Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-03-27

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get the lint brushed of your brown
cloth. But she changed her mind when
she got most there, and turned for the
barn yard. In she went, feather white,
and brought upall standin' agin the
hay rack. Soon as she stopped Jim
Slipped off and put the bars up, and
then we had her where we could han
IDLE her. We soon fixed old vixen to
the toggery and started. After we got
out of site of the Deacon's guess she
got her pay for the ground and lofty
tumblin' she made me perform, and
the way she took her feet away from
the ground was a caution to horse
shoes. We seed long afore we got to
the Kurnel's that there was to be a
loud one there that evenin', for the
winders was all lighted up in both the
forenoon and kitchen, and every now
and then, as we got nearer, we could
hear somebody or other rore rite out q
latin. Put on the bush, JEDI says
Jim, fhe'I have all the fun afore we
git there Not as you knows on said
l, there's good fish in the sea yet
that's only Mike Longly lafin at some
of his own nonsense. can tell Mixes
whoop as far as l can hear hoot OWL
| With that we shove up to the door,
and Jim he jumped out: l followed
suit, but, by the powers! no sooner
| than my feet struck the ground, but l
/ curled up like freed forkentimei Golly
| gracious, Jim y says /, if my feet amt
all ,jellyv WELL said he, didn't tell
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der if they was all sope afore mornin'. ,
An sure enough, with the sope and the
runnin' my feet did feel just like two
red blisters. | sot down on the stoop
and tried to pull my boots of, and Jim
he tried, but they wouldn't start no
more than the skin itself, and l might
jest as well tried TO pull the bones out,
so seed must grin and bear it for
the mite for sartin though l couldn't
stand up strait for the life of me-
When we got in they was bizzy enuf.-
Some was parin', some was cornerin'
and some was stringin', and they was
all torkin and loffin like all natur.-
About half duzzen fellers was down
on a bench, in one corner, with baskets
of apples rite afore 'em, and if the
parins didn't fly off in what folks call q
taugint, then | never seed one. Then
there was about as many more gals and
| feilers cuttin' off the butts and tips, and
a passel more was cuttin' out the cores,
while almighty lot was stringin' as il
for life and no bitters. Many hands
make light work. thinks /, so made
for the long table where they was strin-
GIN. l seed the prettyest gals was all
at that table, and besides, they seemed
to have the most fun. Prudence,
says |, lend feller a needle Sorry
to pity you Mr.. Parseley, says she, but
you see | have jest lent the last one to
Sam Snooks.' SAM says !, hand us
over that needle, if you please See
you blamed first, Jed, says Sam
You'd better take yoursel out of this,
we're crowded now, besides jest heard
HettY Gawkins akin arter you over
there among the butenders.' How
lsumever, l hunted round till | found
needle, but as for gittin' place to
stand at the table that was another
sort of affair, and arter tryin' all round
l concluded to give it up and go to cor
nerin'. But while had been tryin to
git a place at the large table Jim
Spooner had insinuated himself into
the only vacant place there, so l had
to go to buttin' or do nothin'. And
what made 1t worser than all the rest,
had to stand alongside of Hetty CAV
kins. She was the homliest gal in our
parts; her esess and disposition was
pretty much alike-they were both as
cross as a saw-hoss. Her mouth was
put on all of skew, and her nose was
so big thet Mike Longley said it took
two hankerchers to blow it. 1 didn't
feel very good natered myself, cause
one thing, my toes was so sore, and
cause for another thing, didn't take
much of a shine to Hetty: Howsum-
ever, We got along pretty well, consid-
erin, cause you see l torked across the
table, and if my toes hadn't kept me
treadin' just like a gander in cold
mornin' fest on one foot and then on
tother, should felt tolerable content
ed. / was orful glad when they said
supper. We'd got the apples all pared
and strung and piled up in the clothes
press-and master heap there was of
them, 100, and then we went 20 clean
in up and shoveled the parins and
cores up into baskets, and carried them
into the shed. Then the gals set to
and swept all the scatterins into one
corner, and it had jest begun to sound
like Babel broke loose, when Col.
Gristle says, 'supper's readyv Jemi-
ma! how quick they all stopt. Pretty
soon, however. they begun to pair of
towards the kichen, and l seed a dan
dy sort of feller from the village
shinin' up to Prudence Parr, as much
as to say with your leave, Miss, I'll
wait on you.' Thinks l, now or never,
so stepped up pretty quick, and stick
in out one foot TO make bow, struck
it full force against one of the bench
legs. 'Darnation ? said l, and didn't
1 double about the quickest The gals
all Uttered, and some of the fellers
LATED rite out. By the time I'd got
strate agin and wiped the tears out of
my eyes, Prudence had gone off with
the dandy, and as l felt considerable
wamblecropt, l didn't try any more
on 'em, but limped into the kitchen
and daubed into the eatables. The
felfsrs helped the gals to applesas and
doenuts, and ginger tea, and pies and
a lot of new slider, and if l hadn't got
my toes trod on every little while, /
should took real comfort. Arter
while they went to drinkin' tostes, and
kissin' glasses, and crossin tumblers,
and we was havin' a fustrate spell of
weather, when Joe Spraig steps up to
Sally Savage. with your leave, Miss
Sally, I should like to take a cross
handed drink of slider with you.'-
s0h, Pm agreeable as a chip basket,
says Sally. So they filed up and stan
din kinder facin' with the tumblers in
their right hands, they locked their
right arms and begun to swaller. But
as Joe got his about half down, some
internal scamp come along behind and
pricked him eenmost to the bone! l
was standin' rather afore and rather
side on him, and seed him gulp, and
then he shut his mouth and tried to
choke it down, but it wasn't no GO
the slider skwirted out of his nose, and
threw his teeth, and at last he fairly
busted up rite in Sally's face and eyes
PollyWogs wasn't there a mess, And
then such a roar! | wouldn't been IN
Joe's shoes for kwart of beech nuts.
Sails frock was all spilled, and her new
collar all wilted down jest like piece /
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