Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-05-09
From the New York Wing,
AUNT BECKY.

N AUNT BECKY.
Aunt Becky led single life
ilR that is, she ne'er became wife;
But always lived a sad old maid,
Sx Without a husbands smile or aid.
Folks often wondered why she chose
10 pluck the thorn and leave the rose;
F IOr rather said it to perplex her,
As that was just the thing to vex her,)
But here's the truth--Aunt Becky would
Have married if she only could.
With love her heart did often burn,
But no crre sent his love in return;
She longed in vain to taste the honey,
That flowed from blissful matrimony;
3 For none, excepting Billy Shocks,
Dared meet her devlish ugly looks;
Nor even he his visits paid,
Unless 10 borrow, chat or trade.
Aunt Becky's nose looked queer enough
A little snub, and sup to snuff"
And then she had head Of hair
Whose red locks shone so bright and fair
That many selfco+ceited fcp
N Gave her the name of sorrel-top.
Her eyes were grey-her teeth were white
n But only two e'er come in sight;
!. Her skin was Of the saffron dye
y With which Aurora tnts the sky;
In short, when she was in her prime,
" Say twenty-fve--and at the time
When she enjoyed her happiest hour
4 She looked just like rank sunfower!
\ She owned a snug and peaceful COT
b A pig, cow, and garden spot.
4 Besides distant tract of land,
4 Composed Of mostly stone and sand
1 Fit emblem of her dreary fate,
\ In such dry, uufrutlul state.
Il The hens and chickens, great and small,
Ran, always at her morning CALL
il For every fowl she had a name,
Y And each one answered to the same,
h As long-legs, short-legs, duck-legs, creeper,
Old Rumpless, Crop-tail, Longtail-sweeper.
All things were straight out doors and in,
And neat and tidy as PIN
The pewter cups were kept as bright
As stars that shine in cloudless ight;
And DER the nicely sanded room
Oft swept the halfworn hickory broom.
0, twas glorious sight to see
Trifes arranged so tastefully!
A fy-trap from the ceiling swung,
And here and there red peppers hung.
Around the glass was neatly twined
Paper ofwhite and blue combined,
A Dream-book lay upon the SHELF Il
Likewise the history of an Elf;
For she believed in dreams and witches
In fact she often found the stitches =
VI her late knitting work let down,
Whene'er the rascal came to town. 10
Aunt Becky kept dog and cat 10
She'd talk to this and then to that, III
Upbraid them when inclined to fight, 9
And told them not to scratch and bite, II,
For twas naughty thing to see Id
Kittens and PuPpieo dioagroe. .--.-.. a
1 he way Aunt Becky drank Souchong If
Was sad to constitutions strong;
I've known her sip two gallons up
Then tell her fortune from the cup, II
And finish off by sleeping DER n
The leaves that had been stepped before, b
s.
She's gone, poor creature! she is dead, r
And wild weeds grow above her head; II
No lover bends his brow and weeps o
Upon the grave where Virtue sleeps; o
And not stone is raised to show a
That Becky rests in peace below te
The moaning wind and distant surge d
Nightly repeat mournful drge,
While gathering thorns and thistes wave t
1 heir branches DER her lonely grave, v
And memory ought to cause smart "
VI sorrow in each feeling heart,
Since she was not my Aunt alone,
But unto one and all was known,
As sold Aunt Becky Underhill
That lives way down in Timberyille.n