The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-10-14
Coon Corner Corn Smoking

Coon Corner Corn Shocking
Strange condolences that Capt.
Ballentine and Capt. Irvine should
each have selected the 18th day Of
October on which to marry. They
did, however, and last Monday night
was the anniversary. Neither Of
them thought Of it until after tea,
and when in the neighborhood Of
Flippin's it flashed upon them sud
denly-we mean the thought flashed
upon them, nothing more--and thev
decided right then and there to Gel
citrate it in a hostile manner.
Capt. b. had already seen twenty
five anniversaries and Capt. 1. only
ave, but they decided to start in
even, Notwithstanding Capt BIS su-
perior experience. They sent for
Anthony's Band, hunted up DR..
Grant and Lieut.. Hick Ballentine,
Messrs. Nelson d Treaudeaux, and
all proceeded to Capt. rs residence,
and then sent Jack down town to
get the balance of the things to
keep the meeting from being too
dry. Several young ladies happened
in and the fiddle soon commenced to
creak, and then the boots of the
gents and CATERS of the ladies com
menced to creak, and the prompter's
voice creaked londer and louder,
and finally the floor commenced to
creak, and then they held up till
Jack got back. The first thing Jack
did when he arrived was to shoot
sixteen corks at the ceiling. This
put thingsto eferVescing again, and
after few sparkling remarks from
a dignified old cork screw that came
out from behind the cupboard, re-
sponded to by a half dozen cut-glass
goblets in chorus IN the beautiful
lines taken from Mozarts' Last
Lay of the Minstrels, "We won't
go home till morning" the creaking
commenced again, this time not to
cease for fear of carpenterial de
fects in the substrata of the edifice;
or, in other words, they didn't care
cent if the puncheons in the floor
we're rotten, for they kept punching
away at them with their feet, heed
less of the din Of creaking timbers,
stopping only ENTHUSIASTICALLY to
finish demolishing the extract from
Flippin's pure and pungent pun
cheon. People were aroused in the
vicinity, but when they knew from
whence the sounds came and who
was there making them, they retired
satisfied, for the citizens of Nubbin
Ridge have long sicce found out
that these men, their fellow-neigh-
bors, generally pretty we'll always do
about nearly exactly as suits them
when they are properly aroused.
They couldn't keep this up always,
however; and neither can we tell half
as it should be told the matter and
manner of this remarkable episode.
Suffice it: Messrs. n. d T. came
back to the store at daylight Tues
day morning, the former without
his hat and the latter without soles
to his shoes. DIR. @. and Lieut.. B.
boast an almost supernatural IA
with the variegated twists
peculiar to cotton eordage, or in
other words, they knew the ropes
SO well that they came off unscathed.
Capts. B. and l. had a Jolly time.
They are just shaped to be jolly,
and then they shaped themselves
into so many jolly attitudes that
they haven't got Strengthened out
yet; and to this blessed minute,
whenever you remind them of the
occasion, they go off into convul
sion fjollity and their leshy out
lines culver and shake with fun like
the fiabby TANKS Of an elephant
kicking at flies. May they live to
have a thousand more anniversa-
ries, and may we be at the next one.