The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-03-02
sam slick at the "RaIsIII."

MISTER EDIrER :-We-that's me and Jemima-
hey bin to the raisin of the government biidin, and
| tell yeou. Mr.. Edimr. We were disaplnted. l
kinder expected when | saw them sOlier fellers.
that it was to be a stuck up affair. and 50 it was.
We-thats me and Jemima-used to go to barn
raiSins to hum. and bev sich ALFRED good times
that when we heered that there was to he a rasin
here we were tickled mighty to death. We-do. do.
(for shorD haint bin from home so long that we
can't enjoy an old fashioned time. We kinder eX-
pected to meet the uaybors, yeou know, and give 4
helpin hand ut the work. me at the bildin and
Jemima dom chores in doors, gettiu the eatln fXins
ready. and so forth. Ieou know Mister Editer,
and if yeou don't yeOH Ortu, what a risky time we
used to hev when the ridge was liked and the
bough tied to the gable-I tell yeou them ICdS
times. Praps yeou remembe when Squire DoOllt-
tie had his raisin for that ALTERED big barn Of
hi>n. arter he came hum from Giineral Court. He
represented our deestrIck, and some folks were
meen enuff to say that was where he got the spon-
duliX from to bid with. Didn't we hev a time,
though That's where | commenced sparktn
Jemima. AFTER the work was done. we called the
gals ont aud commenced to dance. When old
Black Sam begun to draw boss hair across cat
entrails,-thatiS perlite for cat guilt was aglnst
natur TO stand still. | yum | went IN and slOShayed
abeout till nv wind was clear gone. | was goin
t. tell yeou haow | met Jemima, but she says that
won't amuse outsiders. We wound up with games
and cider and SIGH. and / VOW it's a worry and a
yeXatiOn to talk abeOut 1t meow. But / soc out TO
tell yeOU what we saw at this new-fangled raisin.
When we came to the clearin where the raisln was
to be. we were afeared We had better staid to
NUN. bAl ~ = w AZ VI c"A SN - 4 NNAAtA"-
had on her best kalikeT gOuud, and l had my best
shirt with a billed store colIar,- wouldn't back
cont.
First. we he'd to march between them foot soljers,
and then lookout for them boss soljers. until we
were tuckered cont and dusty. Then we came to
a temporary structoor-that's larnin for hed-and
in that was lots of quality folks. Let's see
the King. he was there. loOkin as good as new !;
then there was the boss Mason with his operatives
that's what he called tbem-then there was the
iron-clad kurnels. and majors, ct cetery, lookln for
81 sha -n- o. In Fh4N TEh4I TlHV hadn't
enlisted then those OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES a
pesky word, butt means Deestrick Representatives
TO Gineral Court then the Queen DUwager. she
looked dignidedly peuSlve then there was flTrln
Sam he was there. with i
right smart chance of n young woman on his arm.
Chats AUTOMATICALLY worded-Id say more If
Jemima wouldn't see this. She seed me u lookln at
the young damsel sideways and Sed she tnOt / d
better look to hum. Sartin. | sed.l Then there
was the odd fellers, and they did look rather odder
than other folks. Then there was night templars
and good tempIars. I'd rather bet my money on
the good ones. cause they lets Ticker alone. Then
there was the rag-tag and bobtaIl, that me and
Jemlma belonged 10. The ralsln was to be IN
slow meter, and so We didn't stay TO see 1t all
raised. But they fixed one stun, while we was
there.
The boss Mason-a big. good lookin feller.-and
he nose lt-dreSSed to klll,-a careiul kind OF a
man tho. for he had an apron on. jest like his oper-
atives-he had a talk with the other maSons, and
then one of 'em put a tin of preserved newspapers
and things into a hole. and the boss said be hoped
they would lie quiet until some tuter time TO
come. / think he said lie quiet " to be sarkastick.
for whoever would think OF yeOu and the Gazette
man 4 lyin quiet so clus together: Then some
mason that wasn't dressed quite so nice put some
mortar on the hole and in the stone,-or visey
versey-and then they helped the King to spread
il reouud. and then somebody raised up a stun
kiver to the hole and lowered it down to slow
music. while the other fmasOns with good clothes
on commenced playin a game they called grand
honors," but 1t seemed a good deal 10 me like the
old game of - bean porridge hot! bean porridge