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


" He says, ';DOn't talk fOolery."
I saws, 81 amt -ta'kin' foolery,
Mr.. Brown, for well l remembers your
a-readin of it to me yourself about
a vessel as was dashed to bits on the
rocks as the parties a-standin' on coalo ear
the poor creeturs' shrieks as were a-standing
on that vessel a-founderin' every instant"
''Why," he says, 'that was off the Cape OF
Good Hope in 'eavy see."
"Well," says; t'it may have been good
'ope," but don't see it, for watery grave is
thing as I've 'ad a-'orror on ever since
gal thro' bein' nearly drownded all thro'
in the washin' basin, thro' fun, and no
doubt must have perished, but for havin' on
thick boots as lashed out behind with, and
ketched i'm sich a simmer as sent i'm off
a-'owlin' as admit no business in the wash
'ouse, and me a-cleanin' myself up a-bit, as
was always full of lis larks, and took to the
sea, poor feller and lost is life thro' lis cap
a-blowin' of up aloft, as he'd been sent to for
to fetch somethink as is 'ighly dangerous in a
rollin' sea. But" says, "Brown, whyever
| don't we 60 ONT"
"oh, he says, ''there amt water enough
| for to let us go inn
/ says, "That's rubbish with the very
| oshun under our feet"
He says, "'Old your row." and so l
| did, not for lis tellin' me, but because
/ was that dreadful queer as talk l couldn't,
and for more than 'arf a 'our, Pm sure, we
was a-dodgin' about, and thankful was
when we come to a anchor and to get ashore,
and a very nice 'otel where l made myself
comfortable, and the train went about eleven
o'clock as would ave got us 'ome by the mid
die of the day; but was that bad as 60
couldn't SO stopped on to the AFTERNOON, for
says, 81 'ates gettin' 'ome in the middle of the
day, as don't seem nat'ral and the next trian
IL get us there by six" and I'd got Miss Tired
well for to write to Mrs. Challin for to ave tea
ready with bit of cold am and hegg or two
in the 'ouse, so / says, ''Its sure to be all
right"
Brown, he says, "Go when you please" and
goes out for to ave talk with parties aboard
the steamer, as he's fond of seein' all about,
and whatever he can see in em | can't think,
for the very smell of that ingin room turns
me. We was off about three, and got ome
jest on the stroke of six, as the sayin' is; and
when we got to the door | was rather took
aback at seein' all the winders open, and if
Mrs. Challin didn't come to the door that sweep
to look at, as l says she's 'ad the chimbly
a-ire and it was next thing to it, for she'd
been and lad the sweeps, as I'd told 'er to afore
l left 'ome; but says, "Why ave them the
very day as I'm espectedp
She says, ''You wasn't espected."
says, "Not thro' that note as sent your"
She says, "We've never 'ad no note, ave
we, Nancy, or Pm sure / shouldn't ave ad
the sweeps with 'eavy wash on"
And if she 'adn't been and washed my
white bed furniture and the counterpin, and
two blankets, and the whole place upside-down
, all the carpets up, and my bedroom fresh
secured with all the things piled on the toI
of the bed.
, As to Brown, 'owlin' wolves was lambs t.
the way he went on, and arter sayin' he hoped
, as / liked it, walks 'isself out.
. was that awful tired that couldn't stir
!, and or foot till I'd 'ad cup of tea, but theI
= turned to, and by the time as my lord come il
q the place was all to rights, with bit of o
| supper ready, as put i'm in good humor
, and he says, "Wel, arter all said and done
! 'ome is 'ome." And l says to i'm, "Righ
> | you are"
: l don't think as l ever did enjoy my OWL
bed more in my life, for them French beds is
: that springy as you don't seem never to gel
your rest thro' bein' always on the move il
o them; but will say as it's a wonderful place
and as / says to Mrs. Elkins, old friend O.
mine as is a-goin' to Paris with 'er two daugh
ters, as ave jest left boardin'-school, and 'el
, a-dyin to get 'em married, as l don't think as
the Parishuns is likely for to fancy, thro' bein
l far from 'andsome nor yet good fggers, anG
u she come for to ask me about Cooks escursion
g and says, "Well, all as can say is as looks
on Mr.. Cook like father, and as to Mrs. Cook
u she were downright mother to me, anC
every body that civil, and I'm sure 'ad thell
o tempers tried, for there was parties as nevel
would be satisfied, leastways Miss Tredwel
s was one, as | give 'er a good settlin' dowI
) myself and there was a stuck-up chap in
u white wescut as was always a-blowin' abou
. lis clubs. So l says one evenin' as he wa
Z a-talkin very big, says, "Ah, them benef
clubs is very good things in sickness, anC
II somethink 'andsome to bury you WITH" a.
u made parties larf, and he give me sich a scow
n and walks out of the room, as were a-comin
% the toff little too strong over us.
. The only unpleasantness as | know'd wa
/ among the ladies about a-givin' of their hage
; for to be wrote in the perlioe book, as is like
2. them perliceses impotence, for to ask sich
y question.
As / says, "What's my hage to them, as an
d as old as my tongue, and little older thar
my teeth" as the sayin' is; tho l must say
a couldn't 'elp a-smilin' when l see Miss Tired
rt well a-puttin' 'erself down ive-and-twenty a
n is eght-and- thirty, if not turned forty and al
'e to Mrs. Wells bein only eight-and-twenty
why then Pm eighteen, that's all.
When / comes to look back calm a
d that Exhibishun, / must say as it's won
10 derful, and will be a deal better wheI
7, it's finished, and all the things got ther,
and unpacked; but if there wasn't no Exhibi
shun there at all, it's worth any ones while
20 for see Paris, tho no doubt they'd be glad fo
rs to find themselves safe 'Ome agin, for tho
p London is a grubby 'ole, and there's room fol
improvements, leastways there did ought t
:" be, tho I've 'eard say as the ground is wortl
ss guinea inch in the city, yet it's 'ome, anc