The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1858-02-17

are looking so we'll = shouted Mrs. 20
kenhsm, growing very red in the face
i Do y1u think look well, then =
i 0, charDingly Twenty years young
cr than when last saw you
Hey, what "
You are looking so much better thar
you cid some time back. Nobody woulG
oclisvs ,bat you were the same person.
an sorry hswever TO SEQ that you are
rather dull Of hearing
Dull of what > asked uncle jeff.
A lite deaf shouted Mrs. Poken-
ham.
Deaf! who says that I'm deaf? l.? a
set ot stupid people should like to
know who told you | was deaf parcel
Of ignorant people
o, see that it was all mistake !,
only | theaght that perhaps you had
got little cold, more, nothing msre,'
shouted Mrs. Poksnham.
Il am no more deaf than you are, ,
said uncle Jsf.
No, no, uncle, / see that you arc
not. don't know what ] could bs
thinking OF, said Mrs Pokenham, whose
lungs bessh. to complain at being put
into such Severe iequisitsn. But,
now, uncIs take the easy chair, it is
such ea one wo got it on purpose
1 dou1s want your easy chair.! any
chsir is easy to ahsa!thy psrson like ms.
What, | suppose you think an getting
oldn
20, no, dear uncle Jelfery, you look
full twenty years younger than when |
saw yau last. Here Fanny Carr, take
these slippers and this dressing gown
away. | don't know who could have
thought of treating dear ulcle Jeffsry,
AS if lie was old or an invalid. Pray,
Fanny Carr, do you move this footstool
and wheel this great unwieldly chair
away
The li,tl. old maid drew near, much
as if shs had usen a little mouss xp-
proaching lion, and proceeded to Do
as she was bid, with one Of the NEST
frightened airs in the world. The grea.
cross man locked down like a colossal
statue, Oh the dlminutive little thing who
was thus called TO wait upoh bis high |
mightincss.
Won't you 60 near the fire, uncle
Jsffcry; it was made on purpose for you,
we thought you might be eold,' shoutsd
Mrs Poksnham.
Cold ? sueersd uncle JEFF, unbutton-
ing his coat.
Do open the window, Fanny, my un-
Gle will be sufiocated
| wish you'd let ths window bs, and
me too, growIed uncle jeff.
Aud now, uncle Jstfsiy, which will
you take, tea or coffee We have them
both ready.
DO tbsk | am tee. totallsr /
hate Stops
Uusio J.iFery shall have rump
steak and eyslcI sauce Would you ike
that = ssnsked Mis- POkenbam
L don't like to be plagued growlsd
uncle Jsf
Poor Mrs Pokenhsm sat dswn in ber
chair, pretty considerably exhausted
ui,h sbousIus and prscesded to iancut
aud consois herself Ia low voice, per- i,
Ircty comfortable IN uocc Jeffsrys not
being able to hOar her, ia spite OF his
lssursues that be was iu no maupsr of /
means deaf.
Well aud so he's deaf deaf rs |
issr nail aud bow in tho world am I
o go on making myself agreeable, I
lon't knsw--l shall soon be perfectly
Aud yet tnsrc il one little
.vmiod in two need not be vory par.
lculau ~ to wbst We cay. We may
70 able TO express our sentiments with.
,ui being 10 danger Of stumbling ever
omo ailrUut o. clher {
'Msmns, said Miss Pokenbam the
lde.l, suppose We eau speak toe, ~
Ipols Jsil IA too scai 10 hear a rOfs wo
as say =
say what you will, Gully don't look n
{ him, lest he suspect we are sposting Q
# him. d
Il vas sply going 10 CIV. ny spipiou {