The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-09-05
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ought to go there. The greatest place upon
the face of the earth! They've got houses
there on both sides Of the road for FIVE miles at
a stretch, andd---n the horse track the whole
way through! Brooks, | think | met 5 thous-
and people in a minute and not a chap would
look at me. They have got houses there on
wheels.-BroOks! | saw one with six horses
hitched to it, and big driver with a long whip
going it like a whirlwind. followed it down
the road for a mile and half, and when it
stopt / looked and what do you think there
was? nothing in it but a little woman setting
up in one corner, Well, Brooks, turned back
up the road, and as | was riding along I sees a
fancy chap with long curly hair hanging
down his back, and his boots as shiny as the
face OF an up country niger. Icalled him in
to the middle Of the road and asked him a civil
question-and a civil question, you know,
Brooks, calls for a civil answer all over the
world. / says, says I, "~Stranger, can you tell
me whore Col, Lamar lives?" and what do you
think was the answer-"Go toh-L you J0ol.''
Well, Brooks, l knocks along up and down
and about, until at last | finds out where Col.
Lamar lived. gets down and bangs away at
the door. Presently the door was opened by
as pretty, 6ne-looking, well dressed a woman
as ever you.seed in your born days, Brooks
Says !, "Mrs. Lamar, | presume madam" says
/. ~ am Mrs. Lamar, Sir.' "Well, Madame
says !, q have come all the way from N. Caro-
lima to see Col. Lamar-to see about buying a
tract Of land Of him that's up in our parts.''
Then she says: "Col. Lamar has rode out ii
the country but will be back shortly. Com,
> in, sir, and wait awhile. I've no doubt thu
Col. will soon return and she had smile up
on that pretty face Of hers that reminded
body of a spring morning. Well, Brooks,
hitched my horse to a brass thing on the door
and walked in. Well, when l got in, l sees tn
floor all covered over with the nicest-lookin
thing! nicer than any patched-worked bed
quilt you ever seed in your life, Brooks, / wa
trying to edge along around it, but presently
sees a big niger come stepping right over it,
Thinks l if that niger can go it, / can go
too! So right overit | goes, and takes my SEE
right before a picture, which, at first, | though
was a little man looking ont at a window
Well, Brooks, there | sot, waiting and waitin
for Col. Lamar, and at last-he didn't com,
but they began to bring in dinner. Thinks
to myself, here's a scrape, but | made up m
mind to tell her-if she axed me to eat-with
%genteel bow, that l had no occasion TO eat. b
OF Brooks she didn't axe me to eas-she ax'd n
a ifId be so good as to carve that turkey for he
and she did it with one of those loving smil
that makes the cold streaks run down Il
'as small of feller's back. "Certainlg, madam,
says /, and | walks up to the table-there WI
no on one side of the turkey a great big knife,
big as a bowie knife, and a fork with a trigg
me to it on the other side. Well, falls to wor
nd and in the first effort l slashed the gravy abo
We two wards over the whitest table CLOTH you e
ng er seedin your life, Brooks. Well, felt 4
Ac- hot steam begin to gather about my cheeks al
'ed ewes. But I'm not a man to back out for
the fes; and SO / makes another effort, and
to darned thing took flight and lit right in Nj
Tor Iamar's lap! Well, you see, Brooks, then
ret was taken with a blindness, and the next thi
'Gte / remember, l was upon the hath a kicklr
OF Well, by this time, began to think of navig
eat ting. So goes out and mounts Rosum, a
sui puts for North Carolina! Now, Brooks, y
DDS dor,, h,ome me! Do yo~u.--Sptrit of the Tim