Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-06-13
IMPUDENCE PUNISHED:
or, Bill Jones among the Girls.

! Old Square Parish was an hospitablc Old soul
Every Friday evening it was the delight Of tn
! girls Of the Academy, and the boys of the schoo
and College, 10 90 out 10 old Squire Parish
farm, about six miles from town, and stroll il
the woods, battle in the creek search the orcharl
and the hens nests, and turn everything abon
the premises upside down. And old SQuir,
Parish would SIT in his chimney corner, pipe il
mouth and tell them stories about the first set
Element of the country, and how odd Hickory
whipped the lndians-ior the old Squire had beer
IN Jackson's army-and never would let the boys
OH without at least one story about the old man
as the Squire delighted TO call the General
One Sunday, about the middle of the after.
noon, Bill Jones.-a wild, harumscraum young
fellow, of some sixteen Winters-rode mp to the
Squire door, and hailed the house. His sum
mons was answered by the black young rascal
Josh, who told Jones that the boys were gone
squirrel hunting; but You better believe, Mas>a
Bill continued Josh, that the girls are carving
on high. WHY, Massa Bill, you can hear EN-
squealing clean up here
Jones soon learned that the girls had gone to
their usual bathing-place, which was at the foot
OF high precipce, and only approached on that
side by a solitary ioot-path, which was guarded
by'Dlnah.' On the other side Of the creek lay
a broad sand-bank, so that no one could approach
1t without being seen. Jones had been to the
S4ulrcs house so often that he knew all his sto-
ries by heart and it was almost impossible to
lind the boys in the woods, so he determined to
have some fun out Of the girls.
About quarter OF mile up the creek lived
Old Aunt judy and there Jones and his attcn-
dant, Josh, Immediately proceeded. While Josh
went to the old woman, and for fopence pur-
chased the largest gourd in her possession, Jones
slipped behind the garden and threw off his
clothes, then cutting oil enough of the handie-cud
OF the gourd to admit his head, and making two
holes for his eyes, he slipped it on his head and
Immediately jumped into the stream. So soon
as the gourd reached the point above the bathing
place, II commenced floating towards the shore
until within few yards Of the ba;hcrs, when it
drIttcd against limb which oyernung the stream
and lodged. Ii Jones had looked through the
loop-hO.cs, Che sWcars he diln'tD he would have
seen a sight that would have made the gourl
Itself biush.
On one rock were three or four swimmers,
alternately squatting down and rising upon their
heels, and initiating the cry of the buil-trog and
when one would say 'chug" they would all
plunge into the water, frog fashion. At anoth-
er place they were trying to duck each other
while third party was leading by force into the
water, coy damsel who had been too modest,
toundress before SO many folks.
But Jones gourd did not long remain nnno-
tced in the water and the dams Il who espied it
sailed up to it, seized it, and with slight resist
anCc it came of, and disclosed the curly head of
Bill Jones!
Miss Betsy screamed and BIZ Jones yelled !!
Miss Betsy and the ether bathers rushed, up the
bank, and Jones in his fright and confusion, fol-
lowed them. Here the girls turned on him, sci
zcd bin, and threw him on his face, twined his
AIMS aroand a sapling, and having bound his
hands with kerchot, Jones lay defcnceess in
the power Ct his captors. The girls now lesur-
u dressed themselves and then each provided
herself with a trim birch or willow rod, and
without further Ger mony began applying them
to the back, sides and legs 81 poor Jones Jones
twisted, and Jones wrihcd; he drew himself up,
and he spread himself out; he begged and he
prayed. But in vain. His captors were inscn-
sloIe to pity, until their are arms were fatigued,
and their rods trayed to ribbons
Alas, Tor poor Jones he was not vet 10 Cs-
cape. Ills torneutors provided themselves wiki
fresh instruments, and stationed themselves in a
row along the path which led from Jones tree to
The waters edge, and on the rock from which he
was 10 plunge, was posted Stout country lass
whose strength he had often tried in a Wrestle ;
and whose endurance he had often tested in a
'brandance.' At last he was released, and told
that he was to run the gauntlet lie could not
bat comply. Strengthening himself up, and
drawing long breath he started at fall speed, as
he thcnght, but at every step, something touched
him that accelerated his motions, and as he was
about to take the last, final leap, such a blow fell
upon his rear that the sparks flew out of his ewes
and he bounded half across the stream at one