The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-10-27
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Taking the Census-A Scene
i'm Alabama.


We rode up one day to the residence of
widow rather past the prime of life-(just !
that period at which nature supplies more
abundantly the oil.which lubricates the him
ges of the female tongue)- hitching TO
the fence, walked into the house.
Good morning, madam said we in our
usual bland, and some what insnuating man
lner.
"Mornin'' said the widow gruf1y.
| Drawing our blanks from their case, we
lproceGded-'I am the man, madam, that
takes the census, and
| The mischief you are' said the old ter
magant; Yes, rVe heaTn of you; Parson w
told me you vas coming, and / told him jist
what | tell youF that if you said 'Cloth,
SOAP or Chickens TO me I'D set the dogs
on We. Here, Bull! here Pompn Two
wolfsh ours responded to the call for Bull
and Pomp, by coming to the door, smelling
at our feet'with slight growl, and then laid
down on the steps. Now continued the
old savage, 'them's the seVerest dogs in this
country. Last week Bill Stonecker's two
year old steer jumped my yard fence, and
Bnll and PomP tux him by the throat and
they killed him afore my boys could break
'em loose. 10 save the world
Yes, ma'am, said we meekly, Bull and
Pomp seem TO be very fine dogs
You may say that; what tells 'em to dc
; they do; and if was to sick them on YOU
old horse yonder they'd eat him up befor,
you could say Jack Robertson. And its lis
what ! shall do, if you try TO pry into m
concarns. They are none Of your business
nor Van Buren's mother, recon. Oh, OLE
yanburen! wish | had you here, you ok
rascal! I'D show you what--l'd-I'd max,
!. Bull and Pomp show you how to be sendin
out men to take down what little stuff PEG
lple's got, jist to tax il when its taxed enoug
a'roadyn
4 All this time we were perspiring through
i fear of the fierce guardians of the old wi
dow's portal At length when the wido'
ne paused, we remarked that as she was deter
es mined not to answer questions about th
o. o. farm, we would just set down the age, Sc
Is and complexion Of each member of her IA
o mily.
sNo SIGH thing; you'll do no SIGH thing
of said she, 'l've got FIVE in the family, an
that's all you'll git from me. Old Van Bure
must have heap to do, the dTotted,old vii
van, to send you to take down how old m
- children is. I've got FIVE in my family, an
II ithey are all between FIVE and hundre
ny years old, and are all a plaguay sight whit
of than you, and whether they are he OF she
rlo none of your consarns.'
= We told her we would report her to Il
ent Marshal, and she would be fined, but
fail only augmentedher wrath.
the Yes, send your Marshal, or your Mr. VI
lH' Buren, here, if you're bad off 10 let 'em cor
n Jet Mr. Van Buren, come, Cooking as $
: wage as Bengal tigress) Oh, wish
rec a0Ould come and her nOstrils dilated, al
of her eyes gIsaped, I'D cut his head off,
Of That might kill him. We Ventured to
ais mark, by way of joke.
Any Kill him! kill him: oh, if had him he
,ble by the ears reckon would kill him.
s. pretty fellow TO be eating his vittils GU
s. gold spoons that poor peoples taxed
me me and raisin' an army to get him made king
Ameriky, the audacious, nasty, sinking
the scampr She paused a moment and h
ssRE resumed, 'And now jist put down wha
tell you on that paper, and don't be tell
" no lies 10 send TO Washington city.
10 Iput down Judy Tompkins, agreeable
man and four Children