The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-03-31
4 Characteristic Letter.

4 Characteristic Letter.
The following quaint letter has fallen into our hands,
and for the amusement Of our readers We print II. The
envelope was superseded For Patrick McGinnis,
Michigan State, County Wayne, Detroit, North Ameri-
ca, fornint Canada Here Is the letter.
BALLYcoNNEL, County Connsught, |
near Sligo, June Is, 1857.
Dear Cousin McGinnis-I didn't sind We q letthur
since the last time l wrote to your brother Jerry, be.
cause have just removed from me former place of lv-
ing. and | couldn't tell where a letthur would find ye.
But I now wild pleasure take me pen in hand to inform
ye Of the death Of your own living uncle Fitzpatrick,
who died very suddenly last night after a lingering ILL.,
ness Of fits. The poor ould man was in violent convul.
sions during the entire period Of his confinement, lay
ing perfectly quiet and s~pacheless all the time talking
Incorrectly and crying for watheg. / couldn't inform
ye Of he death before this except l wrote to ye be the
Iast post, which wint off two days before he died, and
thin ydd have the postage to pay. aren't able to tell
the rsle cause Of his death, though l fear it was 90.
casioned by his eating too much rabbits stuffed wild pals
and gravy, or pals and gravy stuffed wild rabbits, or
something else l can't tell which. But be that as it
may, as soon as be breathed his last the doctors gave
over all hopes Of his recovery. And what is worse
than all. Patrick, the poor man was niver well ten days
at a time during his whole sickness apd copfneaeptg
I need not say anything about his age, for ye Why well
know that September next he would have belh forty.
Eve years old lacking twelve months, and if he'd lived
till that time he'd be just six months 1i5xd.- His prop
erty now all falls to his next kin, a61 expect it will be
divided betwi1t US, and we know lIhs estate was consid-
cradle, which was sold to pay bin debts, and be lost the
remainder in a h'rse race !; but il was the opinion Of
every one that he'd a wonffhe race it the horse he ran
against hadn't been too a3t 70. him. a2'
I never saw q maAaa land the docthors all say SOY that
observed directioQF'or tuck medicine betther than he
did: He saideh6 would as laiiyef take hitther as swate
II it only IN the same taste, and ippekak Is whiskey
punch 11tMt would only put him in the same hunor for
aghtin@3 bot the poor ould soul will niver ate or drink
anY&0fe. And now We haven't a Twin relative in the
VIZ world, except myself. and your two cousins who
We murdered IL the last war. I can't dwell on this
m4etnful subject any longer, aud shall sale the letthar
win black wax and put on it yer uncle's coat Of arms,
soS0e careful and don't break the sale when ye open the
letfhcr, and don't open it till two OF three days after ye
rssave II, BY which time ye will be prepared for .t.ase
sorrowfal tidings. Your ould swateheart sends her love
to you unbeknown to me. Whin We 60 till the post
office az Cornalius O'Flynn for this lctther, aud if be
doesn't know it from the rest, tell him it Is the one
that spakes about the death os yoay' uucse, and don't
Pay anything fol- The lettAer, for put d stamp on the
inside for fest il might he los. if I'd put it on the out
side, dye min !. rFrom yer darlin cousin,
PAUDINE OBRIES.
p. S.-The ss;son i, very back ward on account Of
the sevair weather We ars having, aud Father Brady
says be never see such a cold summer before but once,
and that was in December, forty years ago. Dent
write to ne till ye sasays this, I, 81.