Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-01-12

| ~ f"'iOi AiS'Nhiiit5 w aIty StuiH-
ing about in her stocking feet, in the cham
Der overhead, for one good hour. Then l
stood up to the looking glass and frizzlod
up my hair, changed my breast pin to a
new place, thought over some speeches to
make under the buffalo skin, and finally
laid plot to lug in the awful question in
a sort of slantincickular fashion.
AT last Patty appeared in allhcr glory ;
I was just crooking my elbow to lead her
out, when in come Mrs. Bean.
"Where are you going to, Patty!'
cover to Shaws, sleighing,"
"What, and leave your cousin Dolly all
alone, to suck her fingers! A pretty how
dye do that, after coming all the way from
Saeo just to see you!"
Here was knock down argument. All
my plans of counting and comfort melted
down and ran off in a moment. l saw
directly that the widow was resolved to
push big Dolly Fisher into my sleigh,
whether or no and there was no remedy,
| for the widow Bean is stump that is
| neither to be got around or moved out of
! the way. I said something about the
small size of the sleigh, but it would not
do-she shut my mouth instantly.
"Let me alone" says she, II went
sleighing afore you was born, youngster.
If don't know how to pack a sleigh who
does Patty Bean stow yourself away,
here, and shrink yourself up small, If
there ain't room, we must make room, as
the fellows used to say. Now, Dolly, hoist
yourself in there"
She tumbled into the sleigh, like shot
from a shovel, or cart load of pumpkins
into a gondola, 1t was chuck full of her.
80, she's whopper, I tell ye."
"Why, Johnny Beedle," says Mrs. Bean,
"in my days they use to pack us in, layer
on layer
AT this hint I sneakod round to Patty,
to begin the second layer on her lap. But
the widow was wide awake. She clenchcd
me by the collar, and patting upon Dolly's
knees. "Hcre's the drivers seat" says
She "Plant your feet flat and firm, nice
jump up Johnny; and now, away with
her my lad"
BY this time got so raving mad that I
could hold in no longer. fell afoul of
the old mare, and if l didn't give it to her
about right, then there's none ofmo, that S
all. The deacon counted the welts on her
right side a week afterwards, when he cal
led on me for reckoning, which was made
with chalk upon the upper flap of his eve
ry day hat. Sukey not understanding
such jokes, took the bit in her teeth and
shot off, right on end, like a streak of new
Connecticut lightning7 Jimina how we
skinned ovor it And the houses and
barns, and fences, and the pig-stycs, flew
by us like clouds by the moon. "Yondcr
is Hanks corncr-whoorn !" and "whoo-
rah I" answered all the ladies and gentle
men with one voice. Sukey, scared with
the noise, turned the corner with a flirt
and the sleigh was bottom up in
"Whoa there, whoa !"
The first thing that l knew, I was in
the bottom of a snow bank, jammed down
under half ton of Dolly Fisher | thot
| never should see daylight again, and
when they hauled me out, | left a print il
the snow very much like a cooked up hal
knocked into the middle of next week, al
the sailors say.
Howsomeyer no bones were broken. VIZ
shook our feathers, and crept into our nes
again, laughing as loud as the best of them
The sleighs were formed into a string, thu
fiddler following, and away we started oil
the road to Shaws bells jingling, fddl,
sounding, and everybody hallooing anc
screaming for joy.
Peter Shaw heard the racket two mile
off, for he was always on the look out OF
moonshiny night. lie fell to kicking up
dust in the best room, to put it to rig hts
and when we arrived the floor was swept
the best Japan candlosticks paraded, an'
little Ben was anchored close under tn
Jam, to tug at the broken winded bellows
No fire appeared but there were strang
symptoms of it, for there was no lack o
, smoke, and part of it, missing the chin
! noy, strayed about the room, which CAV
me a chance to hit off another complimen
on Pattys beauty, as being the cause {
drawing the smoke, As soon as we ha
/ taken swig of hot stuff all around, W
sat the fiddler down by the iamb, took tn
floor and went to work, might and mair
, the fiddler keeping time with the bellows
G prolix, We kept it up, frolicking and drink
ing hot stuff, till midnight, and while
lasted, the fun was real renuine, l tell u