The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-08-31
GOING IN THE COUNTRY.

GOING IN THE COUNTRY.
"My dear" said Mrs. Artful to her loving
spouse one day, as he came in fatigued from
his business to dinner-"My DEAR" said she,
with sweeter smile than she had cast upon
him for twelvemonth-"Don you think
my complexion has looked rather bilious for
a few weeks past?"
"Why no, my dear" said the husband,
fondly patting her under the chin, and little
dreaming to what this sudden gust of affcc-
ton was to lead-"no, my dear" said he
pressing her fondly to his bosom, and inn
planting fervent kiss upon her lips" l
have rarely known you to look so we'll in the
summer for many years. You don't feel i'll,
my DEAR hope, to day? The weather has
been SO delightfully."- cool for the last month,
and the atmosphere SO bracng and elias.
tic'-
mot exactly SICK" said Mrs. Artful, be-
fore her husband had time to finish his COM
mentations Of the weather-''but then you
know, my dear, it is so unhealthy and dlsa-
greeable to spend the whole summer In the
city. And SO I've been thinking whether we
could not take trip to the springs OF to Nj
agara, Just so AS to get little fresh air.
Besides, Mrs. Flvabout has just dropped in,
and she is going to make up a fine party.
Mrs. Silverheels and her two sisters,
and the daughter who married Mr.. Short
staple at the South, are to be OF the CON-
panv, and they have invited us to SO along"
aVVhy, my DEAR" said Mr.. A. "you must
be aware that the times are hard. You know
endorsed for old Souchong, his brother-in-
law Dashall, and his hoI,eful son-in-law Bob
Tandem, aud have had it all to pay. And
besides. the apostle himself was not more en-
numbered with his bonds than am with
the Life and Fire. S'leath I might as
we'll have died and been bnrnt up at once
myselfi'
,.But, nv DEAR" rejoined the wife, "your
business is good-your last cargoes sold well
YOU sold out your stocks before the trou-
bles came on, and you are getting over your
losses. and then the children-Emlly, and
Catharine, George, and Frederick-dear
| little souls have not been well these three
weeks. They should be taken to the country.
We can leave them with their uncle Harden
brook, at Saugetics, where they can breathe
and frolic in the fresh air. 1t will be so de-
lightfui!"
.we cannot afford it. The children would
be we'll enough, if they were not INDUCED in
| every thing they cry for, and stuffed with
poison, in the shape of green fruit and green
corn. 1t is true have thus far been able to
meet nv notes; but have had to shift and
turn every way, and l have already shinn' d
it so much that am ashamed to be seen in
| Wall-st And then there are the bills tor
schooling, and the music bills, land the French
teacher, and the dancing -mastcr-the con-
vex mirrors for the parlor, and the $50 you
know. for your last cashmere shawl-all
4 must be paid next week. Indeed, IL hard
" know"--
"Oh, YOU are always pleading poverty,
whenever want to be gratltied with jaunt
in the country for a few days There's
Mrs. Gossamer, and Mrs. Fundable, and
Mrs. Yardstick, have all been taking their
pleasure in the country these three weeks
and here l am. SO oppressed for breath
and the dear little ones, too--and moth
ing but Manhattan water, as salt as Lots
wfe"-
but do hear to reason, wife. If Gossa-
mcr would pay for the last half dozen
cases of silks which he got of me-or ii
Fundable wouldn't charge me three per
: ccntnm a month for money to pay other
peoples debts-or if my business was all
profit and no risk, like draper's-then
would think of it. At present, however
I do not think it would be exactly homes,
to-
"Honest' Why, Mr.. Artful, need you be
more honest than your neighbors! Half o.
our acquaintances have failed since the last
!. year; and most of them arc now travelling
to Cattskill, Lake George, and Lebanon, a.
tho nothing had happened. don't see, fo1
my part, why you should slave yourself t.
death, and keep me and the children shut VI
in the city all summer long, when it is as ho
as AN oven"
"But say again wife, cannot afford it.
If we go must borrow the money from OLE
Gripus-and then,if those bills should be re-
turned from England with protest at thell
tails, we shall be-
"rben you will be as we'll off as your neigh
bors, (replied the lady with much less sweet
ness of manner than she commenced TINS oi
A alogue). "Besides to be plain about tae mat
ter, have PROMISED to go, and have TIM
morning purchased travelling dresses tor th'
S children, which Mrs. Gimp and the two
Miss Buckrams have engaged to have all nm
, ished before the boat goes tomorrow even
: ing. So you see. go sye must, or shall D'
| disgraced, and"-
'sThas matter can be easily settled. Civ