Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-02-25
MRS. BLAKE's VISIT TO THE
WHITE MOUNTAINS.
BY CLARA AUGUSTA.


- Almost everybody has took tower this
summer; and I've been and took one too.
dunno but what I've as good right 70 as any
other individual. don't owe nobody moth
ing. except Jim Hanson, the tin pedlar, for a
strainer; and I've got mOre'n rags enough to
settle with him-OT snail have when cut mp
Caleb's cotton hannil shirts; and then 1 owe
Tim Gorch's wife three cents for getting me
a mound Of saleIatus and not making the
change.
could pay her now just as we'll as not If
sued only take a SLED postage stamp; but
she don't take stamps for tear the post-Oiflce
will bust ND Mss GOrch is the most eau
ZIONIST woman that evcr you see.
I've mad a hard summers work OF it no
mistake! Ii makes my back ache to think OF
it. Feed has been so poor on account OF the
dry weather, that the COWS has worked thlr-
selves clean into skiliitUns a keeping from
starving, and haint give no milk worth men
stunning.
Butter has been so skeerce and high, that
I've felt lest as If il was sin TO use II COM
mon: and 1 haint allowed our folks none
sense last July. To be shore, alias have
butter ON tue table--a platetul on is; but IT
ANYBODY goes Tor To tech vi IL, Jest tread on
their toes, and give EN- a look that stops pur-
seedlings at once.
On. platetul has lasted Us all summer |
believes ITS Citing teetle strong now, but
it'll have to DO tins month out guess
Aloag III June, sometime, Samuel White
he NehL up 10 the White Mountains AMI
when he got back, he had more 20 tell than
7 auybody IhAt had been TO tire North Pole
need 10 have had. All that he hadn't seen
wouldn't have paid Tor looking at It.
lie sOt me into tilt TO 80 and see for
myself
spoke TO Betsey Jane, my oldest, about
il, but sue only TUNED up her nose, and
sed ia better stay at home. Betsey Is All
awful hand TO CAD about herself, but she's
never willing Tor me TO STIR outside the
threshold Shes aieared she shall have to
wash the dishes. l never seed anybody
quite so afeared of SLING their hands as
she is. She takes sight OF pains with
Rem, and does 'em up III tailored rags every
night OF her life 10 keep EN- smooth.
But as II happens, l haint under Betsey
James govurnment yet, SO l made ali my
Preparations Just If she was tlckled 10
deaIh with the idee OF going.
The trst of August sold ten cheeses
that came TO leetle rising seventy five
dollars.
l went TO Dover rite of, and bought me
a scarlet merinO gown, q yaller satin bon
nit, trimmed with blue and lalock coloreO
roses; tine slIckest green and blue shaw
that ever you sOt eyes on TO.
got me some new false hair-for, jest be
~ tween YOU and me, mine is so thin j can't dc
much OF anything with it; and then got a
''rat" TO roll il over, SOS TO make me look
like girl.
After I'd got determined on going, 1 went
over and asked aunt Peggy Miles to &c with
e me- She said she'd like 10, only she dassent
go in the railroad, for she should sartingy
: expect It TO blow up, and kerry every man, wO-
man and child with 1t Aud tor steam
boat, 1t would be sinful TO tempt Providence
by getting into one Of them cOntrivances OF
SATIN. Aunt Peggy is a .leetie pecOOliar III
her ideas, but nice woman fOr all OF that
SO told her TO Fix herself to start in two
days, and we'd go with the old mare. Shes
nIgn onto seventeen years oid-the mare Is
~ and hain't had nothing but oatstraw to eat
this summer; but shes spunky as colt, ii
you jest tech her with the whip.
,- L got some new shafts put into the wagon
the old ones had been tied up with shoe
strings this two years, and We dasSant step
onto um (; and took my green fannil quilted
5-T petticOat and cushioned the seat, and put a
braided rug into the bottom for our feet to
set on, and my red and blue calico cOmforta-
Die 10 take up in front of US cool mornings.
We had considerable baggage but then il
be ladies. | had a trunk, three bandboxes, a
cap-box, a carpet-bag tuli of gingerbread, an
umDIiller, a parasOl, peck-measure to feed
? the boss with, spare shawl, bottle of lin
eament, in case should be took with the
neurology, and a clothes line 10 tie the old
g mare win.
{ - Aunt Peggy, she had two baudboxes, a
vallees, satchei Of turnOvers, sugar-bOx OF
doughnuts, six quart pail full of D. ckles two
basket fulls of apples, and Bounce, ner dog.
I objected 10 her kerrying the dog but She
said she wouldn't be separated from him for
no money. She couldn't 60 TO sleep unights
without Bounce Onher feet.
The first day We travelled six mil, : and
hauled up by the side of the road for repairs.
One eend of the wagon seat broke down, and
| put the pail of pickles on top of the sugar
box, and stuck them undertle seat and made
it all right. s- . rr,,HfE .r
49,. The next day we did better. We went
e'enamost twenty miles. Iheld the reins and
aunt Peggy she did the walIoping with the
= whip-and the old mare went like a boss
y Lots of folks banteredme TO swop bosses
s.- But ! told 'em hadn't no, time to talk with
'em, was bound for the White Mountains.
Aunt Peggy had the worst Of il. Her srm
was so lame after day or two, that she
o couldn't skeercely gitit to her head. a 4
-: slAtthe eend of five days we got in sight Of
ni the mountains, and stopped at a small house
rite IN under a mountain, and close TO quite a
r :, smart little pond of water The grandest
place to raise geese and ducks up there that
ever wasl =
was pretty much tuckered out, and asked
20 be shown 70 my room rite off. -Four tow
headed children, lighting for the one taller
dip that lit the way, led of. Aunt Peggy she
couldn't get into the room till after was a
bed, II was so small-so she staid outside and
let me get IN tust The door to it was off the
hinges, and told the young ones 10 set il up
close, and put cheer against it. Materially.