Des Arc citizen., 1866-07-14
BOSTON BETSEY'S BRICK, OR
 BRICKS BETSEI.

 Jones-in three volumes illustrated. Ithirsed for intellect. 1 hungered for beauty. | ached for charms. 1 Irequired a gentle being with mind like horse billiards to guide me through this vale of steers. 1 went to Boston to find my love. I found her. She was 9 school teacher who drew seven dollars month for spanking the rule of three into the vulgar fractions confded to her charge, and for ad- ding accomplishments as twere to the result ofothers multiplication! Figuratively speak ing. After school was disbanded for the day, we walked out to the beach, Birch by day and the beach by night.
 My love was beautiful. She was of the New England type. She was pure-itanical, Thus worshipped her, the most beautifulest ant in the sugar bowl.
 And she made both ends meet by skinning cells. She was a most exalted and triumphant eel skinnist. The Massachusetts girls teach schools and skin eels for market. Said l, ''Betsey, it's not a-skin too much, let me go out with thee and aid in thy tolls, and see thee divest eel of cuticle.' She said yea. went. She had hooked nose. She had three hoops--at regular intervals. She was Massa- chusetts schoolmarm She was old maid. She understood all of Daboll but the multipli- cation. She had never been on the multiply !! | Oh, no! And she could skin cells faster than the devil could catch fiddler. | By the beach we sat. She skinned eels for the net proceeds. We talked of love and sich She listened to my tale. She felt the moving of my plea; the burning eloquence thereof so.called. Said l,
 'Oh, Betsey, seein' it's yeou, love yeou, l sweow. l wouldst be thine 1 would share thy cot, and
 Dream I sleep with thee, love-"
 Wouldst be mine? I am stranger, Betsey. I am not aged, but on the contrary am agile as i those eel. I will offer thee all l have. 1 would crawl out of myself as those eel crawls out of hisundershirtin thy hands, and be thine onlyest.'
 She took up another eel
 'sOh, Bctsey"-sad as Ilaid partly on the grass, partly in the lap of Betsey, with the slickery tails of her eels tickling my nose sswere you ever carest by mortal?" She said no, and looked sidewise.
 She took another eel.
 then caressed her. Said she, "Praise the Lord, but that is the first kiss ever mortal man gave me-" asked her if she liked it? She said it were better nor spanking youngun or skinner a big eel. She said she liked school teaching. It was better than gymnasium. She said kissing was better than skinning cells. When a Massachusetts girl says that, you may with the lambs on the hills, gamble that she liketh it with vehement muchness.
 The pale moon slid along oyer the head just as easy! It seemed to skin itself from under the fleccy clouds as those cells skinned them
 selves from the fingers of my Betsey Jerusha. , It sat me to thinking she was something heavenly, like the moon. Only she was lit
 tie bumper. It was new moon, Newer than
 Betsey, and a little simmer. I conversed
 with Betsy. She had little knife like sho< Epif I hav fbo, rbf bora a ci,o olrp,
 if she had carried cobbler's kit and a waxer ' end But she didn't. She skinned cells
 chawsd spruce gum and talked love. Saic
 she, What is your name?"
 Asked we, 'the reverberating cognomen tt
 which we respond?'
 Said she, .'yes."
 Said we Brick Pomeroy''
 Then she asked us of our western home
 She wanted to know what state Illinois was in and if Wisconsin was in the First or Secont
 Ward of La Crosse. And she wanted to knoy if we had young ones in the west. We tolt
 her not many yet! Then she wanted to knoy , if the Mississippi river had cells in it. Wetolt her nay. And she wanted to know if the peo pie out in that barbarous region wore clothes every day or only when they went sparkling And she wanted to know how far it was iron r where we lived to house. And she wanted to know if they spanked or ferruled young
 sters in schools, and if we had schools. Ant she wanted to know if women dressed in bear skins or tllting hoops, which we suppose arr ' all the samel And she wanted to know if VI v had newspapers, and could read and write ant
 had ever heard of Anna Dickinson. And shi
 wanted to know if it was not terrible living s' 2 far from Boston
 ], Then we caressed her and kissed her s' t sweet,y. And she twined the eel skins in l garland and wreathed them about our neck a e she sat there in maiden meditation fancy free : like box of No. II boots. Then we said "0h Betsey Jerusha, thou hast spokenes : with wisdom. I will converse with thee, elas
 tic nymph. I am barbarian. am an ig h norant but well meaning whelp. We are al
 ditto in the west. 1 wear bear skin in tn west-we all ditto in that country We hay no houses, but live intently without them q c 'twere. We have no carriages for either nal 0 or female so-called. But can love thee.
 can hold thee to mine own 1 will surroun <, thee with all the luxuries we have in that lam ' of darkness for the never rises in tn U west! Said Betsey. as she playfully slung tn 0 hide of from another conquered eel, "D a tsHgA