Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1846-01-07

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bizzy enuf. Some was parin', some
was cornin' and some was stringin'.
and they was all torkin' and latin like
all mater. About half duzzen fellers
was down ona bench, IN one corner,
with baskets Of apples rite afore them,
and if the pairins didn't fly oft in what
folks call a tangint, then | never seed
one. Then there was about as many
more gals and fellers cuttin' off the butts
and tips, and a parcel more was cuttla'
out the cores, while almighty lot was
.stringin' as if for life and no bitters.
Many hands make light work. thinks
lsso Imade for The long table where
they was stringin'. l seed the pretty
est gals was all at that table, and be-
sides, they seemed to have the most
fun. Prudence says |, 'lend feller a
needle.' Sorry to pity you, Mr.. Parse
ly,' says she, 'but you see have jest
lent the last one to Sam Snooks. -
SAM says ], hand US over that needle
if you please See you blamed first,
JEDI says Sam, You'd better take
yourself out OF this, we're crowded now,
besides I jest heard Hetty Gawkins ak
in arter you over there among the but
enders,' Howsumever, | hunted a.
round till I found needle, but as for
gitten place to stand at the table that
was another sort of affair, and arter
trying all around concluded to give it
up and go TO cornin. But while [ had
been tryin' to git place at the long
table Jim Spooner had insinuated him
selfinto the only vacant place there, so
II had to 60 to buttin' or do nothin'.
And what made it worser than all the
rest, had to stand along side Of Hetty
Gawkins. She was the most homliest
gal in our parts; her eyes and DISPOSE
ton was pretty much alik--they were
both as cross as a saw hoss. Her
mouth was put on all of a skew, and her
nose was so big that Mike Longly said
it took two hankerchers to blow it. |
didn't feel very good natered myself,
cause one thing, my toes was SO sore,
and cause for another thing, l didn't
take much of shine to Hetty. How.
sum ever, we got along putty we'll,
consderin, cause you see | torked a.
Eerosst the stabIeasna il .seX, toes shada,t
kept me treadin just ike a gander ID a
cold mornin,' fiIst on one foot and then
on tother,+ ,+sIsshould felt tollerabe CON
tented. |. was orful glad, when they
said supper. We'd got the apples all
pared, and strung, and piled up in.the
clothes press-and master heap there
was Of them, too, and then we went to
cleanin' up and shovelled theparins and
cores up into baskets, and carried them,
into the shed. Then the gals SCI? to
and swept all the skatterins into one
corner, and it had jest begun to sound
like Babel broke loose, when Col. Girls
tie says 'supper's readyr Jemima!how
quick they all stopt. Pretty soon,
however, they begun. to pair off to>
wards the kicken, and seed dandy
sort of.a feller from )the,yillage shinin'
up to Prudence Parr, as much as to say
with your leave, Miss, I'll wait on
you.' Thinks !, now OF never, so, /
stepped up pretty quick, and sticking
out one foot to make bow, struck it
tull force against one Of the bench legs.
'Darnation! said I, and didn't double
up about the quickest? The gals all
titterad, and some Of the fellers LATED
rite ont. 't
BY the time I'd got strate again and
wiped the tears out of my eyes, ,Pru-
deace had gone off with the dandy, and
as felt considerable wamblecropt,
didn't try any more on 'ein, but limped
into the kitchen, and daubed into the
eatables. The supper went off pretty
fair. The fellers helped the gals to
applesass and doe;npts, and ginger tea,
and pies and a lot of new slider, andssitt
l had got my toes. trod on every little
while, I should took real comfort. Az
ter while they went 70 drinkin' tostesI
and kissin' glasses, and crossin' tumb-
Iers, &C." and we are having a fulst
rate spell Of weather, when Joe Spraig
steps to Sally Savage, with your
leave Miss Sally, should like to take
cross handed drink of slider with
YOU oh, pm agreeable as chip
baskets says Sally. So theyIflled up
and standin' kinder facin' with the
tumblers in their right hands, they lock-
ed their right arms and begun to swal.
ler. But as Joe got his about half
down, some Internal scamp come along
behind and pricked him eenmost to the
bonel l was standin' rather afore and
rather side on him, and seed him
gump, and then he shut his mouth and
tried to choke it down, but it wasn't no
go-the slider skwirted out of his nose,
and threw his teeth, and at last he fair.
ly busted up rite in SalIy's face and
eyes! Pollywogsl wasn't there mess!
And thea such roar! IwouIdn't been