The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-05-09

A STREAK OF sQUATTERsLIFE.
BILL sAPpER's LETTER TO HIS COUSIN.
LIBERTI, Missury. May 9th, 1 forty s..
Cousin Jim, tha aint nuthin' occur
red wuth ritin' about in our settlement
fur long spell, but about the beginin'
of last week, thur war! rumor sot
affoat in town, which kept the wimen,
for two OF three days in continooal
snigger, and it war half a day afore the
men could find out the rights of the
marter-sech anuther Tease as all the
gals got inter, war delightful to con!
template. The boys kepta ,askin' one
anuther, what in tho yearth wur the
marter, that the gals kept a whisperin'
and latin round town so?---at last it
cum out! and what DO you think, jim,
s0ur the marter? You couldn't guess
in q week. 1t aint no common occur
renee and yet it's mighty natral. Lit
tie 10 Allen, the shoemaker, had an
addition to his family, amountin' to jest
three babtys-one boy and two gals!
His wife is lcetle cretur,' but ] reck-
on she's Some in countin' the census,
and sech anuther excitement as her lit
tic brood of pretty babby's has kicked
up among the wimen is perfectly intic-
in to bachelors. When the interestin'
marter wur first noised about, the VIM
en- wouldn't believe it, but to know the
rights of it tina put on thur bonncts and
poured down to see Mrs. Allen, in
perfect stream of curiosity; and, sure
enough, thar tha wur, three raal peert
lookin' children, all jest alike. Bein'
an acquaintance Of JOS, he tuck me in
to see his family, and it wur raaly an
intercstin sight to see the little creturs.
Thar tha wur, with thur tiny faces
aside each other, hevin on the prettiest
caps,-all made and fixed by the young
wimin, as present to the MOTHER
and then thur infantile lips jest openin,'
like so many rose buds pontin,' while
thur bits of hands, transparent as spar
macity, wur q curtin about and push
in, all doubled up, agin thur little nos.
es, and thur mother all the time lookin'
at 'em SO peert and pleased, jest as eff.
she war feelin' in her own mind tha war
hard to- beat-added to which, thar
stood thur daddy, contemp!atin', with
q glow of parental feelin', the whole
unanimous pictur! It amt in me Jim,
to fully describe the universal merits of
sech scene, and guess it couldn't re-
ccive raal jcstis from any mans pen,
,cept he'd ben the father Of twins at least,
sGracious me!' sed Mrs. Sutton, q
very literary womin, who allays talks
history on extra occasions; sef that lit
tie Mrs. Allen amt ekill to the mother
of the Grashin
She looked at little 10, the daddy,
fur spell, and TUX to admirin' him so
that she could scarcely keep her hands
off on him-she hadn't no babbys, poor
womin!
sAh! Mr.. Allcn,' ses she, You are
snthin' like husband--you're detcrm-
incd to decend name down to your
ancestcrs!'
I raaly believe she'd kissed him eff
thur hadn't ben so many wilnen thar.
The father of the babbys were mitely
ticklcd at furst, cause all the wimen
wur praisein' him, but artcr spell he
gin to look skary, for 80 whar he would
he found soomc wimen tryin' to sit q
look at him-tha jest besieged his shop
winGer all the time, and kept pecpin'
in, and lookin' at him, and askin' his
age, and whar he cum from? AT last
sum of the gals got so curious tia asked
him whar he did come from, any ho,p,
and Us soon as he sed Indianee Dick
Mason becum ono of the popularest
young mon in the settlement among the
wimcn, jest cause he war from the
same state. a 4. .s.a, +
Things went on this way for spell,
till at last tha heerd of 'em in the coun-
try, and the wimen all about found some
excuse to come to town to git store
goods, jest purpose to see the babby's
and thur parents. The little daddy war
wusser plagued now, and they starr'd
g. him so that he couldn't work--ths
fact wur, his mind wur gettin' troubled,
and some of the wimcn noticed the ska
ry look he had out Of his eyes, and kept
wonderin' what it meant. One
mornin it war noticed by some Of the
gals that his shop warn't opened, so tha
got inquirin' about him, and arter q
sarch he cum up missin' we'll, I'm Of
the opinion thar wur an excite
ment in town then, fully ekill to the