The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-01-17
THE WIDOW BEDOTl PAPERS
LAUGHTER PROVOKING BOOK.

From the New York Daily News.]
j This IS book OF genuine humor. Mr. Sam
uel Slick, Esq may as well take up his hat
make his bow. and retire, Parts of the book
exceed any papers from the pen of the ilustriou:
Mrs Caudle but it is Yankee humor snd fun
! The cid lady is presented to us As the wife q
Deacon Hesekicr Bcdott She aids him to the
grave--sets her cap for almost all the marriage.
able men in iggleton-makes All excursion tc
Scrabblshll TO visit her sister--learns that El
der Abednege Shadrack Sniffes has 1bcconrc n
widowcr; though violent Presbyterian before
she all at once becomes fascinated with the Bap
list doctrines of the Elder and dbecass d devout
attendant upon his powerful preaching. Tile
Elder is took sick'-Widow Bedott sends him
consolation IN the shape Of some poet lines: and
as these afford a fair specimen Of the widow s
poetic talent, we salcct eonpe of stanzas' of
average merit from the lines to Elder Sditfies:
70! Reverend sir, I do declare g 3. 70
1t drives me most to flenzy .6-.f
TO think o you a lynn three, ' p e-
Down sick with infiucnzy.
.... "A body'd thought it was enough ..-
..r mourn your wife's deparcr, sl..,i.g
Without such trouble as this ere v..
t..a Tocome follerin' arter' ...ft
;, "Ihe poetry and some medicine sent, to be
dipped III hot vinegar every ten minutes all
night. to make the Elder rest comfortable
worked cure, and enabled the widow TO take
advantage OF the absence of the disease to carry
OF the pailent-which she did by marvin o.
hlm-he being all the time under the de'usion
that she was rich widow, when she was not
worth her shoe strings.
Shortly before the Elder popped the ucstion
the widow retired to a grove rear the house. and
there sang plaintive diity, from which we ex-
tract the fellowing:-
heerd him preech-I heerd him pray
| hcerd him sweetly sing,
's Dear Suz howl did feel that dav! s-S
. ltwas dretful thing .s a',g
Full forty dollars would give ,,.. -
If We had continnered apart
For though he made my spirit live, -
4. Hes surely bust my heart!'
"The widows song was overheard by the Ell.
der, and what follows the reader will find in the
book" III , ? }ffSH 5fE ff17
The most staid and conservative editors can.
not keep their faces straight
Says the Boston Olive Branch.- .-.Tbe hoot
is onethat will keep alEeyes wide awake Its
author was a gifted creature, the wife of cler-
gyman, and Is now, alas! dead Hers were the
keenest powers of satre-her drollery is mimi
table i. The preface is delightfully."- written by
Alice B. Neal" y . NJ - .,.t-'
The publisL er takes the liberty of adding tbe
following. On page 81 Of the book the Wild w
writes as follows: tsz=-s.r-5 ~ .tt ... ..t,..-
'1ll never change my single lot
l hink 'twouId be a sin; .t
The lnconsolable widow of Deacon Bcdott
Don't intend to get married ag'in"
But after her capture of Elder Snifles she in
dltcd the following lines to him:
'PFissilla the fair, and Shadrach the wise.
Have united their fortunes IN the tcuderest of
ties; ''t
And being mutually joined in the matrimoni-
al connection,
Have bid adoe to their previous afliction." II
The rest of the 'sPome" the reader will find
on page $50 of the book which can be found al
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J. c.. DERBY, Publisher, N. Y.
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LOW. OR EXCHANGEFORL LAND
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E in the State of Illinois. in tbe
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