The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-01-05
From the Cleveland Plaindealer.
Joy i'm the House Of Ward.

DEAR SuRs II take my pen in hand te
inform yu that lime in state of CRATE bills &
trust these lines will find yu injoyin the same
blesslns. line reguvenatid. I've found the
lmmorkal waters of yooth, so to speek, and
am as Timber and frisky as a yer old stee,
d in the futur them boys which sez ego up
old bawld head' to me, will do SO at the
peril of their hazard Individually. line
powerful happy. Heaps ofjoy has desen-
did upon me to onct & feel like a bran new
man. Sumtimes arsk myself ..is it not a
d.eam ?" & sunthin within myself SEE ''it
air; but when look at them sweet little
critters know it is reallerty-2 reallerty S
imay sa-& feel gay There's considerbul
human natur in man, arter all.
| returned from the Summer Campane
with my unparalleled show of wax works
and livin wild beasts of Pray in the erly part
OF the munth. The people of Baldinsville
met me cordully and immejitly commcnst
resin myself with my famerly. The uther
mite while | wos down to tha tayurn tostin
my shins agin the bar room fire, & amuzin
the krowd with sum Of my adventures, who
shood cum in bare heded and terrible excited
but Bill Stokes, who sez, sez he, "Old Ward,
there's crate doins up to your house."
Sez ], "William. how so 2"
See he, "Bust my gizard, but its great
dons," and then he larfed as if heed kill
hisself - ..... ......
See !, rsin and putin on austeer look,
William, | woodunt be fool if had COM
mon cents.
But he kept on larfin till he was black in
the face, when he fell over on to the bunk
WHARF the hostler sleeps, and in still small
voice, sed: twins ? ashure WI gents,
that the grass didn't grow under my feet on
my way home, and was follered by enthu-
siastic throng Of my feer sittsrzuns, who
hurrarh for Old Ward at the top of their
voices. found the house chock full of
people. Thare was Mis- Squire Baxter, and
h,r3 grown up darters, lawyer Perkinses
wife, Taberthy Ripley, young Eben Parsons,
Deakun Simmuns folks, the Skoolmaster,
Docktor Jordin, etsettery, etsettery. Mis-
Ward was in the west room, which iines the
kitchin. Mis- Square Baxter was a mixin
suthin in dipper before the kitceen fire, &
small army of female wimin wur rushiu
wildly round the house with bottles of cam.
pfire, peaces of fannil, &c. never seed sich
hubbub in my natral born dase | sould
stay in the west room only mint, so strung
up was my feelins, so rusht out and ceased
my bubble barrild gun.
'What upon airth ales the man s' sez
Taberthy Ripley. ''Sakes alive, what ali
yu doins' & she grabd me by the cote
tales. whats the matter with your" she
continued.
eTwins, marm,' seq i, 'twinsp
I know it. sez she, cuverin her face with
her apurn.
WAL sez I, that's what's the matter
with me-
Wal, put down that ere gun, yu pesky
old fool sed she.
No marm,' sez I, this is nashunal day
The glory of this here day issent confined
to Baldinsville, by darn site. On yander
woodshed,' sed I, a drawin myself up to my
ful hite, and speakin in show actin voise
will fire Nashunal saloot! sayin which
itared myself frum her grasp and rusht 10
the top ofthe shed WHARF blazed away until
Squire Baxter's hired man and nv son. Ar.
temus Juneyer, cum and TUX me down by
name phorse.
On returnn to the kitchin, found CRATE
lot ofpeople seated bel the fire, a talkin the
event over. They made room for me & |
sot down. Quite aepisode,' sed DIR. Jordin
iitin his pipe with red hot cole.
Yes sed I, 2 eppisodes, waing about Is
pounds jintly.'
"A perfeck coop do at sed the skoolmas.
ter.
e pluribus unum, in proprietor persony,
sed !, thinkin Ide let him know understood
furrin langwidges as well as he did, if / wasn't
. skoolmaster. So
i is momentous event, sed young Eben
Auns, who has been 2 quarters to the
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