Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1827-09-01
klI-kAT SKETCHES.

M J uncle George was never easy till he rot
all the males of the family married He has
sad to me, at least hundred times. "Jobu
IN surprised you don't settle" | did NOT NJ
iirst understand his meaning. / was woIk;nq
Win him IN the Temple Gardens and while
we were In the act of contemplating the bean
TICS OF the ma &c Thames | alluded to a man
IN red nigtt-cap walking to and fro on a float
,"9 rait oil tied tmbcrS, and coal-barne cm-
ncddcd III mud-hc stopped short on the gravel
walk and said, "Jolm why don't Won settle ."
Concluding that lie was tired | answered con
by all means, - and sat down in the green al
cove at the eastern extremity Of the tootpatb.
foil J! SAID my uncle, =" | don't mean that. I
mean way don't you marry! There's your
'Fothc' Tom is settled, and has haG seven chill
"fcn, not reckoning two who died with the
m@asies and Charles is settled, and he has
n G his eldest boy Jack is tall enough +, thnmn
hiin and Edward is settled, at least he will be.
as soon as Charlotte Payne has made UP hey
yon don't settle FRAY uncIc,v said GO,
what Bucks Lodge are You a noble brother q,
w ny do you ask ?" said he because" re-
pied }, you seem to think men are like ma
$oLry--novcr to be depended upon till they set
&c. AS we walked homeward, we saw that
adventurous nronaut Garnerin flying over our
heaaS and while we were wondering at his
'"iouF' ne Cit Tic rope that fastened his balloon
10 his parachute, and began to descend in the
'a''ef towards the earth. My uncle George be-
gan TO run as fast as his lcos could carry him
looking all the while SO intently upwards that
he did not advert to nurse-maid and two cb;I-
dfcii, whom he accordingly upset i'm his course
ana nearly precipitated into the adjacent ooze
NAT the matter, uncle 2" said /. CHAT
,c' answered my Outnian relative "wby
III going to look after Garnerin [ shall never
be easy till see him settled"
LII process OF time my uncle began to be Sc
'iousiy dIspieased at my not settling. Popula-
'ion, he seemed TO opinc, was on the wane
And II any thing should happen to my brothers
Tom and Charles, and their respective families
Ho' omntng Edward and his issue, when his in
'ehaed vile should have conquered her rcpuq
nance to Limc-street, what would become of
'ie rouse OF jackson? 1t might be dead. de-
.oict' extinct, like the Plantagcnets and Mont
'norencles OF other days, unless l., John Jack
son, of Finsbury Circus, underwater became
accessory to It's combinations The dilemma
was awful, and my uncle George lad money to
leave accordingly resolved to fall in love
MS, however, found to be matter more ca
shy resolved upon than accomplished. The Ba
laViah government, after Lord Duncans naval
'Ictory, passed series Of resolutions. the first
u which ran thus "Resolved that new ma
''he DC DuIt ); but 1 never heard of a SINGLE
So'cnt y-iour that ever after issued from Rotter-
liam docks and certain disaffccted IIibernians
IN Dublin, in the year 1903, by way of discou-
raging British trade, made patriotic determi-
nasIon III the words and figures following. that
IS to say, "Rcsolved, that every thing comino
from England be burned, extent her Goals
which we have occasion for" Paddy here mi
himself in cleft stick, and SO did when / re-
solved to fall III love. A man may fall in a ditch
'Fhcnevcr lie pleases,--he must fall in love
when and where lie can.
hly mother recommended Susan, Roper tn
nc as suitable match and so she was as far
us circumstances extend Her father was
reputable coal merchant, living in Chatham
place | tried very much to be ia love with
hcr, ana one warm evening when she sang
Hush every breeze in boat under the Sc
cond arch Of BIackfrial 's-bridge, and accom-
panied herself upon the guitar, 1 thought that
was IN lovc-b it went off before morning
WIS afterwards very glad it was so, for Susan
"o)cr turned out very fat, and ate mustard
with her roast beef She married Tom Hollo-
way, the Policy Broker, and wished him ioy.
wish It him still, but | doubt the efficacy OIL
my prayers, inasmuch as his wife's visarc bears
strong resemblance to the Illuminated dial |
pate Of st GiIc5's church clock.
Wy next affair was more decisive in its re- |
SUITS Old Mrs Cumming, Of St. IIc!cns-