The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-04-06
Letter from the Itinerant Show
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BALDISsvIILE, INDY, Feb. 10th Isl


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BALDlSsvnLE, INDY, Feb. 10th 1889.
GrNrz, in a sad & sentermentul
Mood teruite | thawt at 1st Ide kourt
the Muse & did SO try to do, but the muse
refOzed to be kourtid & 20 mothiucs III
lctmy thawts express themselves in Proze.
& speaking of kourtin remines me of how
wood & one Mrs. A. Ward, which [
dessay will interest the readers of your
valorble paper Twas carm still mite in
Joon, when all natur was husht & nary
zeffer disturbed the screen silence. ] sot
with the objock of my hart's ofeckshuns
on tho fense Of her fathers pastur. Ihad
experiunsed hankerin after her for sum
time but darsent proclaime my pashun.
Wall, We sot there on the fense, swing.
ing our feet two & frov & blushin as red
as the Baldinsville skool house when it
was fust painted & ldokin very cimple, l
mako no doubt, My left arm was ocke.
pied in ballunsin myself on the fepse while
my rite was wounded affeckshunitly round
her waste.
sez 1, "suzanner l thinks very muchly
of yu," & l side deeply,
Ses she, How you do run on"
Sez |, Il wish there was winders to
my solo soz yu Good SEQ sum Of my feel.
ings.'
pawsod heer, but as she made no re.
ply I continued in the follerin strane:
"Or Good yer know the sleeplia mites
pars on yure ackount, how vittles had
seascd to be attractive to me & how my
Inns is shrunk up, yu woodunt dowt me
not by no means. Case on this wastin form
4 these suukun ize" l cride. jumpin up
& shud hav oontinnered sum time longer
probly, but unfortnitly I lost my balunse
and fell over into the pastus ker smash,
teerin my close and seveerly damagin my.
self einernlly.-Suzanner sprung to my
assistance & dragged me 4th in bubble
quick time. Then DRAWN herself IN to
her full hite she sed
y" won't listup to your infurnal non.
cents eny longer Just yu say rite strate
out what yu air drivin Rt If III moan
gittin hitched, I'me i'm
considered that aire enuff fur all prac.
tical purpusses g. we went to the parsun's
at onct & was Immediately made /. I've
rarst threw a CRATE many tryin Ordees
sins that memorable mite, but Mrs. \.
Ward has bin troo as steal. BY bein
virtoous I've ono repartashun fur honisty
which few snowmeu (alars, alars for the
pcrfession y ipjoy & by attendin strickly
TO biznis I've amarst hansum competun.
sy, & my show is exalted by few & ex.
celed by none, embracin as it doz won.
derful colleckshun Of livin wild Beests &
Snaix, endlis variety of wax fggers Of
life size & the only trained Kangcru in
Ameriky-the most amazin little cuss ever
introduced to diseriminatin publik
& why am I sad methincks heer yu
ask, Jentle reader. Becavz I feel that
the Show Bisniz, which I've stroven TO
crnyment. is being usurpt by Popular
Lectures, as they air kalled. tho in my
opinion they are poplar humbugs. Eastern
individwals, mostly from Bosting, who
git hard up. embark in the lecturin buis.
niz. They earn themselves with hi SCUM.
din frazis, frizzla up their hair, git trusted
for SCOT Of black close & cum out West
to loctur at so dollars pop. They aint
over stockt with branes, but they have
brass enuff to make sufficient kittles 10
bile all tho sope they will be required by
the ensewin sixteen ginerashuns. Peple
Aock 10 hear them in krowds. The men
60 becawz its poplar & the wimin folks
go to see what other wimin folks hav on.
| When its over the lecturer goze and re,
gales hisself with gin and sugar, while the
| peple say " What charming lectur that
air was" etsettery, etsettery, when 9 out
of 10 of um don't hav no more idee Of
what the lecturer see than my kangaru
has of the sevunth speer of hevun. Thares
more infuimashun to bs got out of a well
conducted nocspaper-price 8 sents--than
theirs is out Of ten poplar lecturs at 25 or
so dollars q pop, as the kaso may be.
These same people, bare in mine, stick up
their nosis at moral wax 6ggers & sag
ashus beests. They say these things is
low. Cent? it greeves my hart in my old
age, when line in the Sheer and yellow
leet" TO cote frum my Irish friend Mr..
McBeth) to see that the Show bizlnis is
pritty much plade out. Hovsumever l
shall chance it again in the Spring, line
negoshiatin with the larst Jcory in Hiram