The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-09-23
The "Down.East /. Dialect.


but you and have heard and CONNIE
aud laughed over the proyincialism J
the Georgia Cracker and the Yves,
ern Hoosier,' and ! have for Won som
oI the expressions of the sDown-eas
Yankee. have recently been yisitin
the mountains of Maine and New Han,r
snire' and while enjoying the sights INV
sell, collected some of the sounds fo
you; they are in this book. ,, and sb,
handed me small memorandum.
"You can lug that off with vou,-
lug, mind you, and not tote as the Soutb
erner would say, nor tack. a Ia the West.
ern man. s''
''Why, how you talkr' 1 responded
as my eyes fell on that quotation in the
little book.
YES" laughingly, she rejoined, ..that
Is one expression of surprise, end l
Ua'H 10 k''ow is another, with there
sure and du tell! for mild ordinations
of WONDER
And then we drew our chairs near to-
gether like two school children. one
knowing the lesson and teaching it to
the other.
Where were You when you wrote
this book?''
Please study its photography and
speak by j" she interrupted. :" / sorii
what you have before you in Oxford
County. Me. i see people there ON a
holiday from all over the country. a
.r'arsfer large crowd How the men did
ssoop bosses, watches, boots and knives
on that day. 1t was an ENJOYABLE occa-
SION. Two men nj, but neither was much
nurt- Two boys CHM a tall far (fir)
Tree that made me kinder MARQUIS; was
sseered they would fall and get scrancAed.
AN fnjean encampment was once Jest
where we et dinner"
That is very good, Clary Auqusty.''
remarked her husband. " Go on an.s
tell about Mss Hills husbands hoss.'
=" Wall, l wish you could ha-o soo,,
that an'm'f-he was such a sooty cooler
(pretty crcature). / cc,a,dn,t 'SeI,, ~.
grnfchin Mr.: Hill, cor the animT was u
not skeered of ..nythine. not even r ,hs
fers. lie Vas horse of great roI,,
lvaiue). He was full of spsrret. hnt
MSS dill's Young ans have rid m often.
ne was as sound as berrh and fine
rodaer. Charles, be you really gon-ter
10 try to buy himp" she asked of her
husband.
IF l could git red of two 1 now have
Hills. o'e 'o
:. What did you find to eat so far
North?" queried.
Chickens, aigs, butter. bris 0berr;es,
ana cake (biscuit). The last Sunday we
fods IN Oxford we had billed fowl for din
ner and 1t ,car monstrous nice. / think
the water of them folks wells be the best
ever drinkcd. Them people is mighty
clever, but awful curis. Now there IS |
Bill Haskill as has been keepin' conaDany !
with Lazy Jane Virgins nigh onto twelve |
years and they hahn married uif. There |
IS Mss Stellings, widder wonlan with a |
stght % money, but then say she sol So |
much store BY her husband Qoyed him
20 much) that she won't let no man keep
company with her. Although the sun
was narster hot skeersely anybody had
sniorsts (umbrellas). Ihad a lace fringed
parasol with me, but when rig it | see
wo or three stecrin' ut me so hard l took
down. The dressing of some of the
men was not stylish. Some of the COTS
,coats) fit gauDiing (uncouth). A few
men always sot kcrled up (crooked) as
y they had the rumatiz''
please pause here for definition.
asked: ''What is this and where did
Tou catch it?''
Let me look; oh yes; that is skimi-
'asous. That word was fust heard in a
'hurch trial. The parson was arraigned,
'harged with having attended dances.
Deacon Podger having been appointed
Q put the charges in writing, read them
i the church meeting. He stated there
that the pastor had been guilty of an
'iiense OF immense magnitude and pre-
and that his punishment
hould be skfnaigiiious. 1t Is said that
pon the announcement of the last
Tord the parson skipped through an ,
pen window, ran of as IL for his life.
nd has never been heard of since. ,
here are other words worth observing ;
tufaer for leather. biowed for blew. ,
Ute for kettle, die for Owed, fer for far.
ern for hers, yourn for yours, sasser for
iucer, had' mt orter for should not. A
1t yoUs and a bird yips; this keow gives .
lore milk as the other, instead of than
&c other. boston Post. !;