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them you ever looked at, and when I did look at em and think, I raly thought I should or broke my heart.

Well, sich kissin'-several of the gals sed that there faces burnt like fire, for one of the preechers and Col. Hard wosn't shaved clost.

Bimeby I was a sittin' leanin' back, and Bill he come behin me and sorter jerked me back, and skeared me powerful for fear I was fallin' backwards, and I skreamed and kicked up my feet before to ketch like, and if I hadnt a had on pantalets I reckon somebody would of knowd whether I gartered above my knees or not. We had a right good laff on old Parson Brown as he got through a marryin' of em-says he:

"I pronounce you, William Warrick and Barbry Bass, man and oman," he did look so when we laffed, and he rite quick sed-" man and wife -salute your Bryde," and Bill looked horrid red, and Barbry trimbled and blushed astonishin'

severe.

Well, it's all over, but I don't keer-there's as good fish in the sea as ever come outen it. I'm not poor for the likes of Bill Warrick, havin' now three sparks, and one of them from Town,

whose got a good grocery and leads the Quire at church, outer the Suthern Harmony, the Missonry Harmony is gone outer fashion.

Unkle Ben's oldest gal Suky is gwine to marry a Virginny tobacker roler, named Saint George Drummon, and he says he is a kin to Jack Randolf and Pokerhuntus, who they is the Lord knows. Our Jack got his finger cut with a steal trap catchin' of a koon for a Clay Club, and the boys is down on a tar raft, and ole Miss Collis and mammy is powerful rumatic, and the measly complaint is amazin! I jist heard you have got two twins agin—that limestone water must be astonishin' curyous.

What is the fashuns in Tennysee, the biggest sort of Bishups is the go here. My love to your

old man,

Your friend,

NANCY GUITON.

To Miss Polly Stroud,

Nigh Noxvil in the State of Tennysee,

Close by where the French Broad and Holsin jines.

Old Miss Collis and mammy is jist come home.

Betsy Bolin is jist had a fine son and they say she is a doin' as well as could be expected, and the huckleberry crop is short on account of the drouth.

IX.

OUR TOWN.*

SPENT a summer in the Eastern States, for the purpose of studying Yankee character, and picking up such peculiarities of dialect and expression as I could, from constant communication with the "critters" themselves. In Boston, I was thus invited by a countryman to visit the town in which he lived.

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Wal, stranger, can't you come down our way, and give us a show?"

"Where do you live?" inquired I.

“Oh, abeout half way between this ere and sunrise."

* By G. H Hill.

"Oh, yes," said I, adopting at once the style of the countryman, "I know; where the trees grow under-ground, and galls weigh two hundred pounds. Where some on 'em are so fat, they grease the cart-wheels with their shadow, and some on 'em so thin, you're obliged to look at 'em twice afore you can see 'em at all.”

"Wal, I guess you've been there," says he, saying which, the countryman departed.