Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-12-01

/ DOJQ UduuS, III Cledr SucoI dStOuISulueub,
for you see twas the first time I ever
heern tell of sich thing.
| /" 'Sartainly I am, says she. It's
the universal practice amongst genteel
people, sich as I've been to visit
9 Its my opinion sald Mr.. Marlowe,
who happened to be passin' through the
kitchen, that to hold cup and sarcer
in one hand, and a plateful of knick-
knacks in the other, will be a little more
than our young farmers will be able to
do, without scaldin' themselves with the
hot tea and my advice is to give the
young men a chance to set at the table.
AS for the gals, the most of 'em have a
kind Of material turn for gentility, and
can manage to keep their cups right side
up
Z. That's Jest what I've been tellin'
Patty said Mrs. Marlowe; but she's
determined to have her own way. For
my part, I shall make pint Of havin' a
lot Of Inning bandages ready, to do up
scalded hands
Father and mother are so old fash
ioned,' says Patty.
'~'Shouldn' you like to have batch
of pumpkin-pies, Patty!' says [, when her
father had gone; 'cause, if you would,
we've plenty of dried pumpkin at home,
and you shall be welcome to enough 70
make whole ovenful AS 'tisn't the
season for pumpkins yet, I think they'd
be rarity. Your oven is SO large, that
you might bake couple Of pies in airth-
en- milk pans They d make nice thick
pieces, and 'twould be less trouble than
to make so many little pies.
az hope,' says Patty, i amt going
to be so ongenteel and countryfed as to
have pumpkin-pies.'
Sartninly not says [, 'if it as on
genteel; but [ know all the young folks
round here were uncommon fond ofpump-
kin-pies, especially 'Siah Niggleson; and
'Siah's father, you know, is the richest
man in the place.
"'Well, says Patty, If they're fond
of what people Of style and refinement
don't tolerate, it's my place, as I've had
better advantages than they, to set 'em
an example
"'Well, [ don't believe says her
mother, if you set EN- ever so many ex-
amples, you can never learn 'em to leave
of eatin' pumpkin-pie, and | shouldn' t
think it exactly safe to set one before
you, s'posin you were ight down hungry,
if didn't intend you should eat it.
'By two o'clock, the next day, every
thing was ready for company. Patty
was dressed in her lay-lock colored Can
ton Grape, all 6rimed off with white sat
ting ribbon, with a laae rufle round her
neck, her Aunt Marlowe gave her, that
cost five dollars yard She took ali
the shine off Of NE with my white
cambria gownd and pink sash, but bein'
materially of contended disposition, I
didn't feel mite invious,
Though Patty had writ on the keerds
Of invitation she sent to the young men,
she sent for 'em all to come to tea, the
greater part Of EN- had sent back word
that it was such busy time Of the year
they couldn't spare the time to come so
airly, 50 she needn't expect 'en till
about sunset. For my part, [ thought
twas well they couldn't come, for there
was as many without 'em as could set
round the great parlor
'Tammy, the hired gal, was dreadful
10th to hand round the tea-said she was
as good as any of 'em, aud had reckoned
on settin' down with the company and
takin' her comfort. She wouldn't con-
sent to stir an inch, till Patty promised
to give her one of her calico gownds, jest
as good as new.
There were only six or seven young
men that got there in season for tea
One of 'em was the schoolmaster, and
'Siah Niggleson was another. I've for
got who the rest of 'em were, AS Miss
Marlowe said, .'Siah's father was the
richest man in the place. For all that,
there wasn't another young man, any
where round, that appeared so awk'ard
as he did, He was as tall as May pole,
and almost as slim.
'.Well, you see that Patty was so tre-
mendous perlite and cerelnonious, that
the gals didn't dare to act themselves.
Instead of chattin' and laughin', as they
commonly did, WREN they met together,
they sot round the room still as so many
mice, and lookin' as stiff and straight as
so many wooden images. I can tell you
that, take them together, they were a
set Of the most solemncst-lookin' critters
it was ever my fortun to see.
Gas good luck would have it, the
: school-master sot at the eend of the row,
) which brought him next to the door SO
when Tammy came in to hand the tea
round, his turn came first. They all
watched to see how he managed, and,
near as they could, copied arter him; for
: they sposed, if he could teach readin'
5 writin', cipherin', he could teach man
! ners
"You see I'd gin Fanny Bright, and
4 two or three more of the gals, hint