The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-11-23
BILLY MARRIAGES.
COURTShlP AND WEDDING,
a STONY OF "THE OLD NORTH STATE :
BYA COUNTY LAWYER.
CHA TER |
Wayrick ~ Distress.

] didn't know what to do. til ole of the
lawyers connciIled me to tell YEN about it,
and cit your apinion. You see are
bin sparkiu' over TO one OF our abofs
cortn OF Miss Barbry Bass, nigh upon these
six mnnse. So t'oiher nite | puts on my
stork thar cum UP so high that 10 K ike
our kurne paradln Of miertary on Glnral
Muster. tr,in' TO look over old Snaps years
he holds sich high he'd when he knows
thai he's got on hts holdsturs aud pisIus
aud his trowsers aud sch like. for he's a
milhy proud hoss. had on hnun shurt
koler slarched stlf thai cum up mou-tfus
hugh rite under my wears, 30 that evFy time
i turn'd my he'd it putty nigh Saw'd off my
wears, aud lhey are so so,e thai had to put
on sum Gry'> inlment, which draw d 80
hard. iha If had hot wash'd 1t ~ >upesnds
! do he iele it wuud have draw d out my
b anes. puI on my new btches that l.
new isshIond and opens down before, aud
il tuck me nigh on a quarter ol houre to
butteu em aud hey had straps so tte
could hardly bcud my kneas--l had on nv
new wastecoat aud d,cky hu-sam with
rufiles OH each side, aud my white hat |
had TO be per cular nice IN spittin' my ter.
baccer juce for my slork " ere so high had
to jerk bark my head ike you have seed
one Of them snaniack bugs Consid6u' my
wiskurs hadn't crowd out Tong euuf, as
were conceeiy 10 think that | iook'd mid
diu' peart, aud my old uiggar oman Venus
said look d nIre enuF fort Bryde.
4 l;look on bale of good coling and bus
nils pees to pay Tor my close bod dat it
went Sorer hard but when | thot how
putty she did look last singin' school day
with her eyes as blue as lndiger. aud her
teaih white as milk, and sch long curn
hare hangin clear down to her belt ribhun
aud sirh bulIIul rosy cheaks aud lips a. red
as cock red.burd III the snow time, and
how she squea,ed my hand when gin her
a oringe that gin six cents ior--l ddn't I
grudge the price.
Mr. Pouer-when got to old Miss Bas-
ses bars list after mite, slch ~treaks aud cold
fits cum over me worse than teller with
the Buck agur the first time he goes to
shute at deer, My kneas got TO trlmbIin
aud could hardle hoIIer ''get ont" TO Mss
Basses sou Slah's dog, Old Tronp, who did t
know me in my knew 'geer. aud cum out
like all cteashun a barkin' amazu Se>
| to myself. ses 1. what fool you Sand
then thort whal squire Brltts nigger mtH
Tony, whu went 10 town last week, tod me
about taller there, who sed that lfst as
soon he got thru maxim safe OF close
for member of assembly 10 go to RawIey
in, he 'spected 10 come out courtn OF
Mss Barbry, This sorier raised my dandrr
for he s shockin' likely, with black whis-
kurs cept he's mock nead-with his hare
combed 10 one side like the Chapel Hill
boys and lawyers. Then ! went ia aud at.
ter shakin hands, and sorter squeasln of
Barbry's, | sot down. There was old Mss
Bass. Barbry and Slah Bass. her brother, a
monstrus hand at possums--old knrnal
HotIe going to cort and stopp'd shorI 10
write old Misses Bssses will, with squire
Britt and one OF the nabors TO WI ne-s 1t al
rite aud strate. This kinder shock d me-
till KurDeI Horde mighty pefIte man sed
ses he. "Harrick, you are loOklu' unc0m-
mon smart" Yes, ses |, 'KufneI, a ~or-
ter cuttin' my eye at Barbrs mIJdIn well
in body--but in mind All, | see, ses he,
(cuttin' of my discourse) II understand that
you are"--(Mi Porter, | iorge' the Dixon
ary words he sed, but il were that were
in love, II you could have seed my lace
and felt il bume. you Won a tho that you
had the hyous fever land AZ for Barbry
now want she red as a turkey cock : gltis,
and she gJmp up and said "lna'am. aud
run oulher the ROOM tho nobody en yeanh
that heerd on called her, and then heed
Polly Cox, 'drot her picture who IS hIfej
to we've, snlggrin al me.
AFTER while. squire Brltt aud tie n'iJh
bbor went of, and SIah he went coonn Oi
il with his dogs, bur dry oid rfoup back
for he's death on Rabbits, aud old mss B -
vent out, and KunaI liorie afIer taken a
drink outen his cheer box, h, got belrn'si'
door and snrk him-ef aud got lnto one
Of the bells at the fur e.nd Of the room.
After while. old mi, Bass cum back
and sot in H.. chimney corner aud tuck 1t
her .hoes. and then her pipe aud went To
smokin, the way she rowl'd the smoke oui
war as s,oni-hin' aud egry now aud then she
struck her head aud soner gron d ike What
il were al don't know, 'cept she were b1i
ther'd bout her cDn4arns Or lhiukin
bout her will which she had Just sIgned.
Bimeby Barbry cum back. aud sot on
cheer c.ose by me. She wa workin %
border that looked nifty iue Ses ], mis-
Barbry wha; ls thai you're seamstfing 81
plagy putty! Ses she. ''lt terns nothIn.
IJp hoIIered old miss Bass, why. ses she
/. Wauick. its nit, cap and what on th'
Lo,ds yeanh young psple now day
works and aces AMI beirls mite caps fur
can't tell. il beers me. bedizinin out theI
heads wh.n they're gwsin 10 bed, Just a
il any body but their own pepIs seed en-
|. and there's young men with wiskufs OF
,ssr upp.r lip, and b'ichss upsnin before