Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1846-09-25
DANCER OF ICE CREAM.

The editor of a Portland paper has had a visit
iroma Ncrmontcr named Ethan Spike, who des-
cribed his first and last experiment on ice cream
as follows:
Zone day towards sundown, as was goin by
a shop in Middle street that looked wonderful
slick; there was all manner of candy and iosa-
minis and whatnots the winder; an then there
was signs with gold letters hangin' round the
door, teIIiu' how they sold sodcr, mead an ice
cream there. | scz tcw mescf, I've heern a
good deal aboutthis here ice cream, an now if
won't see of what they are made Of So Iput
my hands intew my pockets, and walked in kinder
careless and scz to a chap behind the counter,
do YOU keep any ice creams here!"
"Yes, sir, sez he, how much will you havel'
81 considered ont u minnit an sez Ia pint,
sir"
The young faller's fac sweled out, an he
like 10 larled righ out; but after while he asked
Ibid you say apint sir!''
"Sartin,' SEE |, "but p'raps you don't retail,
so don't mind takin' quart"
oval don't YOU think the feller snortod rte
out. Tell yer what, it made me feel sorter pi-
sin. and ON him a look that made him look So
Der in bout minnit; an when | clinched my
first an looked 50 at him, here Mr.. Spike ia
vorcd us with most diabolical expression Of his
countenance he hauled in his horns about the
quickest, an handed me quart of the stuff as
perlite as he could. Wal, tasted part of it
an found it as cold as the north side of Bethel
| Hill in JeGncwary.-I'dh half mind tew spit it
out, but Just then seen the confectionery chap
grimm behind the door which riz my spunk.
Coll smash it all, thinks |, I'll not let that white
Iivered monkey think I'm aieared; I'll eat the
darn stuff if il freezes my inards; tell yer what
| I'd rather skinned bear or whipped wild cat,
but went it; eat the hull in about minnit."
"Wal, in about quarter of an hour begun
to feel kinder grippy about here,' continued E.
then. pointing 10 the lower part OF his stomach,
'an kept feelin' no better fast, till at last it
seemed as though I'd got a steam ingine to saw
: in shingles in me-"
81 sot down in cheer an and bent myself up
like nut cracker, thinkin' I'd grin an bear it,
but couldn't set still; Twisted and squirmed a.
bout like anangle worm on a hook, till at last
the chap that GIN me the cream, and who had
been lookin' an snickirn' sez to me
sinister, what ails you!'
calls mel" sed |, ''that darned stuff of yourn
is feczin' out my daylights'
Ethan required great deal Of docterln' be-
T, fore he was set to rights, after the quart OF ice
cream.
A BRIGHT ONE.-The brightest little chap, for
his size and age, that we ever saw was one whom
we lately came across torturing tadPoes in
spring upon the road side-altogether out of
.sight and hearing" of any human habltation.
"Where do you live my sonF' enqured we,
Just as he stirred up bul-frog from the mud with
mullen stalk.
IL don't live nowhere, only home
"Where is your house!"
"Over the hill next house to Mr.. Wagners."
"Have you parents living!'
"Whats them!"
81 mean have you father and mother"
"Yes, sir, but paps went dead good while,
and mother says she won't stand it, cause its too
hard work."
"What work does your mother do?'
"Milk the COW and all sorts o'things."
SIS your mohera pious wonan-a good chris
tian!"
mo, sir, she's DuichmaN""
Hcrcthc litlc genius wentto 5tlUlag9 9p taaii.oss!