Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1856-08-27
.Nss . Drsp mere shs' as's swcsssa-

Not Q drop more, tho it's ewstteneJ.'
il . household phrase 10 part OF Geor-
gia and Alabama. A man decli0es with
]. to renew . game At cards st which he
he been unsusc sssful; . eustic express-
o.. BY this elegant raraphsse, his deter
mination TO drop the acquaintance OF
some cruel beauty /; the lit.le pol,sician
vows, in these terms, TO abstain IN IN.
ture from some particular course, which
has proven Improbable: aud % on
through . thosand phases and caves Of
common place life, il answers the purpo-
ses af playful but decided negaiion Or
.ieclension for the party using it. IN
fact, il 10 rather q liberal rendering Of
the Shakesperean, s.no more Of that,
Hal, and thou lowest me-" though used
mostly by those who never Shakespeare.
We believe that our friend, Col. II. l..
HARRISON, formerly If Georgia, it il en-.
titled 10 the credit Of the story out ~
which grew the expression. lie tells it
about thus:
Twenty years ago il was the custom in
| North Western Georgia, as indeed il .
J throughout the South west, for dry
DDS dealers to keep u barrel of ':sper-
E; rc,s" 10 the back raom. and 10 treat
liberal customers to y glass whenever
desired. F,llens y Dewberry were sucn
dealers IN one Of the small towns Of the
region Indicated; and they had for a
customer clever. frol'ckug fellow ma
mej Joe Denny, Who drank whisky in
preference 10 water always, and whose
wife Was s.llcsh Of his i.esh," in that par
tcuiar. The old couple wonli come t.
town, trade Tnltc free y, ani in''c n
freely im5ihc the spirits IN the hdcA room
Of he dealers We have named.
On one OCCASION, both tl.e oil ~ ~
and woman continued their patul,ons 10
orr. inatc V. and. as t.iirus observed - II
his goods vert better the a. uu.,r he ois
woman, he pressed h,r 10 trln&, ~
last she refused unless he " it!t,i 'a''s.s.i :
en- it with u hide store su...r. u"
amiatIe >hopkccper induced her, and
when The old people started home 10 the
evening late, the DID man coal scare ~
mount his horse, AMI the gn!e wifr hi'
actually to be lifted and placed N th
.pillion behind him. Happily, she !eanct
one way, and her husband the othrr, -
that the gravitatiny point vas between
lively, they passed out of the vi.i's'
safely.
Before reaching their home, however
they had 10 crcss a small creek, and whr'
tier h rise stopped in 1t to DR. nix, the oil
Lady having reached unconsciou>ncss re-
leased her holi ard quietly leayci int
the stream below. Occupied with hi
thoughts the old man did not percelv
his loss, bat logged slowly homcwar1
Arrive, there his little children impure
ark ouslv for "mammy." but The OF
man couli only say that she ha ! been ol
she "critter" and the "critter" haln'
: SIX cked up nary time," 60 he c"n.ln'
| saw where she mou.ht be ~ ami tire,
himself stupid on the bed.
? GIRLS and boys Il w allen, the roa' tn
old man had come, yelling NANNY
. mam-mee as they went: but Of cour.
, 20 nanny responded. When they arr
i we'd at the creek, the ollest girl shou,e,
y 'yonder she is, a sc'tin' down in th
creek :" And there she was comfortable
seated in the water which came near
up to her mouth. As she swa7ei bac
u and forth, now yielding to the impeiu
u o-ity OF the stream, and now resisting
< with some success, the muddy tluid woul
, occasionally wet her lips, and each tin
1t did so. she would family exclaim, WI
grim effort to smile:
"N"t d op more, Mr.. FiIlsns, thong
it's sweetcnetr -
And it is to tn s romatic little incider
in the life Of the venerable Mrs. IL
Denny, that we arc indebted for ono
:, our most popular colloquial phrases :
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