The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-12-03

BETSY BROWNS THANKSGIVING,

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proper name is Elizabeth, but MIR. Brown
alters calls me Betsy what do you say to
our going up to uncle John Miler's Thanks
giving :? Strikes me it would be a grand
chance to introduce our darter Sally to the
society at Greensville."
Now, ye see, John Miller was Azariah
Browns uncle, on his mothers side; poor
boy in the fust place, but he'd got as rich
as crocus manufacturin' shoes, and as ma
tural consequence, he was proder than Ju-
piter.
The Brown tribe thought every thing of
HIM, because he lived in big house, and
was Justice of the Peace and CT orus. His
parlor was fixed equal to Queen Nictoria's
sitting room, they said; carpeted all over
with tapestry Brussels, three ply carpet
and ornamentcd with pIcters of Rafels, and
Maddonnas, and landscapes, and don't
know what John Miller was the big bug
among the Browns and MiIlers.
"Well," seq |, Azlrah, I'D like to 90
we'll enuff, but I'm afeared it would be pro
porous to intrude on 'en at sich ii time
without an invite. You know Josh's wife
holds herself head and shoulders above
common folks"
"There's no need of her doin that - scz
|, 4" but then her mind is histed up a good
many feet above the common level, and if
she amt any better than we are, she thinks
she is, and that amounts to just the same
thing"
"Nonsense! Poll Miller is made out of
lest the same flesh and blood as the rest of
us-only they do say that her great grand
father was n niger; and she had a fourth
cou,n. whose wife's husband was put in the
State Prison for stealin' two hens off from
neighbor's hen roost! Now, there never
was relation of mine in Jail even and my
father and mother was both white men. -
"WelI, we'll, Azariah," sez |, don't
brag over it! You know that's fact that
your uncle John takes drop too much from
the water bottle occasionally: and according
to my way of thinking, it's about as bad to
drink as to steal hens -
.'Fudge Bets Brown - sez Azariah. tart
", s" that's nothin'! All Gentlemen drink!
It's right down fashionable !"
seed that Azariah was little teched. so
didn't stop to argue with him; but say
here-thatif if getting drunk is fashionable,
don't keer about any of my folks being in
the fashion That's all.
1t was settled that We should 60 to
Grccnsvlllo to Thanks-iving, whether or
not: for Azurah is as obstinate as Il white
pine stump, and if his mind once gets sot,
It ain no use trying to alter 1t.
We was to kerry our uarter Sally, ard a
bnshel Of Baldwin apples, to make US well
come.
Sally. il do say it. is a remarkably well
looking girl, for II red headed one: and it
amt every girl that's got lis much inginu-
ltv ns she has. She can knit and sew, and
spin. and crochet things out of thread
She's quite edc, too; can read, and write,
and cipher, and say the multiplication table
without q single mistake. She was nigh
about tickled to death when she found cut
that we was bound for her uncle JUshe'S.-
Young folks is alters sot up with the pros
pect of gadding.
s. Lawful goodness, mother" scz she 81
shall have to dress in my 90 to-meetin pop
lin and my gold bosom pin, every day -
/" Yes. wus than that" sez |; - I'm gwine
to buy you weller and green silk gownd;
and gray Rug-man cloak: and Il black
velvet bonnet, with an oyster feather on top!
I'm determined you shall look as well rs
Jahn Mlller's Clarlbel Jospher, and Selmy
Ewreky to boot! 1t takes me to regulate
things when | set out"
Well, the next day went up to Dover,
and bought twenty dollars worth of inciy
1or oaiiy ana ,neh So' necA A'ia''uAel-
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