The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-05-17
From the Boston Olive Branch.
Jessie Jinlkins to her Friend
Way Down East.

| FROM the boston Olive Branch.
Jessie Jimkins to her Friend
Way Down East.
| DEAR DoREAs ANN-I spose
yeu think its long time sense you
heern from me. I should a writ
afore, but I've been reel sick with
the flewenza, and then I had sum.
thin the doctor said was browncreet-
urs in my throat. / DON no what
kind of browncreeturs they wer, but
they choked me so that / couldn't
speak nor write necthur. I should
really liked to have seen one on
cm, but they didn't gin me chance.
That ere docter didn't gin me q bit
ov medsin; he only made me stick
aout my tung, and then he would
lay two little white things on it about
as big as the head of a pin, and
made me take teaspoonful of wa
ter twice day out of a tumbler-
full with bit of white powder melt.
ed in it..
One day I asst him why he didn't
| gin me sich medsin as DR.. Skies
daown in Hodgdon duz. He looked
orful cross, and sed he hadent
the happiness ov knoin' DR.. Skies of
1odgdon, but he resumed he was
an all over-pathy docter, but himself
was a msorepathy, and that made the
differ. What in time lie meant by
DR.. Skies being all ore, sumthin' I
didn't know, for | never no.ised nuth.
in particular, but l thort I wouldn't
dispose my ignorense to the doctor,
SO | kept mum and didn't speak nor
say nuthin. At emmy rate l found aout
what morcpathy means tcw my
sorrer, for that ere docter wanted
nc tu pay him twelve dollars for
them six times he cum. l never aras
so profounded in all my born days.
Why, L was perfect struck with
Ithunder, and felt as if 1 was fuller of
! browncreeturs than ever, for could.
In't.speaka sentence. Only think Dir.
Skies, thatscarries around o whole
saddle bag full5o medsin and gives q q
buddy sich lots of it, don't hav but
two shilings time, and this ere more.
rathy doctor, that is so horrid stingy
of lisen, asks sich lot! l don't
bleve his konshuns is bigger than
one of his pills. I CESS the doctors
here make their fortins in hurry.
At emmy rate, is drcdful dispensive
bisness be in sich in these ere dig.
gins, and if | ketch emmy more Of
them brownoreetus, I'll jest kite hum.
How de,c yew think folks git mar
rid here tn Boston? They don't
stay tn hum and pervitc their frcns
tu cum tu the weddin like as dew,
but orr they traipse tcw sum meet.
inns and every buddy goes tu sec um
that is mind tu. l went tu one 10th
cr day. Every buddy sot in the
pews waitin' in anxhus inspecshun
for the wediners til cum. Bumbv
the folks all ,iz up in dcsprit hur.
ry, and [ riz tn, for I didn't know
what was to pay, and just that min
it | see the weddin a curnmin up the
lie. tust cum gal rugged aout in a
white silk gown and fxins to match,
hold on fcller's arm. Them was
the ones tn stand up, and rite be-
hind cum the bride and two fcllers
with hur. For the massy's sakes!
thinks ses |, as that crectur goin
to marry two men tn wuncc9 Then
| koncluded that the gal had two
strings tcw DO, and meant tu hold on
tn Gin both till the larst mint. We'll,
they all marched strait up tn the
minister, who stood a waitin in a
white loose gown with sleeves tn it
bigger than a NJ bag, and then
the minister tanned his back and
kncclcd daown, and the weddin
knccled daown tn. | stretched opin
my cars tn hear what they prayed,
but | didn't hear nuthing but silence
-praps the gal was a maxim up her
hi'iilp hIiSlI lCilSi w SfC Iluu
on a proper nice white gown, but
don't yer think rite on the back of
her he'd was hitched a CRATE long
piece Of white lace that hung way
daown her back. asst cu2zin Jem-
ina what that was for, and she sed
twas the brides vale. / never knew
atorc that wales were tn kiver folks.
cs back instcd Of their faces. Them
weldin gals didn't have nothin on
their naked backs, and I should a
thort they would have kort thcir
dcths cold.
Pretty soon they riz up orr their
knees, and then the minister begun
the sacrimony, and thort | TO be
sure that orc bride was a git!in mar.
ried " the feller next to her, but il
you'll blevc it, the parson ast that