Lewisburg chronicle, and West Branch farmer. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1850, 1850-01-09

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EY The following specimen Of . series ol
.ks,ehes in Meals Saturday Gazette. under h
ti,ls of The Bedou Papers," is not only "a
excellent illustration of the peculisrites o
Yankee dialect, but contains Iaughable satire
upon the Inconsistencies of fault-fnders, who
are keenly alive to other peoples failings, yet d
the came time seem to be perfectly oblivious te
their own.
Rev. Mn snihles discourses about heI
Dwelling.
II say Pm disguised with this old
house; ',ain, fit for gin,eel folks TO live in ;
,ooxs as il twas built inN Noah's time, With its
sUn,arned old gamble ruff and Ieelle bits
= ~luders pokin out like bird cages all
round. Painted yaller, too, and such a
humbly yeller; for all the world jest The
color o calomel and jollup"
But you are aware, Mrs. Sniffles-"
/ cay tain, fit to live in. I'm ashamed
p i. feel awful mortified about it
.1e1e,sr look at Miss M, erses and Miss
>.oisr'.. and the resi- o. the hansome sitti.
>at.oas in the neighborhood. with their
o2s and their piszzers and foldin doors,
and all so dazzlin white. Its ridiculous
that we should have to live in such dis.
Iressid lookin old cousarn, when We re
every hi, and grain as good as they Be,
il 40, ruiher BETTER"
Nevertheless, the house is very COM
o,,abe."
Comfortable, who cares for comfort
~h.n gin'ili,y's eonsarned! I don't. i
say il you're determined TO stay in it,
you'd ought to higher the ruff up and put
on some wings, and build plazzer in
from, with four great pillars to Il, aad
knock out that are petition betwixt the
square room and kitchen. and put foIdin
doors ins,id on u, and then build on kit
shen behind. and have i, all painted white.
with green winder blinds. Tnaf would
look something like, and then | shouldn't
feel ashamed to have eintecl company
come to see me, as | dew now. To,her
dsy, when Cornell BiIlins and his vile
called, l couldn't help no,icin how con-
enp,ible she looked round at the house
and :urni,ur-I sc,illy feI, so mortified |
fell as il should sink right through the
fioor.''
"Bu' you know, Mrs. Snifles-"
81 SAY we'd ought 10 have new !urnltur
-sofys and fashionable cheers, and cur
tins, and msn,lery ornaments, and 90 forth.
That old se,;ee looks like sight. And
them cheers, ,ew, they mus, come over
in the ark. And then ther sint a pictur
in the house, only jes, that everlasiin old
likeness o. Bonypar,e. I'll bet forty great
apples ii's five hundred years old. was
rally ashamed on I when | zee Miss Cur |
mel Bilins look at il so scornful when they |
called here. Ispose she was a counteras-
TN it with their beautiful new picters they're
Jest ben a gittin up from New York, oil in
gilt frames. | seen one on EN- ,oiher day |
in Mr.. Bungle's shop, when wen. 10 with |
Sister Tibbins 10 look at her portrait tha,
he's paintin. ] seen one o. Miss Billin-
SEE piciers there. Twas splendid one,
as big as the top o that are table. and rep
resented neIegant lady lyin asleep BY a
river, and there was little angel hover
IN in the air over her head, jest gwine to
shoo, at her with bow and arrsr. axed
Mr.. Bungle what twas sent 10 his shop
for. and he said how 4 Miss Billins va mi
quite satisfied with il on account O. the an.
geps legs bein bare. and she wanted to
have him paint some panialetts on EN-,
and he was gwine to dew il % soon IS
he got time. He though, 'twould be very
inieIes,in piciur when be got it fixed.
think 50 tew. ! dow sdmire picters when
they aini all dirty and faded ost like old
bony there. Them Scriptsr pieces that
Sister Myers has got hangin in her front
parlor-thsm she painted sfore she was
married. strikes me a. wonderful interestin,
''7eclaliy The one that repressnts Pharoh's
asggbter fndin Moses in the bulrushes.