Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1863-11-28
A BACHELORS REVERTE

is Fifty to-day Fify--little chance now c
!. my having wife and house full of "little re
IS sponslhllties," as Fanny Wright calls them
;. Helgho I'm getting tC be-no, not midle
i agee gentlemen, for I've been that any tim,
= the last ten years no. I'm gentleman de
4 Ginning IN years, and may advertise for {
housekeeper without giving handle to scan
! dial to make free with my character. Twenty.
five years ago, and should have affronted the
man who foretoId that | should be sitting this
day in arm chair, newspaper in hand, break
fast before me, one foot on a cushion and onIy
one cup and two eggs on the table, News
papers are stupid things I'd much rather
chat over my morning meal.
Why the deuce am not married? Nobody
makes tea fit to drink now; and the toast
never comes up to me hot. What capital tea
Lucy Smith used to make! Poor Lucy! l
wonder'what made me think of her ? People
SAID Lucy and would certainly make a
match; and so We should, suspect if it hadn't
been for that cursed cousin of hers. I'm sure
she would have married me chad asked her;
but kept putting off from. day to day, and he
cut me out, and be hanged to him. | was
young gentleman, then, and although II
could marry whenever l liked. They vent
away to the east and got rich he's member
OF Congress, and she has grown fat and rides
about in her carriage, with two or three
grown up daughters-pre girls, too, as II
am told, but they'll never be like their mother.
I've ribbon of hers, that she used to wear
around her slender waist, and | bribed her
little brother to steal it for me, with the loan
of my fowling-piece; and some times.
when it rains, and feel sentimental. take
1t out of my writing desk and look at it
awhile and think III throw it into the fire
but don't though; and there it is yet in the t
secret drawer, with my mothers picture, and
the last lock of my own hair, They make !
capital wigs, now, by-the-way; nobody seems E
to suspect that my curls are not tho natural
crop. They used to say that my hair was =,
beautiful, and I'm almost certain she cut off l
lock once, when l was asleep on the sofa. :,
wonder whether she's lost any OF her splen-
10 teeth mine have stood it out pretty we'll
'ut they're going. Old Parmly said hers
would last long time, and he ought to know. c
must go to him and get him to make me VI
ouple ofnew ones. tc
What shall do with myself to-dayP I've
lven up business, and made money enough y,
D last me my time. I've no one to leave it tn
when I'm gone. Where's the use of going y
n adding dollar to dollar, and acre to acre, l.
Mess one has children to set up Nine mar IL
ages in the paper to-day Nine husbands
nd nine wives created since Yesterday morn a.
g dare say they will all have young w.
'routs-say four apiece on an average; that's -
irty-six little mouths to be stuffed with bread q"
i'd butter, and seventy-two little feet to buy oA
Oes for, and two hundred and eighty eight -,
tie fingers to wash and keep clean No '''
Of OF Job that for the nine papas and nam
as l was always remarkably fond of chill 10
on' of
There is new y married counple moved of
% the house over the way, on purpose to ha7
ague me, | do believe; they seem to be TIVE
~ fond of each other, and dreadfully hap Tn
There's gig comes to the door every the
ernoon, and he hands wife into it so care the
ly, aud she smiles at him so brightly as they frar
We of, that am almost tempted to wish san
y might break their necks before they scou
ne back. That's nice looking girl that the
come to stay with them during the honey wen
on she's the brides sister or something, l priC
e say the prettiest foot and the most fere
uish eyes I've ever seen-except Lucy perC
this. wonder if she's engaged to be ferr,
FRIED; don't see any very suspicious son
ng men come to the door and But Offer
1t the deuce is to me whether she is or not? iorty
an old bachelor, and must go down to the at Ia
We without leaving any one to cry for me. hapI
ould like, though, to see the girl nearer the
easy enough to get introduced into the mon
Sc, and though I'm too old to marry, there hume
D reason that know OF, why an old fellow after
me shouldn't do the polite thing to new Dsa
er int the neighborhood. I've new coat
ing home, that my artist says. will make CT
look fifteen years younger-rather imper- Gene
Mt, by the way. And | am so amaz- erinO
old, after all When I set down to break the
l felt rather blueish, and thought myself After
; a Methusaleh. Poh, no such thing; ceedr
walk as briskly as ever--almost-I can in n
sing, dan, no, I'd better leave WoFl
the dancing, but what of thatP I'm a
looking, middle aged man, tired of liv- SU
alone, and hang me, but I'll make one a LAT
; try for the ring, if die for it. There's niece
'tty girl over the way, and I'll send over Ter in
'ket of grapes with my compliments. 81
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