The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1858-08-28
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J sells for fifty
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re twenty cents q i, but don TAXI
aless tiay'l sinl-sdily in .gater-
Wy be rotten, yon know al Nbutter
al to try # It night ,sla j; ana
aver all. my boy, be NpnIte to the
w.. IS! Good bye'-aud Henry pnt The
ass key Of the store (my insignia of aa-
thorityl into my hand, and |eaped into the cat
whiGhsNa to take him to the depot.
] fat somewhat dignifed-as if was promo
ted from the rank Of a private to that of a cap.
tain-and | went up to my room, at uncle
Johns for a survey of. my toilet. Tn E&S~a
a good looking fellow myself, though ss.sst
straight-laeed people might think it vanity
in me to mention it, but all the girls say SO,
and it is generally conceded that they are cor
petent judges.
BY way of enhancing my personal at,
lions | added to my dress a pair of wrougn.
wristbands, (don't laugh, u%nfeeiing reader
they were embroidered and presented to me by
a lady friend and giving a parting twist to
my moustatche. | sailed ont.
The morning was fresh and fair. no grim
clouds cas-, their boding shadows over the
earth-and a promised fair for my success. |
arranged myself behind ibe counter and waited
Tor customers.
Customer No. / entered. She was a mid
die aged woman, to buy de bege for her 'darters
gown
/ was all alacriiy to fulfil her commands.
| piled the counters with what | supposed to
be de bege. a sort of thin, glossy, rafting stuff;
and with all my eloqnence eNpatiated on its
wonderful merits.
There's silk in it, amt there p qneried the
old lady, putting on her spectacEes for Il closer
examination, Miss Moss, our dressnaker, said
so!
silk to be snre there is I said I. imediately
taking my cue, lit doseu't do to contradict a
lady) silk. why its all silk the real, fine Ital-
an boiled ~silk-sewing silk, marin, imported
expressly for your daughters wear. It'll last
an age"
We'll, she'll want it to wear a pretty good
spell, / reckon a body can't afford to buy a
gown every day, you know 7
OF course not, marin Of course not but
this will look sweetly on your pretty daughter.
no do bt shes pretty-resembling her mother,
| dare say | had heard it said that a little
Jndlcious tiattery never comes amiss with the
ladies'.
Law bless your heart, sir, Sally amt no.
wise handsome she amt nigh as goodlooking
as / was in my young days her nose is too
crooked, and her hairs red but then Sam
jackson thinks she's splender-iterous That's
what he says, anyway"
No doubt, marin, but Mr.. Jackson is a
man Of taste-prohably q connection of An
drew Jackson, the patriot and president
How many yards would you like?' and |
fiourished the yard stick with a professional
air, which would done credit to cousin Harry
himself.
'Oh, stop q minute I amt decided IL bout
it yet. What's the price?' "a
Very true there must be a price. 7 snnnos.
ed, but | had forgotten snch d contingency,
However there wonld be no difficulty about
that, for Harry had said the goods were all
marked IN plain figures, so | turned complacen-
ty to the card attached to the cloth.
I, b, a., q
Very explicit, Like the Hebrew Bible to
me, but | took a moment to consider-Id put
it low enough, | thought, to induce her to
trade aud it wouldn't do 10 appear as if |
ddnt understand my business. / might lose
caste with the old lady.
Well said | though it's a great sacrifice
really giving it away-Il let you have it for
Que shilling per yard! Dirt cheap, but as il
for your pretty daughter I'll put ii down be-
low cost! | wonldt do it, said /, leaning
down over the counter close to the old Iadyis
green calash-' | wouldn't do it for another
person in the world
My answer seemed to please the old ladv.
She turned the fabric over and over, felt ct it
upon both sides, tried the strength of its tex.
tnre with her thumb and finger, aud at last
gave the order.
Eight yards and a half, good measure! and
silk to sew it up with
cut off the desired quantity, folded six
skeins of sewing-silk inside of it; the lady
paid for it in odd uinepences and sixpences.
aud bowed her out of the store.
Enter customer No, 2. A seedy-lookino
man, in a gray blouse, to get two cents worth
black snuff.
searched around awhile among the mysteri.
ons boxes and barrels and at last pitched unon
the strong smelling article. Wrapred up
couple ounces; delivered it to my customer
and received in return two copmr rs, which
Noah might have coined in the Ark While
waiting for dry weather.
customers No. 3, were two pretty red.
checked girls-oue with butter TO sell the other
with a palI OF eggs, destined for the same pnr-
pose as The butter. | remembered Harrvs in.
%l.onetion about the eygs, butter, cold water. and
fork pr'eklng but for the life of me, couldn't
,eeoiect which test was to be applied to the
or which 10 the eggs. However.
to obiige the pretty girls, so | took
both butter and eggs into the back store. de
ternlned to do something with them.
Alter a few moments consideration, | procured
Il fork and pierced each and all of the eros
Separately-and the result was astonishing ont
OF two dozeu SIX were POSITIVELY in g. state nf
decomposition thirteen were occupied BIZ re-
narkably weiigrown juveniles of the fowl rorp.
the remaining five were smelling decidedly
Tine butter wouldn't sink in the water-5,
Ill | could pop it wouli come up TO the sur.
ace again. aud | was obliged. though relac-