Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1849-04-18
Npsfsr Bottom Ball.
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"Well, it are fact, boys said j i'm
Sikee that | promised TO Tell you how
cum 10 git out OF these Plat t,igsins, and
| speculate you mout as well have il at
onst, kase its bin troubin' my cons eienc,
amazing o keep it kivcre'd IN. The
affair raised jessy in Nct,!e Bottom, and
old sam stokes yell, when he swar he'd
chaw me up gives my meat slight
Sprlnkln' OF ager whenever ! think on il
You see thar wur small town called
Equality, in llIinise that some SPECTATORS
started. Netlle Bottom, cos thar WIZ 4
spontaneous salt lick in the digeirs. and
no sooner did they git it asoin' and build
some stores and groceries thar, than they
wagon'd from Cincina'c and other up
stream villages, a parcel Of iclIcrs to at
tend the shops: that locked as nice, all 'ays,
as if they wor goin' to ,neetiu' OF on II
courtin' irolic; and salt their pic.er<,
they wur eternalIy pokin' up their noses
to us boys OF the Bott,m. Well, they got
up a ball in the village, 'ist to introduce
themselves to the gals round the neighbour
hood, and invited few on US to take a
contrary pic,er to themselves, and SO shine
'us out Of site by comparison. Arier that
bali, thar want anythin talked on among
the gals, but what nice feIlars the clerks
in Equality wur, and how nice and slick
they wore their hair, and their shiny boots,
and the way they s,irrapp'd down their
trousers. You coulIn go to see ore on en-
that she wouldn't stluk one OF these felers
at you, and keep ta!kin' how slick they
looked. Ii got be pariect pizen 10 hear Of
or see the critters, and the boys got TO-
ge,her at last TO see what was to be done
the thing had grown perfectly alarmin'
At last a rhee;in' was agreed en-, down TO
old Jake Bent's
On next Sunday night, instead Of takin
the gals 10 meeiin' whar they could see
these tellers, we left EN- al home, and
met at Jake's and am OF the opinion thar
was some congregalcd wrath thar-whew!
want they?
HILL and scissorsl' says Mike Jelt,
lets 90 down and lick the town rite strnit?'
NO hollered Dick Butts, lett ki,ch
these slick badgers comm cut Of lneetin'
and fare the hide and feathers of On en-.
'Whv, d--n en-, what DO you think,
boys bursted in cid Jake, Il swar 1thcy
amt larnt cur gals to wear stern cushions:
only this mornin', caught my Galter Sally
putin one en- ,yin' it round her. She
tho't l was asleep, but seed her, ard
made The jade rcpudNte it, and no mistake
-q"ichr'!'
The boys took a drink on the occasion.
and Equality town was slumbering,' for a
short spell over contiguous yearthquakc.
At least one OF the boys proposed before
we attacked the town, that we should get
up a ball in Che Bottom, and Jest cut Line
The town chaps all to death, siorc we
swallow en-. 1t was hard - gin in 10 this
proposition, bu' the bows cum to il ., last
and every Teller started to pa, The aiarr
asoin. ,a--...
| had been a long spell hal,kcrin' altsr
old Tom Jones darter, on the branch be-
low the Bottom, and She ,pas cri;ter good
tor weak eyes-may be she hadn't pair
of her own well ii, they want brace OF
movin' light houses, wouldn't say it
there was no caluiation' the extent or
handsome of the family that gal could bring
up around her, with a Teller like me TO
look arter 'em. Talk about gracetulness;
did you ever see maple sapiin' movin'
with south wind?-It warn't crooked
stick to compare to her: but her old dad was
avful. He could jest liek .nythin' that