The weekly ledger., 1857-06-13

| standln rather afore him and rather one side
on him, and set him gump, and then shut
his mouth and grinned and tried to choke it
down, but it wasn't no go-tle slider skwirted
out of his nose and through his teeth. and at
last he fairly busted up in Salys face and
eyesl Polywoggs! wasn't there mess! and
then such roar! wouldn't have been in
Joe's shoes for quart of beach nuts SAILS
frock was spoiled, and her collar wilted down
jest like piece of white bladder. Howsum-
ever, they wiped her down pretty dry, and
Coz Becky said she didn't think the slider
would stain, especially if she put the frock
asoak as soon as she got home But the dan
dy chap said as how it would take all the cul-
Ter out. He said the slider was an asshead,
and that asshead alters took the euler out
of such stuff if the didn't have some alkerly
to contract it, Col Gristle didn't relish it
much to have his sister called an asshead; he
said it don't even come out of hogshead, but
out of a clean barrel, and he himself seen to
cleansin ont. And as to his alkery he didn't
see anything more alcurley than the furries
the dandy chap wore on the sides of his face,
and if he didn't mind his eye, he'd pull some
Of his allcurly out Of him. But the village
chap warn't to be put down so, but went OH
to explain how that alkeres ment SallyIatus
and pearlash and such stuff, and finally per-
suaded them to put on what he called pol
lushon of salyratus Sal said she didn't
think much good ont for it would be putin
two SAILS together, and as for pollushon, they'd
got enuff of that already. Howsumever,
they rubbed her all over with it wherever the
slider went, and may be twisted into pig
tail if in half an hour she didn't.look as Jim
Spooner said, like whited sepulchre. only
wusser. Her frock was sorter pinkish, and
wherever the pollushon went it took out all
the culer only the slider cutler, and that was
no cutler a. ALL guess she remembered
that dandy as long as she did Joe Spraig, who
skunk into a corner, and never said bool all
the rest of the evening. Well, arter we'd
eat and drnked as much as we could hold,
the gals turned to and cleared off the dishes,
and then we began to spree in earnest. Col.
Gristle had got black Jake to fiddle, so we
laid out for two sets, one in the fore room and
the other in the kitchen, and black Jake took
his place in the entry between, so that both
could hear the music. | didn't feel much
like shaving down real hard, but | kinder
thot I'd try one or two jigs, so arter they'd
begun to stand up | walked up 10 putty
looking sort of gal that nobody seemed to
notice, so still and quiet like, and axed her if
she'd jist favor me with her hand, &c. She
said she was much obliged, she guessed she
shouldn't dance that time, says /, thinking to
engage her aforehand, will you the next? but
she cullered up like pint of b9et juice, and
said somethin | didn't hear, when turnin my
eyes | seed half dozen fellers lookin at me
| panamogt raa6V to snort ritp ont
Just then the dandy chap come struttin up
along with Prudence, and as they got close
to me, Prudence says, says she in sort of a
whisper:
jed, somebody's pinned the dishcloth on
your back"
Fammentation but I felt mad enuf to
rare rite up on eend.
"Who on airth has did this?" said I, and |
kicked it off in less than no time 1t was all
wet and greasy, and | felt sorter chokin
sensation, jest as though | could have cramm-
ed it down somebody's neck, grease and all.
AT that mint seed chap lookin mighty
KNOWN and solemn, with confounded ugly
wink ont of one corner of his eye. So as |
was bn jest let the dscloth drive. One
corner of it took the solum chap across the
mouth, und slippin of, the whole consarn went
slap rite into the nigger's fiddle!
Kip says blackey, "who do dat? trow
dat tam nasty pot rag at dis nigga? / say,
massa Grissle! massa Grsslel somebody chuck
dis cussed nasty rag rite into dis fiddle; he
spile him 'tirey; de bow be grease all over,
and de tring, dare be no tum-tum in 'em" |
seed was in for it, but / was too mad to
back out
Il threw it, jake" says I, but not at you,
and | rolled back the cuffs of my coat "Now
if any of you want to try titles, jest come on;
I'll settle with the nigger for the fiddle"
The sollum chap wiped his chops but said
nothin, but seed he winked out Of tother
corner. j felt so riled forgot all about my
toes, and just then Col. Grissle cum along,
aud | walked rite up to him, and told him
didn't come to his house to be insulted in this
way, and get in mess with a niggar, aud
that | was going rite home; so l would, in
less than two mlnits.
You shant do no such thing, Jed, | amt
goin to have any kwarelin in this place, so
jist take my darter Liz and stand up along
with the rest, I'll see that Jake tunes it up.
soon seed that little spunk goes good
ways sometimes Liz, who had fit shy of me
all the eveniD, now came up to the work reg
ular, and went at it--down outside, up the
middle cast of, right nd left, putin in the
double shulfles and toe and heel like all mater.
Jake, however, would sometimes make slip
on the high notes, and then we could hear
him tam de dish rag
Prudence Parr and the dandy feller seemed
miphty thick at the time and [ didn't like il