Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-10-31
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Carilne, my niece what lives in the
city, had axed mo q dissiderable mum
Der Of times for my portegraf to put
IN her album, but MS there wasn't
nobody to take them here in the vii.
age, no opportunity didn't present
itself
There was feler what took dag.
gerry tipes and hambertipes for fifIv
cents apiece, without nary case. lest
leetle gilt fxin' around 'em an
doubled down over the edges and
corners but ! didn't reckon Car line
would be sattysded with sich like
when she wanted ono took on pastes
board toput.in analbum, jist like one
she sent from Bosting. / mean hcr
portygraf
- reckon car'line's mighty TASTY
like, now she's gone to Bosting; she
used 10 bo common ms anybody before
her pap made his iortin' in Pekes
Pike, but now ] dar' say You could Int
tech her with a ten feet pole. / was
gwine to tell you how she was dressed
in her pieter: she didn't look much
like when she used to kite around the
kentry in her linscy woolsey. Her
marm made prime linsey; she wove
il and kellerod it herself; nobody
could keller sich madder and blue
and but'nut as Sally, (Carline's s marin. J
How she used TO kite around The ken
try, | was saying, in her linsey-wool
sey, with her bare feet, and frowsey
hair, and freckled face She used to
hev to wash, and iron, and cook, and
milk, and sometimes drop corn when
the mon folks were hurried, aud help
at harvesting. Lawk but she's fine.
ly above il now--all of her paps
fortin' it comes Of an il don't make
a diff o bitterance if folks dlt say he
got it in gamboling. Moneys money,
an if Hezekiah did use to foller far,
min an teamin' for a iivin' nobody
knows it in the city.
Carline's picter didn't dissimble her
much; bcr hair was fummadidled off
in fine style, her hair psnched out in
places what would hev shocked fren.
allygist if it was the natural shape of
her head and her dress neck was
low and short sleeves She was stan.
din by big cheer, her hand, with
lots Of rings on it, restin' on the back
oft. Her gound was so long II drag
gled on the kearpet an big ruiiie on
the bottom of it, an then there was
bows an rufiles, an lace and ribbins
all over the waist and skcart. Her
rig must hev cost power money, and
| should have set more by her if she
had paid me for that hood she got of
me wber Hezekiah was in Pekes
Pike, (they were awful hard run that
~inUvI,J AZURE sue cUnvs out IN such
dispensive attire but that's the iu-
greatfulness OF some folks, when .hey
forgit their bennyiactors the only
wonder TO me was that she had the
dissideration to ax me for my porty-
graf at all, e.U..al
Well, one day there was dissiderable
stir in town folks walkin' about in
their Sunday go-to-meeting-rig, an
laughin' an talkin' putty much as
they do when there's goin' to be
circus or menasery; but there hadn't
been no show papers an pieters up,
so | didn't know what could be TO
pay, till a gal told me there had a
portygraf arty come to town an was
takin' amazin' picters over Macaboy's
store.
oTakin' real portygrafs," sez !
"picters on pasteboard y
"Yes, saysshe. "He's taken Squer
Milf with his gold specs an snuif-box,
iist as nateral as you please, an il
even shows the mold on his chin"
Now this was my chance, so one
day tho't I'd rig up an git mine
took for Car'line. Is'posed she'd like
10 hev me look as material as possybull,
so | put on my black bombazecn, the
one Miss SEVERN made for me eight
years ago this fall, my go-to-meeting
collar--it's about five inches wide,
with a beautiful ageing on it, an a
big blue ribbon to set it of, I sposed
must wear sunihin fine, or Carline
wouldn't like i'd Squer Milf had
hisen taken with his specs and snuff
box to look nateral--what could /
hev? did think Of takin' my little
spinnin' wheel an be a spinnin' fax,
but Miss Jennings told me 10 wouldn't
do, 80 took my knittin'--Jake's blue
sock-it wouldn't be such waste of
time If | could toe it off while the arty
was gettin' the picter Miss Jennings
went with me. When we went in
ieller came to US as perlito an sez he
"Did you wish to eonspect some
spessymens =
What he meant couldn't tell for
the life Of me, but Miss Jennings sez
she
.'oh, no; Mrs. Sharp wants to git
her poriygraf
"Ahw says the feller. He had a big
muslack on his upper lip, an his hair
was fumorated with some kind of
stuff that smelt as if he had been hunt
ing muskrats. / thought maybe he
had met with some kind of an axident
with it, so didn't say nothin', but
looked tho other way, TO save his
feciin's. 81 shall be happy to do so,
sez he.
"Will you have n vinncyrett orone
standin' or sittin' posluref
"She wants one in sitting desi-
ton, said Miss Jennings, who under
stood what he meant.
"Are you the arty " sez !, and sez