Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-07-30
VOLUME VII.
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Fern leaves.

enough 10 Talk out ABOUT. ones Iunn
boy!
i've been reading the Bible to-day, and
strikes me that our foremothers were nj
very correct old ladies'. Who firted wit
the old serpent? How came Samson's .ha
cut off and his peppers extinguished. WI
perforated Jeps head with ten-penny nails
How came Jonah sent ona whaling voyage
Who helped Ananias tell fbsa Who pl
Job up to swearing? Who raised q hurIican
IN good old Abrams house, Who dance
John thes gsptist's head off his shoulder
hey :! Pd1ike to hive you notice that's al
what stock we all sprung from.
Ii they weren't teetotally depraved, may
never find out which of'em l descende
from! They didn't seem to have the leas
consideration for future generations s. lon
since unborn.n Now dont calculate, my
self to feel responsible for their capers. nv
read somewhere in Byron, believe, tha
every wash-tub must stand on ITS own pedes
tai! Tor something ike that) Idon't believ
in saddling my shoulders with their oil
fashioned transgressions.
Curious, though, isn't it? the mischie
women make in the worlda Great pit,
Noah hadn't set Mrs. Noah adrif when b,
took one of each kind in the arko ! shoul,
rather have stood my chance for azduckins
than to have been shut up with sucha .spfo
miskus menagerien Noahw worthyOlt
gentleman. No mention made Of his getting
tipsy but once, believe.
Happy Mrs. Emily! Freed from the thral
dom Of housekeeping. and duly installed
mistress Of fine suit Of rooms at -- Hotel
No more refractory servants 10 oversee, nc
more silver OF poIceiain to guard, no mere
cupboards or closets or canisters to explore;
no more pickles or preserves TO make; nc
more bills OF fare to invent, and above all,
mistress of bell-Wire which was moi
@tabooed on washing and ironing days.
Time to lounge on the sofa, and devour
aysllow-covered literatufe;1 = time 10 EN-.
brolder caps, and collars, and chemisettes
time to complete the pretty face where
housekeeping might have planted "crows
feet had she not fortunately foreseen the
symptoms and turned her hack on all dull
care. and all his cioaking crew
Happy Mrs. Emily! No bird LET loose
irom cage, was ever more JOYOUS not even
her ewn little children. for she had two of
them, and pretty creatures they were too,
with their cherry lips. and dimpled limbs,
and faxen ringIets; and very weary they
grew, OF this gloomy nursery, with its one
window commanding view Of dingY shed
and . tall spectrallooking distil-house chim-
ney, emitting clouds Of smoke and suffoca-
ting vapor. Matte. the nurse, didn't fancy
teither, SO she spent her time in the lob
hes and entries, challenging compliments
rom white jacketed walters, while the chill.
drsn peeped curiously into the half-open
dooFs taking drafts of cold air on their bare
Rscks and shoulders. Sometimes they bal
weed themselves alarm:ngly on the spiral
hlustrade, gazing down into the dizzy Babel
oelow, lnhalng clouds of cigar smoke, and
llsening, with round eyed wonder to strange
eensersations, which memoTy's cud should
shsx. for ripper years to digest.
No children allowed at the table Ihote,n
= The hotel regulations y pompously set
iohh Landlords tabie-cloths, gentlemen's
@uadcloth, and ladies' silk dresses being
worn worn foes 10 little Paul Pry fingers Poor
iIlila exiles they took their sorrowful meals
" ths servants hall, with their respective
nurses, the bill Of fare consisting Of rehash
asJesterday's French dishes, special for the
aaTestion Of an ostrich) This followed by a
insert OF stale pastry and ancient raisins,
saeh nurse ut the outset, propitiating her in
~ charge with a huge Inch, that she
night tighten her apron strings with the
abstantials! mamma, meanwhile, blissfulIy
gnoring the whole affair, absorbed il the
nelime occupation Of making German
sslted dogs.
spa too, has has male millennium: no
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