Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1849-05-24

earthquake to throw me right into her lap.
| was in love, but couldn't tell who loved
most.
Thar was Peggy Masonhammer, a nifty
fine gal, even in her tow linen frock, her
cheeks war as full as China pigs, and as
red as turkey gobber's; and then, thar
war Sally Perkins, with her gloriously s,ri-
ped homemade cotton frock, besides, her
hair and eyes war as black as ink and then
thar was dimpie-cheeked, blue-eyed Lo,te
Smith, who always toted her shoes and
stockin's in her hands till she go, in site O.
mee'in. Well, O. these three ] could not
tell for my life which ] liked the best
sometimes one and sometimes anolher-but
always the last one looked at.
But when Squire Crumpton came to our
dIggins, his two gals tuck the shine off all
the rest on 'em, specially the oldest one,
Betsy. ! sllan't attempt to describe her; {;
but when tell you she had a calico frock
with yellow flowers as big as your hand,
brass ear bobs, besides half dozen strans
o. beads as large as the end o. your little
finger, you may think she was charmer :;
J did, anyhow. Of all the magnum bonum
charmers ] ever seed, she was the msgnum
bonumes, And so all the fellows said tu.
When fust seed her it was at Deacon
Snook's meetn. j fastened my eyes on
her till hers met mine-she looked stead
fastly-then smiled charming smile, then
blusht and lookt down. Lordy, thar was
autlerin then, equal to saw mill, tween
fIun ck Of bots / fol
er. From that hour was too big for my
breeches, and on Sundays borried dads
breeches he'd been married in before the
Revolutionary war. and come off at the knees,
but as he was tall and warns, they come
below mine three or four inches. Agn the
next mee.in was prepared to cat a big stiff; :;
Sister Sail starched and ironed my new fine
shirt as nice and slick as sheet Of new tin
This shirt had the finest kind of flax linen
in the bosom and collar, but the invisible
part of twas coarse tow, with hem that
would cable steamboat. Now, while Sal
was smoothing the wrinkles near the said
hem with an iron just hot from the fire,
down stars tumbles one O. the tarnal brats,
knocking the breath out ONT.
|. was Saturday night, and she was the
only one up, and ran tu it in course, but a
fore it come tu, the iron had very decidedly
made its mark, that is, burnt two holes in
t.-------.-y--H-~~ '.'1-r.ir'
put it onas it was-then The fust regular par
o. shoes ever had. Twas seventeen just that
Sunday mornin, and in my Sunday riggin
felt myself man and was resolved, if Bet
sy Crumpton was at meetin, to show it.
Well, she was thar, and axt fur her COM
pany, and got it. Walkin by her side,
felt light as no,hn. skeercely techt the
ground | walkt on. But shan't tell you
the fine things thought and said tu her on
the way, and more after we got hum. (Oh,
yes, do, said several voices.) No, you'll
have 'nuf without ,hat-you're to skim the
cream of the story yet.
She kept me up late, say two o'clock.
and spite of the novelty, Git being the fust
,ime,) got sleepy. Now, the squire had
just come to the parts, and put up one
| s.ory-roomed log cabin, and the whole fam
lily, 'cept some o. the young 'uns, slept be-
low. was leetle bashful bout guine to
bed thar, but | was three miles from home
and it was raining like blazes, but had to
do it, and without exposing the blanks in
my linen. resolved to be up afore any
body else in the mornn on the same &C.
count and some others.
This was the last know'd till wakened
by tine hounds, (half dozen of which slep
under the bed,) puilin the kivers Off me
Holy heavens the sun tours high-break.
fast on the table, and me in bed. Jest as
was guine to spring out, in pops the old %
man, with plate Of vension. 1t was dog
days you know, and she cookt in shanty
| possnm'd till she went out again, then
looked for my trowsers-thar they war in
the jaws of the pups at the foot of the bed
| made mighty lunge over the foot boart
TO regain them; but, oh horrors my head
down and heels up! What's the matter
thinks but it flasht across me in mini
that the hole in my linen was over the posi-
and tall post tn f! kicked and Aounced
and foundered but all to no purpose
couldn't get down. tried to break the hem,
but it was ell no GO.
Just now all the hounds commenced yell
lin SO furiously, the old 'oman and both
gals run in to see what was up, and when
they seed it was me they run out agin-one
began to holer for the Squire while tolhers,
through the cracks ballled With fshin' poles
the cursed hounds that were wull:n' me-
Oh, thought of Absalom and every body
else that ever did hang, but he didn'. hang
with the wrong end up, that was consola-
,on hadn't I'D Gust my fate like Ba-
laam, but remembered belonged 10 meet
i'm, and it was agin the rules. 4 did, how
sumever, think some mighty hard words if
didn't speak 'em! But all that didn't do
any good. Icouldn't make nothing by pull
ling down'ards, so thought I'd climb up
the pos, and unloose myself that way.
had nearly succeeded when one Of the
unmannerly pups attacked me in the rair,
and losing nv holt fell in knot-decided-