The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-30
YURRUP. TwAINs VISA
WIS WITH A MAJESTY FAMILY.
fFrom the BuTalo Express.

/ q. - AuAaAO
Have you ever seen family of
fools just back from Europe-or Yur-
rup, as they pronounce it? They new
er talk to you, of course, being strang-
ers, but they talk to each other and at
you till you are pretty nearly distract
ed with their clatter; till you are sick
i of their ocean experiences; their mis-
pronounced foreign names; then
dukes and emperors; their trivial adj
| ventures their pointless reminiscent
ces; till you are sick of their imbecile
faces and their relentless clack, and
wish it had pleased Providence to
leave the elapper out of their empty
| skulls.
I Travelled with such family one
eternal day, from New York to Bos-
1 ton, last week. They had spent just
a year in. /" Yurrup,' and were re-
turning home to Boston. Papa said
Ilittle, and looked boredNhe had sim
ply been down to New York to re-
I; ceive and cart home his cargo of trav-
eled imbecility. Sister Angeline,
aged %, sister Augusta, aged 25, and
! brother Charles, aged 33, did the con-
versational driVel, and mamma purred
and admired, and threw in some help
when occasion offered, in the way Of
remembering some French ,barber's-
| should say some French Counts
name, when they pretended to have
forgotten it. They occupied the
choice seats in the parler of the draw
ing room car, and for twelve hours
sat opposite to them-was their cis-d-
ots, they would have said, in their
charming French way. .,a
Augusta" Plague that nahsty (nas-
ty)a steamer! I've the headache yet, |
she rolled SO the fifth day out"
Angelina" And we'll you may. 1 !
never saw such nahsty old tub. 1 |
never want to go in the Vile de Paris
again. Why didn't we go over to |
London and come in the Scotia ?"
Augusta-"Because we were fools p
Il fervently Endorsed that senti-
ment.l ss-, t.@s..-
Angeline-" Gustie, what m mad
Count Caskowhisky drive off looking
so blue that last: Thursday in Parry?
paris, she .meant.) All, own up,
now!"
Augusta Now, Angie, how you
talk! I told the nahsty creature 1
would mot receive his attentions any
longer. And the old duke his father
kept boring me about him and his two
million francssa year till sent him
off with a flea in his ear"
Chorus" Ke-he-he! Ha-ha-ha ?"
Charlss--[Pullingi a small silken
cloak to piecesl-"Angie, where'd
you get this cheap thingW
Angeline-"You, Choily, let that
alonei CheapI Well, how could 1
helpit There we were, tied up in
Switzerland-just down from Mon
Blong (Mont Blanc, doubtless1r1
buy anything in those nahsty
shopsso far away from Parry. had
to pateup with that slimpsy forty-dol-
lar rag: but, bless you, 1 couldn't go
naked |" ",zt,s zf ~
Chorus" Ke-he-he!" IL
Augusta" Guess who l was think
ing of. Those ignorant persons we
saw first. in Rome and afterward in
Venice, those" l.
Angeline-" Oh, ha-ha-hal It was
so funny! Papa, one of them called !,
The Santa della Spiggio1a the Santa
della SpizziolaI fHa-ha-hal And she ,
thought it was <Canova that did Mi J
,hael Angeles Moses! Only think !
fit! Canova sculptor and the Mo-
ses picture! Thought should die! ,
guess let them see by the way l
aughed, that they's made fools of J
because they blushed and 8
'neaked off," --->
Papa laughed family, but not with /,
he easy grace, of a man who was Ger
ain he knew what he was laughing .
sbout.] III a 5. :
Augusta" Why Cholly! Where
lid you get those nahsty Beaumarcha-
S gloves? Well, Iwouldn't, if 1 were !;
you'll" =
Mamana-[With uplifted hands]-loe :
Beaumarchais, my. sonl" g-
Angeline-" Beaumarchais Why,
lows can you! Nobody in Parry
wears those nahsty things but the =
ommonest people = =
Charles They are rum lot, but
hen Tom Blennerhasset gave 'em to
ne-he wanted to do something or ;,
'ther to curry favor, / s'pose.Y. -
Angeline-" Tom Blennerhassetp
Augnsta-="Tom Blennerhassetl !" =
Mamma" Tom Blennerhasset-l
And have you been. associating with
i'm ?"
Papa-[suddenly interested ]--"Hea- =
ems, what has the son of an honored i
nd honorable old friend been doing ?" y
Chorus" Doing! Why, his father :
as indorsed himself bankrupt for
what's the matter!n II
Angeline-aOh, Mon Dieu, j'ai o
aiml, Avez yous quelque chose ne - -
on, en- votre poche, mon chere frere !? u
,xcuse me for speaking French, for
tell the truth, haven't spoken Eng u
lshsfor so long that it comes dreadful "a
wkward. Wish we were back in .
,arrup; c'est votre desire aussi, .
'est-ce pas, mes cheres?"
And from that moment they lapsed h
lto barbarous French and kept it up h
or an Notwithstanding, gasping for Fl
7ords, stumbling head over heels II
trough adverbs and participles,
among adjectives, work T
lg miracles of villainous pronuncia- ~
no-ana =, 4l- /