Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-10-31
GOV FORD

lew weeks since that he had sQuander-
ed $4,000 during the last year as .
Crusader in the Mormon affair. Some
Of his own State Journals are much
less gentle towards him-the Loco TO-
cos in Lima, Adams County, instead of
hearing speech from him, hung him
and Gen. Dement, in effigy-the ladies
Of Hancock County. propose to pre-
sent him with petticoat-and last and
most cutting Of all, the people Of Quin.
cy are writing ballads about him.
Weex,rac, the following description
of an Arkansas caravansary with its
living appurtenances from Feather
slonhaugh's Excursion through the
Slave States. 1t is too highly dramat.
ic, not to have been taken from life
We cannot positively say that we ever
saw, "Crooky Prong" or Horny"
but We have been served with nipple
ments, which bore strong family re-
semblance to this unique group. in that
same latitude. In fact human ingenu-
ity has been so heavily taxed in that
region to furnish the necessary aids to
astronomical duty tina. il requires all
the keen instinct Of hunger in many
instances to divine their purposes:
"This accession to her company put
our hostess into great hustle; she had
to prepare supper for six persons,
several Of whom were lawyers, and
Of course the great men Of Little Rock,
and she set about it accordingly
We now discovered that she possessed
resources we had not suspected the
existence of: a ki.chen-.hat cores
pended with every thing else-was
attached to the hotel, and communica.
-.e4 ~;.a :. b. suna1I door. and IN
that kitchen was her aide de cuisine
and fac,o.um, a stunted, big-headed ne
gro girl, that from her size did not
appear 10 be more than twelve, yet
was not destined to see her twentieth
year again. The grotesque rags this
creature was dressed in, and the bro
K en- -brimmed mans hat that was cock
ed on one side Of her head, gave such
an effec. to the general attractions of
Msby-for that was her name-that
she pu. US all into the very best posi-
BILE humour. and We could not but
break out into 1 chuckle of delight
whenever she came into the ROOM
Whenever we became better acquain..
ed, we found that Misty was an al.
brevia.ion Of Sophynisby. as our hos
tess pronounced it, which put me in
mind Of Thomson's line
'.Oh Sophonisba. Sophonisba, Oh"
know not when l have uttered 80
many laughing Obs! as during the
early part Of this evening. The ap-
psarance Of the girl indicated extreme
s.olidity. yet SHE did not want for spiri.
and activity. Her "Missus,' who
seemed TO have a lurking idea tina,
things might possibly be carried OH
..leetel" better than they were at her
hotel, always endeavoured to supply
deficiencies by a voluble and magnilo.
quen, description of the things she
s.hadn'. jist got a. that time" and
whenever she was at pinch, would
draw upon Nisby to confirm her as
serlions: this the girl was pretty we'll
broken into, but when the ''Missus."
in the warmth of her generous inten-
tons in our favour, would sometimes
call upon Misty. TO execute ins.an,er
manifest impossibilities, then poor
Misty would be "nonplushed,' and,
If hard pressed, would be be,ray
something .ha. looked like impotence.
We had an amusing instance Of this
whilst the supper was preparing
Upon the broken table around which
we were to sit, Nisby had placed GER
tain plates and coffee cups and saucers,
most Of which had gone through a
great many hardships: and having
used her talent for display to the best
advantage. went to the kitchen, where
her Missus was occupied baking some
heavy dough cakes. and frying guam
tity of little bits Of fat pork. By and
BIZ in came Missus to take survey
before the first entire came in, and
affecting a most dis PRESSING surprise,
commenced the following dialogue
with her aide de cuisine at the top of
their voices:
why. how this gal has laid the ia.
BILE Nisby!'
..What's wanting, Missus!"
"You ha-ant laid the table no hayw
yor kreeter, you!