The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1865-01-27
XBNIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1866,

You needn't trouble yourselfto be s0r-
ny, wife, said Barney, I'VE baint got no
salary, an faint your fault they don't grow
here.' 5v as5c2 staT= l-.) s-
Arter while one on 'em had eat eye
rything out @ her plate right clean, an
says She, Mr.. Baker, I BELIEVED will
change my plate, and take a bit Of that
gUose.' - 5Gd1 q ElGHIaJ 81. LC1I
ii ffCeFtainly mann jisays Barney, mighty
polite. So he cuts off a nice piece and lays
it on his own plate, what was full Q, 2: al
sorts O. things, an swaps plates with Miss
Feathercod. Well, the notiOnate woman
wouldn't eat a bit Of Barney 'sodinner ar
ter ahegot it, an I didn't know what made
Barney look SO solam, like he was dom
mischief. Come to find out, he knOWed
all the time that sheWapted- a right clean
plate to eat that piece O goose of er. .
+ Arter they had all made mighty
hearty. dinner, the oldlady tuck her.hands
and dons'em So at Dilee Ike she wanted
.',em rubbed. Well, the niggars had been
runninY round the table. ali the time, an
Dice was bent on showing how smart she
was. 80 she ReW at the old souls hands
an osetlto rubin 'em like ell possessed
but Miss Featbereod jeTked ,e9m ayayj az
says she, 1.wanted q fnger-basIn. r..-.-t
Poor Betsy, she tuck all back again.
But She is mighty oman, ef she.is my
daughter, and don't often be put out
She remembered in minute the little poT-
ringer she keeps. on the top.shelf to give
sick people chicken soup in. So she had
it filled with water, an handed to Miss
Feathercod. She washed her hands in it,
an all round her mouthg and then tuck a
mouthful and washed out the inside o
her mouth, and spite it all back in the
porringer. Thinks l, syou don't get me
to eat no more chicken soup cut OF that
quality fDger-basin.' r. 'l' .-
l- The rest O the quality, when theyseed
I5tharrwas no more pOrringers comm, all
Fashed thar hands in their tumblers. |
locked with all my eyes to see EN- drink
the water when they was done an spit 1t
back In tie 3tumbler; but as good luck
would ha7eittbey didn't; / know it would
admade Barney mighty mad to had to
smash up all them new tumblers arter the
quality had used 'em and fur my part, l
can't see what they bedaub themselves
with everything they eat fur, and cant
git up from the table tell they are washed.
1TWouid abeen heap less troubletO poor
Betsy, eff they had kept their hands IN
der the table cloth, an a let the niggers a |
fed EN-. '-
By the time the dinner doins wus over
it wus putty late. We thought shore they
wus gwine to stay all night. But fust
thing we knowed, they azed for their hats.
That's what they call them poseys they
war on their heads,J Barney told 'em
they better stay, that twas dangerous to
ride eight miles overt that road afterdaFk.
i0b, says loDe,r we never 60 out be /
fore dark if we can avoid it Old Soils too
ardert beams are so overpowering.'
yes says another, 'and the gentle !
moonlight $50 soft and beautiful. i'
81 sAnd,' says auotherp $50 pOeticalIand |
soul-inspiripgli r55au .rGr lasI5a 5dt !
'And,' says t'Other, fwinkling stars
look like the ever Iwatcbful eyes of our |
guardian angles 'A 'i'-
Barney looked Ike he thought It was
his duty to warn 8em TO stay all night, but
seemed. nightly snrelieYed when othey
wouldn't be, warned. He told EN- there |
wasn't no moon; but they said them an
their coachman an HOSES and carriage was !
all use TO ridin about at night; SO they !
fixed on their head geaF-an tOoktheirlht- !
lie sunlfans and started. 5im1a sls Ea-is
tor PoOr- -BetsyTwus hard at work to the
last gittin, their supper, for she -Wgus
bound to have that in time. -''. -.'--
y11'W6II, wife, says Barney, 4 don't
know which looks the jadedest, you or
my parof old oxen that Ben Gill has been
working most to death y, % rg5--. bond
4 don't think, Mr Baker says Betsy,
you have much respect for your wife,
to compare her to your Old oxen UT DIS
Says he, whether / have respect for her
or not, am gWine to take care Of her, an
you've got to let them quality, folks alone.
I don't see npthin, in 1emI that my wife
should be KILN Up herself ai aiPQqt75FEe3kfii4n e3kfi4
thls way, }e -d4g1T 10 s1E9 sl-J NJ /.
= ffYes, says l, 'to say nothin Of all the
poultry that's been killed g. go
We all went to bed purity soon, cause
you see the quality had purity nigh used
us up But we wasn't done with, yet.
Way long in the night heard q great
beatin at the front door. I jumped
up, gotta Light an vent see what Eus to
pay, an as / live, thar stood one o these
niger solgars, q boWing an scraping soon
as he gotisigbt of me. 60
b THE Lord bless my .seul,' says; I, SIS
! your ,mlssis sent you here to fetch one o.
them visitin cards this time O. nightP rs
h. He bowed agin an says Mrs Feather
cod presents her respects to Mr.. Baker, and
would be much obliged could he lend his
assistance, The coachman being deceived
by the darkness, of the night, was 50 un-
fortunate as. to urun off the side of the
capseWay and upset the carriage in the
sWamp, " ...s - r5,svl 81, ....
IaoI seized him by the collar an give him
aich ashakin, uniform and ALL Jest like I
wus a making up feather-bed ;faSaysd,
"You imperdent captain-general you, why
sdidh' byouSay 50 at onGt? What did you
stand bowin an talAin quality talk to me
fur, an all your mississes a slashin about
heels over head in Cow Swamp ?'' af lo
o Barney heerd me a talking to a strange
many an come tumbling down stairs, roll,
ed up in blanket an when he saw me
oOllarin Of the fine niger, says he, Moth
er, jest turn that -fsllep over to me, OIL.
Says I, Barney, 60 right up stairs an
getintOs some close directly an start right
Ofno Them quality women an their fuu-
1ikey Higger, al hOsses an carriage, an lit
tic sun FANS an n1posOys, an snuff boxes, an
visitiu cards, is all koeled over in Cow