Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-12-16
"YURRUP." p"
Mark Twain's yis-a-vis with a hahsty
Family,
From the Buffalo Express.

From the Buffalo Express.
Have yoBuever seen a family Of fools
lust back from EurOpe-Or hurrup, az
they pronounce it? They never talk
10 YOU. of course, being strangers, Dut
they talk to each other and at you till
YOU are pretty nearly distracted win
their clatter; till you are sick OF their
ocean experiences; their nllsprO-
nOunced foreign names; their Dukes
and EmperOrs; their trivial adVen-
lures; their p0intless "reminiscences; (;
till YOU are sick of their lmbeciie laceS
and their relentless clack, and wish 1t
had pleased Providence TO leave the
clapper out of their empty skulls.
/ travelled with such family one
eternal dav, from New York to BOS-
fon. last week. They had spent just a
N,ar in "YHrruD." and were return
ing home TO Boston. Papa SAID little,
and looked bored-he had simply been
down to New York to receive ana
-. home his cargo OF Travelled ITobe-
Ill. Sister Angeiine, aged twenty
49, sLs .er Augusta, aged twenty
iive, and broth q C.l.ll', ,G an J-i,,cI
three, did the .'ls1 ei2Ii';L IL ,5 ~
and mamma purred ~ ''liillIgu 1lllt ~
threw in some help when Oa,.9iGtI ~,
fered, in the way of rem ~ 'oS, =
some French barber's--I shOul,-
some French c0unt's-name, whe.
they pretended to have forgotten 1t.
They occupied the choice seats in the
parlor OF the drawing-rOom car,and for
Twelve hours ] sat opposite TO them
was their UjS-G-CiS, they would have
said, IA their charming French way.
August" Plague that nahsty mas
tv) steamer! pVe the headache yet,
She rolled so the fifth day out"
AngeIine-"Andw well you may. /
never saw such a nahsty old tub. !
never want TO 20 in the Vile de Paris
again. Why didn't we 90 over TO
London and come in the Scotia?',
Aug-"Because we were fOOls!"
II 1eryently indorsed that senti-
Anee-"Gustie, what made Count
C2sk0whisky drive of looking 50
biue that last Thursday in Pairy?"
paris, she meant.) "Ah, own up,
nowi"
Aug-''Now, Angie, how you talk!
/ uUld the nahsty creature l would not
receive his attentions any longer.
And the old duke, his father, Kept bOr-
ING me about him and his two mill
ion francs a year till I sent him on
with a flea in his ear"
Chorus" Ke-he-he! Ha-ha-haw
Charles-TPulling a small silken
cloak To pieces. 10 Angie, where'd
YOU get this cheap thing?"
Ange-" You, ChOlly, let that alone!
Cheap! Well, how could l help it?
There we were, tied up in Switzerland
Just down from Mon BlOng Mont
Blanc, d0ubtless) -cOnldn't buy any
thing ia those nahsty shops so far
awaV from Parry. l had TO put up
with that slimpsy fOrty-dollar rag; but,
bless you, I couldn't go nakedv
Chorus Ke-he-he."
Aug Guess who I was thinking
Those ignorant persons we saw
al. a.. 81 Rome eud afterwards in Ven
ilfst go
lce-tho ''Ob. ha-ha-ha! It was so
uSe -, one Of them called the
funny. PAP '-9iola the SAINTS della
oanua uelia Spiz Ss! And she thought
ioplAAIola. Ila-ha-. Il Michael Ange-
il was CanOva thatG Z n, - CanO-
los Moses! Only thin a.. -al
Va d sculptor and the Mos, "a 'lc'gt~,
/ thought l should die! l N-s9 l Iet
them see by the way I laughe,1, I[laI
they'd made fools of themselves, -Oe.
cause they blushed and sneaked o q.
Papa laughed family, but not with :
the easy grace of a man was certain
he knew what he was laughing about .
AuE.-"Why ChOlly! Where dld
YOU get those nahsty BeaumarchGis
gloves? Well, / wouldn't if l Were
youm
Mamma With uplifred hands
"Beaumarchais, my SOM"
Auge-" "BeaumaTChais! Why, how
can you! Nobody in Parry wears
those nahsty things but the common
est people"
Charles-"They are rum lot, bat
then Tom BlennerhassGt gave 'em TO
ne-he wanted to do something or
other TO curry favor, s'pOse."
Ange-"TOm Dlennechasset!"
Aug-"TOm Blenneriassetv'
Mamma-"rom Blennerhasset! -
And have you been assOciating with ,
him?n
Papa - suddenly Interested -
Heavens, what has the son of an
hOuOred and hou0rableOld friend been
dOing?'
Chorus-"Doing! Why, his father
has indOrsed himself bankrupt for
friends-that'5 what the matterw
Ange-"Oh, mon Dieu, j'ai faim
AveZvOus quelque, chose ne bon, eu
VOtre pOche, mon chere frere? EX-
cuse me for speaking French, for to
tell the truth, ! haven't spoken Eng
lish for so long that it comes dreadful
awkward Wish we were back in
Iurrup-c'est votre desire aUssi, nest
&C pas, mes chere5?'
And from that moment they iapsed
into barbarOus French, and apt IL up
for an Notwithstanding, gasping Tor
words, stumbling head over heels
through adverbs and participles, ,folIn-
dering among adjectives, working
miracles Of villainous pronunciation
and neither one of them ever by any
chance understanding what the other
was driving at.
BY that time some new cOmers hacl
entered the car, and 50 they lapsed in
10 English again, aud fell to holding
everything American up to scOrn ano
cOntumely in order that they might
thus let those new corners know that
they were Just home from "Yurrup."
They kept mp this little game all the
way to Boston, and If ever l can learn
when their funeral takes place, L
shall lay aside every other pleasure
and attend it. To use their pet and
best beloved phrase, they were a
"nahsty" family Of American snObs,
and there ought to be law against
allowing such to 90 TO Europe AMI
misrepresent the nation. 1t will take
these insects five years, now, TO get
done turning up their noses at every
thing American and making damag-