Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-04-24
LETTING HER SLIDE.
A TRAVELLING SKETCH.


had occasion TO pass through The $50
called) "Turpentine District of North
Carolina. There were six of Us passen-
gers in stage coach that was moving
along at the rate Of about three knots an
hour, one hot morning III September,
within about an hours ride OF the place
where we expected TO take dinner, for
which we were all pretty sharp set, as
our previous meal hadn't been much To
brag of, is 10 quality.
! was suddenly aroused out OF the u
sun age-coach doze, 10y hearing avoice
mailing the driver, and the stopping of
the stage TO take up two passengers.--
The elder, whose name | afterwards
learned was Bradford, was large square
built man, with a good naIured, quiet
sort of expression. The younger,a man
of twenty-five or thirty, was tall, slim,
and rather delicate looking, with jolly,
devil-may-care style, and a peculiar
short, ierked-out speech, which remind
ed one of the celebrated Alfred Jingle,
Esq, of Pickwickian notoriety This
latter person (who was called by his
friend Mac was the one who had stop
ped the stage, and whose peculiar .tdcoH
dc pdrlee caused us some merriment.-
The first was addressed to the driver as
follows:
Hold up driver-room for two--lust
in time--in with you Let her slide
which latter clause, (alludlng TO the
graceful, gliding motion,) he affixed to
all his remarks, without regard to their
bearing on the subject. Both of these
individuals were, thought, slightly Gle
waited.
I" say, Brad, old fellow, hand her out
let her slide ~
Who the female alluded to was, ] had
little time TO conjecture, for " Brad"
thrust his hand into an inside pocket, and
drew out a " pocket pistol" of immense
size, and clapping the muzzle to his own
muzzle, he reduced the load consldera-
bly,, and passed it 10 Mac, who follow
ed suit, and presented the weapon to
me, with an invitation to take pull
cool you down--hot day-cap;tal stuff,
very-ie her SITTER declined, how
ever, when he returned the pocket
companion" to his friend, remarklng-
" Dinner at old 'ooman's--lots o dogs,
bacon and indico-hominy and whiskey
LET her slide ~
AT the mention of the fluid, the elder
drew ont the pocket companion again,
and came 20 present arms with the
muzzle applied to the fissure in his coun-
tenance, Mac, (who in the meantime,
was becoming very communicated re-
marking
High old gal six feet eight-two
fifty--iourteen barrel Let her Shde"
70 which description the stout man
said, Who Z"
Observation-Disclosures
niggers and homespun-becn there be
fore. Let her Slide :"
Mac received the pocket companion
which he did justice TO, and handed 1t
round with the assurance that it was
prime sluil,-take snlter-appetite
for diuuer-Let her slide ~
ll lew moments more we drove up
TO the Hotel Mac, and the small PAL
tern of small nail Brad amusing
themselves with the pistol, with scarce
ly enough remaining to prime with, tho
they were pretty well toaded.
As we drove up 10 the door, some
score, al least, OF miserable looking half
starved dogs, came yeIpIng out to meet
US, snuliing and smelling about our heels
as we alighled, as if il would afford them
considerable qualification TO sample our
UNDERMINING. Mac here broke out, (as
he hisfed one of the crowd about a
rod
Large ssortment-constantly on
hand-dozen or great gross--llberal TO
dealers-prlme sas'ges Let her Sliden
Our landlady was, as Mac had desert
bed, large powerful woman, who kept
a d. e-house aud halfway house, aud
some half dozen niggers. Several
pieces of cloth were hanging on the
fences about, | noticed, as ! with the
others passed into the dlning-room. |
hastily scanned the table to see if any
s'ges' were there, for Macs hint
seemed no, an improbable idea. 'Tha;
pie made of kittens, may be delicate
and pala,able dish, but s'ges' out OF
tough dogs we could not exactly stand
Blu no such dish appeared; al the
head of the table was a large blue dish,
containing about gallon OF sop or
liquid grease, on the top of which few
dried up pieces Of bacon were floating
next large dish Of hominy in the md
die a decidedly blui,h-looking loaf of
corn-bread was placed, which derived
It's azure tinIs from the blue dye used in
the establishment, as the darkey cook
had evidently taken her hands from one
of the dye-tubs (of which there were
several ia the room,) to the meal bas,
without washing at the extreme end
was pair of mlserably mean-lookiug
No. 4 mackerel, done TO crisp. We
were completely disguised with this dis
play of dinner for eight, and we re-
treated 10 The piazza, where Bradford
and Mac were holding "A hurried consul
taiion, in low tone. They returned to
tue room, and Brad addressing The land
lady catd