Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-09-05

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| Iceing Or pawning,
| Ut's all under awning)
Or iounging the lawn in,
! The crowd will be great,
| So come. Mrs. Dickenson,
| Folks will drop thick i'll soon,
Mud you shan't stick in soon,
| Come to the Fete.
" The people are clever who get up this festival
! Men who SIT toilng in science for weeks,
Hold councils Csbbas es, and (Which is best OF ally
S-1s who sit without rsery,
Vote upon Celery,
Clear out their gallery,
After deJate-
Men who can grapple
With Onion Apple,
And tell if the Sap III
Rise early or late"
Off we started, the rain was just mizzling,
Crack went the whips, and we ratified thro' Town;
At KcnsgtOn coach stand il fas,er wa drizzling
At Kensington church it began to come down;
The post-boys were whipping,
The post.horses slipping,
The Halls were quite dripping
Vt Hammersmith Gate;
On We went dashi1g.
And squashing and spashiug,
Till after this fashion
We got to the Fttc.
Then there's verse wdntnn, which of course
can't remember; but the Bows rect officers
were all 'onrd he dore, and they looked 10 me
as little Ike Bows as tbey did like officers:
however, there was large poodle to pc, over,
and heard them bid me- wait till hey sent for
Il PLANK, which turned out To b. a humane ere.
'"r, ~ ne d # III" Prili,7e. W. had 90 UNI
brellarS, only our pa'asols; but we got INTO
lung tenn, and there FULMER told me | had bet
'er make my election % stay, because | was ia.
'ored 6v The canvas and the pole; which do
no. understand. bu he put it all into rhyme
about huIus rncnmpnent." some hing YOU
know, do"'t qui'e remember, TO "keep off
the damp men )" and then he praised the boo
tifnl cretures wha' was a setting in the mud
under the yawning, which could not get out.
and called them the most elegant flowers and
fruie Of the day.
1t Was no good stopping there, however.
Tor We Was mile Amos from tine FEEDING Mace
which Mr.. Gunner had prepared for his r.I.
low-rre,ures; so ] determined wei or dry. nolus
h"lus, over | would go-i was uncommon
squashy, and poor Lazy had a touch of the
room a'ics in her head before we come ou,-
howetrr Il warnt no use complaining, so the
two Hauls, which was phissi,ors Of ours. and
undertook to cross over the plot-of thai Ful.
more says
Cross the green ocean amongst the carousers there
. IN: wh'ta sqnsbble. what pushing, what thumbs.
Daniles appropriately drest in duck trowsers. were
Making their way through the water in pumps.
To see them tripping,
And sliding and slipping,
With cold meat and dripping
here there IS a"o'cer lie, and think i, INNS,
Dr. her'ot Of the authors, because cold me,, |
and dripping" is nonsense; however. no maj.
e., we got over; ard there. il you'll believe m.
Was matter of kinpls Of lnou, and bum,na
;re.urs, just like pigs with heir nose, in i've /
F'tts' asi" The wall, hra'Ing oud hrs,i.e
:ls in gravelly mud. '"'
hea'd on man ask for kennel OF chicLs,
INC another wanted banke, of yeel. bu, the
master cock pot his head oat of French ma.
lul, and SAID there warnt nothing sh+w,whieb
$ you know means ho' in the neusee Of ~.
, la SO squstdged od' three young youth.
~ w. guns "h'en was making themselves
lex eaune Isis. and made rheum TO, mv.su
md sot too 10 make up nv iennve w.r.L. ,::