The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-01


they used to rub the bottom of nv fee
with candle grease, every night, 70 n
70 make 'em soft; and put onion draft
under my ears to draw the sap ONT 81
4 my head. Part Of the time / used |,
live with annt Dinah. She used {,
Iced me on Cruel, ginger-root anl
pickles, an q couple Of yards Of fries
4 trlPe, afore g ing TO bed; and il I gol
RESTLESS in the night, / had couple 81
I Bloney sasages. After | was twenty.
lone, ! fell dreadfully in levs with N,
cousin, .Julianny; she was sister L
I cousin Dabney Pinkum, that rot out Z
patent for Wringing dish-cloths. But
# went to give her buss, one day. and
she jest raised the back DC her hand,
and gin II to me right across tic nose
1 and mouth Il made daddy dreadful
tinad, and lie went right straight 10 s
lawyers, and the lawyer charged daddy
five dollars, and tell d him, ii Il died of
/ the wound, il would be 3 clear case sc
Iinfanticide. Since then I've been lee
terizing about the folks in our llarts:
and as our family Is the most rarest
specimen, iii take 'em up one by one,
jest as you pecls potatoes. In Tie fust
place, arter me, Is Prudence Gornelia
Ann. She's very gcnteel; stands
seven feet eleven inches in her stock
ings, Jest as slim rs o saplin. and All
OF even sire, from her Feet downwaftls.
and back again from her head upwards.
She's . rotten fine looking gal; only
her mouth ) stretched wide open That.
come from trying TO swolIow hot
damplin when she was young. But.
then, she's right good looking raj,
only she sqaints in both eyes: thai come.
from seeing two locomotives pass one
Other on the railroad; and size s lame, III
one leg, and limps with b other; But For
all that, she s q good looking gal.
Rrqdence Cornelia Ann was a !. laai q.
ing school; but now she's got a big pair
of. washed ear rings in her ears, bunch
of flowers in her head, and d beautiful
.frock that comes down to her knees;
and her hair is done up with q tnrtle-
soup comb. She's so dreadful nice
she can't eat nothin' afore folks, but il
you jest peak through the key-hole OF
the pantry, arter dinner, you Il see Pru,
.dence Cornelia Ann attacking iii the
pork -steaks jest like o living slaughter
house. She don't do nothin' all day
long but set in the meal-room, and
:thump the pianne, q tiilk a tnln, a tllnI
a tink, and sing about Scots wha ha,
and all that sort OF thing. My brother
hit, he's q captains OF a malicious COM
pany, he's:a most outrageous terrible
.eritter us you II find this side of sunrise.
When he draws his sword, and gins one
cut at the old cows tale, he looks JEST
as brave as julius Caesar; and when be ]
stamps his foot down, and sings OUT
silence, the malicious folks is, jest as
quiet as q rat under q tub. Daddy
says he's jest like Napoleon. He ez.
poets to get permoted to be reFo-I
tioHary hero. .:= s.. . Z. r. ..:. @....
. My daddy, he's q withered-up old
.eritter; sets in the chimney-corner all
day long, chawin' tobacco and picltin'=@
the heas off the hens and the ducks; he's
got the rheumatis from the sole of his
headto the crown OF his foot. .= !.
My brother Jake, he's been round
the docks SO much in York he's got to
be q dock loafer; he's drinked So much
red eye liquor, the glass has worn his
mouth all down one side, and now his
hand don't have more than half as Far
TO go as il use to to get the liquor to
his mouth. He wears one shirt pretty
much all the time, and he amt at all
particular about his skin; he says he
washes the inside we'll, and the outside
fain,t no account. His nose is as red
as ripe cherry; folks tell him it's
liquor makes it red, but Jake says he
got 1t smellin' Holsters. &.
As to nanny, she's a very good
woman; but ! shan't forget the time
when she licked me with shingle for
llappin' cream. out of the milk pan.
f'Iwa'n't right, / vow it want; for my
tongue was jest as clean as the back oil
my hand. Nanny was duced pretty
when she was q gal; she says all the
folks was tryin' 70 poke soft-soap al
her. She was jest the pictur Of me,
She's lost her teeth now, and has q
very convenient eountenance for smok'
ing; there is jest room enough 'twixt
her nose and her chin for the pipe, SC
! she don't have TO hold ON 10 Il with hel