The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-17


ight'arted lot, and never thinks Of io-morrer-
as m sure I'm, obliged to, for II that gl Of
mine don't nearly drive me mad as N 20 and
take in quartern loaf with all that stale
bread in the ouse aready.
amt seen nothink Of Miss Tredwel since
as owes me money, which is p'raps the reason,
Poor Mrs. Wells, she come over TO see me-
as says Wells is a bigger brute than ever
a-ravin about the French wOmen's beauty, as
Pm sure l see none on 'em as is bold lot
a-goin' to the races as ! see em myself al
is called the Jenny mond, and nice jenny
dressed out fashy bold-lookin' lot they was
that painted up and their air all yaller,
but as says no ladies' never in this world,
to go on like that; and as to the men the
more they dresses the wuss they looks, with
ats on like black chimbly pots and their
trousers that tight as Pm sure they're never
made to take on and of, and as to them
Ugh EEL boots as the ladies wears with
their short things, I'd sooner walk in pattens,
as would be frmer tread and not so likely
for to give the ankle wrench as you're
good time a-gettin 'over, like aunt Of mine
as trod on bit of soap left in carelessness on
the kitchen stairs and come all down em with
a run and kick in 'er gallop, as the sayin' is,
/ for ever arter.
Tho Pve 'ad my troubles among them
French, as KEEP dark from Brown, as would
| ave took and nearly blOwed their leads Of IL
he'd knowed it, and certingly downright in
suit Tor to ever think sioh thing on me, and
give me dreadful turn, tho soon over, for
was a-settin' restin' near one Of them form
catfees, and l see one or two of them cook at
chaps pass by and stare, and then they went
away and others come; and at last one on 'eu
comes up and gives me sort of a wink, and
jerks with lis thumb, as he meant me for to
foller i'm. ~
says, "Go on with your awdacious i'm
pidence," and give i'm one of my looks, but
he wouldn't go on, but KEEP a-pintin', and
beckonin, and then two or three others como
up, as begun a-talkin'. t'aer.p
So says, eff you've got anythink for ia
say to me, speak out like men, and don't bs
a-noddin' and winkin' at me, as amt one for to
stand none of your nonsense" Ia
So as they couldn't make nothink on me-
they fetches party as was interpreter, an
he says, very perlite, as the perlioe require
my attendance for a little mint.
/ says, "You don't mean to say as you'I
a-goin' to take me up, as am British subjeG
and ave got our minister ere, and tho ain
of lis persuasion, don't believe, as a clergJ
man, he'd stand by and let me be insulted"
So he says, "COme it's all right,o so fol-
| lers, and was took into one of them places as
did ought to be cafee, but amt, as is Where
the perlice stops.
A chap were a-settin' at the table, and asks
for my pusport r
/ says, 81 amt got sich thing as pusport
about me, and only port-mony, without
much in it, for never do go out with money
in my pocket nor since that time as 'ad my
pocket picked in Whitechapel."
So the interpreter he stops me, and says,
"Are you married woman 7"
says, "ln course, not as I've got my lines
with me, but could tell any one where to lay
their 'ands on 'em in the dark, as is the
| furthest corner of my left 'and top drawer"
He says, "Whats your name, do you say 7"
l says, "Brown--Martha Brown" as I
wouldn't deny, was it ever so.
Well, they talked together bit, and then
the interpreter says as l must be searched.
) What" says, 'by foreign Frenchmen-
neverp 2, "a
"No," he says, ''theres lady as IL do it.
Step in 'ere."
Well, Idon't think as ever was in sich fright,
and as to that party as was to search me,
never see anythink more like man in petit
coats, with mustarch on Ter upper lip, for all
!, the world like 'orse-marine, as the sayin is.
/ didn't 'arf fancy being searched but it was
only my pocket as they turned out as is a
good stout jane, and 'olds a-many things, and
! do believe as they was a-larfn' when they
!, took out that little straw bottle as alwa,
carries, but seemed satisfied, and says as
might go, but l says to the interpreta
"Whatever does it mean 2"
"Oh, " he says, ''only a mistake, as va
must look over, thro' there bein a many bi
characters about as is a-plOttin' for sassiu
: tim, and it was thought as you was one in
disguise, thro' their thinkin' as your little
bottle was pistol"
; "Why," says, ''the awdacious wagabones,
they must ave been a-tamperin with my
; pocket for to know as I'd got it at all, and az
! to bein' 'sassin' in disguise, Pm sure don't
look like a man dressed up in woman's
; clothes, as l do believe that one is as turned
! my pocket OUT" and | says, 'You'n 'eaI
more on it" for / amt one to be trampled
on and not turn, like a worm, as the sayin' is
So he says, 81 ope you'll look over it. al
am English myself, and wouldn't ave stood by
and seen no insults offered you;" but, he saws
81 do assure you as they're obliged to be care
full for them 'sassins is that hartful as thev'd
take any one in"
7 So l didn't say nothink to nobody. fo
really there's no tellin' what them perlic,
won't do as seemed always for to ave theil
eyes on me, and quite accounts for what
'appened one day as | was a-Walkin about tn,
Exhibishun all alone and was a-lookin' at SOM
. VERY wonderful old ancient things as se,
'ad come from England. They was things a,
did used to belong to them Romans when they
: was over 'ere, so | know'd as Brown Would liz.
to see 'em, and as it was jest on the time fol
meetin i'm, as we'd made rondywoo. as IN,
! French calls it, close by, goes out of In,
, place for to meet i'm, and 'adn't got VERY fa,
when remembered as I'd left my camp- stool
, as always took with me, behind
, l turns back, and if they ,adn,t been AN;
shet the place up, tho not near the time.
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