The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-04
Mistellaneous.
JOY IN THE HOUSE OF WARD.

these INES VIII me yu enloyln Tie same
blessins. line rejuvenatid. I've found
the immortal waters of yooth, 80 to speek,
& am as timber and frisky as yer old
steer, d in the future them boys rs SEE ''go
/ j. up old bawld he'd to me, will do so at
the Peril Of their hazard Individually.
Inc powerful happy. Heaps Of Joy has
hs descended upon me to onct & feel like =
bran new man. Sometimes | arsk nv
!. self lis it not dream 2" d suthin within
myself sez it ar; but when look st the
!, sweet littel creeters | Know it is real
erty-2 realerties, may say-& I feel
gay. There's considcrbul human natur
in a man arter all.
returned from the summer campain
" with my unparaeld show of WAX works
and Twin wild Beests of Pray in the erly
part of this munth. The peepel Of
" BaIdwinsrille met me cordully, and i'm
meiitly commenst Resin myself with my
i fstnerly.
The other mite while was down to the
: tavHrn tostn my shins agin the bar room
fire, & amuzin the krowd with sum of
u nv adventure, who shood, cum in bare
he led & terrabIy excited but BIZ Stokes,
who seq, SEE be.
1t "Oid Ward; there's CRATE doins up to
yure house
SEE |, civilian, how so?''
SEE he, "Bust my gizzard, but its
CRATE doins," IL then be larfed rs if he'd
kiilhis se,f
SEE |, risin and putin on q austecr
Z look, civilian, l woodunt be fool if |
had common cents"
But be kept on larfin till he was black
! in the face, when be fell over on the bunk
/ whar, the hostlcr sleeps, and in still
! small voice se1, "Twinsm ashuro you,
| gents that the grass didn't grow under
/ my feet on my way home, and | was
! follered by enthusiastic throng Of my
/ Teller sitterzuns, who Lurarcd for Old
! Ward at the top Of their voices. found
! the house chock full of pepel. Thar was
Mis- Square Baxter and her grown up
darters LAWYER Perknses wife, Taberthy
Ripley, young Ebeu Parsuns, Deahun
Simmons folk, the skoolmastur, Doctur
Jordin, etsettsrv. Mis- Ward was in the
west room, which jines the kitchin. Mis-
Square Baxter was mixin suthin in a dip
per before the kitchn fire, aud a small
army of femail wimin ware rushin wildly
around the house with botels ov camfire,
peaces ov iannil, dc. never seed such
hubbub in my natral born dase. /
Good sta in the west room only q miunit,
so strung up was my feelins, 50 | rusht
out and seezed my doubil barrild gun.
"What upon airth alcs tho man?' seq
Taberthy Ridley. "Sakes alive, what
are you dom ?" & she grabbed me BY the
cote tales. whats tho matter with
you." she cCItnnered.
"Twins, marm,' SEE ], "twins"
81 know it." seq she, GOVERN her Ease
with her ap1rn.
"Wan," SEE |, 'thst's what's the mat
ter with me-"
"Wall, put down that air gun, yu pes
Ky old fool" SEE she. -..-
sNo marm," SEE |, ''this is q nashunal
dav. The glory of this here day isn't
confined to Baldwinsville by darned
site. On yonder woodshed," continner-
ed /, DRAWN myself up to My full bite
and speakin' in show actin yo.ss, "wil
I fire Nashunal saloot.' sayin which, ]
tared myself from her grasp and rusht tc
the top of the shed WHARF | blazed avs
until Square Bakers hired man and nay
son Artemus Junior cum and took me
down by name forse.
On returnin to the kitchen I found
quite lot of people seeted bel the fire, s
talkin the event over. They 4thwitl
made room for me & sot down.
"Qnite an episode" sed Doctur Jord
in, litin his pipe with red hot coal.
eyes," sed l, so eppisodes waine
about Is pounds jintly.
"a perfeck coop de tai" sed tt e skool
master.
he "Epluribus unum in proprietor per
sony" sed I, thinkin Ide let him kno
understood furrin langwidges as well a
he did if wasn't skoolmastur.
at is momentous event." ssd young
Eben Parsons, who had been 2 quarter
to the ACADEMY.
~ never heard twins called by tina