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MRS. GRUNDY ON THE COUNTY
EXPENDITURE.

Weymuth, Mesh 13, 1865.
DiRE MR. Enrrsa,—l be very bad we the
rumatinks, an wen you send vor I to go to Dodgeeter
to pat the town .trait, 1 were so bad that I 000 den
read yer letter. Ibe ()Wigged to rite to e now, vor
Mary Jane zee I was laud at tether day cause I
eptilied editor we a h ; as if I adds • right to oriel
how I likes. Von see I be obliged to rite plane
englesh, an spel so as the hopper clues can read an
hunderstand
Well, I seed there eve a ben • meeting ov a
Vermont' Club in Domed about the county expendi-
ture, an no thinks I to myself, now my rates eve •
greeted vrom £2OO to party nigh £6OO • year, I'll
gist look into it a bit, an I'll rite yer 20 lettere all
cone arter bather, an I'll tell party nigh all I do kno.
Welt; Pli begin we the contscka, an zee how tie
they be • took no high. There is the lunatick
sylnm pays 7d. a poun vor meet. I zee, zee I, tea a
shame, Tor there baint no tenders vor meet no high
no were in the county, an how in it? Put on yer
bonnet, Mary Jane, an goo to Dodgester, an bring I
back word how tie that nobody dont tender no
lower, an Pll zee how the money goes.
Well, wen she come back I seed in a minute that
summet was rung, vor her lips war quite white we
rage, an I assure you I 'radon sorry to vind that she
was s sensitive, vor I think that if anythink shod
happen to I, she ill be able, we &little more traneing,
to take my place.
Well I Bed, Mary Jane, what is the matter?
"Oh Mims, zee she, the money that was a
drowed away in building the sylum is nothink
to the set or keepen on en up, vor tie
all trn that the beef and mutton do cost 7d. •
poi= • but watt is was, they do ray that nex time
tool cost 9d. or 10d. a poem, cause they got no Many
fancies that nobody oont serve am, weout they can
get a terrible high price. Why the very best beat in
Ekxlgeeter was a send beck as not good enuf, an I
ope. missals you will be well emit to taste it, vor I
eve a seed it we my own hies, and ave a brought
home a jint or the very same beef that was a
refined, Tor you to taste, an then you 00l kno how
the kounty money goat." I zee, gee me the sal
volatiley, vor my bind do bile no that I shall feint.
Well arter a little time on the sofa I sod, goo on
Maly Jane.
Well Mists, 1 thought you cod a prove of a
publick good, zo I ordered • good big peace
of the refused beef to be a kept for you to
gee away to sum varmers' club dinner or
rum sich thing zo that a good many ov the
ratepairs can mete together an taste the meet, and no
discus the mater." I sod, as trn as I be Mrs. Grundy,
shalt be a den. Rat-rat-rat-tat-ratty -re-tatta. Who
comes here, zoo I, jist as my bled is up, an my foot-
man out, coachman ill, and groom dressing; but
again, ratti-tat-tat-a-ratta-ra-tatta,an down ran John
with the powder an only one side of his heed; but as
he is a little gray, didn't show much. Oh joy, vor
my dearly beloved son-in-law, Lard Dundreary,
dropped in.
My cies Mithith Gwundy, how ecththited yonaw.
I zee, mu I, onley look at this peace of beef—that is
not good mud to peas our county magistrates
offerers. Well, I'll tell e wet e sed another day wen
Ibe a bit *oder. His lordship asked sum 'trends to cam
an dine we I, an as tru as I be a livin 00031111, the very
beat that smut gad s& vor Vooten,or wet do em cal
it, was walked beyond every thing, and then seen
• lard present who declnt ave a 2nd nip o et, and
Lard Dundreary sod after the diner, zee he, Mithith
Gweundy, I want to athk you a widdle an two.
Widdle mantel I.—lf you had a bettaw con-
twadtswth would the thiiigh for if Contwactawth
used a little sugaw with • quataw of beef would not
the sugar make the quataw of beef look bettaw ?
Widdle numbah 2.-1 f the mathtaw of Poole
bunion wath obliged to give meat to the guawdianth,
ought not all the contwactawth to take • leaf out of
the Poole bunion maththawth book?
Widdle munbah 3.-11 the meat paid faw by the
county ooth moaw than the awdinawy than), how
much in the £ will the vratepayath pay moaw ?
This bwingth me to widdle numbah 4.
Ratti-ra-tat-a-ratta-ra-tatta again, and Lord
Dandreary was visited by the Marquis of Breadall-
bons—zo I must vinish this yer letter wethout he.
" Wy MiSlllll,'Eell Mary Jane, "you look zo much
better, I think you could party nigh goo to
Dodgester." I zee, sea I, I think I could an nes
wick / 00l try et; Tor I do want to goo to see the
sylmn, vor I do yer that there is a monster con.
sarratery up ther a put up at the expense o the
ratpayers, an they do say that all the
county magistrates except Mr. Bullick will eve
all the most beautivulest vlowers and early
vrulta as can bee growd; and I do hear that the cols
bill is ever so mach more than it used to be, vor the
cote ids a used only to keep the lunyticka ott, but
tea a used vor the • conservatory to grow 'lowers
vor the magestrates or there sarventa, an that is jist
like the 7&a poun vor beef; vor Ida year that the
oolecumpenny oont tender no more exhept at • igh
price ease they do kno wish way the cat jumps, an
If Master Bullick is a honorable man, they as do
want to ave all there own way an to get red or en
out of the county, why they can go an bid more
money .vor the own, an then turn en out, an atter
that punish the ratepayers how they likes.
Mary Jane, you musent ring wen I be • writen.
Oh Miss
• I know a bank whereon the wild thyme grows r
Go to bed, Mary Jane, but poet this vast.
A lever long est 00l lift the world, an I got a
puny good lever to put under the ratpayers, and if
I don't lift ea an make em cut down the county
expenclitnr I bunt
,01, LO,l him • Yer umbel servant,
vr-Ssis • MRS. GRUNDS.

Vie learn by imilissian from Paris that the Duke de
Morny expired rriday morning, the 10th instant.
Thu Coavtor Pommucmt—lt is understood that the
Secretary of State will recommend to her Majesty to
bestow a free pardon upon the Italian Poressioni now
lying in Neergate gaol, reprieved from the sentence of
dos* puma open him for the Saffron.hill murder.
Pnessia AND THI Domaim.—The Prumisu Corn-

saimioner fsrBshkevrig4feistein has of late taken several
measares in Morena t• the administration of the
Duchies, without previously oonsulting the Austrian
commissioner. A joint-stock company has recently
been formed for the purpose of purchasing all the
railway!, in Schleswig and Hoktein. The Prussian
Government has reserved the privilege of appointing
three efitelais who will be entitled to a seat on the
Board el Directors. The Premien Government obtains
by fhb; means • direct induenee in the management of
the maws" Similar possum have been taken in
referees* to the admisietwation of the post-odloe and
the telelleintbS the prinoipal posts *ring gradually
been tufa by Prussian offidals. The Prwdan Govern-
ment has filirtitar decided that Schleswig-Holstein,
should be aduritted es a member of the Zollverien from ctJnly _ _
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