Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28

Another hunk, Suss. us what We might
choose from in the way of desert.
"Chomper puddin,' black cracker pie,
swampers an cream" she ratified of:
hesitated. This was Q new and start
ling list of delicacies to me. Not daring to
make plunge into the unknown, and un-
willing to admit my Ignorance by asking
for further particulars, I was about to de-
cline everything of which the unfamiliar
chomper, the strange swamper and the
mysterious black cracker seemed to be the
chief ingredient, when fellow guest, wear
ing a yariegated and bright-hued flannel
shirt and two shades of yellow beard, and
who was evidently impatient Of the delay I
was causing in the girls round Of the table,
called out from his place:
'tFetch along hunk O. chomper puddin'
to this end O. the table, Suse, an tell the
old woman not to be afraid of her sapsago
sass, nuther r.
Dainty for an Epicure.
Reassured by the confidence of this indi-
vidual. who was plainly familiar with the
customs of the country, told Suse to serve
me with some chomper pudding also. In it
came, steaming hot-a liberal roll of old
fashioned huckleberry pudding, boiled in Q
bag, the crust white as snow and light as .
feather, with little mound of the butter
and sugar sauce of MY boyhood fast melt
ing beneath the pudding's heat and per-
meating with its richness the purple inte-
rior of the savory morsel. All you whose
acquaintance with huckleberry pudding is
obtained by contact with the fiat and too
frequently stale dumplings Of the res
taurants have yet to know huckleberry pud-
ding. 1 knew it well when I was boy
among the pine barrsns. renewed my
acquaintance with it at this little back
woods tavern. But why this name of
chomper? appealed to the guest with the
amazing shirt and the bi-colored beard.
"Isn't chomper q queer name for huckle-
berries?" said L
The native carried couple of SQUARE
inches of his pudding to his mouth with his
knife, ruminated for moment, and replied:
'tNot for huckleberries, said he. SIT
might be for buckwheat cakes or mush, but
not for huckleberries. Besides, I don't see as
chompers is any queerer to call huckle-
berries than it is to call 'em swampers and
black crackers.
Only q rinerence in Style.
sThey're all different styles O. buckle
berries. but we folks up along this range o
pine barren rather thinks that the chompers
has a leetle the best flavor for puddin,'
while the swampers is juicier to chaw raw
crackers kin be got the upper hand of best
BY smotherin' Of 'em in pies Now"
and the native put his elbow. on
the table and held his knife
aloft with gesture indicating that it was
to cut off words he expected I was about to
utter. "Now you're goin' to ask me, why
chompers?' an you're goin' to say, What's
the reason for swampers?' an you're goin'
to say, who on earth ID ever think O.
huckleberries by hearin' O. black crackers?'
Yes you was" and the positive guest shook
his head as much as to say there was no use
of my trying to deny it. eyes you was!
You're bound to say it if give you the
chance. for 1 never knowed stranger to
drop down here in huckleberry time yit
that didn't say it So I'll tell you without
your sayin' it, for I hain't got much
time"
The native attacked what was left Of his
pudding and soon moved it away, much
after the manner he might have moved
away his hay. Then he proceeded with his
information:
First Berries Of tho Season.
THE berries that goes into the makeup
O. this puddin' here-not exactly this pud-
din here, nuther. Suse, git me another
hunk out O. the middle of the roll. Now"
said he, when Suse placed the second por-
tion before him. "Now. The huckle-
berries that goes into the makeup O. this
puddin' here is the low bush blues, an is
the first ones that comes along in the sea-
son, an they hang on good while after
the other kinds has come. They are the
ones that folks always stops and picks as
they go along the roads, jist for to chomp
out O. hand, an if berry pIckers feel like
eatin' some while they're pickin' they'll
give all other kinds the go-by and chom