The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-12-31
From the United States Saturday Post.
Kitty CT ark;
OR, THE CHRISTMAS GIFT.
BY EZEKIEL JONES, ESQ.

BY EZEKIEL JONES, ESQ.
il always seemed "A kind of pity to me
that the Continental Congress didn't make
the Declaration of independence in tho
Winter; for a holiday in Summer tim.
always seems to me just as much out OF
place as roast apples, and cider with a
hot andlron i'll it, in the month of July
Y on can't seem rightly to enjoy it, Win
ter is the true time fer celebrations, and
Publications, and rayunc yonghS, as our
Fanny's cousin in n. York has always
pronounced Reunions, since she took two
French lessons. In the Spring there's
the weeds to pull up, the hay to make,
and the early sauce to gather. In the
Fall there's the harvest to be gaincrcd; bot
in the " inter there's only cod OF
wood to cut, a fence to mend, corn to
shell and take to mill, road to patch, s
nail TO drive here and there at odd Jobs
A body seems in the country to have no
great to do, but to sit down and enjov
whala kind Providence has sent us. and
while he is taken his own comfort. to re-
member aud relieve the poor. and comfort
to remember and comfort the distressed
Money and labor laid out that way Yields
about. the best interest ever found in any
! Investment. My father found that
out, a long time ago, and he has always
acted up to it-bless his kind old soul
The Water HOLIDAYS always gives us u
peep at such stray chaps as YOU and 9TH
rrs, who leave the country to SEEK their
fortunes III the city; and ! rather guess
when you've been back to the old home.
and tasted the shag ba'hs, and hickory
nuts and butter nuts, and beach nuts, and
lllbcrts, and hazel nuts. and pippins, and
bell-flowers, and golden russetts, and
blue pearmans, and Rhode Island green
ings, and sweet cider. you do kind OF
wish that Thanksgiving and Christmas
die last all the year don't you now2 And
then the fried chickens for breakfast
Gather says they used to have Lot sling
with all spice in it bctorc breakfast, when
when he was boy, but mother and Aunt
Sally won't hear to that now and for
dinner, go away starvation! Turkey
roast--gooSe roast--pork roast beeI
roast, but no boiled vicIuals- cracker
pudding, baked, trembling with plums-
| pie pumpkin, pie apple. pie mince! Many's
the time Eve longed, after dinner, to wal
low right down on the mat before the
great wood fire, to see if my hide would
not give.a little, and let me have chance
to breathe after such a gormandlzng-
N Nothing does The old folks SO much good
as to find all this heap of provisions dis,
appearing before the young generations;
and if we don't eat enough TO kill our,
selves mother is right down angry. Con
science and oder how she does hear
our plates
Then after dinner comes the shooting
at mark-a snap at tied turkey lol
fourpence ha'penny our money, which is
equal TO ftp, Philadelphia currency, or {
shilling, York. I've seen an old gobblel
fairly laugh at the boys who didn't touch
his feathers, but once in while there't
be sure to be somebody come u, who
would reach his feelings. And after the
shooting match, the romp in the house
with our rosy country girls, strong a.
horses, and lively as crickets. Blind
mans buff; hunt the slipper, scorn! plea
scd or displeased; come Philander, let II.
be marching; twirlng the pewter plat.
ter; puss, in the corncr-ahd some of then
sly pusses too! But what's the use o
tanlalizing you poor chaps that can
come up here to enjoy these things, thi
Winter? ! did think two days ago, tina
we shouldn't e"joy them much neither
for there's been kind of a blight on on
happiness this season. But this amt tell
ing my story.
Our helps name is Kitty Clark. W.
don't have servants in Jonesylle; ant
there never was such thing as parlo
bell or chamber bell in the place bu
once. That was when Squire Smith bull
him new house and got married, an'
thought he would enlghten the natives {
little, as to how things ought to be done
He had one of the best girls engaged 70
help that ever kneaded pan of bread
Mrs. Smith, she rung the bell one morn
ing. Nobody answered. She rung a
G lin, and then thought she would go on
III the kitchen and see what had got De