The Portland daily press., 1862-07-30

home with u.s. an he larfed, an sez he yes, agn !;
so we converced on the littry tropcks of the
day, on national trubbles, an sed considerable
bout the masonick instytushun, he bein ma
sun. was pretty well well verced on them
subjecks, for I've he'd more skoolin than gals
hev for the most part; an I've studded readin,
an writin, and rythmetick, ever sence was
child; then marin has always tooke the Mis-
shunary Adyerkate, for shez bound we should
be posted on what was occurrin in the sur
roundin touns; an if it hedn't been for the
newspaper / shouldn't hev knowd of this ma
sonick selybrashun. Well, as was sayin, this
felier went home with us, and maid call |
tell you, Sam, If Obid hadn't passed just as he
did, twoulder ben all day with him. / couldn't
help thinkin of the words of Longfeller, or
sum one else:
Tall and hansum was this feller
Tall and hansum a maple;
As maple in the spring time;
An his words was like the sap, too
Like the sap that comes from mape
Soft an sweet as maple sugger;
An as sugar when tits eaten
Leaves the mouth sweet as hunny,
So his words when they spoken,
When I'D thot an ponderd on um,
Made me feel, o SO salubryus,
That most forgot my obid.
Pretty soon he sed he gest he must go, an
as he was about to bid me apphecshunate
good-by, /, bein kinder bashful, sed, in the Ian
gwage of Mr.. Ward. l wouldn't; and do you
believe it Sam, he wouldn'ted. In the evening
they was goin to have promenade consert.
My cuzzen stated that they'd hav marshal mu-
sick instrumental an vokul. Sez /, l spoze they
! sing sum wont they? She sed nothn, an
sez /, l spoze they'll have fiddes, an they'll play
on the band sez l, an that'l be fine spoze
we will hev to set down all the time so l ges
I'll venter to put on my new delayne Though
it cost shilling yard for may see sum of
your frens of the mail perswashun, and ges
we better git redy and so erly so to git good
sitooation in abysynyum or in the stagin. She
never said word, but grunted and that was
the only ordible sound l herd, sez why cuz-
zen I'm feerd your dinner dosent set well Shel
/ get you sum parry gorrick, sez /. As was
sayin we went TO the consert, an when we got
in they was all walking round, a feller with a
gallo how did long for Obid. Sez what air
they walkin round for, sez my cuzzen they are
prommynadn, o sez l, we prommynade an
them fellows up there consents do they, yes,
yes, jus begin to see the things in trew lite,
In little while man vocifferusly anounsed
as my cuzzen sed, that the filst danse would
be syscillun hornpipe, and would be anoun-
sed by the sound of hornets. Why seq |.
hornets is awful critirs, they're enuf sight
worsin humble bees, didn't they know that an
/ was jus startin to tell um that hornets wud
sting um nigh bout to deth, when my cuzzen
kot hold of me and sez she, he didn't say moth
in bout horn-nets, he said corn-nets. A corn
nets, SEE l, yes, / never see one, do they look
anything like fisl-nets, sez l. She looked flus-
turd agin, and SO l give her my fan. Sech
queer lookin folks as l did see, Sam, the most
antiquarian looking females was dressed UP
with they're furbelows and jimcracks, and they
looked like parsel of old wimmin that had
lost their fackultis. There was sum there
judgin from there looks that was between So
d 40, an they he'd on dresses that hedn't much
of any sleeves to um, an Judge they didn't
hev cloth enuff an when they had pulled them
down long enough to sweep, why there wasn't
much ofany waste to be seen Il mean waste to
the dress).
Well things went on SO for time. when
they begun TO walse, now Sam I've see queer
sights, but never see disgustiner one than
them wimmin and gals maid, they was incir-
kled by the gents arms, as my cuzzen dis
tressed it, flying round like top, sum of um
had limbs what might be called dllykit, but
the most of them flor we had full view) o
horrors what immencity of space they did
ockkypie. Now SAM this letter is confyden-
shul, and 1 shel rite agin very soon an tell you
about the forth o. julye.
Believe me your apphecshunate cuzzen,
Dorothy ANN PIMPKINs.