Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-01-09
PIERCE PUNGENT'S PEANUTS
HOOPS.

Little did Pierce Pungent think, when
he truniled his hoop sixty years ago. that
he was playing with the petticoats of future
genera;icD,-We had certainly heard our
Aunt Pearl say that the fashionable ladies
Of her youth had certain whaleboBs expan-
ders, but We maintain that the genuine hoop
never has been 10 active operation before
now
Boys in olden time, spoke in the spirit Of
prophecy, when they cried
Come with hoop,
Aud come with call,
Come in your petticoats,
Or come not az all
Possibly th. hopping cough may have
been named after some fair ono, whose damp
hoops, being made of green wood, disagreed
with her, and gave her a cold How bean
tifully also has nature provided variety OF
woods to suit that diversified sex. the femal E,
Weeping willows for widows, Oak for
et women. 11osew6od Tor oeTes. Pine
for damsels. Crab tree hoops for old
maids. Ana SO on! especially bamboo for
those dear girls who tamboozle US out of
our baehelorion., aud make as pay for the
operation!
We we're deep in the eogitation of the
hoop mystery when we accidentally met
with an old friend vino is one of the family.
1t was John Hope. that capital Democrst
i We brought him suddenly to bis senses by
/ asking what he tholght of the hoops!
"a most respectable family" be replies;
81 belrng to it,"
Putting the auesien in palmer way, he
asked us into his liHle Office, where hc sits
throued on plies of geld, like Fisher, the
pirate Of Mrs. SippJ. He reminds me of
/ Longscil"w's verse.
5oan Hoone was ia bis Office
A counting of his money,
While the pretty ladies walked
Broadway,
As sweet as y,llow honey
When We we're sated be thus commenced:
AMY dear Puneet, the origin of hoops is
lost in ebscurily, no is il possible to decide,
! at this late day, whittier women stole the
hoop from the cask.or the cooper stole the
, hoop from the womet Certainly, in the dark
ages, hoops we're cokilered as the natural
+ protectors of the wishing tubes, barrels,
: nuneheous, and ever. other pecies of casks.
3 1t is, however, qes6on, whether they
: don't more effectual! offend woman than
! they do hogshead.l
: Oar handsome yoag lcordwainer whom
0 Beattie celebrated in,hi minstrel thus:
!, Now, Edwin Broos, le was no vulgar
e boy, &C., assures rs eaihe wishes hoops in
$ the cellar; indeed anyvhre except round a
d young woman, thus nslang the privilege
+ of lovers arm. Bu o the tale our
murmuring Brooks rdas,
e aIseft alone with a frty girl, she asked
! for kiss. Alas! the u of Latting's OBJ
, servatory might as wellhe done il. could
I not get within kissing dance! There she
I stood, surrounded BY b fortiicAtieus.-
r NJ goose was ever moicrnily secured in
n the centre of gooscbet bush than my
u fair friend. who, aespiteir wish 10 aid me
IS :, the desf,arate eaterpr, stood ike q
20 sevas torcl with her Aakotfs, Redaas,
% sntworks, and cheraur fr7tze' AT last
De the beautiful besieged. iier natural desire
10 TO meet uie half way. loser 5alaace, and
q a. i auI a New Yorker | Christain, she
p- rolled about the room iih barrel of tagsr
- tiey that hal tunbled OFFS stand. rs ths
ih song says
rs 81 sent for u eoope exc
1t last 70 uaboopt
Ia Befsre ahe eoald d on end2's.
be Trandliug hoop doSsroadway, with ,
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