The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-13

with chain TO lis leg, Jest long enOugh 70
reach that box, only one night, and not nan nan
in the top on it as he hadn't picked out aioro
mornin'. -.
so sent to the locksmith as fitted one in don't
think as ever did feel otter morning tnan thhJ
Tuesday as we started; and OF all the teuipers as
ever man did show, II was Brown as says;
"Reaily it's quite awful for any one as is goln'
TO sea for to use sich langwidge over boot
lace, as is enough to bring down judgment on
yOu;n the same rs that boy as went to sea THO
a-sayin' don't care and tore to bits by lions,
as | know It's true is found there, thro seein'
one myself at the Jewlogical Gardens, as was
that tame and fondled the sailor as 'ad ketched
i'm for all the world like q lap-dOg. Not as i |
should AVE cared tor lis nasty Shiny ways
do think as them cabmen was born for tor
meDts for if that there idiot as come to take us
to the railway didn't take and drop my box slap
onto my bandbOX, rs it's lucky tied up IN a
old shawl, or it wouldn't never ave Jung to-
gether and my leghorn bonnet pancake when
/ took it out.
MY last words 10 Mrs. Challin, as ad come to
take care of the 'Ouse, was, Mind as you waters
the plants in the back parlOr winder and leeds
my bird, not a-iorgettin' OF the cat, as Pm sure
knowe0 as was a-goin', Tor he'd been and I'D
'isset Jest like Christshun, as many can't abear
sayin' goodbye, as Pm one myself. Tue 'oss
went Off with siCh a jerk as nearly thrO we'd me
'ead first thro' the winder, and Brown, that
savage, a-sayin, Whatever are you a-buttin'
at?"
l says 81 amt a-buttin' at nothink, but" l
says, 81 do feel that faint as l must have
somethnk," for l was all of tremble, as II
somethink was agon to 'appen, aud aTter I'd
took drain l felt better; but them railways
always upsets me with their screamins, as there
can't be no sense in.
was well wrapped up, for Mrs. Challin, she
says TO me, depend on 1t as you'll feel the sea
that chilly as might give you cold AS would
lay you up" as | know'd il Certingy might
for remembers a cold as ] took, wnen a gal,
tbro' a-bathn' at Margate as Is the reason as
I've never took a bath since. So | wore
my coburg cloth and a mitTed spencer under IT.
with my velvet cape and warm shawl.
Pd got on pair of them webbin' shoes
and iambs-wool stockin's, for tho the weather
was that sultry, l wasn't a-goln' TO leave oil
nothInk, a1emembeIn' well the old saying
''aore May is out, ne'er cast a clout," tho Id
took my musings for 10 look dressY over there,
for ] know'd as Paris were a dressy place, and
Pm sure the way as you gets stared at, nobody
wouldn't credit. l was glad when was safe in
the carriage, and very nice company, | must
say, partickler a lady and gentleman as was
a-settln' opposite me, as ad got my face to the
losses. They was elderly both bat seemed for
to enjoy life, and the old gentleman, he says,
"Ah, mum, we couldn't ave done this when
we was young, as steam wasn't born nor thought
on.n
says "Sir, you'll escuse me that it were, for
/ well remembers l was only gal when party
as lived somewhere out BrUmplon way, as lad
steam cooking. machine, and blOw'd lis own lead
off tnrO' a-tamperin' with the taps a-showin' of
it to parties as 'ad come to dinner, which in
course under them circumstances he never
tasted, poor teller. / was quite young that time
as they opened that railway and killed the Duke
OF Welln'ton, very nigh, as was only saved
thro' some one else athroWin' 'isselt under the
wheels tor to save i'm"
The old gentleman says, Excuse me- mum,
but you've got old of the wrong story"
i says, WELL" says, "thats what my own
mother told me, as was one as would ave
scorned a false'ood; and certney remember
myself once being aboard steamer a-goin' to
Margate, with aunt of mine, as the bller on
bust and lad to be took over the side aboard of
another, and thought as we'd lost every rag of
clothes as turned up when least expected on the
Margate jetty, tho'," saws, "pm not a-goin' to
deny as steam is a wonderful invention, for all
that"
Yes" says the old gent "and found out all
by accident"
saws, eyes, and dreadful accidents, too; for
I'm sure it's enough to make you trimbe all over
to take up the paper, and" says, "rm sure to
read about the way as the train run right over a
bridge the other day."
oh says the old lady, "pray don't, mum,
for I'm that nervous, as any illusions TO accI-
dents, and must get out at the fust statlon.n
All" l says, some is so; but, law, It's no
use a-thinkin' about 1t, for my part, whenever l
goes out anywheres l gives myself up for lost,
and then don't think no more about it, tho',"
says ''lor TO end piecemeal amt what any one
would like"
Brown he says, "Drop it, can't you, don't you
see as you're amakin' this good lady quite faint,
so Drop it."
l did; and talkin' of dropp,n'. thought as
must AVE been melted down with the 'eat, tho
a-facin' of the wind as blowed things into my
face constant, and a somethink got in my eye,
as was hagony till the old gentleman got 1t out
with lis gold ring, as I've eard say is fine thing
tor the eye, partikler tor to cure sty.
'OWever Mr. Cook could manage to ave the
sea that calm as it were lookin'glass, could
never make out, till young. gent as were
a-settln' by me says, "Why notp
says, because we all know as them ele-
phants is outrageous when let loose, as knows
we'll for when come afore thought as every
moment was my last, and looked torard quite
nat'ral to briny grave"
Says the young chap, would you Try 'omy-
"Well." says, 'I'd owe any one a good deal
as would save me from them sufrages." -,
oh" he says, lone of these powders VIII
keep it off,
off me;D for he was a-goin' to take powder,
and if the wind didn't take and blow 1t all into
my face, and a lot went into my eye, as was
quite tbroW'd away, thro' not Deln part as
sea-sckness is a trouble to.
| | don't think as / should ave ad qualhl,
| only some nasty blacks was a-settin' near me as
| give way to their teelin's disgust1n'.
So says, "You dirty black BEAST" says
| "iow dare you to do it," ;. no
He says, me no go for to do IT, NO me
| fault" .,,,.o,,. ,,o,,
| body ~ As is always unpleasant, slguC,
| tor if there is thing III this, worlD as
| 'ates it's a black man; not DuI WnaJ OF
| course THEY'VE got their ieelln's' only
| they ALWAYS gives me turn someoW, NOT
but what i've knOw'd EN- that afaole as YOU'D
quite take to 'em, and as to cookln, tney,re
wonderful clever, tho don't quite lancy 'he
I've card a deal about their ways over there In
| URohinson CrusoeD tho certainly that Friday