The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-10-29
IN THE COUNTRY LETTER
FROM QUILL, JR.

Mr.. Quilts oldest writes to him asfollows
In THE COUNTRY, August l7th, 1862
NV Dear Fdther.-Me and William lien
nv are having tirst-rate time, and l
write you these few lines to say that we
are well. and 80 is mother. She and
aunt Samantha, they will spat you
know, aud yesterday mother told auT.t
Samantha that she had ished for you
when she was girl, and couldn't get
you. Aunt Samantha. she wOuldn I
marry such bald-headed bushwhack-
er as you are, If you were worth a mil
lion.
Then mother, she SAFE she couldn't
and aunt Samantha said she could, and
mother went at her with the rolling
pin, and for few minutes tue fur flew,
/ tell you.
William Henry and | thought that
would be good chance to go for the
preserves in the pantry, and so we did,
but mother came in and caught US and
whipped us like the nation.
She's getting rather rough on us, l
think, Can't you come down and help
us over the stony places!
Uncle John, he took us to the circus
last night where there was boy about
my size who threw summersets on a
horse. Say, pap may | quit going to
school and join the circus?
And William Henry he came home,
and went out and tried to skin the cat
in the barn, but he got over and couldn't
get back. and he fell down and scared
one of the horses so that he Kicked his
leg through partition and broke it,
and scared IA hen of OF thirteen eggs he
WAS sitting on, so that she wouldn't
cone back, beside knocking down a
scythe-blade that fell OH a cow, and cut
her so that she bed to death.
Didn't Uncle John get up and howl
over that +? Well, he did.
But William Henry said you would
pay for the damage, and he went fish
ing to get out of the way, but he diiu't
ketch much exceptir < few Gates. and
while was looking over the side OF the
boat William Henry kept rocking It,
aud it upset, and we both got wet, but
a man hauled us out, and We went home,
but mother she liked to tiogged the hide
of of.us.
| wish you would come down here as
soon as ever you can. Don't mind aunt
Samantha, SHE is nothing but all old tea
pot, any how. and William Henry says
he bets that her teeth are false.
So we are enjoying ourselves very
much, and We spend our time hunting
tor birds, and SO one day last week
got fair crack at one and / shield u
stone, and it slipped and hit six bot
ties OF new ketchup that were standing
on table outside the kitchen d hor, and
glanced over and struck the servant
girl on the jaw, which swelled up like
she had half brick in her mouth.
You never seen such a face, but
couldn't help it, and mother spank me
like mad.
II you can come down as soon as con-
venient will be very glad.
We are all very well, except william
Henry and he has slight attack OF dog
bite Mulloney's, over on the next
farm, have an orchard, and William
Henry he went for apples, but Old Null
ley, you know, was watching him be-
hind tree. and he set yellow-nosed
bull-terrier on William Henry, and
William Henry just did his all fir d
best to get over the fence, and so he
broke for it, and just as he got ore leg
over, the bull-terrier cllnched its teeth
into his leg. and hung on just like as if
he had growed there and had never
been used to anything else. William
Henry had his pants torn, and mother
she made him go to bed without any
supper. but he let string out of the
window and | tied basketful of gin
gerbread found in the cellar, on to it,
and then | told mother that L was
sleepy, too and William Henry and
had bully old time of of them ginger
bread, yoa Just bet.
But mother comes it too severe OF us,
so can't Won come down? | am syour
affectionate son, JOHN Quill, Jr.