The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-05-04

LlBEarI, Missury, May 10 forty S

LIBERrr, Mi0Sury, May 10 forty s.
Cousin Jim, tina amt nuthin' occurred wurth
ritin' about in our settlement for a long spell,
but about the beginnin' Of last week, thur
war a rumor sot Olout in town, which kept
the wimmin 70 r two or three days in a contin.
GOAL Singer, and it war half a day afore the
men could find out the rights Of the matter
sech another lease as all the gals got inter.
war delightful to contemplate. The boys kept
a aSkin' one anuther. what in the yearth war
the matter, that the gals kept a whispsrin' and
lafln' round town so! at last it cum out! and
what do you think, Jim, wur the matter? 1t
amt no common occurrence,a and yet its mighty
natural. Little 10 Allen, the shoemaker, had
an addition to his family, amOuntin' to jest
three bGty'-one boy and TIVE gals! Hist wife
is q leetle e%Fsatur, but I recon she's 'soms' in
c%ountin' the ssnBuS, and siOh anuIhOr excite
msnt as her little brood Of pretty babbys has
kicked up among the wiMSn 10 perfectly int.
elm to bachelors. When the inIersslln' mat
ter was first noissd about, the wimon wouldn't
believe il, bst to know the rights Of it tha put
on their bOnRets and poured down to see Mrs.
Allen, in q perfect s.rSam Of curiosity; and
surS OnSUgh thartha war, three raal psOrt look
in children, eli jest alike. BsiR' an a~squain-
tAnes of JOS he tuck me in to see his family
and it war rasly an intsreStin' sight to see the
little creatures. Thar tina war, with thur
Tiny faces aside each other, havin' on the
p%rettiest caps,-all made and fixed BY the
young wimen, as a present to the mother =
and Their ~infantile lips jest openin' like so ma
ny rose buds pOutin', while thur bits Of hands,
transparent as spermacity, wur a cuttin' about
and pushing all doubled up, agin thur little
noses. and thur mother all tn time !ookin' at
lem 80 peers and pleasant, just as eff she war
feelin' in her WI mind that they we're hard
to bsat-addid to which, thar stood tn daddy
cOntemplaIin' with a glow Of parental feelin'
the whole unanimous pictur! II amt in me,
Jim, to fully describe the universal merits of
such a scene, and ! guess it couldn't receive
raOl jestice from any mans pen, 'cept he had
been the father of twins at least.' q
EGraciOus meg said Mrs, Sutton a very lit
srary woman, who always talks history on ex-
ira oecanions! EFF that little Mrs. Allen amt
ekill to the mother of Their GrGsbip
She looked. at little 10, the daddy, fur a
spell, and took to admirin' him SO that she
could scarcely keep her hands off on him
she hadn't no babby poor woman.
sAh! Mr., AlIen,' says she, you are suthin'
like a husband-yOu're determined to decsnd
a name down to your ancostOra?
l ralely believe she'd have kissed him Of
thur hadn't been so many wimmin thar The
father Of the babbys was mitely tlckled at
furst, cause all the wimmen war a Prazin' him,
but arser a spell he began to look skary, for 60
where he wood he found some wimOn tryin'to
git a look at him--tha jest bosoiged his shop
winder all the time, and kept peepin' in, and
lOokin at him, and askin' his age, and whar he
cum from! AT last some of the gals got go
curious lbu asked him war he I'D come from,
any hoW, and az soon as lac said IndIsnss, Dick