Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-06-02

ward was as merry as a cricket. He was fairly

on hiS hign noSs
Everybody was dressed to kill, and every
body was distressing perlite to Ellen aud /. |
was produced to more folks than you could
I shake q stick at, and all OF 'em said they hoped
to see me WE'LL and told 'em was obleeged to
'em, / was pretty WE'LL only bad cold in my
head, and a tack Of the sneezes. They all said
they was sorry for that, and hoped / soon be
restored to adolescence, or something like it.
"There was cake and candy, and lemonade
hurried round on walters, aud as | didn't feel
hungry | Jest emitted my part into my pocket,
and give the plate back. jim Grantley he pre-
sented me with an orange and cranberry tart,
and put them into my pocket too. Then Tom
Sanborn come along and handed me sugar
basket and a halfpnt of peanuts, and tied
them up in my Handkerchief and pinned the bun
die to nv belt. | seed some fellers afing at
this, but little did keer knowed was jest as
good as they was if l didn't smell quite SO much
like muskrat.
"There was fiddler at one eend of the room,
and pretty soon he began to scrape off the music.
7 alters did admire q hddle-though | don't
spose ought to say 80. People might call me
light minded. But think jest between you
and |, that fiddle beats pianner or an organ,
all out and out.
"'W What are they going to do next9' says to
Ellen.
WTo have a cotiion or kadrill, or something
of that kind says She
Land sake!' says I, whats a kadrill "
$50. q species of dance says she. and you
must join u.s. It's magnificent
:" Ellen May says l. 'are you crazy? To
think that Mrs Kezah Smal-should dance
Amt you ashamed of yourself to think OF such
thing? I?
"s Dear me- says she, don't take on so, aunt;
there's nothing improperous about kadrill
There's wide difference between that and dan
cling can tell YOU
40, is thereY says |, well then, I'll see
about it. I've no objectives against doing any
thing decent. pervded Pm asked
".You'n be asked fast enough says she, and
the words warn't hardly out of her mouth before
ND come Timothy Jackson, the long spliced car
penter, and says he:
/ "' Good evening, Mrs Small will you honor
me by giving me your hand ?.
"'Wall | don't know as it would be much of
= an honor says l., but there it is-now what are
r you going to do with itT
, Lead you out to dance the next set with
/ me saws he, and afore knowed it was standing
rite out in the middle of that room with every
body staring at me,
90. don't know nothing about your set,' says
: l. Il couldn't dance step to save your liie.'
$50, yes you can, says he. Its only hop
ping round to the tune on the fiddle.
"Pretty soon there was lots of folks up in the
e floor and at the first scrape OF the fiddle every
4 body began to bow and amplify to somebody
(; else. | bobbed down my head at red-nosed
man opposite, and he bobbed his In return. Then
b. everybody put out their right feet and fetched a
little scrape with 'em, and | followed their ex-
ample and give powerful scrape with mine, but
the sole of my shoe was started from tho upper
leatber and that are scrape was too much for the
! peps. The sole come right off as clean as a whis
lie. and stopped down and pick ii up and tuck
ed ID into my velvet ribbin.
ntIt's shoe that aint been wore morn two
months says to Jackson, and kinder hate to
give il up so guess can have this tap pegged
on agin.'
All the kadrillers LATED ennlf to kill them
selves but | didn't see nothing worth making
such fuss about. Some folks is alters giggling.
It's hateful habit, any how.
Wall, after that the kadril went on for
spel without interruption. Such bobbing and
bouncing and hopping, aud skipping and o,
how the hoops did whir The girls sweat like
rain and got their curls all Strengthened out
and the feers wheezed like anybody with the
aspma, and wiped their foruds with their red
banditt handkerchus. bounced as high as the
best of 'em and guess | must have done things
mighty stylish, for / was the very centre of all
ewes in that room. Sometimes | was close to
Jackson's side, holding onto his arm, and then
apin I'd be away back behind everybody, making
my trotters go like all creation 1t was bisness
warn't much used to, but was bound to do 1t
up brown while was about IL.
q" Ladies, change pardners Cross over?
yelled the fiddler, and determined to be the first
to mind him, | made dive for the other side,
and in so doing ran my head butt against the
nit of the red .nosed mans stummak. Down he
went. karring with him little John Smith and
two lghtha gals, with their cheeks painted
redder than pneys. | was fairly under way,
and It warnt possible to stop myself 80 | went
right over the whole Of 'em, and struck aginst
the table where the reftctionary aud things was
fixed M The table was a shabby, three-legged
affair, and aint the lightest thing In the world
that might have been throwed agin 1t, and down
il come onto the floor with all its load of good
things. Everything was knocked into doubled
and twisted cooked hatl
~ picked myself up as quick as ever could,
and busted my gound and felt after my cap. i
found it missen and my false hair turned
clean round to the back part of my head, leaving
the front of il bare as peeled cabbage. Ellen
helped me fix it on agin, and after q long spell
of sarching we got my cap-my beautiful new
white cap with blue ribbin on tout from under
the wreck of the table, ruinated and spilled by
the auince sass that had soaked all through 1t.
Ellen lent me her lace bordered handkerchur to
tie on my head, and looked exactly as though
had rufled night cap.
"Come to examine myself more thoroughly,
made an awful discovery. | had fell on my
pocket, and the oranges and tarts that was 10
there had busted, and ran all over the skirt OF
my silk gound. The color was took out, aud
distracted 10 every direction. That handsome
dress was intirely split.
81 was SO mad that could have tweaked
everybody's nose Ia the room. And the worst
Of il was, they all blamed me for upsetting the
table, but don't see as was anyways to blame
at all; If it hadn't a-been for that pesky 6ddler's
orders, | should have kept on bouncing and hop
ping rite in the same spot where was. Edward
I Smith said | warn't an atom to blame for the
catafasm but there was Ellen gggling as
though it was her last chance. | could have
shaken that girl!
After I'd got more composed looked to see
what had become of my shoe tap and 10 and be-
hold it had evaporated from my belt. couldn't
understand where it had gone to, and told
some of 'em so, and they hunted round, and at
last ished it out of bowl of frozen milk that
they called ice cream.
@Wal alter a spell things was put 10 order
agn, aud they persuaded me TO try kind OF a
performance - known as waltziDg. I'd never