The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-05-08

got to pay the worth of a yearling
calf to git it, and aig cost you as
much as the hen that layed it. The
cheapest thing you git here is the
ride on the street kar six mile out
thar for nickle. Butitsa turrible
big shaw and pays you for gwine ;
you see folks from all over the
world, und kinnery meets kinnery
that haven't saw one another for
years, and it makes 'em glad happy,
and you see things you never seed
or dreamp of afore in your life, and
when night comes you can shat
your eyes and see it all over agin /.
We'uns all tried to stick tOgeth r
kase its mo1strOus easy to git lost.
You can be right in twenty foot of
anybody and lose 'em, and if they
git lost from you, you might as
well try to find needle in hay
stack as to look for 'em. We'uns
all got scattered frOm one another
the very first day, and Cousin Jake
COrban he called US "Ignorance
Abroad" He thinks he's mighty
smart.
We'uns had been a braggin too
that we wasn't a gwine to git lost.
We had seed so many folks a hunt
in around tor ther crowd il made us
sticken closer together. / and Cal
edony helt to one another|s hands
continuerIy putty nigh all the time
and we told Cousin Pink and FIur-
ridy Tennysv to do the same and to
keep up to we'uns, and we'uns would
keep up to buddy and pap-but
it was like tryIn to keep up to a
steam en-gyne to keep up with pap,
he putty nigh run his legs off
tryin to find Mr.. Director General
Burke-he had ruther saw him than
the show. Cousin Pink'S Sunday
shoes had riz a corn on her left
foot and blister OH her right and
her and Flurridy got away yander
behind we'uns-and Cousin Pink
she stopped wbar they sell cider
and Flurridy she come huUtin for
me and Cal and got lost. We'uns
missed 'em and Cal 10 we'd she'd go
back to find 'em and streaked off
after gal with coat on like cOu-
sin Pink's and struck up with cou-
sin Jake and forgot all about cousin
Pink, and Flurriday and me too.
We'uns was all lost, and all huntiu
for tother, aud when found cousin
Pink sue was eatin of a ginger
cake aud cryin fittin to kill her,
self, and lowed she was harngry
and wanted to go home aud stay
thar when she got thar. She had
been ever whars huDtin for us,
and akin OF ever body she met If |
they saw anything of Betsy Hamil- |
ton; like folks knowed Betsy Ham.
ilton fIom Polly Hopkins or Sal
Simmons or any body else, aud " bile
we s0t thar all our gang come up.
have knOwed they would
come around thar, kase the last
head of 'em is death on ginger
;akes and cider. Aud while we
vas settin thar eatin gal
passed by huntin for her brother,
Iud little boy a huntin for his
zap, aud a woman stopped and axed
Have yOu'uns saw anything of
nan with black hair aud red whis
.ers r. Yes we had saw about a
hundred, but We couldn't tell her
Which away they had went no
lOre'n tue wind. "Well,n saws she,
have you saw a woman with a
lack bonnet on, she wasn't a very
oOd lOokin wOman."
Yes we had saw about a thou.
aud of them sort, but didn't know
ne from tOther. The poor critter
'as lost trOm her crowd an1 no
ody knOwed bettern we'uns how
he felt. We'uns all clung together
tier that and Cal she hearn some
'lks say venus was from the coun.
~ aud wondered hOw they
moved. q
Cousin PiAk's corn Is better, but
he run her head in glass show
ise yistiddy loOkin at some birds =
nd broken the glass and nearly
listed her head wide open. !, !,
I'll tell you more next time. y
BETSY HAMILTON. =