Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-12-10


good ont, for 1t would be putin two SAILS
together, and she didn't believe they'd
agree anyhow, and for po.lusion, theyc
got cnuff of that already. Howsoever,
they rubbed her all over with it wherever
the slider went, and may be twisted into
pigtail If in half an hour she didn't look
as Jim Spooner said like whited sepul>
chre, only wuster. Her frock was sorter
pinkish, and wherever the pollushen went
il took out all the euler only the slider
cutler, and that was jest no cutler at all. /
guess she remembered the dandy as long
As she did poor Joe Spraig, who skunk
into corner, and never said boo all the
rest of the evening.
Well, after we'd eat and driuked as
much as we could hold, the gals turned
to and cleared off the dishes, and then we
began the spree in earnest. Col. Gristlc
had got black Jake to come and fiddle SO
we laid out for two sets, one in the fore
room and the other in the kitchen, and
black Jake took his place in tho entry be-
tween, so that both could hear the music
didn't fcol much like shinin' it down
real hard, but kinder thori I'd try one or
two jiss, so arter they'd begun to stand up,
| walked up to pretty sort of gal that
nobody seemed to notice, 50 still and quiet
like, and axed her If she'd 'jist favor me
with her hand" &c. She SAID ''she was
much obliged, she guesst she wouldn't
dance that time" "May be you will next,
then," says 1, thinking to engage her afore
hand, you know, but she curled up like
a pint of beet juice, and said something
that didn't hear, when turning my eye !
seed that dozen fellers were looking at
me eenamost ready to snort right out -
Just then dandy chap came struttin'
along with Prudence, and as they got close
to me, says shein sor; of whisper, "Jcd,
somebody's pinned the dishclo,h on your
back" Flammenation, but / was mad
enuf TO rare up on end. "Who on airth,
said |, ''has did this?" and kickt it off il
less tnan no Time.
II was all wet aud greasy, and felt a
softer cbokin sensation, just as though !
could have jammed it down somebody s
neck, grease and all. AT that minnit seed
chap lookin' mighty KNOWN and solemn.
with a con(ounded ugly wink out of one
corner OF his eye So Us was biiin' Jest
let the dishc!oth drive. One corner took
the solemn chap across the mouth, and
slippin' off, the whole consarn went rite
slap into the nigser's fiddle.-''KI' says
blacky "who do dat trow dat tam mas
ty pot rag at a Niger? l say, Massa
Grissel Massa Grissel somebody chuck
dis cusd nasty rag rite in dis fiddle he
spile him 'tirely dc bow be grease all
over, and de strings dere be no tum-tum
in en-" / seed was in fer it, but was
too mad TO back out 81 threw it, Jake"
says |, ''but not at you," and rolled back
the cuffs Of my coat. '.Now, if any of you
want to try titles, jest come on ; Ill settle
with the niger for the fiddle" The sol-
enn chap wiped his chops, but said moths
In, but | seed he winked out of tolher
corner. felt so riled 1 forgot all about
my toes, and just then Col. Gristle came
along. and | walked rite up to him, and
told him didn't cum TO his house TO be
insulted in that way, and git in muss
with nigger, and that was goin' rite
lr,me so would In less than two min
utes. "You shan't do no such thing, Jed.
amt goin' to have any kwarelin ir this
place, so jst take my darter Liz, and stand
up along with the rest, III see that Jake
tunes it up" / soon seed that a little
spunk goes great way sometimes. Liz,
who had fit shy of me all the evenin', now
cum up to the work regular, and we went
at it-down outside, up the middle, cast
off. right and left. putin in the double
shuff1es and toe an! heel like all natur.-
Jake, however, would sometimes make a
slip on the high notes, and then We could
hear him--''tsm de dish rag"
Prudence Parr and the dandy feller
seemed mighty thick all the time, and
didn't like it At all. You see allurs took
sortcr likcin' TO Prue, and kinder thort
she liked me, too, but seed ii was no use
now, SO concluded to hold on and watch
'em.-Peoty soon it come their turn TO
lead of, and if Allcurly didn't trot out fair,
then no colt never did. He sartinly did
do it up In pretty good style, considerin',
only he put in rather too much metafor-
ical work, but as for the double shuffles,
he couldn't hold candle 10 some of u.s.
Prue was q loud one ut the work, and the
way she ratified The shoe leather was omin-
Gus of swift destruction to heel taps
Allcur.y seemed to be pretty ambitious TO
throw off his passes, and jest as he got
down TO the lower end seed him trying
10 duv-tail plgcon-wing into some Of his
queer crankums, when fetchin' down one
foot rather hard, he tiod on an apple
parin', and both his heels flew into the air
kwiker than you can count half One of
OF his sod settlers took Prudence in the
stummuck, and cenamost sent her threw
ono OF the winders the other bit Ike Miles
rite under the smeller, and plagy near
knocked his nose off, while Allcurly canae
down ker thump, rite on the bottom Of his
back. Crickety how the dishes ratified
and such hoss laff, guess you never
heard on. bring the chicken up to the
doe dish," says jim Spooner. "Give him
some of the pollushuu," says Sal Savage
it will cataract the asshead.' Hes got
pollushun enuf now guess says Mike
Longley, only jest look, his trowscrs is
all split up And ] may be caiermauled
II his trowsers wasn't all busted out, from
his waistbans clean down half way to his
boots! Air;h and worms, how he did
look! His trowsers was strapped down