Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-25

the things Richmond must furnish Us. In
the meantime, with Aunt Leighton's per-
mission, wen sack Woodlei9h fer other
needed material And now como, ah--Mol.
lie, Virginia, Lucy, Alice, Rose, Jeanette
want you every one; and Gilbert Luc,en,
and all the boys can lend hand, too
So saying the whole bevy Of young people
and children rose from the table, and went,
nlarshaled by Cousin Annie, TO carry out
their plans
The older members of the party were,
fortunately, invited to dine, for these two
days preceding Christmas, at neighborlns
plantations; so that the house was quite
given MP to the young fry, greatly to their
tielectation. as they desired to keep their
preparations as much out of sight as pos
sible.
| In due time Randolph Leighton came back
| from the city, ladened like old Santa Claus
! himself and all the girls fingers were IN
stantly busy. The sewing room was invaded
/ and baskets and drawers turned upside down.
in search of shreds of gauze and bits of
! tinsel, and gold and silver paper, peeled
! from the last importation of new linen, and
! wards of fine-drawn wire, and pieces of serge,
! and punches of wool 'Ole Maum Sophy, the
seamstress, lost all patience. At the utmost
she could hardly finish the last of the thirty
insey "coats" she must have ready for
"siies Fanny's" distribution to the women
and children on Christmas morning; and
here were these 'young missesses calling
her from her work every half hour.
"Wot mo-, now, little chick? Don't ak
ME fur no mo- null You done got the las
rag O Miss s1illdred's party dress wat was
lef'; and there won't be scrap O boblnet
ell NJ
summer. You see !"
But we're doing it special for poor
Cuckoo" plead Alice, coazingly. "And
ar'n't you his own-own auntie ?"
.sWen, accordin'. Eff is, mus de hui
house be put out de winders cause Cuckoo
done gone broke his knee? He don't hab
| to work none now. OATS makeup huff fo1
him"
All the little piccaninnies-th Jlms
Toms, and Petes-of Woodleigh, wers
.. abroad early the next morning, after cedar
pine and spruce; and they came from thu
. woods, like the Fifeshire men from Dunsi
, name, each with his burden of boughs Owe
his shoulder. These they piled at the doc
i. of the laundry house. which, like kitchen
wash-house dairy house. stood separate, d
, ! is the case on all Southern plantations.
, MAS Lucien, he awful mad whispered
little black Dolphus to the coterle around
ZOOS push out Granny Beck's Closeup
a whar holds her line, so to peep tro' d
. auger-hole. Let's we-uns tend we doesn'
keer pawpaw fur dis play they tall
. bout, an go off to bed on top de big pile Q
, shucks 'Tain't gwine to be muffin like d
T fun OBJ possum hunt, nohow.
, Uncle Barnabas has no little trouble get
2 ting his usual supply of g Christmas greens
= from the woods, so taken up were the boy
with the fetching and carrying going on a
+ the laundry house. Nothing less than
fried chicken-leg or a hoecake served rouns
, to each of the half dozen small black run
, ners sufticed to coax them to scour tn
woods for the inevitable mistletoe that mus
, be suspended from the old fashioned glas
chandelier in the drawing-room, and t.
t gather the greenery for the Christina
wreaths that were always hung in ever,
available place about the walls. % Dog OF
. dat Play" Uncle Barnabas was overheard
1 saying Dem little no-count Niggers je
v like SO many bees in my wool