Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-12-28
sTArNTON VIRGINIA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1858.

In little time, after some controversy about
places which was arrested by the mothers eye,
they were all seated John, who had dropped in
in the meantime, taking his fathers seat.
is s.sp' said William, 'sassadgss, that's what
love- :.
sHoo' said Isaac, spare ribs! that's what I
love-
We'll, cease your CAB, and eat what's set be-
fore you without comments. Nobody cares
what you love or what you don't love-
'Souse,' said Abraham, i don't love souse-l
wouldn't eat souse; taant ftten for a dog to
eat
Get up, sir, right from the table, and march
out OF the house until you learn better manners.
III be bound if say You shall eat souse, you
eat it. Do you hear, sirf'
Abraham raked himself lazily out of his seat,
and moved slowly off, casting longing look at
the many good things on the table, which he
thought '6tten for prince to eat
Ma said he as he retired i wish you'd make
Bill quit laughing at me-
William, I've as great mind as ever had
to do anything in my life, to send you from the
table, and not let you eat one moutbtul. de
spse that abomnabe disposition You have OF
rejoicing at your brothers mistortunes. Re
member, sir, what Solomon says: "He that Is
glad at calamites shall not be unpuDlshed.'
Ma said Abraham, 'naynt | come to my
breakfast
Yes, if you think you can behave yourself
with decency.'
Abraham returned and they all broke forth
at once.
Ma, mayn't have some sassidge2' Ma, |
want some spare rib Ma, amt got no cof-
fee.' Ma, fyou please main, let me have some
ham gravy, and some tried loinony, and some
egg, and -
And some of everything on the table, sup
pose. Put down your plates-every one OF you.
George, what'll you have ID
Some sassidge and some fried potatoes
John, help your brother George
What do you want Willlams'
4 want some spare rib and some fried har.
mony.'
'Chaney, help William
What do you want Abraham
i reckon, said John, smiling, he'd like lit
tie souse.'
Now, John, behave yourself He has suf-
fered the punishment of his fault and let it there
rest
I'll have said Abraham, some ham gravy,
aud some egg, and some harmony
Help him, CLANCY.
'WhaLll you have, Isaac2'
I'll have some ham gravy and some harmony
aud some sassidge, and some spare ribs, and
some -
We'll, you're not going to have everything on
the table, assure you. What do you want
4 want some ham gravy and some harmony
John, help II
No, don't want no spare rib, want some
sas>idge.'
We'll, if you don't make up your mind pretty
quick, you'll want your breakfast. tell you
am not going to be tantalized all day long by
your wants. Say what you want, and have
done with it,
/ want some ham gravy, and some sassidge,
and some harmony
Help him john
John helped him to about teaspoon full
from each dish.
Now, Ma, iist look at bud Johnnie ha'nt gi'
me only these three little bit O bits
John, if you can't keep from tantalizing the
children, tell me so and will not trouble you
to help them any more. | confess l am at a
loss to discover what pleasure any one of your
age can take in teazing your younger brothers,
'Rebecca, what do you want9'
Il want my pig tail, ma'am.'
Bless my soul and body, havn yOn forgot
liras tig'&ail yc. Its burPt up long ago, |
hope. Look, Bob, and see, and if it isn't give it
to her. wish iD my heart there never was a
pig tail on the face of this earth
Bob produced the half charred pig tail, aud
laid it on Miss Rebecca's plate.
There continued her mother, 4 hope now
your hearts at ease A beautiful dish it is, tru-
ly, for any mortal to take a fancy to-
Ma. don't want this pig tail
Take it away knew you did not want it,
you little perverse brat, knew you didn't want
il and don't know what got into me to let
you have it. But really am SO tormented out
of my lite, that half the time | hardly know
whether Lam standing on my head or my heels.
Misses, said CLANCY, aunt Dorcas say please
make Miss Louisa come out of the kitchen-say
il you don't make her come out of the fire she Il
git burnt up presently-say every time she tell
her to come out O. the fire, she make mouths at
her,
why, sure enough, where is Louisa9 Go
and tell her to come to her breakfast this in
stant.'
Il did tell her, ma'am, and she says she won't
come till she gifts done baking her cake '-
Mrs Butler left the room, and soon reappsar
ed with Louisa sobbing and crying. Aunt Dor
Cas- erked me .jist as hard as ever she could jerk
fore did anything tall to her.
Hold your tongue-she served you right e.
nough-you had no business there. You're q
pretty thing to be making mouths at person
old enough to be your grandmother. If | had
thought, when | gave you that little lump of
dough, that the whole plantation was to be
turned upside down about it. I'd have let you do
without it,
Miss Louisa, after little sobbing and pouting,
drew from her apron small, dirty, ashy, black,
wrinkled, burnt biscuit, warm from the kitchen
shovel, which would have been just precisely
the proper accompaniment to Miss Rebecca's
dish aud upon this in preference to everything
on the table, she commenced her repast.'
We'll, Louisa said the mother, with laugh,
as she cast her eye upon the unsightly biscuit,
'yon certainly have strange taste
Everybody knows that the mothers laugh is
always responded to with compound interest by
all her children. So was it in this instance, and
good humor prevailed around the table.
''n sorry said Abraham, for Louisa's bis.
ki XII kit. bicut.'
We'll, really said Mrs B., you are hand
some speller. Is that the way to spell biscuit q
4 can spell it ma bawled out Isaac.
We'll, spell it,
d 3 U.s. " J" Gil UuaV o riBnl, IL AL, wen
thatll do you needn't 60 any farther; you've
missed it farther than your brother
Spell it, William
William spelled it correctly.
Ma said George, what is biscuit derived
! from
4 really do not know said Mrs. B., and yet
have somewhere read an explanation of it,
John, what is it derived fromT
John. From the French bis, twice, and cuit
baked
William why, ma, you don't bake biscuit
twice oyerV