The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-10-24
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LETTER FROM AUNT MYRA.
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LoulsvnIr, KY. Sept 3. 1873.

Ny Dear Lacy Ann;
I've bin lsyin' OF to write to you eyeI
since cum down hum, but Louizville'.
a mighty entcrtainin place and we've bin
gslavantin roun' till I've most broke down,
and nv poor old corns just axes, but !
try to keep a goin' and il | can study mi
nerves enuf will write you few lines
about my visit and so ON.
We went up to ,ha Experdiiion tho
fnst night cum here and liked il ANA.
ain well. but its better now than il wus
then, and if There's eny difference It's bet
ter this year than il wus last.
Every time we 90 We see sumthin' we
dident see before. but the enteriainenest
things I've seed was "Punch and judy"
an, AM forget the name--scme kind
Of magic pictures. "Punch and Judy's'
the awfulest funniest thing ever sce,l,
&xt ] dunno whether can explain the
"lotion veranda'-thats what Mrs.
Linsey called ito you or not, but III
do the best | ken. They haint shore
cnuf people. but little iiggers about ihre
feet high, made TO jump round like they
wus alive. in some kinder ixen, sorter
like house.
Well, Punch he Gums out first and
bows and scraps and puts on terrible,
just like sum of these city snipes. Then
Judy she Gums in, Punch and her are
married, you know and Punch he kisse.
her and pats her on the jaws and is nifty
ehectuuet, but a fore long she gives
Punch the baby to nuss, and after while
they git mad and 90 to tighten wors en-
cate ard dogs. So Punch he kills his
wife, then she dies and her gost Gums
back 20 hsnt him. II nearly skeers him
ina ft and he falls down aud shakes like
a bowl of caie's-foot jelly. then doctor
Guns in aud goes up to Punch an pounds
him and pokes him TO see IL there's any
life left. Afiera while Punch gifts tired |
of bein shook 30, up he jumps and kill-
the doctur.. an then a man Gums to hang
Punch. lie fixes the rope and tells
Punch to put his he'd ia. but he puts his
he'd inst on this side. then ON that, SO
the man gifts tired Of waitin and sez he'll
show him how, and puts bis, own he'd in.
30 Punch jerked the rope right quick an
hung him and killed him dei. The cof.
fin sint more'n haf long enuf, bu; they
double him up and beat him down till
they make him ct. Then they dance
round with the coffin awhile and go put
4 away. Then Punch he knocks round
here awhile and kills few more, but
iirectly the old skratch Gums in, an the
sst seed Of EN- they was fallen along
.ogether. -
Them magic picturs we seed wus nifty
'utiful. They was made with sum kinder
antern. hut what kind confident be
;in 70, tell. They showed US 81. Peters
jhurch in Egypt, Pyrermld from
io1e, the Valturean where the Presi-
lent Of the United States lives, and ever /,
o many destruction pieiurs, seed all
hem marble figures l seed last year, but
here was one there l never seed before;
was a bust of "Clay" they sed. but Il
rus the whitest lookin clay ever set mi
nortal eyes on. SO never sed anything {
ut its my opinion its just like the rest o
n they just give II sum new name, a
The caves bigger this year than il wus h
ast. au on The outside, agip one side. b
heyve made the cunningest little bridge I
ever set my natural eyes on. v
They've got aquarium there. with n
retiy fishes and shells and rocks ia il, d
isi like real shore nuf river. \,
The cris'al carr Is tho butifIle.t thing h
ever seed in my born day-. There are Il
re little falls poria down on the rocks =,
n II all looks 50 lovely II makes per. a
IN feel as il one Of the gates Of Heaven h
ad opened and we wus lookin at the Al
cristil Stream Over the River" iit'
We seed a mighty pretty litilsengine.
'ade outeu elass'of all colors. 1t run q q
y steam, and had whistle just hke y q
on one. and We seed 'em maxim whole d
n of lit9ic tovx and fbinoa o,,fcn s<l.a. m,