Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-11-23
vol. 54.-NO. So.
"NIost any female LOGGER up stairs,
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Most any female LOGGER up stairs,
Occasions thought in him who lodges undcrn
Don't they tho Not deuced thing have
been able to do since that little gypsy took
them rooms over head about week ago -
Pat-pat--pat, 60 those little feet over the
floor till I'm as nervous as cat in china
closet, and confoHnded pretty feet they are
toe, for caught sight Of 'em going up stairs.
Thea can hear her little rocking chair crcak.
as It's there sewing, and keeps singing,
Nos-Lope Not" (just as if a fellow
o@l3 help it, Wish she wasn't quite so
.t.g. it makes me feel decided uncomforta-
L. Wonder il she has any great six-footcr
Of brother, or cousin with a sledgc-ham-
.aer fist Wish | was her washcr-woman,
'r the the little Niger who brings her break
..sst ; wish she'd faint away on the stairs
wish the house would ketch FIRE Tonight
Here nm in this great barn of a room, TALL
alonel chairs and things set square up against
the wall !; no little feminine fxin round l
shall have to buy second hand bonnet, or a
little pair Of gaiter boots, to cheat n.ysclfinto
the delusion that there's two Of u.s. Wish
the little gipsy war'nt shy as a rabbit.
can't meet her on the stairs, If die for it
I've upset my inkstand a dozen times, hop
ping up when thought heard her coming.
Wonder if she knows, when she sits vegeta-
ting there, that Shakespeare, or Sam Slick, or
some body, says that 'shappiness is born
alvin ?" cause ifshc don't, I'm the mission
AIRY that'll enlightcn her Wonder if she
earns her living tpoor little soul } It's
time | had wife, by Christopher Sitting
there pricxing her fingers with that murder
Gus needle fshe was sewing on my dickcy
it would be worth while now That's it.
by Jovcl I'll get her to mako me some
dickeys; don't want 'cm any more than Sa-
tan wants holy water; but that's neither
here nor there shall insist upon her ia
king the measure oflny neck bachelors have
a right to be fusty. There's pretty kettle
of fish now either she'll have TO stand on
cricket, or shall have to get on my knees to
her. Solomon couldn't fix anything better,
deuce take me if Icould INT say the right thing
then This fitting dickcys isn't to be got up
in hurry.
Hallow there's the door bell there's
big trunk thumped down in the entry. Is
Mrs. Lcgare at home Mrs. Lcgare like
that now. Have / been in love whole week
with Mrs. Legarc Never mind--may-be
she's widow. Tramp--Tramp up comes
those masculine feet up stairs--handsome fell
low, too Nebuchadnezzar
If ever heard kiss in my life, 1 heard
one then. won't stand it its an inva-
sion on my rights; I'll listen at the door as
Pm sinner What right have sea captains
on shore, I'd like to know Confound it all
Well, l always knew women were'ent worth
thinking of; set of dcceitfal little monkeys,
changeablc as rainbow, superficial as par
rots, as full Of tricks as cunjurors, stubborn
as mules, vain as peacocks, noisy as magpies
and full Of the ssOld Harry" all the time
There's "Delilah" now didn't she take the
strength out of Sampson and wcrc'cnt "Si-
sera" and "Judith" born fends and didn't
the little mink Of ssIIcrodias' dance John
the Baptist's head off Didn't Sarah raise
Cain with Abraham, till he packed Hagar
off Then there was-well, the less said of
her the better but didn't Eve, the fore
mother Of the whole concern, lave one talk
too many with the sold serpent :" OF course,
she didn't do nothing else Glad l never
set any Of my young affections on any o'em !.
Where's my cigar case How tormentcd hot
this room is