The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-05-20
LOOKING FOR HELP.

Dispatch, the following amusing recital
of gctlemans adventures in search oi
domestic. He had cut two or three
advertisements from a morning paper,
aud proceeded TO look up the lady
winters. How many of our readers
have lad similar experience He says:
Fortifying ourself with sort of des-
perate Teutonic courage, We marched
for to meet the common enemy of house
holders, crockery- ware aud cleanliness
the "helps." Biddy Maioney was the
first for whom We searched. After an
immense deal of inquiry and rigid
cross examination Of a blear eyed boy,
we were enabled TO fnd Shuflie's court
in Nagur's alley. Nagur's alley was
dark, muddy, aud intensely favored
with armatic distillation of dish water.
decaycd vegetables. defunct cats, and
filth generally. Whenever healthy
streak of sunlight did break in upon the
thoro'fa it almost Immediately turned
to dirty yellow, and finally faded away
into dim shadowy line, looking like a
wet chalk mark half rubbed out Well,
after wading through Nagur's alley three
times and witnessing two dog fights, a
race between a policeman and pick
pocket, (both of them running SO close
that one couldn't tell which was whioh)
and listening to a highly interesting cou-
versa;ion between half a-dozen gins iv
| the Immertand Isle" concerning the
| rights of O'Flaberty TO ssze a felly
up fornist the bloody bleak jist bekase
be tapped hole in one side iv his bruth-
er's head" we found onrself standing at
the entrance to Shuttle court-and it
was shuttle all over. The houses looked
as if they were ready to suffle all down;
old shutters dangling by rusty broken
hinges ). dirt and squalor above, below
aud--every where on the greasy, slimy
pavements, mob headed children, wrig
Cling aud wandering about in groups,
with faces besmeared with the molasses
of three weeks ago, and their hands COW
cred with geological strata and sub
strata of dirt. No. 90. alb, yes, there is
| No. 90. We Knocked at the door,
A face peered out at US from q win
dow.
&" Hooch aisy, now! What dye
want ?" said the face, which resen
bied the weather side of frost bitten
carrot.
"I would like to see Miss Biddy Ma.
Iona"
90, Yez funny man Why the
divil didn't yer honor say SO before r
The face collapsed into grin aid disap-
peared, aud after a confused murmur
| within, the door creaked open. Juven-
lie Celts in aay quantity blocked up the
passage, hich was, like the court,
dark aud filthy. The children would
have answered for figures of Misery ia
the background Of a picture of Famine,
They were ragged, shoeless, hatless, and
upcombed, yet fat, vigorous, and-pah
what an odor. Presently yell, follow
| ed up by barral-stave, fell in amongst
them and produced scatterment. A
shock-hcaded being shuffled from rear
room into view, whose prominent char
acteristics were red nose, red hair, red
eyes, and old blackened short pipe, and
an awfully short red vest.
Will your honor be PLACED to walk
in sur ?" We walked in and entered
the rear apartment. Dinner was just
over, and the room limited in size and
ventilation, had a sickeuing smell of red
herring, potatoes a ID cheap whisky.
Blddy, be jabers, dye mind, now
Here's a gentleman that's come afthel
the place. Take safe, sir |" said al
old woman, offering us chair afflicted
with a weak back and minus a leg -
From behind the smoke Biddy appear
I'd, and we iuwardly rejected her. She
was six feet high, in the clear" as
broad across the back as a grenadier
aud-such hands Why, the fl ppers
of a whale were as nothing in campari
son. Heavens! what grim, good
humored earthquake. opened the whele
surface of her facial territory, ready te
absorb a pair of roasted chickens and
sirloin steak at a. single gulp, to say
nothing of bushel of potatoes as des
sert
care you the lady we are in search
of?''
Faith, an am, sur-long life tc
the likes iv ye for comm afther pool
gerl that wants to earn an aisy, homes
livin.'"
Gave yez much iv a family sur?" asked
the old woman, Biddy's mother.
"Not large"
"How many childers?"
} "Four."
E care yez well to do in the world ?"
We began to boil. "Of course" wa
our crusty reply.
"Yez must mind me questions, bekas
r I don't want me only daughter to 60 ou
to woork where there is ony inconven
q fences. She's SO wake and fable and i
] bad hilth, sur, that too much weor
y would kill the darlin, SIR. Have 20
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