The weekly ledger., 1857-06-13
THE PARIN' BEE.
MISTER JEDEDIAH PARsLEY's LETTER

! III course You don't know nothin about huS-
kin irolics and parin bees and such like. In
such case Pm into you all about no particular
measure at all, seein it's you, and l don't
keer if let you into some sartin dons in
these parts, that come Off as Workers say,
next fall will be two years. Now if | do tell
he hull, shall depend on your honor, (and
| kalkllatc that's rayther better than Msss-
sippl bondS) that you won't let on me, cause
II you did | should have Hetty Gawkins in
my hair in no time, and may be sooner, and
! Prudence Parr wouldn't never stay with her
in all creation. So here goes; and as every
thing has title nowadays, | go in for
THE PARIN' BEE.
And you never went to q Parin' Bee i
We'll, TO tell the fair truth, / never did only
one, and pare me into hoop-poles if | ever
dew again. 1t was a real screamer for that
uatter, both on account of what happened
there, aud what beiel afterwards have been
to huskln frolics, qniltin's, and musters, and
fourth OF independence, and raisins, &C., and
blame the luck before got through had
an all sufficient great paru scraped off my
shin bone, along with a pair OF new boots,
all gone to eternal smashes, besides pair Of
spoht trowsers for mother to scold about for
year afterwards You see Col. Grstle
made the party. You know Col Gristle |
'sposc. Hes the Major of our regiment,
though we call him Col out of our regiment
We'll, the Col. and his wife, Beck, make the
irollc, and in course. had an invite, and so
did all the gals and fellers, for niles around
1t was goin to be famous one, and SO mother
she went up to help Coz Becky get out the
hXin's the day afore-and when she cum hum
that mite, by goll! if my moth didn't water
when she told over about the ovens full of
punkin pies and piles of doenuts to say moth
III about the 'luSses cake and slider, all ready
aud slowed away in the back butterv She
said how the Col. was goin to set the two
birch tables in ;he forenoon, and kalkilated
to fix some boards in the kitchen to put the
rest OF the vittels on artcr they'd got done
parin, and as they expected about forty all
told, there warn't cheers enuf for all TO set
on, they had got to eat standin, which was
the most politer way and the Col. he knew,
for he had been down to the Legislator ali
last winter, and seen how great folks done it,
Graciousl thought !, if don't make up for
that thought can eat as much again that
way, it goes down so much strater. Well,
towards night the next day, while | was get
TN ready who should come along but jim
! Spoouer. jim and / had alters been thick,
aud told each other everything.
How are you jedi" says he.
Right as a book, !" says |, =" how's yours?"
"Jest about so, only little taller-goin up
| to Kerpal'S to-mteW
Yes, by hokeyw says /, "if l can ever
get these tarnal boots on"
pore some soft soap into them," says he,
"und they'll 20 as smooth as ile."
! They was bran new pair of calf-skins, and
! had been tuggin at the straps half an hour
afore Jim cum SO | run for the soap dish,
and in went pint Of motherss best. aud sure
enuif OH they went squash!
"Why, yon darned fool" says Jim, "you
orter pored the soap out afore you put your
feet ill.,"
well, never mind" says |, " was in an
alfred hurry cause il was gettin late-never
mind. they eel cool and comfortable just now
-luay be the soap will soften the leather, and
otf we started
J We had just got the cloth home from the
MILL aud Ant KITTY sot up all mite to finish
them lor the occasion. My coat was ony
comm two years old and felt that | warr't
to be sneezed at by folks what hadn't got no
nozes. Jim aud had agreed aforehand that
we'd borrow Deacon's old mare ana wagon,
and so bring home some of the gals; so we
went into tile Deacons to get her as we went
along The old man was pesky fecred she'd
eut some internal eaper with us, cause, you
see, she was sorter sklttish like, and besides,
/ A.. +I rat
and ddn't keere no more for a ninepence
than Il blue cut does when her back is up
But | told him III drive and he careful, and
TO clilch the matter, we paid him two sh-
ln's down, and promised the other the next
day-so he told us if we thought we could
catch the beast we might try it, and out we
went to the paster But the old mare was us
shy as Il black iox, aud wouldn't come over
SO easy. She lald her ears back Of her neck,
and rolled out the white OF her eyes, as much
as 10 say, nothn green here youngsters, aud
off we started, on II tall trot her swltclln
this way and that way like all natur, clean
TO tolher end Of the paster A weary chase
We had of it tell ye, alore we could corner
her. At last we got her in between the fence
aud big rock, aud Jun crept up on one side
aud Oh lother, till at last made grab at
her ioretop, but no sooner did l lay my hand
on her than she wheeled on her hind feet in a
lwinkIn OF a drumstick, and landed me as
much as twenty feet end over end, into a
brush heap.
'Consarn the RpP says !, and | picked
myself up about the quickest-and looking
round for the mare, may be blessed If Jun
wasn't on her back, without halter OF bride,
griupiu her name like destruction, and she