Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-06-03
Mrs, PIhIPERTON'S FENCE.

Mrs. Pimperton had laid it to heart
for wears that her door-vard fence should
be whitcwashcd, and she fairly tormented
the rest from Mr. PiElperton, Gathering
about that ':door yard fence" The old
man said :' it had got so, that she could
dream of nothing but door yard fence and
whitewash." Mrs. Pimperton at last found
q receipt for whitcwash, which she cut from
.Thc Federal Rocket and Political Torpe-
do" made up of lime, salt, and sugar, more
permanent and lustrous, according to the
paper, than white lead itself. This added
fuel to the fire, and she followed Mr.. Pinl-
perton with that receipt until he was oblig-
ed, in self defence, to prepare dose OF it,
and baptise about twenty rods of his fence.
Well. it did look beautiful in the setting
sun on the evening OF its completion; and
the old man really began to think that old
Mrs. Pimporton was something Of wo-
man after all. The old couple retired that
night happy. =.
aLa. me- exclaimed Mrs. Pimperton,
as she was putting on the finishing touches
to the bow knots of her night cap strings,
"La, me! Mr.. Pimperton, it didn't cost
much nuthcr; and shines good deal brigh-
ter than Squire Holmes, with all its paint
and lie. Don't say q woman don't know
nothing again, Mr.. Pimperton. Women do
know something. Not dollar out, and
our fence will last for ten years"
Mr.. Pimperton rolled over, grunted, and
fell asleep. During the night, Mrs. Pin-
perton was aroused by strange noises. She
shook Mr.. Pimperton from his slumbers.
at did seem as if the very heavens had broke
lose," as Mr.. Pimperton said. The herds
of q thousand hills were upon them.
MIR. Pimperton arose, and threw open
the window, and there gathered in the moon
light, marching and counter-marching, and
believing forth unearthly sounds, and gor-
ing each other, really were $50 Mr.. Pimper-
ton thought) "herds Of a thousand hills, ="
storIning around the newly whitewash fence.
aGreat JOSIAH" he exclaimed, as he
stood in his undress, staring through the
window. "Why, Mrs. Pimperton, as sure
as you are a live woman, the very cattle
have come down to dance around the fence !"
Then. out of the bed, bounced Mrs. Pim-
pertOn; anu lllelc, illuoeu, INV "SiN S0iS
enough, "alorin," as she declared, and they
had the first really jolly laugh they had had
for years.
But the morning told the story: The
herd had mostly disappeared Two or
three perseverng animals, still fingered,
however, and were still standing reared up
on their hind legs, licking off the salt, sugar,
and lime, upon the top of the post, the last
touches of the last nights work!
"The fence" said Mrs. Pimpcrton, in re-
lating the circumstance, :s'was licked as
clean as my washboard."
GurrA PERcnA HOOPS FOR LADlEs.-The
ladies claim so much latitude, or rather Cir
cumference, now, in the matter of dress,
that it is very difficult for fashion to give
spread enough to their garments without
subiecting them to inconvenience not easily
overcome on narrow pavements and OBJ
structed passage-ways. A new and better
article than whalebone, for distending the
dress, has been introduced. 1t is q cord,
made of guttapercha, which is not so heavy
as whalebone, is more flexible so that Che