn't C toll you to pour it 1 honldn't wonder if thny was all sopo afore
out!! mor-
And ahuro enufT, with tho sopo and tho runnin', nJ fest did feci just like tu red hot blisters . 1 down on the stoop and tried to pull my boots and Jim he tried but they would'nt start any "war than the skin itself, and 1 might just as
Icr atol. I guess sho remembered the dandy as long as she did poor Joe Spraig, who slunk into a
corner and never said boo the rest of the evenin . Wal arter we'd a to and drunk as much as wo cud hold, the gals turned tu and cleared ofF the dishes and then we begun tho spree in eruest. Col. Gristle bad got black Jako to cum and fiddle, so we laid out for tew sots, ono in tho foro room and tho other in the kitchen, and black Jako tuc his place in the entry between so that both cud here tho music. I didn't feel much like shinin' it down rale bard, but 1 thot I'd try one or two jiggs, so arter they had begun to stand up, I warked up to a putty lukin sort of a gal, that nobody seemed tu not is, she was so still and quiet like, and axed her if she'd jist favor mo with her hand,' &c. she sed she wus much ob'eeged, she gess'd she shoudn't
tification, and w hat with tho nli-sufncient rubriser that Allcurly gave her vitals, sho seemed
liko a sick goslin. As for Ike Miles ho sed Dronosis felt about tho strangest it was as
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much as an inch shorter, and as broad agin as ho over noed it afore. Rub it with saft soap, sez Jim Spooner nnd all tho kinks w ill wipo out as smooth as a dish cloth. Nono of your slack here, Jim, sez i and I gave him a look that sobered him about tho quiccst. Cum grind away old meal bag, sez 1, or yulo
never earn vour dohar.
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rossurn and tid-re-i-woop! what a spree!
danced tho nigor fast asleep, but that didn't make any odds hekept the tid-ro-i goin'. regular as a tea' party, and his head as it nodded this way and that way kept time liko a steam injun. Prudenco got over her fit of Allcurly, and I danced with her, and she danced with me, and every thing went smooth as a taller condle, I forgot all about my tows and finally as nobody asked Hetty tu dance 1 thort I wood. But tho varmint told mo slap! Sho warn't going to danco with me nor with nobody oIs5 when we'd got clear down to the tale of tho heap; jest as you like Miss, sez I, no offence I hope; and with that Col. Gristle cum along, and sez he. Boys and gals, 1 gess you've had fun enough for ono spree, and perhaps you had better think about gettin hum afore long. 1 felt for one I had got a belly full, and tu rights I told him so and so sed the rest of tho fellars, and Sail Savage sod she'd get perlushun enuf, and sho gessed Allcurly had tu, and so we concluded to mizzle. I kinder kept an eye on Pru-
that I shouldn't much care if wo did all go to the
placo ho spoko of, if I cood sit in his scat it would bo a kind of satisfaction to bo chawed up in a stono heap, if tho smash wood only como when I had tow sich purty arms around me.
But as for Hetty, sho dug her long bony nucclso '
bones out. It was Heaven's mercy how tho old mair kept tho road, for wo coodn't steer her any moar than wo cood a wi'.d rhinosihoss, and tho smoke rolled out of her nostrils liko Belzybub himself. Well, on wo went lickertv smash, ovcr
tho rocks and gridirons, sumtimcs on ono wheel , and sumtinio on nun at all. Jehu! how she did j make tho gravel fiy my teeth rattled in my; head as if thay was all loose in my socket. At', las wo cum in site of Deacon Dimon's. j 'Now,' sez Jim, 'hold her in, for if sho turns up tho Doacon' lano wo aro all gone suckers.' Well,' scz I, 'lend us a hand at this off raneand wo placed ourselves. 'Givo oiFtho word, Jim, scz I. J 'Now then, together,' sez ho, and wo settled j upon her. j Rut 'wo mito just as well tried tu hold a bull j mooso by tho tail. At that minit the rane broke i and let us back on tu tho gals. j
'Oil!' sez Prudence. Wnugh!' sez Hetty. 'It's a cummin', sez Jim, and I seed it was, for at that instant tho old mair turned the corner liko a weather rooster in a whirlwind. 'Hold on,' scz I, and Hetty let in her bread hooks liko gripe of deth tu a ded nigger. I felt a sort of dizzy feclin' jest as a body duz afore thay puke so I drawed in my bed and shot my eves, and over wo went! Thar was a yel and then a smash, and then when I cum to myself I was stickin forked end up, drove clem over my shoulders in a heep of corn fodder! As soon as I cood dig out I lookt round for the fragments. Hetty was lyin' on her back with near half the back part of my trowsers in her clutch, that sho griped and never let go on when the smash cum. Tho old mair was gone with the fore wheels, and the rest of the wagon was bottom up in tho ditch. Prudenco wasn't hurt much she fell as I did, on the storks; but as for poor Jim, I thort it was all
with him. He lav deep in tho fodder and
eleven months, or four and a half per cent.- on
tho Taunton & 15, (517, or six per cent., after tho purchase of new engines, now depot, drc. On tho Western road tho not earnings were, exclusive of interest, S41'2,5S upon a cost of $7,741,754, or noarly six per cont. On tho Fitchburg, to Feb. 1st. nearly ten per cent, for that year. Wur do nations go to Wak? Doctor Franklin answered this question in a single sentenco: "Tho foolish part of mankind says the Doctor will mako wars from timo to time with each other, :OT HAVING SENSE ENOITGH OTHERWISE TO SETTLE THETIi DIFFERENCES." Qualifications Ko.t A Se.vatoh. A Washington letter gives this sketch of ono of tho Unitod States Senators from Goorgia: Mr. Colquit is not only an able legislator, but a sound lawyer, and a good prcachor. Ho is a man of decidod talont, energetic, persevering and industrious. He is said to havo made, in ono day, two slump spooches, preached two sormons, argued a case in Court, and joined a couple in the holy hands of wedlock! Ho also possesses, according to his friends, another very eminent qualification for a Senator of tho United Slates. To use tho language of the authority referred to, "ho can thrash any other man warpped up in tho tho same quantity of skin!" A BUTTERFLY FLOWER In thegardons of San Joseph its environs is seen in its greatest perfection lo papillon vegeal, which grows on species of ivv, entwinod round a poplar, or. any
I tall tree. This blossurn is an exact reproscntatiou of a living butterfly; most unfortunately. Chore is ! no method of preserving it, oven for a time; no a i sooner is it gathered than it withers and falls to i dust. Col. Capadeao'a Sixteen Years in the W, Indies.
07-A crusty old bachelor says that corsets are a symptom of a want of gotd sense on tho part of tho ladies, and that by tho uso of such things they mahe thcmselucs look little. Food Fori Fleas Tho following is on epistlo to a boarding school mistress, in a city "down oast," from the father of ono of her pupils : "As I have a good hedication myself I ham hintiroloy ashaimcd fur to sea the shaimfel mannur hin vich my Lucy his bit by tho floes ; and hit tis my dczior fur her to slepe bin the bed ehe used fur to do, and not fur to slepo sum times in vun bed, and then in tothor, fur to fedo all tho flees hin tho ouso, fur 1 think that tis not writo nithcr shell she du hit." v
0O A farmer of Now Jersey, eome years since, trench-ploughed unexhausted field of clayey soil in tho fall; cross-ploughod n part of it, and in that part broke tho lumps to pieces. In tho spring, tho field was all ploughed equally, and sown with barley and clover, tho part on which the most labor had been thus bestowed, was in fino order, when sown, and yielded thirty bushels on aero of barley tfYe other part was in lumps, the frost not being sufficient to mellow them entirely, and tho product of barley was only about 20 bushels to tho acre. The same dilTorence was afterwards observed in the clover. N. J. Mirror. Pcse Jcice. A New York chemist, not Jong since, out of curiosity, obtained, and analysed a bottlo of imported champagne, sold as pure, and found in it one quarter of art ounce of sugar of lead. A writer in the N. Y Observer, states a liquor dealer admitted to him that on one occasion, ho purchased of a country merchant a lot of whisky, and, before tho merchant left the city, sold him back a pari of it manufactured into various kinds of wine, at from 81 to 9b per gal. Son e Throat. Mix a penny's worth of ooud-
dod camphor with a wine glass of brandy ; pour
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kicked masterly. 1 hollered tu mm, ana axea him is he was hurt! but he grunted and kickod wusser. At last I got holt of his laigs and pulled him out; and sich a loocin site was never heard on in theso parts! Thero he lay with his hed
driv clean up to his sooulders in ono of Deacon i a small quantity on a lump of sugar, and allow
Dimon's hard shell puncins! and tu git out agin it to dissolve in tho mouth every hour. .The he cudent no how, but kept flounderin' about like : third or fourth enables the patient to swaUow every thing broke loose. ) with ease. This has cured the last stages of the ' 'Hold still Jim aez I, 'and I'll fix it;' so when he got disease. ' easy I took a stun, and standin' rito over him, yon no, I j . ; " ' let her drive. I smashed the punkin any how. and cum In a late experiment, seed-corn from the small plagy ni drivia Jim's smeller down his throat, in the bar- end of the ear produced only half as much com gin. But putty soon he got np, and begun to spit, and ag 3 elected frorn the middle of the ear. Th'lS chaw, and .patter, and then he bejaa to cuss -and sicn f orful wicked words: I Darnashun to golly trrashus:' sez he, 'if this aint jest "Where was your faith before FoXS time?" the last .pre I ever did see! Whoop'. chew mo into 1 a pognacious sectarian to an honest Quaker; shew strings, if I did nt think I was clean into tho mid- ...tr. r 1 c ,u - r;j. .v die of M-tweek. when I was only in that infarnal pun- ' "Where, I fear, thine BO Ter WSS, friend; W tho kin! Whew: if this aint the last nankin s&ss I ever did Scriptures.
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