The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-01-02

you certainly have a strange aste.'
Every body knows, that the mothers laugh
is always responded to with compound inter.
est by all her children. So was il in this i'm
stance; and good humOr prevailed round the
table,
pm sorry said Abraham, for tOui5a's b-i-S,
bis, k-i-t, kit, btskit'
SWELL really,' said Mrs, B., you are hand
some speller. Is that the way you spell bis
citi
lean spell it maj bawled out Isaac'
'Well spell it,
'B-i-s, bis-c-cWell that's right)-h-'A
well that'll do, you needn't go any farther;
you've missed it farther than your brother,'-
Spell it William
william spelled it correctly.'
MAJ said George, 'whst is biseuit derived
fromv
q really do moi know,' said Mrs. B, 'and
yet have somewhere read an explanation OF
it. John what is it derived fromg
John. From the French; BIS twice, and cunt
baked
Wliam. Why ma, you. don't bake biscuits
twice overH
.Abrahanl. Yes ma does sometimes; don't
you ma, when company comet
MOthsr. No; | sometimes warm over cold
ones, when l havn't time TO make fresh ones,
but never bake them twice.
Butler. They were first made to carry to
sea; and they were then baked twice over;
as | believe sea biscuit still are.'
Isaac. Ma what's breakfd't rived iromP
Mother, Spell it and seel
Isaac. B-r-e-c-k. brock, f-u-s-t, breakfast
Mother. Well Ike, you are a grand %speller
-Break-fa is the word; not breck-fust.'
. abraham. know what it comes FROM
Mother. What?
abraham. You know when you call us
chil'en to breakfast, we break off and run as
fast as we can split.'
Mother. Well that is brilliant derivation
d truly. Do you suppose there was no breakfast
e before you children were born?
abraham. But ma, every body has chill
g en-!
u Mrs. Butler explained the terms.
Isaac. Ma, 1 know what SGsTidge comes
from.'
Mother. What?
haac Cause its got sass in it.
Well there, there, there, I've got enough
of your derivations unless they were better
You'll learn all these things as you grow OIL
lie der.'
Just here, Miss Sarah, who had been break
tasted at a side table, was seized with curios'
IL ity to see what was on the breakfast table.'
" Accordingly, she undertook to draw hersel
up to the convenient elevation by the tabl'
cloth-Her mother arrested her just in time Il
re save a cup, and pushed her away with gentl
admonition. This did not abate Mics Sarah
curiosity IN the least, and she recommence
nj her experiment. Her mother removed her
little more emBhaticGly this time. These lii
mt tie interruption s only fled Miss Sarah's ze'
and she was returning to the charge with re
he doubled energy, when she ran her cheek {
,le gainst the palm of her mothers hand with
,at rubyacient force,
ne Away she went to her grandmother, cryin
'Gramma, IA whipp'd your precious darlir
angel baby.'
IBID she my darling? Then grandma's PR
cious darling angel must be a good child, an
rot mother won't whip it any more.'
well | will be a dood chile.'
;vo SWELL then mother wont whip it any more
vas And this conference was kept up witho'
variation of a letter on either side, until tn
md grandmother deemed it expedient to remOV
Miss Sarah to an adjoining room, lest ii
mother should insist upon the immediate fu
ia hlment of her promises'
'Ma iist look at Aber cried out William
he saw me going to take a biscuit, and
,ou snatched up the very one | was looking at
Abe,' said the mother, Il wish / could NAL
i. you quit n%icknaming each other: and | wi
~, more,t hat l had never set you the example
o.n put down that biscuit sir, and take another
IL abraham returned the biscuit, and Villa
took it up with a sly, but triumphant glggle
sav Abraham
6ro sMa,'s said Abraham, sBill said Gad dsVm.'
Law, what a story! Ma, l declare | new
said no such thing.'
Eyes you did, and CLANCY heard yOu.'
Go Williams countenance Immediately show,
in. that his memory had been refreshed; and
drawled out never none now with a to
ont and countenance that plainly imported GU
to some extent. His mother suspected he "
AN. Ringing upon technics, and she put the prObi
no. queston--'N ell what did you say?'
che Il said | be t%eto'tly' od'urn.'
sAnd that's just as bad. Mr.. Butler, y
positively will have to take this boy in hand
He evinces a strong propensity to p%rofane swe
Der4 ing, which il not corrected Immediately "
s. become ungovernable.'
title whenever you can't manage him. said 81
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