The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-12-08
Lucy pouted lille and vas Silent.


ayes, | went ont to the lot and thar. surs as
life, was my old conan swung to the COW, and
the old thing ayip' round, and cuttin' up all
sorts o shines! sesT, I wha. il h-ll are YOU
up to, old 'oman?' And with that she let
60. and told me she was tryin' to practise kis.
sim on old Cherry and she thought after
that she could make up her mind 10 kiss mel
sold man you made that! I've hearn YOU
tell it aFOre-but you made itp said the old
lady.
"well. we'll! l told her squire, ses ], come
down to il now!-d-n the cow-shet your
eyes!-held your breath!-and she bussed SOS
you might a heard a quarter, and since, no.
body's had better kissin' than me! Now, that.
was my first ixperance about beiA' ugly, after
| was grown; and 'twarn't SO bad neither!"
"The next time my ugly feeters came into
play, wasin Mobile; was you ever thar, squire?
D-deSt place on the green yearth STEAMBOATS,,
oysters, free-niggers, futriners, brick houses
hill! that's the place! | went down on a fat
boat from WetumPky, with old John ! odd
We had a fuss rate time Of it twill we, got
most to MOBILIZE and then the id steamboats,
would run so close to US, that the slOshin'
would putty nigh capsize US. They done it
for devilmeut. Us! how old John cussed!
but it done no good, AT last, SEES Isptl try
'em; ef lhar's emmy strength in %tussin', ri
make 'em ashamed!' So the next one come
along, cavortin' and %snOrtin' likei it was gwine
right into is, and did pass in twenty foot! l
ris right up on a cotton bag, and, ses | to the
crowd-which thar was Almost almighty one on
the guards Of the bOat-ses ! you id infer
nal racket-makin', smokin', %snOrtin' hell-totin'
sons ef'"-
"AGore | couldgit any fudder in my c%ussin',
the crowd give the most tremenjus yeartt-shd-
kim howl that ever was hearn--and one Teller,
as they was brOadside with US, hollered out,
$ Its the old He UGLY HIssELE! Great CD,
WHAT A NoUTH!' With that, thar was some-
thin rained and ratified in our boat like hail,
only heavier, and directly me and old John
picS ed up A LEVEL PECK OF BUcKHoRN- HANDLED
KNIVES! III be did this mint, Of we didn't!'
Old Mrs. Wallis looked to heaven, as If APP
pealing there for the forgivness Of some great
sin her ugly consort had committed; but she
said nothing. f7 s
SOL Host nothin'by be- NJ ugly that time! AFTER
| got to Mobile, hOwsever. l was bothered and
~pestered by the people stOppin' in the street to
look at me--alI dirty and lightwOod smOk cd as
| was, from bein' on the boat =
81 thina I'D a cleaned up a l%ittIe,' interpOsOd
tidy Lucy, 1
'Old 'Oman! aint you got nary cold later to
choke that gal with? Well, they'd look at me
the hardest you ever seem Bat l got ahead
o my story. A few days aIdre, thar had been
a boat busted, and a heap o. people scalded
and killed, one way another. So at last, as !
went into a grocery squad Of people follow
ed me in, and one lowed, ses he; s Its one Of
the unfortunate sufferers by the bustin' of the
franklin; and upon that he axed me to drink
With him, and as had my tumbler half way
to my mouth, he stopped me of a sudden -
Il beg your pardon, stranger-but '-Ses
he.
iBdt- WHAT , sss Ii,
Just I'll your mouth AGt iSqy agia' , ses
he. ayeg
II done il, jist like, / was gwine to drink,
and I'll be cussed ef / didn't think the whole
on 'em would gointo ,fts!-they yelled and
wnooped like a gang Of wolves. Finally, one
OF 'em SEES { don't make fun of the uNfOrtun-
ate Re'S HARDLY got over bein' blOwed up yet.
Less make up puso for him. They all
throwed in, and made me up five dollars, as
the spokesman handed me the change, he axed
me, sWEar did you find yourself arser the
'splOsion?',
SIN n Aat-boati SEES !.
How far from the franklin? ; SEES he. "a.
tWhy,' SEES l, Il never seen her, but as nigh
as | can guess, i. must have been, from what
they tell me, nigh on to three hundred and 'eU-
enLygfgs miller You oushter' seen that gang
scatter. AS they left, seS one, 'If's iIA. ~
the Ugly Nan Of Ga!'
,Knockin' round the place, come upon.
one 0, these fellers grinds music out'n q ma
hogany box. He had a li'tle monkey along
the d-dest peartest, least-bit Of a c@rittur, you
ever seed! Well, bsin'fond Of music and var
mints,I gifts putty close to the masheen' and
DID ei 'twarn'l hard to tell which got the most
praise, me or the monkey. However at last !
90. close up, and the id thing ketched a
a sight Of mo and squsulsdt 1t jumped Of'n
the box in a fright, and henged itself by its
chain. Tho grinder h'isted it up again, but It
soualled mCre'n ever, and jerked and twisted
and run over the keeper and jumped Of'n his
back, and hsng'd itself agin. The sight efme
had run IL distrGcted' At last the grinder hilt
it to his bosom, and SOS he,
Go ways, oakley man-maungkeo frnid
moch oakley! 'Ses l, 60 TO hell, you did
L...h.n f,nu 80 ha vaa nonna aoFt of A Dutch