"Why," sez I, sort of puzzled to find out what he was at, "I'd ruther be an Injun any day than be one of them tarnal Turky fellers; but what will the folks think of us if we come fixed out so? I should feel as streaked as a piece of ribbongrass, I'm sartin." "Oh, never mind that, they'll be glad to have you come like an Injun; you don't know what a sight of folks are a going. There'll be Kings and Queens, nuns, Scotch ladies, Englishmen, and women born two hundred years ago, and all sorts of people." "Gracious gaully how you talk!" sez I, all in amaze, for he seemed as arnest as an ox team.--"Why, they haint sent invites over the water, have they?" "You'll see," sez John, a larfin a leetle easy, and rubbing his hands. "But I want a favor,--wont you lend me them old clothes of yours to go in?" "What, old blue, with the shiney buttons, and the pepper and salt trousers!" sez I. "Wal now, I'd jest as lives you had 'em as not? but raly if you want to slick up, hadn't you better take the new fix, it'll look a good deal more scrumptious?" "No," sez he, "I want them that your picter was took in, they're jest the thing." "They'll fit you to a notch," sez I. "The trousers may be a leetle too short, but I can get the gallus buttons sot on strong, and the pockets are nation handy." "Do," sez he, "and I'll git your dress. Come up to our house, and, we'll all start together." With that John he went away, and I sot down all in a flustration to try and make out what he wanted me to fix up like a born Injun for; but the more I tho't the more I got in a pucker about it, so I jest give it up, and stopped thinking about it as much as I could. Your loving son, JONATHAN SLICK. * * * * * LETTER XIII. Jonathan Slick and the Grand Fancy Ball--Jonathan in the character of an Injun, and Cousin Beebe in the character of Jonathan--Cousin Mary as Jonathan's Squaw--Jonathan among Kings and Queens, Spaniards, Turks and Jews--Jonathan meets his pussey Cousin in the character of a Turk--Jonathan cuts his pussey Cousin. DEAR PAR: Wal, Thursday, jest afore dark, I bundled up old blue, and the pepper and salt trousers, and pulled foot for Cousin Beebe's as chirk as a grass-hopper. The nigger set me in and took me up stairs to a little room, where John was sittin in a great chair, with the tarnationest heap of feathers and things about him that ever you did see. He jumped up as soon as he saw me with the bundle under my arm, and sez he-- "Come, hurry now and get off your things, I want to paint you." With that he come along with a saucer of red stuff, and begun to stir it up mighty savage.