Smyrna times., 1868-03-18
NJ | S G ELAN NEOUS.
Written for the Smyrna Times"
MIs. DARRLEROY

RESOLVES TO TRAVEL AND PUBLISH HIS NOTES
GETS READY.-HOW lie MANAGES HIS BAG.
GAGE-AND THE CONSEQUENCES THEREOF.
Mr. EDATUR:
It's kind a material for man
whenever ne gifts into pnblik life, 'speshely
oy MS own talons an merits, to want to trayil
roun the country and see what is goin on in
other places eO'- 0'- :"
This fit tux posseshun of mi trankwil mind
an said to the wife of mi yuthe:
Sary Jane" sez l. Pm roin to traviI an
write mi obsurvashuns for the enligtenmeut of
! the people. ~ u
Sary Jane wusn' in very good humer list
then-we' q had fu words about what kind nf
jacket little Pete (him which looks so much in
resemblance like me, bein ruther hansum-T
meme little Pete, our bOy,) the last pledge of
our love-we he'd a fu wurds about what sort
OF Jacket Pete ort to hev next winter. an "a ,ye
did, xaky agree about it. Sary Jane wns onf %4
OF sorts. nOcd ! wus rite about it. an She
hoed wus rite about it too, but .jiiiS like wo-
man, that only made her the madder. So when
SEE unto her ''Sary Jane, | m goin to travil. "
she just turned up her nose an sez to me
well, jls travil jis as soone as you re a mind
too" '--i'iO
;. 1ou see, she tho't I wus in huff about our
ulIrunces an wus goln to spite her, an she
"us g0ln to let me no L could mt spite her in
any a. y slch way But + tel you pom hcnur |
dld mt think OF dOin any sich thing, bckase I'd
forgot, all about our wurds, an was in lis as
good humOr as usual. But | let on did'nt
0bsarve her state Of mind, and sez: I'm clad
oaiy Jane, that your so wilin; [ thot you'd
come into my vus sometime, an encurridge me
Ike good pardner as you are, in mi liter
arlal Efforts an m raaly glad that you can
make up you mind so easy to let me 90 to
aKWlre more lntOrmashun and see people and
1Ihhgs 70 rite a60ut-but it's jis like you, Sary
Jane, nObul, self sackryfisin, deer crechur that
you are; I'm glad as how I've got sich WIFE
AN Jls stepped up to her an hug'd her and
klsst her, til | most bust her.
Ihls percedln ruther tux her bi suprize-for
L don't often indulge in the like 1T don't do
to show your affecshins for woman too often |
and too muchly, for if they find out you think
every thing in the wurld of EN-, they trv to
make believe they don't care much for Won an
will twist you roun their fingers, an do all thew
can to worry you, and make you feel oneesy.
Howsumever, | thot that okashun wus
a good one for demonstrating mi affechshin.
an done it as above deskribed; it had its ef.
TEX, for she sez to me: "Oh, mi deer old bns-
band, | did MT understand you at first. | thot
that you wus mad, and that when you sed Won
wus .gOn to travil, you ment you wus goin to
cut dirt and git; don't go now, I'll be SO lon
somly when you're gone away"
This temper | liked good deal better but
didn't tell her so, an, after promisin
would mt be gone long, and her cryin little,
We settled that I'd start off jes as soon as she
,Ould get me a billed shurt or two fx'd up. an
could borry little monny to pay mi way. S
She got the shurts all rite, an brushd up mi
3undy close, an borried dollars an a-haf of
Josh Perkins, an so l wus reddy to start out
IN see the wurld.
As I'm always tryin to impruve mi mind,
EIDE good dele Of newspapers, an l sees in
hem how many dangers travlers is subjec to-i
t fhavin their mony stOled, or there bundles car
led off, an all sich disagreeble things, SO tho't
p all these things, and posted miself, an talked Q
over with Sary Jane an Josh Perkins all the /
lite. You see we sot up all mite so that | '
'ould' mt be too late gittin up in the mornin- G
Or the kears passes the Snaptown Station at II
0 o'klok, an its 6 miles from our house to t
naptown, an Josh was goin to take me to the
ears in his derburn waggin. When it cum 4 e
klok [ begin gitten ready-SaIy Jane helpin Il
me, and .cryin silently all the time.
[ almost cried too, to see her so grieved, an G
1me purity near givin up the idea of traviin j
ut, as all the naburs noed was gitten reddy B
start, / thot it would'nt do to back out then A
| put on all the billed shurts at onst that
wed me the trubble of havin any baggidge to tc
lrry, an put the dollars and a. hal in an old G,
ockit book that the old man Perkins-Sary to
anes fayther-used to carry notes in, an rappt 81
le pockit book up in bandana-my hanka- Ii