Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-07-22
EMANCIPATION couRTsHlp,

little fact, we Cabuot, % CouSes Say oui Il IL
worth reading by those who favor this rec,oI,
created branch Of literature:
Is this the Police Office? said a stout, well.
dressed eountryman, peeping into the Boar4
room of College stree, on Thursday week.
1, is! said the Magistrate. Can do an,
thing for you!
wiz, faith you can, your worship, although
Pm almost ashamed 10 ask you but wan,
summon, for the widow Fegan; and il coug
GET another for the pig, it would give me- gr.u
Consolation, as he is actually a greater tain
than she is.
Who are you!
Auy Cox, your worship, ,hiny-nine ua
last MichaeIHnas, Ave feet ten high, and mad. i,
proportion
Very good, Mr.. Coz. Now about the wido,
All iesIousy, your worship. She is ador
sixty wears old, and warm, snug woman; ap
as happened to take her eye. We were just o.
The non Of being married, when | remembee
that we were not Of the same persuasion.
Mnsistraie. What is she?
.atv. Oh, she's wonderful Roman Clht
lie. Now, Pm Pro.es,an, since the lime d
Cromwell. So, says 10 myself, and then t.
her. if we have any children
Magistrate. Children. why / thought %.
said she was sixty years old.
mn. o she was only fifiy.nine then.
Magistrate. That certainly alters the case
mn. SO, says !, Mrs. Fegan, it's all nOl.
sense: il we have any children, we'll only bt
fighting about their re'igion-so I'm of aut
Ri no, marry you al all. With that she call.
ed me an il! looking. black -mouthed shoe by
II, arf herst,
of nv sort, for fear might murder her, as King
Harry the Eighth did his nineteen wives. I've
missed heavy handful to bring home 10 d?
mother, said 10 myself. So good bye, Nh
Fegan.
Magistrate, AoG she has been annoyingN.
sine!
mn. Annoying! why she has made her "
ry pig my enemy. Sometimes she takes bis
up by the hind legs, aud runs him at me like
, " leelbarrow, until I'm obliged to run a'F
through the town for my lie and the greas
diversion the neighbors have la,terly, is hm
Auy Cox hunted by the widows pig
MAGISTRATE. This is very unpleasant
nun Another time she turns him Into nj
garden, where Pm afraid to attack him-n
re ally he does not look like regular pig, aa
and after he has rooted his fill. ibd try 10 6t3
him out, he snaps al nr like viper, and turns
up his tail on his back like corkscrea, 'd
much as TO say-,ha, for you and your garcia
Any Cox.
Magistrate. You dom, think the pig has any
animoslty 20 you because you are Protesa1
/ mn. Faith dom, know any thing ao'Gi
it know he's fond Of tasting flesh mea q
Friday, and every other Gay, as the Calves
nv legs can show sign and token Tor Lootr
the hit hy ssk Ss' e As s My p u ny f,s
wise to show the place from whence the p'tl
Of leather had bren extracted by the pix, NJ
want of which mad been supplied by an o.
piece Of black cloth There's bic for 700
I'm sure he must have tusks like raziour', d
The Same leather biceches were worn by OIL
old father fifteen years ago.
Magistrate. This is certainly bad usage.
4Hy. Bad! to be hunted 10 Jericho BY i
rious wild animal like tina, pig. As for mmi
she came into my place OH Shrove TusstH
night, half drunk and half tipsey, after ul
mother had made bowl o. batter for .he p,r
cakes, danced one hundred reel in the midtt
OF the floor, swore that il was her birth day 81
she was born on the batter threw he bowl q
material in my face, and danced of again.
Magistrate Wen give you . summons, az:
that may bring her To her senses.
Ahy b. the pig
Magistrate. Have him pounded FOR nespa'
ing on your ground.
.aty. Thank your worship.
Hr then go' the summons.
Several days passed, md nothing more w
heard Of Aty, the widow, or the pig "bl
on "Wednesday last, he passed again into ~
Office. and saluled the Magistrate.
Well. ATTY, where is the widow
Faith, said Aiy. The day was SO cold dlJa'
like 10 let heI venture Out.
Mng,straie. Why, you were complaining d
her here the other day.
aHy. Bu',your worship, politics have chan
ed since.
Magistrate. Your politics.
.Hty 0, no! the affairs Of the nation 81
is as good as am now, now tina, the Duk, h
emancipated them, only tina, she can't be
Chancellor, and can.
Mas"trnte. Oh, perceive you have MAJ
up he matter.
any Why, to be sure, without joking, SOS
worship. bryan to think that i, would b
pity 10 throw away such match on account
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