The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-03-04
The French nj brighten.


Marine Parade, Brighton, presents her COM
pliments, and-at this imminent time
begs of Mr.. Punch a corner in his beautiful
journal for her liule letter. II Mas. MARY
GERKINs was in Parliament-as, indeed,
women ought TO be-she would not trouble
Mr. r., but give the country a bit of her
mind from her seat in the House. As il is,
being lone woman and a widow, she hopes
she may be permitted to save her county
through the newspapers.
+" PeriloiRkIe House, Brighton, Jan. p.
"MR. PUScH The more look at the
opposite coast OF France (and I've a tele-
scope for the first floor that as | may say,
sweeps the Channel clean as a new pin)
the more I'm certain OF danger from our nat
ural enemies. sit spying at my window
till, sometimes, | think ! see no end Of fiat.
bottomed boats at DiePpe, full of soldiers
and horses, and baggage wagons. My girls,
to comfort me, tell me it's the clouds; but
only hope il isn't the smoke of the enemy's
steamers.
my letter, am proud to say il, has put
the whole town in twitter. Lodgings have
dropt to nothing. First floors have come
down to seconds, and there next to no diff
ference between backs and fronts In fact
the whole place is-A Town TO Let. and
Nobody to Take it.
Il am now happy to say that all the
blame's laid at my door. Yes Periwinkle
House bears it all. When people abused
me for my letter, cried little at first; but
it's sweet to find what spirit persecution puts
into a body. It's as good as another shawl
TO a woman
+" DO you want 10 ruin Brighton, Ma am;
do you want TO make it another Pollmyra
another Thbs 2 said Mr. TO me.
Of the Gre lating Library. People have
sent home No1o and Then, and | don't know
what, because they couldn't get through 'em
50 near the sea- Do you you want 10 make
the place a desert, Ma'am; desert without
a single Oh Acis."
{" said nothing. Only this When tie
French had come, how he'd thank me for
that beautiful letter. As poor GERKINs used
TO say-and nOiC | believe him-'If YOU
want to serve your country, mind you can
afford to pay for it, However, have made
up my mind to suffer, and nothing shall dis
appoint me.
:" Mr.. Punch, nOlC ! know the truth of
what PRoFEsSoR ToADNAHoLE said here,
in his lecture On the Vitality of Blue
bottles, at the Old Ship. Everybody,
says he, is born with mission At first,
l thought mission was only a knowing
name Tor a 'cauI.' However at last |
found it out. For, as the Professor said,
folks have sometimes TO wait TO learn it, |
M mission is-to save Brighton GERK-
ms used to say Id good deal Of gunpowder
in my veins; and now he's gone, 1 don't
mind owning il. Human nature, said the |
Professor, is always the same Well, we !
have had JoAS OF Arc; which is all
the stronger reason for having MARY or
BRIeHToNl Nature isn't like a tea-caddy, |
but keeps supplying herself.
And now, Mr.. Punch, have some |
thing to say that will make the very horse
hair OF the Horse Guards stand on end
You know told you that ] had taken
many French dodgers. We'll, Sir, there
was the CoMTE DE FMoU, PRIScE CURA-
GOA, and others don't remember, that, last
autumn, lodged with me. They went away,
leaving portmanteau to be sent for. As
I've never beard Of EN- since and they only |
gave julius hall-acrown among EN-,
haven't hestated to open the luggage; and
blessed thing it is ] did. For there, Mr..
Punch, q used to see 'em twiddling with /
compasses, and rules, and don't know
what on paper0 for there is the whole plan
drawn and colored, Of an attack upon this
blessed Brighton. There isn't an alley that
isn't down-not courtyard that they don't
know every bit Of. Not only, too. the plan
OF an attack, but Of lortiiying and keeping
the place afterwards.
9" As the best luck would have it, MR.
STKELPEE, a play-wIiter, is lodging with
me 0wo-pair front, it being the dull season.
at this moment. ! believe he has served in
the army, for once | heard him say, No
body knew what in his time he had taken
from the French (He's now doing an
original play, such sweet thing. to be call
ed, Isn't Il Particularly odd that he
Woman hasn't Brought Home Tie Lin
en?) Well, showed the Frenchman's pa
pers 10 Nh. s., and he explained all the
mischief to me. B, X, X, c, z, and other
innocent looking letters Of the alphabet-li
mean no less, than Bastions, and Redoubts, Ii
and RsveIings, and Hom-works, CHATS the