The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-03-05
Troubles Of a Night.
BY JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE.

~ JOSldl1y utI DcCu up VII
away, and l had jest got into a nap when
Josiah walked me up groanin. And sez he,
"Them darned cats are at it again"
Wall sez ], "U needn't swear so il they
be" listened minute and sez lett aint
cats"
Sez he, cit H."
sez l, Josiah Allen,:I no better-it aint
cats.
"Wall what is it, sez he, "if it haint"
sot up on end ov the bed, and push'd
back my mite cap from my left ear and
listened and sez /, alt is akordeon"
GLOW KUN a akordeon under our win
der" sez he. "Sez !, q it is Augustus
Peedick seranadin Tirzah and he has got
under the wrong winder." He leaped out
ov bed and started for the door.
Sez /, "Josiah Allen kun back::here this
minutc-sez /, do realize ure,, e,,kondishun,
sez l aint dressed"
He seized his hat from the buro and put
it on his he'd and went on. Sez !, "Josiah
Allen if go to the door in that kondishun
| i'll prostitute u, What do u meen actin so
to mite ? sez l, IL wuz young once ureself.
81 wuznt konfounded fool, if wuz
young''-sez he.
| Sez ], "kum back to bed Josiah Allen
do wunt to get the Peedicks'es and
be ashamed swearin and actin as IL hev to
mite, and sez /, IL will get ure deth of cold
standing in there without ure klose on.
KUN back to bed this minute Josiah Allen'
1t aint ofn set up, but when do Josiah
knows l will be minded, so finally he took
off his hat and KUN back to bed, and there
we had to lay and listen. Not word could
Tirzah hear, for her room is clear to the
other end ov the house-and such time as
| had to keep Josiah in the bed The first
he played wus what they call an involun-
tary, and konfess it did sound like cat;
before they get to spittin and tearin out
fur n no they'll go on kinder melankoly.
He went on in that wa fer a length ov time
which cant set down with any sort of
akuracy. Josiah thinks it was about 2 hours
and a 1-2. myself don't believe it wuz more
than IA ov an hour. Finally he broke out
singin tune, the korus ov which wuz--
o think of me--O think of me.
"No danger ov our not thinken on u"
sez Josiah-"n danger on it." 1t wuz a
long peece and he played and sung it in a
slow and affection manner. He then.played
and sung the follering:
Kun oh kun with me, Miss Allen
| The moon is beeming
| Oh Tirzah KUN with me
| The stars are gleeming
All around Is bright
| With beauty teeming
Moonlight hours In my opinion
liz the time for love-
| My skin Is by the shore.
And good many more lines.
He then broke out into another piece the
chorous of which wuz,
Curb oh curb thy bosom's pain
I'll kun again--I'n como again.
"No u WON'T" sez Josiah, ecu wont never
get away, will get up, Samanthee"l
See / in low but awful accents, "Josiah
Allen if u make another move I'll part with
H." sez "it does beet all how keep ac-
tin to nite haint it az hard fer me as it IL
fer ?" Sez edo IL think it IL eny kum-
fert for me to lay here and hear it?" Sez
!, "that IL jest the wa with II men, u haint
no more patience than nothin in the world
u wuz young once yourself"
"Throw that in my face agin will
What if wuz ! Oh do hear him 60 on
sez he shaken his fist, shear him agin-
'curb oh curb thy bosoms pain If wuz
out there my young feller would give u a
pain IL couldn't curb SO easy-though il
might not be in your BOSOM"
Sez l, "Josiah Allen u have showed
more wickedness to mite than thought
had in u"--sez l, wouldEu like to have
ure pasture-and Deacon Todd and Sister
Graves, here ure revengeful threats +? if II
wuz layin helpless on sick bed-would u
be thrown your arms about-and shakir
urc fist in that way?" Sez !, sit scares me
to think pardner of mine should keeI
actin as IL have, sez u have fell Q cents il
my estimation to mite"
"Wall'' sez he, what kumfert is there il
his prowlin round here, maxim two ole
folks lay all mite in perfect agony"
"It haint much after midnite, and II il
wuz," SEE !, in deepand majestic tone
; "Do kalculate, Josiah Allen, to e
Though life without any trouble? if u do, I
will find yourself mistaken" sez ], "Dt
I be still"
9 "I won't be still, Samantha"
I jest then ho begun a neu piece, duriI
i which the akOrdeon sounded the most mel
u anl,cii,t and coet d,,u,n IN had nc xat IN,