The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-07-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
JONATHAN SLICK IN LOVE WITH
MISS MILES.

MISS MILES.
With that the niger went up stairs, and
| arter him full chisel he looked ronnd as
if he wanted to say something jest as he
stopped by a door in the upper entry way,
but told him to 60 ahead and hold his yop,
for | warnt going to wait any longer. So
he wrapped at the door and somebody said
Come in" My heart riz in my throat,
for | Knew whose voice it was, and begun
to feel as if I'd pitched head for ard into a
milldam. The cufy opened the door, and
SEE he, MAJ am here is agentIeman would
come up"
heard somebody give a little scream,
and with that jest pushed the niger out
of the way, and says |, 4" Miss Miles, how
du yon dur
singers! if / didn't rally pity the poor
gal, she look SO stuck up in heap but
what on earth made her act so | couldn't
tell at flst, for felt kinder streaked as I'd
done something that wasn't exactly right,
though ] couldn't think what, and was much
as mint afore looked right in her faces
But just as lifted up my foot, arter making
one of my fist cut bows she stood Just afore
me. By the living hockey, never was SO
struck in my born daysl You know what
I've told you about Miss Miles, about her
plump round form, her rosy cheeks. Well
III be darned ifthere was one Of them left /!
/ shouldn't have known her no more than
nothing, if it hadn't been for her eyes and
the way she spoke. Her neck, and forard
that always looked so white and handsome,
when saw her at cousin Mary's and in
Broadway, was as yellow as saffron bag.
There warn't the least mite of red in her
face, and her hair was as frizzly and done
up in loose awk'ar looking gown, that
made her seem twice as chunked as she
used to, and that looked more like mans
shirt cut long and ruffled round than any
thing else. 1t warn't any too close neith-
er, and both her leetle shoes were down to
the heel.
There stood looking at her with all
the eyes in my head-my foot was drawn
up tight, and my arms were hanging
straight down, jest as they swung back ar
ter made my bow, ! kinder seemed to
feel that my mouth was open leetle, and
that was staring at her harder than was
manners for me. But if you'd given me
the best farm in all weatherfeld, Il couldn't
have helped it, was struck up in heap at
seeing her in such fix. | guess it was
as much as too minutes afore either on us
said word and, at last, Miss Miles turn
ed to the niger as savage as a meat axe,
and, SEE she,
"Why don't you show Mr.. Slick into the
roomp
"Oh, don't seem to mind it." SEE /, in
walking into the room; and a sitting down
on chair with my hat between my knees,
+" I'd Jest as live set up here as any where. y
She looked as if she's burst right out a
crying, but at last she sot down and tried to
act as she was glad to see me. She begun
to make excuses about herself and the room
and said she wasn'tvery well that morning,
and that she took new book and sot down,
Just as she was to read it.
"Oh," seq /, "dont make no excuses,
It aint the fust time that I've ketched gal
in the suds. Marin used to say that she
never looked worse than common that
somebody wasn't satin to drop In"
Will you excuse me one instant Mr..
Slick l' SEE she, mint after I'd said this
and looking down on her awk' ard dress, as
if she couldn't help but feel streaked yit.
"Sartinly," SEE /, don't make no stran-
ger of me-"
With that she opened the door and an
ALFRED handsome room it was. There
was great mahogany bedstead in the mid
die, with high goose feather bed on it,
kivered over with white quilt and great
square pillows all rIffled of, and the winder
curtains were part white and part sort of
indigo. blue. / couldn't get a chance to
see what else there was she shut the door
so quick.
"By gracious" SEE / to myself after she
went out, "who on earth would ever have
thought that Miss Miles was so old When
/ saw her yesterday, I'D took my bible
oath that she warn't more than eighteen,
but, but now I'll be choked if she don't
look as ancient as the hills. If ever she
sees thirty again she'll have to turn like
crab and walk backwards five or six years. "
What puzzled me most was how in crea-
ton she contrived to look so yOung-but il
warnt a great while afore ! made il out as
clear as Deacon Sykes exOrtations. Ar
ter she'd gone out, just got up and took
short survey Of the room every thing was
'tOther eend up, heller SHELTER in It +; there
was no end 20 the fnery and harnsOme fur
nihlre, but it don't make much odds how
eKtnvagant one is a laying on money f