The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

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I hastened to put my gloves in my pocket, and affect great Miss Betsy's standing it so long and so dos(
assurance, convinced that it was prudent to follow the as she had, and that I was actually shaking the
fashion. " What do youthink of the asylum I have found of it all over my bed, as fast as if the thing had been a
you ? " asked Perico, rubbing his hand. "Is it not bet- watering-pot. The worst of it was, too, that the beastly full-shot ear-of
ter than what I could offer ? Moreover, you will now un- new-fangled warming-pan must have held a gallon if it bited in the Leeds corn
derstand the meaning of a velorio. It is a resource on did a spoonful; and seeing that Miss Betsy wanted to get cs----TißE.—On Thursd,
idle or dull evenings. Thanks to me, you will thus ac • down stairs again, to sonic more of her trumpery novels
quire a title to the eternal gratitude of that worthy father, as I thought, I wouldn't let her go, but made her stain
';ed before the age of seven, is now shaking the leaky thing up and down the sheets—parti-
doubtless, to cularly on my side too—until I. had tied my flannel petti- nesday, to_
nicely over my night-cap, and finished all my rum- and a large general cargo
ater, and had put all my things by, just out of CRumns OF COMFORT.-
Aion, to keep her up there as long as I could, and dividend of 10. in the pout
quite ready to get into bed. When Miss Betsy had of a bankrupt in Bristol. nab,
gone, and I had let down the night-bolt—l declare I had 15 years ago.
1 I been dawdling about so long in the cold, that I was quite NOVEL IMPORTATION.—On Monday, the-ship Colum-
frightened lest I should have taken another chill—putting bia, which arrived in the Thames from Havre,-brought over
t the candle, I jumped into bed as quick as ever I could. 241 hampers of green peas, of French growth : the crop is
nd then, oh lud-a'-mercy me ! what a pretty pickle it very plentiful in France.
tas in, to be sure. If the linen sheets weren't positively An Inverness paper mentions that a very large eagle,
just like sheets of water, and the whole bed as wet as the which measured seven feet three inches across the wings,
bed of the River Thames. I tumbled out again like was lately taken in a trap on the summit of a hill in
lightning, as any one may easily imagine, when, drat it ! Strathspey.
if all my night-clothes weren't as wet and cold as a dog's Active preparations are making at Portsmouth, for Sir
nose, and the worst of it was, they would keep clinging John Richardson 's expedition to the Arctic regions, in
to me as if they were so much wet blotting-paper. I search of Sir John Franklin, and several seamen hay,
rashed to the bell, and pulled, and pulled, and pulled alre'
away, until Mr. Sk—n—st--n must have thought either
that I had set the house on fire, or overlaid my dear little ast
lamb, or found a. brute of a man under the bed ; for up. in the u
he came, gasping away, crying out, " What on earth is sh'
the matter, Caroline ?" and five minutes afterwards, up
'Uiss Betsy sauntered, as leisurely as if nothing at all had
iappened. " The matter !" I cried, pulling off the )-
lothes, and throwing aside the sheet

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