Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-03-31
! =ETTER PROM PARDON JONES.
Or THE COAST, Feb. the last, lc4l.

Or THE COAST, Feb. the last, ls4l.
Dear Pic--I haven't writ to you IN long
while. on account of the trials and trbuallons
that has beset my path sense writ before
/ undertook. ike fool that was tu cut up a
few shines 'tother day to the Mardy Grdlcs az.
they cali it here. Some fellers that lives to
Ploouefnne, they come down where Jerushy'n
lives and gin us an invite to the great ball
address, and gaaskkrades ball. as they calPd IT.
that was gon' to be opened to the Planters
Hotel. Wall, AFTER coaxin,' and fiatterln' on us
awhile, and tellin' me that they would st ck by
me like ticks on stack-pole, II ia oEly so ana
Mistress Jones along-I thought 10 be pop
lar, and sorter git in with the voters, Try u,
and when Mardy Graw day come, we got raedy
and off we went--eiernal fool that ! was.--
Every thing vent on fust rate in the begnnIn'-
the landlord and his lady was as perlite to
Mistress Jones and !, as basket OF chips, and
| gin us a room that looked out upthe rlyer and
made us as comfortable as you please. Night
come, and the dancin' hall was crowded with
| bout as fine seat of folks as you'd ind even IN
| the old Bay State ] tell you, It did look nlce
| there! and i'll warn't merred man, 'couid
saw ths t was about as near mchanted with
the female angels that looked for all the world
as If thev'd lest lit down in that room, and was
lin hurry TO fly hack to Heaven again, as ever
| was IN my life. Wall, Jersey didn't come
down at fust, but staid in tie room. was
lookin' round the ball, and latin ready to split
my sides open, to see how them fellers with
masks was rugged off. Some on 'em was
Turkes, some was handles, and IN or three iel-
lers acted out fools, with monkey iaces' ana II
be darned if they didn't du it 'as nat'ral as If
. tbev'd never known no other character,-they
: did indeed! Atlast some CT APPS got round me,
d and axed me if wouldn't dress up and mask:
: T told 'em didn't think twould look very well
S for feller's dignity that had sot up for Con-
: Dress. TO be oaddin' about in them false faces,
V tho knew that great menny great polItl-
e sbuns was in the habit of wearin' on en- But
they coaxed and talked till at last they got me,
e like pokey fool, torig uE-but when they put
i the false face on me, they played me trick,
d and slipped on great he nigger's face, as ug-
le llv as the old Feller himself couldn't see,
ad You know, after got it on, and thought all the
u time that the false face was near about as
ful handsnm as my own (and know moren on
man In this ourld that's homeher than be-
ar Now, thinks Ill Jest go and have some iur
ge with Jerushy, and show her what Mordy GraV
OF; means. knocked sther door-"Pardomng,
nd saws she, lis that you!" forgot myself ant
at answered "Yes, "-"No." says j, thlnkln VIVA
om I was about-u faint me-it's the Devil. say
L.
ted saws she. and she unlocked the door and stoo
Jon behind i. ! sortet growled. and Ebowed, an
inn. dodreG nv head about, and wentln. AN
Tbe Won ash AIMED to swear O." says J6ru ny, IOl
and She GOT plimps at me-bui she didn't say n
rds n,ore-t was the first false face she ever sc
and if skeered her enamost TO death. 81
amel screamed, and scneeched, and hoIered, and
,ent tried to sooth her-bu; she got away and RI
less down stains. and Quiet the front door, and
him arter her. | couldn't see nothin' arter l E
the ont,er doors, but could hear Jerush'y te
re- nattin' on the ground, and follered the mol;
real The fellars that put the mask on, they
livid skeered now, and they come tu but lore IN
ack- ketcked Jerushy, she fell down IN hole,
asid- Ebroke one of her limbs, between The knee
after aukle, and tainted away-and run agains
the tree and bounded back again bout ten ieet,
and length, on the greHpa ft4pGfs aS. siAd6t a;
ouch tn. Tiobt off. but Jerushy was gone long u
vulet We got the bones,sot that night, and u days
, par- forwards rid home in kerridge Mlstres
hank. haint cot over the fright yet, and m drea
osom. poorly. Ifyou ever GIT merrlo' aoit 9
came your wife III a mask ball three HlonCe a
IS she wards, if there's emmy Danger o. heL r.
Eskeered, take my advice; NY nose ioo IN
Fif I'd been fghtln the Flor oy Inlule5Ms
= die nm aoainst that tree! I'm a goln' d
roat ,e,ro ,,,.1v davs to look at the boundary ty
n in. tb;s parish and Ascension, and then nal
fscrip. speech about it-and put IN a few WORDS
If felc- war with Great brllain' dnu IA ~. N
Medid tin frmness git the upper nanu a.;onaI p.
birth take fust rate, and lne IN tle eu how
ID that there's sublect-out .en sOa-t
netoric, out, II work the satu P,e'x .b;ngs
quence ] shall git TO Consres > q u 9
IN less Eabout right now; an aoo,,,
sly sup + Your irlenu t pA TST ION
8, with FHND Pica,n