Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-07-07

he Il DO now, SAM SAID Mr.. PIckWlcK,
who had been in some alarm himself.
He'll do, STRIP cried Sam, looking re-
proachlally al his parent, Yes, he W5H Go
one O these days-he'l do for hisself and
then he'll wish he hadn't. Did any body
ever see such Il inconsdcrate old file
laughing into commissions aforc company,
anG stamping on the floor as if he'd brought
his own carpet with him and w0s under a
wager - punch The pattern out ia a given
time. Hen begin again in ninute.-
Ihcrc-lo's goin' Oft said he would.
In fact, Mr. Weller, whose mind was
still running upon his prccocious grandson,
was seen 10 shake his head from side 10
side, while & laugh, working like an earth
quake, below the surface, produced various
extraordinary appearances IN his face,
chest, shoulders, the more alarming, be-
cause unaccompanicd by any noise whate-
YER These emotions, however gradually
sub>idc9, and after three or four short re-
apscs, be wiped his eyes with the cuff Of
his coat, and looked about him with toIcra-
be compoSure.
'Aforo the Governor vilhdraws,' said
Mr.. Weller. there is a pint, respecting
vich Sammy has question to ask. Vile
that question is a perwadin' this here con-
worsolion, p'raps the gcnI'man will permit
me to retire
'Wot are you goin' away for 2 de-
handed Sam, Selling his father by the coat
tail
Il never sec such undootiful boy you,
Samiycl,' returned Mr.. Weller. Didn't
you MAKE a solemn promise, amountin' al
most TO a speeches O WOW, that you'd put
that 'crc question on my account'
We'll. I'm agreeable to 90 it, said Sam:
but not if you go cuttin' away like that,
as the bull turned roand and mildly o5Scr-
we'd to the drovcr ven they wos a goadin'
him into the butchers door. The fact is.
sir, said sam, addressing me, that he wants
10 know soniethin' rcspcctin' that ere lady
us IS housckcepcr here
'Ay! What is that?'
IVY, SIR said Sam, grnning still more,
he wishes 10 know vcther She
In short jntcrposed old Mr.. Weller,
dcclsivcIy, pcrspration breaking o0t up
on his forehead, 'vcther that ere old cree
tur is or is not a widdcr.'
Mr.. pickwick laughed heartily. and so
did |. as replied decisivcIy that MY
housekeePer was a spinster.'
'Thcrc' cried Sam, 'now you're salts
fed. You hear she's spinster.'
"a wot? said his father, with deep scorn.
"A spinster,' replied Sam.
Mr.. Weller looked very hard at his son
fer minute or two, and then said
Never mind vclhor she makes Jokes or
not-that's no matter. Wot | say is, is
that female Il wilder, or is she not?'
'Wot do you mean by her making jokes?'
demanded sam, quite aghast at the obscu-
riiy Of his parents speech.
Never you mind, Samivcl, returned Mr.
Weller, graycly; puhs may be very
good things, or they may be very bad 'uus,
and female may be none the better, or
she may be none the vurse for making Of
'em; that's got nothing to do With widders.'
Ivy, now said sam, looking round,
would anybody believe as man at his
time o'Iilc could be a running his head a
gin splnstcrs and punstcrs, being the same
thing
There ant q straw's difference between
en- said Mr.. Weller. Your father didn't
drive a coach for 50 many years not to be
ckal to his own langyidgc, as far as Mat
goes, Sammy
1T wos on the rail- said Mr.. Weller,
with strong cmphasis--'I wos a goin'
down 20 birmingham by the rail, and wos
locked up in close carriage with living
wilder. Alone We wos; The wilder and
me wos alone; and believe it wos only
because we tcoS alone, and there was no
clergymanin the conveyance, that that 'erc
wilder didn't marry me afore We reached
the halfway station. Ven think how she
began a screaming as We wos q goin' I'M
der them tunnels in the dark-how she
kept on a Caintin' and kitchn' hold o. me
and how | tried 10 bust open the door as
wos tight locked, and perverted all escape!
All it was a awfu! thing-most awful
Mr.. Weller was so very much overcome
by this retrospect that he was unablcd, IN
til he had wiped his brow several times. to
return any reply to the question, whether
he approved Of railway communications.
Notwithstanding thar it would appear, from
tho answer which he ultimately gave that
he entertained alrong opinions on the sub
ject.
/ consider, said Mr.. Wcler sthat the
rail is unconstitutional and an inwascy O.
privileges. As 10 the comfort, vcrc's the
comfort o siit;n' in a harm cheer, lookin'
At brick wallis or heaps o mud, never co Il
min TO a public house, never seem glass
o ale, never Goin' through a pike, never
meetIn, change o no kind horses or 9TH