Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-03-01

Major, is always worthy Of attention.
Continuation Of the Gagged Lover.
THE DAY FIXED.
To Mr.. Thompson
DEAR SIR:-Ever since | writ my las, lie,
Ter to you, things has gone just stfaig h
shingie: and the only thing that frou
hies mo is Pm afeard its too good TO last
LIS always been the way with me ever since
can remember, whenever I'm the happies', sum
thin appears to turn up jest to upset all my cal
'cu.ai,ons; and now, the day IS so, for the wed
den, and the Stall,onses Is getung every thing
YedJy as fast as they can. wouldn't be spriset
much Il some bonlnabie thing would happen:
yearhquake, or something else, to bust II up a
gin, tho should hate II monsIous.
Old Mrs StilIions red that piece 10 the MIS-
celIany bout The mistake in parson M'lIers fig
ures, and do believe ehe's as glad bout II as u
che shuse che would live a whole thousand
wears more herself. She SEE she haini 90, no ob
isctions to the wedding now for me and Mary
will have plenty tune to make a foriIn for ou
children, and raise EN- up as they ought TO be-
She she always wondered how Mr. Mile
could c'er the thing out so strait, 10 the very
day without single mistake; but now he,
made such a terrible blunder Of a " hole ihousa nd
yesr- she SAYS she knows he ain, smarter noI
other people, il he raised at The north
It's really surprsln how mazin popular II does
Sense the things leaked out, every bods's my
,ickler friend; and cant NEE, nobody wherever
%, but what wan, 10 graduate me on my good
forum, cert COUSIN Pete. and two or three other
feIers, who look sort . like they wanted tc
laugh and couldn't.
Almost every nigh, Mary and me invited
10 party. Tother night we went TO one a, old
Squire Rogerses. ~har go, my dander up hi,
tle Of The worst I've had II for some time.
don't believe you've ever henrn OF jus, such a too
trick as they played me. Thar was good
manv thar; and as the Squire don't aow dancin
they all played games and tricks. and sch fool
ishness, 10 pass away the time; which to my no.
tion's bominabe site worse than dancID.
Cousin Pete was thar, splnrg IN bout 10 his big
gesf STYLE. with h,s dandy cni irowsers, and big
whiskers, and ,rped to take the shine off of every
body else, jest as he always doz Well, b'mehy
he ssz.
"Spose we play brother Bob. Let's pay bro
ther Bob"
Yes. let's play that all on en-; "won,
you he brother Bob. NJ njn?"
who's brother Buh?" seq /; for ddn'
know no,h:n bout il, md iha,s The way ] cum to
be sn hnmnable TUX IN.
"rH tell you," SEE he "You and somebody
else must sci down into two chairs and be blIud-
folded, and the res, mus, all walk round and
round You. nnd keep tapping you ON tho head
with sumthin. til Won guess who bobbed."
:. Bu, how bob me - seq |.
" Whv' seq he. "when any taps you.
you must Say I'm bobhed = and then the, II
a.k, who bohbed you = and It you guess the
sigh, one. then they must take your place, and
be hobbed nnul they guess Who bnhhed 'em. Ii
you'll he bl,ndfolded. | will. jas, for fun"
- WE'LL" seq !. "anythng for fun"
Cousin Pete sot out two chairs IN the middle
Of he room. and we sot down, and ihev ued a
handke rchef round my eyes as light as the ms
chief, so could'n, TO guess morn II had
eyes NJ all
hadn't so, no time ca v holIuxnm one tux me
RICH, side o the head, with drafted big book
The fire flew on, o. my ewes IN big live Goals,
and liked To have keeled over out o the chair
] felt nv bio"d r,sin like a m,ll-'ai; hut they all
laughed mighuiy at me fun, and after a while
when The stars left my eyes, SEE |, "Brother,
I'm bobbsd"
..Who bbed yon?" seq they.
guessed the biggest fisied Teller in the room,
but u wasn't him.
The next mini, spang went the book agn Gus
ia Ps,e's head.
"Whew!" SAYS he Brother I'm bobbeJ."
"Who bobbed you?" ss they.
But cousin Pete didn'i guess rite nu'her; and
tho fust thing | kno~d. whang they Tux me
sgin. was dreadful anxious to guess rite; bu,
j, wa. use. | missed y every tune. and so I'D
cusin Pete; and the harder they hit he harder
they laughed. One time they hi, me great
deal easier than the rest.
+" Brother I'm bohhed" seq /.
"Who bobbed youi" seq they.
(" Miss Mary Siallions," SEE |.
"No didn't never-," seq she and they
all roared on, worse than ever.
] begun TO ge, mons,rous tired Of such fun.
which seemed so much like the frogs 10 the spell
lin book-for IL deth me--and don't
know what | would hive done, If Mary hadn't
cum up and suddenly Jerked the hankerchf from
my eyes
"Le,'s play eum,hin else" says she, and her
face was red as FIRE. and her eyes shot out raal
ligh,nin sireaks. seed there was sumthin rong
in a mint
Well. they all went on playin pnwns." and
g pom honor" rainin and HAHN on cold stormy
weather" +" oats, peas. beans and barly grows"
sister Febv," and SIGH nopsense, till thew play
in. Mary told me how cousin Pete had bobbed me
himself