Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-03-03
From Meals Saturday Gazette
THE WIDOW BEDOTT.
WRITES TO HER DAUGHTER, MRS. JUpI.
TER SMITH. r..

DEAR MELIssY:-I now take my pen in
hand to tell you that | ruther guess you'll
be considerably astonisbed when you read
what | set down to rite. I've got some
news to tell that you cant guess if you try
TIL next never, so you may as well give it
up furst as last afore you begin. And YOU
amt to let on word about it only TO Jub.
ter and Kier and Selinv. Come to think, /
don' care if You tell Sam Pender vrasses
wife, bein as how she's particker friend
o mine. But don't YOU open yer head
unuut /. '-.,-- -.,--.'.-,, -, -
want 10 surprise the Wiggletown folks, and
make EN- open ther eyes a leetle. Come to
consider, guess you'd better not tell Miss
Pendergrass, for Inc afeard she cant keep
it to herself. She might let it out to the
Kenipes, and they'd tell the Crosbys, and
the Crosby's they'd carry it straight to
Major Coon's wife, and she'd be sure TO
tell old Dawson's wife, (the widder Jinkns
that was-she twas Poll Binqham,) and
she's the very undentical person want 10
keep it from till it busts upon her all Of a
sudding, like thunder clap. I guess Tie
letlher know't I can hold my head as high
as hern in futur, for who did she git but a
decrippid old bung head that she wouldn't
had if she could got anybody else.
guess on the hull you hadn't better say
nothing about it to Kier's wife, for fear
she'll tell her folks, and they'll sartainly
devulgate it all round. IF you dew tell
her, you make her promise she wont hint
sillyble about it to her stepmother-she
twas Kesier Wlnkle-nor to nobody else.
You must all keep it a profound secret till
| come. If nothing happens to pervent,
we. shall be in Wiggleton next week a
Saturday, on our bride tewer. A Sunday
mornin we calklate to 90 to meeting long
you and Jubiter, and in the afternoon we
shall tend the baptist meetin. | tell We,
wont ther be some starn' in Wiggletown
/ that day. / guess they'll find out that Ime
as good as emmy on I'm if not a leetle better.
! shant hev on none o. the things they've
ever seen me wear. My riggin is 10 be
4 intirely new. Yer uncle Magwire has
made me present Of handsome green
merino dress. and your aunt Magwire has
gin me a new brown velvet bunnit, and vel
cousin Jefferson has presented me nele'
giant plad shawl, and ca'kilate 10 come
!, out in EN- all in Wiggletown.. lids
! Speakin o my new wardrobes, remind
! me to tell you that if Jabe Clark come
your way peddin, not to trade cent
woth with him. You remember how h,
4 come it over me about the shoes don't ye
Well its amazin | should ever be such
fool as to be took in by him agin--but 81
'twas.- He come along here a spell ago
and sarved me the awiulest trick that eve
you heerd on. ] was alone IN the house
yer aunt had went to a sick nabor's, an
J the way he cheated me was perfectly dret
ful. MY blud biles now a thinkin on IT,
He pertehded he'd experienced religion
and lamented over the way he used to chea
. and lie; and as true as Ilive and breathe
: actilly got round me so 't,he preswaded m
to swop away nelegant stun coored sil
that cost me dollar yard, for mlserabl
81 slazy stripid consarn, that he said was a
b, the fashion now-called it "grody fewry
and what makes il more aggravatin, mad
me pay tew dollars to boot, But that war
! the wost on It, for come to onroll it, W
found that three or four yards away at toihe
eend on 't was all dammidged and staine
up--twant fit for nothing. Yer aunt WI
S mad at me for ben so took in, and yer uncl
h ne laft and hectored me, and went O
about it-you know what critter he is
bother a boldly. At last busted out
!, , cryin, and went off and shot myself up j
/, my room, and STAYED there till tea time
and when ! come down, 10 and behold, "
n uncle stept up and handed me new gree
o merino dress--he'd ben off to the store an
y bought il purpose for me, fringe and bu
)" tons and everything to trim it with ar
I've got il made up, and II sets like dand