The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-02-07

| 'We raised all on 'em. Now Ant ant
UnkilI, we are surely cumin, and tell Cous.
ings Cora and Fred that they may be expec.
TIM me and that when l do come, I'll bring
'em what its goin' ter be, but raytheI
reckon they'll be pleased with the things
what I'm goin' ter give to 'em.
Il 'spose you've got alot o. fnery, ant, and
slathers o. dresses, and that all on ye live
to the top of the way out there in Bosting
spose that air house you live In is pur.
ty tall kind Of building, ennyhow-and
that when git in the totUn, Pll be mazingly
struck with the tarnal pooty sites. i spose
that or State House is caution and no mis-.
take; and Pm savin' and layn' by all the
eggs, and Dads goin' ter give me what
kin git for the eggs, hens. and chickings--
half ont to pay 'speuses to Bosting and
back. Then can stay there cuppell oi
weeks, and see the animals, and so forth.
Marin is mendn' up my Sunday y-go. to- meet.
in clothes jist at the time Pm writing; and
| rather, sorter, kinder guess, I'll cut a
swath, ard pretty big one, tew, when get
thar. My swaller-tails with gilt outings,
and my bran new cow-hides, what I've got
and CREASED 'spressly for the 'casion, will
be apt ter make tarnal senseration 'mong
you folks, ennyhow.
'Marm's goin ter make me two or three
nice Getting nose-blowers or handerchers,
and she gin me the purcedes Of what she
got for old Brindle's calf what she sold to
nabor Henery that makes the nice sum Of
two dollars nine shillin' all told. I've got
bottle of Bars lie what'll make the
har look kinder slick-that is pooty nice,
by slapjacks! and ] tend ter bring it along
yuster use q taller candle, but it's hash
medicine for the har, and soon arter dis
continued the use ont. spose Cuzzing
Fred is slick thing-a parfect buty of a
boy; and there's Cuzzing Cora-nothiD'
more nor less less than an ang'l. hope
she don't paint her cheeks as seed it on
cuppell o. strange gals t'other day, what
had jst arriv' from the town of New York.
| spose you've hearn tell o. that ere place,
and bin thar, teu.
Ge.gracious if our old mare didn't cum
pooty ny runnln' away with me an the old
man last mite. You kinder see was jst
leading her out to Unkill Hanks spring.
when the crltter rared rite up on her hind
trotters, jerked the rope halter out o. my
hands, and the way she struck bee line
for the barn.yard, wan no matter, I tell
you. Then the old man, he arter the crit
ter, and / arter the old man, and tween us
both, we nailed her--didn't we thought
Then the old man hitched her up to the 90.
cart, and straddled her, when the old man
got in; and / guess we had turn around
there for abeout a few minnits! At last the
old heathenish critter got riled, and the way
she plunged. it 'ud done you good to hay
seen. She run the cart up agin smashin'
big rock long side O. the road, upset it and
split dad out so nice; then she got the old
Harry into her head, and got her back up,
and got It up SO tarnal high, with'the aid of
them uir hutfs, on the end Of her grasstan-
glers, that went over her head in jiffy!
and only Escaped bein' trod on by falling
over stun fence--that ar stun fence what
Unkill Hank built afore he went to the city,
when he turned bankrupt arter he got there
and when old dad lost $4,000 or $4,000 by
the operation; that is, lclten him have it.
'Now as said afore, I'm surely a-cum-
min; aud as sure us you see next week,
you'll see me thar tew, with the old man al
so. We're goin' to bring along small load
of poultry, kase dad seq he's goin' tew kill
tew birds with one stun, and 80 the matters
settled. But I'm nearly gin out writin and
so I'll have teu hold up. You mustn't mind
mistakes, for mars bin givin' me advice
while I've bin writin', an she saysI must be
soperlite; that Imust take off my hat when
90 in the house, and that I must walk as
kinder litely as posserbel over the carpets,
and always have my handkerchief in my
hands, and keep my gloves on, and SO FORTH
all areound! But guess knows what's
rite, and what don't cum anyways near it,
duz. Brother Hank (unkil's namesake)
what's bin ter Rale collij, sends his best re
spects, and sez he svery sorry that circum-
stances utterly repugnant to bis acquiescing
propensities, have reluctantly constrained
him to decline rewardine you with q view of
him in propria perstna.' Now can ritet
like ere, but he kin; and he told me. to put
down Jest so, and did; and he also told me
to put them air marks round it what he calls
kotash an MARKS, jest as I've done 1t. -
Nov, you may look for me and you won't
be disappinted, kase I'll sartngly be on
hand. Them air presents I'll be long, teu,
reckon.
We're all we'll but me, and marm. and
Hank and marm's well tu. I'm in bad
state of health end hope you are enjoying
the same blessing! Hanks got a small
tech o. Information on The brain, but guess
he'll git along If he don't git collapse
My luv to all relaytions, specially to Cous-
ings Cora and Fred; and all the folks jine
in luv to all Of you. ts
"My pen Is poor, my ink is pale,
My quill come out of a gander's tall"
"FrOm your affeckshunate neffew till deth.
JOSH HAWKINS.
a@Take Notis.--T'll spect you ter pay the
hui O. three cent postige, (what I've paid on
this ere letter) when ! git out thar.
JOSH"
"The puppy--confound him!" again vocif.
Grated Fred, his pride terribly wounded by
the insinuatioh of that which be strove to
repei. "Pah once bankwupta Nevah!--
If he were now heaw, how I would com.
pwess his lying throat--I would, by moy
faith!'t es Il
Il wonder,' mumbled forth the fastidious
Cora, now nearly restored to her wonted
firmness, 4 wonder whatsplended things will
he presented to US upon ignorant Josh's arri.
ual. Perhaps o lot Of wooden combs, ol
some vulgar nutmegs formed from the same
MATERIAL @
Some mahogany hawms. or hickory Gu
cumbaw secdsl II he shows bis country
countenance heaw,' continued Fred, I'll ap
ply moy gaitaws to his nethaw extwemetiet
~ will, BY moy faith!' 5s a v
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