Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-21
10Y IN THE HOUSE OF WARD.


Dear sir: take my pen in hand to inform
yu that line in state Of CRATE bills & trust
these lines will find you injoyin' the same
biessins. line reguvenated. j have found
the immortal waters of yoDth, so TO speak,
& am as Timber and risky as a year old
steer, & in the futur them boyswhich SEE ego
up old hawld he'd" TO me- viii do so at the
peril Of their hazard Individually. line
powerful happy. Heaps Of joy has descended
upon me 10 onct a / feel like a bran new
man. Sumtimes / ak myself SIS it not
dream 2" & suthin within myself SEE at air."
but when / look Mt them sweet little critters
know IL is a reallerty-2 reallerty's may
sa--& feel gay There's considerable hu-
man natur in man, arter all.
/ returned from the summer campane with
my unparalleled snow Of wax works and Twin
wild beests of pray in the early part of this
munth. The people of Baldinsville met me
cordully. / immeiitly comlnenst Resin N.Y.
self with my family. The other mite while
was down TO the tavern tostin my shins
against the bar room fire q ainuzin the krowd
with sum Of my adventures, who should
come in bareheded & terrible excited but
Bill Stokes, who SEE, SEE he, "Old Ward,
there's CRATE doins up 10 your house"
SEE I, civilian, how so ~
SEE he, "Bust my giZzard, but it's CRATE
doins," & then he larfed as If heed kill his
self
Sec /, risin and putin on a austeer look,
William, woOdunt be fool, if had COM
mon cents
But he kept on larfhn till he was black in
the face, when he fell over onto the bunk
WHARF the hostler sleeps, and, ina still small
voice, sed, Twins p l ashure yu, gents,
that the grass didn't grow Under my feet on
my way home, q / was follered by enthoo-
siastic throng OF my Teller citterzuns, who
hurrard for Old Ward at the top Of their
yoises i found the house chock full of
people. There was Mis- Square Baxter and
her three grown up darters, lawyer Perkinses
wife, Taberthy Ripley, young Eben Parsuns,
Deacon Simmuns folks, the Schoolmaster,
Doctor Jordin, etsettery, etsettery. Mis-
Ward was in the west room, which lines the
kitchin. Mis- Square Baxter was mix suthin
in dipper before the ktchin fire, q a small
army of female wimin were rushin wildly
round the house with bottles of camfre,
pes.ces Of fannils, &c. never seed SIGH
hubbub in my material born dase. L Good
stay in the west room only mint, sostrung
up was my feelins, so i rusht out and ceased
my double barrild gun.
"What upon airth ales the Ian ~ SEE Ia
berthy Ripley. "Sakes alive, what air you
doin I" and she grab'd me by the cote tales.
whats the matter with you" she con-
tinued.
"Twins, marm," SEE /, "twinsp
81 know it," sez she covering her face
with her apun.
"wall," SEE /, CHATS what's the matter
with me p
avail, put down that air gun, you pesky
old fool" said she.
"No marm," ser /. "This is Nashunal
day. The glory of this here day isn't con-
fined 70 Baldinsville by darn site. On
yonder wood she'd" said l, DRAWN myselfup
10 my full hite, and speaking in a show
acting voise, "will FIRE a Nashunal saloot /"
sayin which tared myself from her grasp
and rushed TO the top of the shed where |
blazed away until Square Baxters hired
man and my son Artemus .Iuneyer cum and
took me down by name fore.
On returning to the kitchin / found quite
a lot Of people seated b4 the fire, and talkin
the event over. They made room for me &
sot down.
"Quite a episode sed Doctor Jordin,
litin his pipe With a coal.
"YcS" sed !, "2 episodes, waing about
IS pounds jintly.
IA perfect coop de TAFT, said the school
master.
&c pluribus unum, IN proprietor per
sony" sed j, thinkin Ide let him know /
understood furrin langwidge as well as he
did il wasn't schoolmaster.
at is q momentus event." sed young
Eben Parsuns, who bad been 2quarters to
the Academy.
al never heard twins called by that name
before" sed /, but spose its all rite"
"We shall soon have Wards enuii,," sed
the editor ofthe Baldinsville Buoie Of Lib
erfy. who was lookin over bundle of ex-
change papers in the corner, 10 apply to
the 1.egislatur for City Charterp
Good for w, old man." sed /, " give that
air a konspickins place in the next Bugle."
How rediklus,s sed pretty Susan Eletch-
err coverin her face with her knitten work,
q lar6r like awl posSest.
Wall for my part sed Jane Maria Peas
ley, who Is che crossest old maid in the
world, think you all act like pack Of
foolA'
See /, Mis- Peasly, air yu parientg
Sez she, No l amt
Sec /, mis- Peasly, yu never will be-
She left.
We sot there talking and larfn, until " the
switchin hour Of mite when graveyards yaw-
ing, q Costs troop 9Th" a. ole Bill Shake
speare aptlee observes in his dramy Of John
Shepard, ESQ.,, or the Moral House Breaker,
when we broke up & discussed.
Mudther a children is dOin well q Res
olushans is the order OF the day will feel
obliged II yule insurt the fDllerin:
WHEREAS, two eppisodes has happened
up 10 the undersined's house, which is twins;
a Whereas like this stile- SADIE twins bein
Of the male peiSwashun & both boys there4
BE Il
Resolved, that 10 them nabers who did the
fare thing by SADIE eppisoces my hart felt
hanks is doc
ResOlpod, that do most liartily thank En-
jine Ko. No. IL, who, under the impresshun