The Arkansas advocate., 1830-08-25

J |. please you, such sweet gentleman as you are. But didn't you tell me 'twas two-legged beings
 Ina. True, but didn't mean the hens.
 Mrs. I. Oh! now l understand you. The old gobler, he's seven; the hen turkey is eight; and if you will wait a week there'll be a parcel of young ones, for the old hen turkey is setting on a whole snarl of eggs.
 Ina. D-n your turkeys!
 Mrs. T. Oh! don't now, good Mr. tlipperstitcher-I pray you don't.- They're as honest turkeys as any in the country.
 Ina. Don't yex me any more. I'm getting to be angry.
 Mrs. T. iia, ha, hal
 Ina. (Strfding aboatthe room 5earage.} } lave care, madam, or shall fly out of my skin.
 Mrs. T. If you do, I don't know who'll fly in.
 Ina. lou do all you can to anger me. it's the two-legged creatures who talk that i have reference to.
 Mrs. T. Oh! now l understand YOU. v ell, then, our poll parrot makes seven; i; and the black girl eight.
 ina. see you will have your own way.
 Mrs. T. You have just found it out, have you2 You're a smart little man.
 Ina. Have you mentioned the whole of.your family?
 Mrs. T. Yes, sir, that's the whole, except the wooden-headed man in the other room.
 Ina. Wooden-headed!
 Mrs. T. Yes, the sehoooImaster that's boarding here.
 Ina. l suppose if he has wooden head, he lives s'.it!l,it eating and there fore must be profitable boarder.
 Mrs. I. Oh, no, sir, you are mista- ken there-he eats like leather judg- ment.
 Iaq. How many slaves are there be- longing to the family?
 Mrs. Slaves? Why there's no slaves but l and my husband.
 Ina. What makes you and your hus- band slaves?
 Mrs. r. I'm slave 10 hard work. and he's slave to rum. He does mo- thing all day but guzzle, guzzle, guzzle, while l am working, and stewing, and sweating from morning till night, and from nj glitt til morning.
 Ina. How many free coloured per sons have you?
 Mrs. T. Why there is nobody but Daina the black girl, poll parrot, and my daughter Sue.
 Ina. Is your daughter a coloured girl?
 Mrs. T. guess you'd think so, if you was to see her. She's always out in the sun, and she's tanned up as black as an Indian.
 Ina. How many white males are there in your family under ten years oi age?
 Mrs. T. Why, there ant none now my husband don't carry the mail since he's taken to drink so bad. Heused to carry two, but they wasn't white.
 Ina. You mistake, good woman-I meant male folks, not leathern mails.
 Mrs. T. Why, let me sec; there's none except little Thomas, and Mir. Jenkins two little girls.
 Ina. Males, ] said, Madam, not fe- males.
 Mrs. T. Well, if you don't like the fe, you may leave it of.
 lnq. How many white males are there between ten and twenty?
 Mrs. T. Why, there's nobody but John and Peter, and John run away last week.
 ina. How many white males are there between twenty and thirty?
 Mrs. T. Let me see; there's the wooden-headed man is one; MT. Jen- Akias and his wife is two, and the black girl is three.
 Ina. No more of your nonsense, old lady, i'm heartily tired of it.
 Mrs. T. Hoity-toity! hav'ntl a right to talk as ] please in my own house?
 Ina. You must answer the questions as put them.
 Mrs. T. Answer a fool according to his folly"-you're right Mr. Hippo griff.
 Ing. How many white males are there between thirty and forty!
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