The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-11-29


tinly am marrii."
"ITow do you ike il as far as you hev got?'
sed /.
He sed "Middlin," and axcd me wouldn't
! like to see his famerly, to which | replide
that wouldn't mindmingin with the fai,
Seek & Barskin in the winnin smiles of his
nterestin wives. He accordingly TUX metc
his Scareum The house is powerful big &
in a exceedin large room was his wives and
children, which larst was squawkin and hol
lering enulf to take thereof orf the house
The wi,nen was all sizes and ages. Sum
was pretty and sum was pane--sum was
helthy & sum was n the Wane--which is
verses, the sich was not my intenshuns, as
don't prove ofputtin verses in Proze ritins,
tho efoccashun requires it can Jerk Poem,
excl to any of them Atlantic Munth!y fellers
"My wives, Mister Ward" said Yung.
"Your sarvant, marms,' sed +, as | sot
down in cheer which red-head2d female
brawt NE.
Besides these wives you see here, Mister
Ward" sed Yung, 81 have eighty more in
varis parts of this consekrated land which air
Sealed to me-"
(which ~ SCI 7, eittin up & starin ath;m.
Sealed, sir, Sealed"
"Where bowts ~ sez I.
81 sed, Sir, that they was sealed y lie
spoke in traggerey voice. .Ea
"Wlll they probly continue on in that stile
TO any CRATE extent, Sir ~ axcd
"Sir," sed he turnin as red as a billed beet,
don't you know that the rules of our Church
i, that !, the Profit may hev as meny wives
as wants ~ -s. u.-..
"Jes So" ! sed "You air old pie, amt
you ~ ST..
''Thcm as is sealed to mc--that is to say,
to be mine when wants up-air at present
my sperretuorl wives" said Mister Yung.
Long may they wave y sez ], setin |
shood git into scrape ef dident look out.
Ina private couversashun with Brigham
| lernt the follelia fax: 1t takes him six
weeks to kiss his wives. He don't do it
only onct yere & sez itit is wuss nor clean
in house. He don't pretend to know his
children, thare IS so many of um, tho they
all know him. lie SCI about every child he
meats calls him Par, & he takes it for grantid
it is so. His wives ar very expcnSly. They
alters want sathn & ef he dent buy it for
um they set the house in an uproar. He sez
he don't hev lnini;s peace. His wives fife
amung themselves so much that he has blt
iitin room for their speshul benefit & when
too on um cit into a row he has um turned
loose into that Place, WHARF the dispoote is
settled accordin TO the rules Of the london
prize ring. Sumtimes they abooz hisseli
indivinooally. They hev pulled the most of
his hair out at the roots and he wares lnenv
horrible scar upon his body, inflicted with
mop-handles, broom sticks and sich. Occa
shunally they gitmad and scad him with
hilin hot water. When he got cny waze
cranky thay'd shut him up in a dark clo>t,
previously whipfin him after the stiie of
muthers when tAare orfspr.ngs Git onruly.
'.,..,.;.,,c1 7,.cl ,c -c,,t II c.,-n.,:; thou'd
go TO the banks of the Lake 6 steal all bis
close, thereby compelling him to sncek home
by sircootus rowt, dreSst in the Skander-
lous stile Of the Greck.Slaiv 81 find that
the keers OF married life way hevv onto
me- sed the p.o"t, ".nl, sali.tinles WISH
Ide remained single" left the Profit, and
startid for the tavern WHARF put up to-
Onmy way was oyertuk by large krowd
of Mormins, which they surrounded me &
statid that thay was goin into the Sho free.
"Wall," sez 'ef find an indiyidoal who
is goin round lettin folks into his show free,
lie let you know
"We've had a Reve'ashun biddin us 60
into A. Ward Show without payin nothn "
they showtid
Yes" hollered a lot of female Mormon
esses, ceasin me by the cote tales & swing
ing me round very rapid, "we're all goin in
free So sez the Reve!sshun -
whats Old Revelashun got to do with
my Show p sez l, gcttin putty riley. "Tell
Mister Revelashun," sed j, drawin myself
up to my full hite and lookin round upon the
ornery krowd with prowd & defiant mean,
"tell Mister Revelashun to mind his own
biziniss subjeck only to the konstitution q
the Unitid Stats -
"Oh now let US in, that's sweet man. -
sed several femal S, putin thare arms rownd
me in ldvin stile. 'Becum of US. Becum
"a Preest, 4 hev wives Scald to YOU
"Not Seal !" scz |, starting back in horo,
at the idee.
"Oh stay, Sir, stay said tawl, gawnt
female, ore whose he'd 81 summairs mus
hev parsed, "stay, & He be your Jentle Ga
zelle."
''Not ef know it. you WON'T seq L.
"Awa you skanderlus female, ava Go &
be a Nunnery y That's what sed, jes so.
al sed a fat chunky female, who must
hev wade more than too hundred lbs, 81
will be your sweet gidin Star -
Sez /, "Ile bet two dollars and a half you
you WON'T Whar ear may Rome Lie
still be troo 2 thee, oh Betsy Jane IN b.
Retsy Jane is nv wif.'s Sir name ! Hfi