The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-02-02
From the Philadelphia Saturday Gazette
REV. MRS. SNLFFLES.

KEW. MhD, OMIT hEO'
HER SENTIMENTS in REGARD TO THE PAR
p.#sw soNAGE, aE
"I say | am disgusted with this old
house; amt fit foI genteel folks TO live
in: locks as if't was built in Noah's,time
with its consarned old gamble ruff and
leetIe bits O. winders pokin out like
bird cages all round Painted yaller,
too, and such a humly yaller; for all
the world just the color Of calemel and
| jollup!p !.
'But you are aware Mrs. Sniffies. ="
81 saw y aint fito live in. Pm asham-
ed ont, feel awful mortified about it
whenever look at Miss Myers $ and
Miss Loders, and the rest ofthe hansome
sittiwations in the neighborhood, with
their wings and the plazzers aud Eoldm'
doors. and all so dazzlin white us RI
diculous that we should have live in
such a DISTRESSED lookin'' old consarn
when we're every bit land grain as goot
as thew be, if not ruther better" s rs
Nevertheless The house is very com
Portable" a
"Comlortable! who cares for comfor
when gintility is consumed. don't
| saw if YOU are determined 10 stay in it
YOU'D ought to make some alterations il
t. You'd ought to higher the ruff u
and nut on some wings, and build a pl
i azzer in front, with four great pillars I
!. Is, and knock out that are petition be
: ,.,f,., the square room and kitchen, an
4 WE Wv. ro,5;;n doors instid on It: and the
0 Pu; Pnila on i kitchen behind, and have
VI All Al painted white with green ylnd0' To-
n Minds. HI That would lock samethln 5'k
d. and then shouldn't feel ashamed !
S have ginteeI company come to see !"
n As dew now. T'other day when Col
neI Biliins and his wife called,
y couldn't he nolicin howcontemptible sh
looked round at the house and lurnitu
actillv was so mortified | felta as it
should sink rigbtthrough thehoor"
UBut YOU know, Mrs. Sinffles--" a
al say we'bought to have new lurr
h ur-sofys and fashionable cheers, ar
curtins and mantetry ornaments and
forth. The old settee looks like a's'g
And them cheers, tew, they must
on come over in The ark And then the
ew aih't 4 picter in the house. only jest tn
pa everIastin' old likeness o. Bonyparte.-
IlI bet forty great apples lts'hve hu
dred wears old was rally asham
4 4 onst when see Miss Curnel Billing lo'
.ro At it.so scornfuI when they called her
i've l s'pose she was counlerastin'lt WI
"a their beautiful new picters they're le
'n7 ben gettin' up from New York, all
IA gilt frames / seen one on 'em 10th
asS caS dav in Mr. BungIe's shop, when we
with sister Tibbins tolook at her P
AMI trait that he's a paintln', seen Q
hall Il Bnlinses picters there. Twas
splendid one as big as the top o. Y
IL are table and representeda a neleg,
Fl lady a lyin' asleep by river, ana y
Mr was little angel hoverln' IN the
side over .iher head, jestagwine to shoot
! n her with a bow and arrer. aHeu
,dlv Bungle what twas sent to hrs shop
~ and he said hows 7 Miss Blllln.s 81 va '.
he quite satisfied with it. on account q
var1 angerslegs bein' bare, and she wal
10 have him paint some panlail
IND on 'em, and he was agw:ne % az !
H soon as he got time tie thougE
4 "a would be a very interestln, plcter "
W. he'd got ii fixed. think 50 tev
q q q dew admire picters when they am
.held di,ty and faded outhke old Bony q
KS Them seripter pieces that sister N
.os has got hanging in her front Parl
81, them she painted afore she was ma r \
,na strikes me ,as wonderful interesstln
F7-s -pecially The one that represent
roah's daughter fpdin' Moses N 2
nc,aA bulrushes, Her parasol and the , 9
NJ cials in her bonnet is jest as naPr