Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-07-31
GRACE'S TEA PARTY.

- - ~N~NS~ - 1872
GRACE's TEA PARTY.
elbow ar'ee Miss Eddy, I'm glad that you've come,
For now shall push to make tay,
All the rest are inside, SO take off your cloaths,
Eff you plaise you shall tend t'other tray
Els your ay to your liken soas Take out some caale
hope You will make good mail,
Ait so much as you can, for in Lunnun, my dear,
That es thoft to be very genteel
''No I'll tell what seen up to Lunnun Church Town,
Why the housen do reach to the sky,
But the people nothen but hemparunt TRADE,
I cudd'n abide 'em, not 1.
When went to a smart shop in Prence Regent St.,
Dear Marcy how shamed ded feel,
For tendars men, all prinked up SO fine,
And looken vcry aenteeI.
$50 went up to waun and said, IF you plaise,
do want to buy gown,
So take down prcnt or bingham or stuff,
Whichever es wore in this town.
We are silk MERGERS, madam, and only sell Silks
Says this dandyfied, lznaw-nethin fop,"
Says I, Down in Cornwall they do dali In all soorts,
So yours caent be much of shop.
"As we trapesed down the street NIT lots of fine
folks,
Both ladies and gentlemen foo,
And waun of the ladies come alongside of Jan,
And said, well deari pray how do you dor
thoft should faintee when seed her come up
And speak SO familiar to Jan,
But he whispered to me and said My dear Grace,
She do take me for other man.
"Then we nit rich marchant who'd shares in the
Bal,
And he axd es to go to the play,
And said he'd caal for es bout hafe arter six,
At our quarters, and shaw the way.
'Twor in the Hay Market he said, which thoft
Wor mighty queer place for a MaU,
But as he wor Lunnener, Jan andI said
We should think he oft for to knaw.
well, we went to the playhouse and when we got III
Aw my dear I wor startled sure huff,
For twor nothen but gas lights an people an gowld
From the planchen right up to the ruff;
Then the music beginn'd and the courtin went up
'Twor zackly like life, and I'll Wage
That SO purity story as evar you reed
1 seed that Same night pom the stage.
"Lor, sometimes laughed and sometimes I criod,
And sometimes screeched out for life,
For hard hearted rMGen in the end of the play,
Wor gon' for to murder hes wife,
Then rawse for start, but our friend said 'Sit down
Pray stay, for the ballots to come
Says l. How'd tina tongue they CANT Ballee up
here,
can see enough Bal-len at kump
"Well scat down but lor when the courtin went up
cud hardly believe my eyes,
IT,. r..
(Plaise soas 1 arn't tellen lies y
Fust thoft they cheldurn in very short clothes
And said ties the fashen, L s'pose,
But eff their mothers, I'd lev down their tucli
For they're fearly grawed out of their clothes.
"But when they boginnd for to frisky about,
And stand 'pon their toes, and all that,
seed what they wor, and singed out For Shame,
Come Jan, les be gone, where's your hat
But when seed scores of fine ladies around,
Looken and not semen to feel
Very bashful, lookd too and fore very long
I thoft it wor Gerry gcnteel M
Wben that wor all over, our friend said to Jan,
you must come homo to supper with me,
And your good lady too Il do thankee' says Jan
'But I'm fear'd twill be maken too free.'
Not at ALL says he, 'but as tits now getting late
You will come p'rhaps to morrow, instead;'
We promised we would and we wsh'd I'm goodnight
And went home to quarters to bed.
81 thoft should taintee next night, when drov
To the dooar, for two tendars cum'd out,
In rid velvat brooches an whitty-brown coats
Weth trem.2ans of gowld ell about
An inside the dooar stood gentleman, dressed
In fam suit of shney black clothes,
Weth whit nacken tied round hes tn roat, so I said
To myself that's passn / s'pose
'Then up stee-ars we went soas, an into a room,
The biggest ded see,
Full ofpctars an cushensa an lantarrns, an cheears,
Thinks I, this es too gram for we;
sit down. says our friend and I'll search for my wife
She's in her boudoir, her maid said,
"a Bed-a0ar,' says /, Jaw, s'posc he do main
That she's up see-ars, Jan, maken the bed.'
'Thoose fine painted chee-ars' says I. 'wornt made
for use,
Lev us set down pom them little stools;
Eff we're catohed setten down pom that velvet and
gowld.
They'll take us for two nataral feols;'
So we quoted down seas pom the two little stools,
An when Maester an Missus cum'd in,
We jumped up so quick that we knacked down glass
That some lowars an things wor put in.
swell, We chatted bit, tell the passn cum'd in,
Saying, supper is in, if you please,
ALLOW me-, says Maester, an aw fooched out arm,
wor never shamed in my days.
An Missus took houd of eur Jan-iss she ded-
An down stee-ars we went like that thed-ar,
An when we goat down. soas the passR cumd tooth,
An broft Jan each chee-ar.
'Well we scat down TO supper, an aich had knife,
But there wasn't fork to be seen,
We'd a pass'l o. little splet spoons all around,
The wamm en- so well as the men,
So cut weth my knife, an 1 ait weth my knife,
An took up the gravy wed'n toe,