Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-12-17
Mistellanenus.
THE WIDOW BY BREVET;
THAT SAD AFFAIR OF MISS PICKLIN
(FORMERLY MRS. KENL)
By N. p. WILLS.

let me introduce the courteous reader
o two ladies'.
Miss Picklin, tall young lady of TWEEN.
ty.one, near enough to good-looking to
permit of delusion on the subject, (of
which however The had an entire monopo-
ly.) with cheeks always red in small
spot, lips not so red as the cheeks, and
rather thin, sharpish nose, and waistvery
slender; and last. (no, least importantly
very long neck, scalded on either side into
a resemblance 10 a scroll Of shrivelled
parchment, which might or might or
nigh, be considered as mis-. for,une--ser.
wing her as title-deed to twenty thous'
and dollars. The scald was inflicted,
and the fortune left in consequence, by q
maiden aunt who, in the babyhood of
Miss Picklin, attempted to cure the child's
sore throat by an application Of cabbage
leaves stepped in hot vinegar.
Miss Euphemia Picklin, commonly call.
ed Phemie--a good-humoured girl. ra,her
inclined 20 be fat, but gifted with several
points of beauty of which she was not al
all aware, very much pet among her fe-
male friends. and admitting. with perfect
sincerity and submission. her sisters ex
elusive right 10 the admiration Of the
gentlemen of their admission.
Captain Isaiah Picklin, the father ofthese
ladies, was merchant of Salem, an i'm
porter of fish and opium, and once master
Of the brig "Simple Susan," which still
piled between his warehouse and Constan
tinople-nails and Goldfish the cargo out
ward. Ihave not Miss Picklin's permis
sion to mention the precise date of th'
events | am about to recurd, and leaving
that point alone to the imagination ofth
reader, shall set down the other particu
Jars and impediments in her "course o
true love" with historical fidelity.
Ever since she had been of suficien
age TO turn her attention exclusively t.
matrimony, Miss Pckln had nourished
presen,iment that her destiny was exotic
tina, the soil of Salem was too poor, AM
the ingenious lovers too mean; and thai
potted in her twenty thousand dollars, sh
was q choice production, set aside f1
Towering in foreign clime,' and dessne
to be transplanted by a foreign lov
or. With this secret in her bosom, sh
had refused one or two gentlemen Of mic
die age, recommended by her father, bt
sides sundry score of young gentlemen {
slender revenue in her set of acquaint
ances, till, if there had been anything b.
sides poetry in Shakspeare's assertion tn,
itis
"Broom groves
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves
she neighbouring brush barrens' of Sa,
gus would have sold in lots at a premium
1t was possibly from the want of nightil
gales, to whose complaining notes th
gentleman of Verona tuned his distres
es,' that the discarded Of Salem prefer,
consultations Of Picnic Picklin.
News to the Picklins Hassan Ker
the son of old Abdoul Keni, was cdrni,
out in the Simple Susan!' A Turk
live Turk--a young Turk, and the son
her fathsr'srich correspondent. in Turke,
.Ah mel thought Miss Ricklin
The captain himself was rather TAX
aback. He had known old Abdoul
for many years, had traded andsmok
with him in the cafes Of Galata, had 60