The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1840-01-22
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TRoM fIHsT
Il hope you'll keep that to remember me
by
She gave mo another Of them tarnation bright
smiles, and stuck the rose IN her bosom. snd sez
she. kinder Iarling little
What shall give you, Mr.. Slick 7 This
myrtle spig, it'll keep green longer than the
rose
No thank YOU sez !, a looking at her as
killing as could be, I'll take il; but | don't
want any thing to make me remember YOU
kinder expected that she'd a blushed lit
tic when | said that but somehow these city
gals don't color up very easy. She smiled a.
gin. and sez She
Well Mr.. Slick, you must call and see how
well your rose keeps with mo. Mrs. Bsbee
will come with you any time
Sez |, but aiDi sJrtin as you'll be glad to
see me, yo1r must havea great many beaus, aud
may be in the way. She was goin to ans
wer me. bur jist then that etarnal varmint with
tho hair come up with plate in his hand, and
sez he Let me help you TO Jelly, Miss
Miles .......
could a knockd the crttcr into the middle
Of next week. was So tarna mad bnt there
he stood bowing and smiling, through his
hair lip like ap etarna monkey that had got
the stomach ache, aud couldn't get word in
edgeways. | couldn't eat morsel, and | took
up one Of the cider bottles without a thinking
what ] was doing, aud drunk two glasses
right off. and artcr that felt little better; but
IN be darned ifit didn't make my teeth grit TO
see that stuck up coet work his arm as il he
waoted TO 60 into tothcr room with Miss Miles. |
She looked round as il to see where was, and
then went right straight up and seq After !
me is manners for you With that took her |
little hand in my yaer glove, and put it into |
Il -, 4
straight into ,oher room with her. She sat
down on one Of The setees, aud jist pulled
one OF the ioot-s,ools close up TO her aud there I
we both sat as socable as could be till the folks
all come back agin. AFTER that had TO Git up
and give pale lookngga my seat but kept
standing up by the eend of the settec, till
Cousin Bebee came up to me, and sez he
Cousin Slick. Just step this way minnt.'
lie went right between the silk winder cur
tins into the place where tho bushes, and the
birds, and the swarry was, and sez he
'Cousin Jonathan did you know that the
strops to your pantaloons have slipped out from
under your boots
You don't say So, sez ]. looking down ut
blsen, to see how he fixed them. for l didn't
want him TO think that I'd left 'em so on pur-
pose; but | felt awful streaked when l see
his was buttoned under the sole Of his dancing
pumps. .a..-
Here, jist liit up your foot. sez lie.
lifted my foot up, and he jhked the strops
down quick enough but | swan il I didn't
feel as il he'd corded me up to see how long
I'D keep. didn't wonder the chaps sidled aud
wriggled abou, so when they tried TO dance. a
fcller couldn't take a regular strong step 10
save his life, crt up IN pair OF these new FASH
ioned trousers. -h
Look a here. COUSIN Bebec. sez |, list as he
was going out, and piuted to the naked mar
bic woman standing among th, bushes, with
the light coming in from to,her room onto
her, till she looked like a handsome ghost a
walking among the bushes by moonlight; ifl
you1 take fools advice you'll buy trock and
pe,ticoat for that purity swarry OF yourn, aiore
you have another party. How shouldyou feel
il some Of them young gals was to come in
here = f-- 'A"
as John burst out laring, and rally thought
the crtter never would stop.
Now what are you haw having about
sez I, sort a wrathy, because cum here with
my trousers slipped up lcetle, i don't spose
any but YOU see them fUrr TffaH
- oh never thiuk about it, scz he. biting
in' pat The tears kept running down his
cheeks. Tor all that. If they did see IL. they'll
SET u down Tor the excentriciiy Of genius, rs
the young ladies' say. You literary chaps can
do Almost amy thing now days.
begin to think We cam seq I, for jist that
mint reinsmbersd all that tarnai sweet cri,er,
Miss Miles had been saying to me, and
looked downto see il the sprig Of myrtle was in
a;y buiton-hoIe yit.
When we went into the loom, there warn,
scarce any of the party left. stood by one Of
the doors tHI saw Miss Mxes cum down with
her purity face hall buried up IN a great s,ll
hooi, so list went with her 10 the ioor