The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-05-19
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Correspondence Of tho Ledger.
GRASSY CREEK,
Yuneyon Kounty, {

Deer Ruzztn Sttikely:
Igot yer lettur, fuy dais ago, and wus
'sprized tu here yu left Gorgey, and went tu
Leenover Kounty. I no menny time yu
look back and say tu yerseF-Ah law Cor
gey, and ole Kahoky! phelt sorry fur yu,
Kuzzin Stukely, that yu hev rovin natur,
and Ant Hubby alwais ced It wood be the
.rewin Of yu eff yu didn't settel doun, eff it
warnt more nor patch, yu mout make come
without byin it at emmy price. This mattur
nv peddlin wer good biznis afore evry Tod
dy got at it, but sune as wun maid mummy
annuther begun, sune as he gun to rize an
nuther started up, tell the hole kountry wer
full Nv Jarzey wagguns and joos-harps.-
Yu and yer Baus hev a fine time, i reckun;
but see here, Kuzzin Stukely, how dus the
peoples git mummy? l heerd Methods
preecher say, and he ort to no, that thar war
nuthin to eat but chesnuts and Irish perta-
ters, in Leenover Kounty. Yumout sell all
the goods and goodies too, in this wurld, and
efyer diddent git the pewter yer wooddent
maik nuthin at last.
and I'll tell what it is, yu say yer gwine to
marry and yu don't want yer wife to see my
letters. Now, I'll tell yu Kuzzin Stukely
that showed yer lettur to Sue and do yu
think she diddent say eff claimed kin with
apedler she wooddent have me, and CON-
menced cryin, and sed she thort belonged
to the Irishtocracy and that all my kin folks
wer in any kind nv ployment cept runnin race
hosses and the like O. that. Sue went to
hum and nit back to me this lettur which /
send to yu:
Mr.. THoRRNs -
After thaw the letturyour couthin Stuke-
ly wrote to you. have concluded to dith
regard promitheth that hitherto felt and ac-
knowledged to be binding upon me. To
thubmit to the modification of wounding
my family pride by connexthion tho far in
ferior to my grade in life ith pathed endu-
ranth, and Twill think oft DO longer How
ever painful it may be to your feelingth, you
muth not henthforth entertain the moth dith-
tant hope of realithing the joy you tho fond
ly anticipated unleth You deny that you hav
Telationth who are employed in occupation
beneath the thircle my education and birth en-
ly when You told me you were reading n
courth of medithne, but how thoon wath
my joy turned to bitteneth-my love to ha-
tired, when heard Of that detachable pedlar
wagon filled with thackth of featherth, old
beethwaxth, and copper stillth. / declare |
wept during one night until fatigue brought
thleep to my relief. s.. -. .
Deeming our correthpondenth at an end,
hope you will never rethume the thubiect
to torment the afflicted THuE.
Du yer see that Kuzzin Stukely what yer
peddlin has brot upon yer friend mustn't
let Sue no I've rit this, efI do she will never
git in good yumer any more. told her
! bot Roderie Random, ard the Arabien
Mites to read medicine out NV and l tole her
tu, l had Bunyan's Prougress on the treat
ment ov childurn, and she seemed mitily
pleesed fur she laffed to think she'd be n
doctur's lady, she did But whenever look
ed like saying Jarsy waggun. hur mouth flu
into spasmatic involution, and never want
tu menshun it to hur Ihav clinnation to
quit maxim shingles for Sue don't even like
that ployment tho it is very helthy and whole
sum.
Ant Huldy wants to no the price of them
green glass lookin pipes, eff yuve got emmy
with yu, and almost all pedlers du hav, she
ses. fyu Good send me barl of pills and
let Sue see that were tryin to rize in the
drld, think she'd forgit that yu wer ped
din.
wunder whot kind of gal yer gwine to
marry it aint that'un that tauked detch, and
bete pore Kearson with feeshn pole. She
lives up thar sumwhar, and eff its hur, minde
out ole feller, she cum fur frum distance. |
Jest afore got yer lettur bot melIer-
thumpion for Sue to play on; but she fell |
out bout yu and didn't give it to her, |
didn't. When lay by my crap, I'll go to
Nutun eff don't git emmy fudder. alwais
wanted to see the Catawabar River, heerd
a CRATE tauk bout it and deep hole of the
rale rode that's on big bridge maid NV
granny's rocks, dug up out NV Yorke dees-
trict on luther side of the river
Thar war CRATE stur at Munrow last
weke: 2 fellers wer tride fur the murderin
NV Sammy Gary, and I thaut I'd rite tn yu
tne hoal tryal, but yule see it in the prents.
Yu seme tn think Mutton betes Lancaster
and Munrow bottle. Why, don't yer knee
they've got Printin Press at Lancaster, and
thay print nice paper thar, cauld the Ian
caster Ledger" It's got long list NV reed
ers. The people in Norf Kerliner ar dispo-
sed to help it mitily, and scribe fur it reglar
and Munrow keeps bildin nu howsez evry
day. Nuton may be nice place, but Lam
caster and Munrow ar ahed NV Il a long Jump. \
Our craps on Grassy Creek ar not very
thrifty; 80 much frost and cold wether we
NJ gwine to quit plantin Cotting for it wont
do well up heer. When yu git married
bring yer wife, and let Ant Hubby see her.
l think. as yure in the ole Norf Stat agin,
yu mout cum over emmy time and see US.