The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-11-17


was going had one of these ere Bloomer
dresses-a raal nice one-but she never
wore 1T In the street-tu modest for that
Wal, she was going to surprise the party
take her dress with her, steal off among
the bushes, put it on, and then come back
and exhibit herself. This is the way she
meant tn surprise 'em-and, wait little
and you'll see she did it handsomely tu.
The great day arrived. The gals all
looked as smiling as infants and as sweet
as strawberries, and the fellers all looked
'ceedingly scrumpshus. The gal wot in
tended to surprise the party made nice
little bundle of her Bloomer and slowed
it away in her bag Bimeby, the party
made a start for the place war the eating
arrangement was to take place, which was
quiet little spot in the woods, whar no
body could see their carvings on. Wal,
they got thar at last, and the gals com
menced tn spread the dishes on the grass,
and the fellers commenced tu kiss the gals;
then the gals went tu shaving up the ham
and bread, and the fellers went to hug
ging the gals-and the whole scene pre-
sented an animated picter, as the Bible
says. Wal, while all these things war
going on, the gal with the Bloomer dress
slips off among some little trees, and COM
mences fixing herself up. She daresn't be
gone long, for fear they will suspect some
thing. So she went to work in earnest,
and in few miuits she came bounding
'mung the party just like q young deer
with dogs after it.
'Yeou see she done all this to surprise
the party, and if yeou'd a seen the caper-
ing of the gals and fellers, yeou'd believe
she d succeeded most beautifully.
AS soon as she made her appearance
among the party, the gals scrcecbed like
owls and hid their faces with their aprons.
The fellers they hollered like all fred
and some rolled on the ground, among the
dishes and fxins, just as if they'd bin
eating green apples and they didn't set
well on their stomic5-and sich lively
time as there was generally can't be
imagined. And all this time thar stood
the Bloomer gal larfn just as if she'd col
lapse. Bimeby, one of the gals got up,
and put for the bush-then another did
the same-and purity soon the whole went
just like lot of sheep. This kinder
took the gal by surprise herself; she didn't
reckon on so much az this She looked
around, and seeing nobody but the fellers
and they all hollerin' and caperin' ike
mad-and then she kinder sorter cast her
eyes down tn the ground, and as she did
so, sich another screech as she let off,
yeou wouldn't think little body like hers
was capable of containing; then she start
ed of tn, after the rest of the gals and
the way she du go.-Je-ru-sa-lem. Tel
egraphs was no whar'
But, cousin Hez, what made her run
SO ? asked one of the girls,
wal meow, gals, just hold yourselves
mint, till 1 get to that part of the story.
Yeou see the gal was in such a darned
hurry to get on her rig that she forgot her
pants! Fact-true as Gospel! And
sich another sight as she was! Christie
pher! Thar she was, with nothing on
but little short frock like, just bigenough
for good-sized baby-her legs naked
presenting picter worth looking at by
any individual. And all I've got to say
is, if half the gals can show as pretty and
plump pair of legs as Fan
Here Hez was cut off suddenly by q
loud laugh from the whole party, and good
slap alongside of the ears administered
by Fanny's soft, little plump hand, and
the party separated, Fanny refusing to
give Hez the kiss promised, and Hez de-
claring he'd never tell her another story.