Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-14
Written for the Ottumwa COURIER.
LETTERS FROM GOSS1Pv1LLE.
BIT n. DELLA JOHNSON.
LRrrKx II.
Gossrrv1LLE, April 25, 1874.

dO6SlPvILLE, Apfit 20, 1914.
DEAR SISTER HEPsEY:-You know
promised in my last letter TO send you th
paper that Polly AIMS verses was printe'
In, but sakes alive we've all been might,
nigh crazy ever since they first cum out, ant
% forgot all about it.
Tho very fust day them ere verses wa
printed, and the people 10 town was de
vour'in the techin' lines, (bein sorter thun
derstruck over Polly Ann = sudden: ::breakil
out) DR.. Solomon and Squire SnappingtoI
begun foamin' and founderin' like al
possessed.
Zebulon said they both tuck bee-lin
right fur the editors office, and just tn
very mint they got inside, begun abusin
the editor for printin them ere verses ant
putin Polly AIMS name to em
Said Zebulon, " there stood little oil
Deacon Snipe as simple and as innocent a
alamb, and close by was Mr.. Shallow
brain, both a-readin' Polly AIMS meltin
lines, when all of sudden DR.. Solomon
and Squire Snappington rushed up, tuct
hold Of Mr.. Shallow brain and the littl,
Deacon, and whirled 'em out of the Office
and just stepped in their places.''
Said zebulon to me, g Sue, ! never see,
sIch stirrin' time in all my life."
The editor jist stepped up, and says he
Gentlemen, what's all this 'ere fis
about ~
Then said zebulon, they both sprung
10 their feet At once and made for the edi
Tor, and II Il hadn't a-bin for DR.. Noble
pate and lot Of his friends, the elito
woud have'cum mighty nigh a-loosin' BIZ
life." 6&
Says DR.. Solomon, (a-shakin his fist q
ths editor) aye needn't think ye can put mi
down like this. I'm not a-goin' to be pu,
out Of this ere place. Ye know very well
Hr. editor them ere vsrses wasn't writ BY
Polly Ann. None but strong minded
man coald write dch aspirin sentiments
Said Squire Snappington. 'That 'ers
piscs was printed twenty years ago, for
read il myself. "And," says he, "Mr Editor
yer low, and the women can make tool o.
ye anytime they please, for yer an old bach
elor, and are tryin' yer best to git wife, )
Says he, I'VE was all cnjoyin ourselves
in Gossipville, and havin good time afort
70 printed them 'ers verses
Now Zebulon,' said Susan, says he
Eye ought'r seen Dr.. Solomon a-ravin' and
I tsarin round for all the world as il he wa
jiss ready to double up and bite hisself."
Now. sister Hepsey, DR.. Solomon is the
highest lazned man in Gossipville and git
olfao many smart things hisself; for he can
qsose latin, and is always tellin about
vireiis Ghost, and eli them ere sort oI
hne things that NO common folks dom
know nothin' as eli about.
Bat zebalon ays everybody in town
taisks \ b mighty smart Il they don't I'M
derstand Il theisslvea.
Well. sistr Hspssy. the DR.. is leetI
tschsd like. 70 think any woman who nsve
lazDed hsin Or sven sad one Of Virgil
Ghosts 10 al bar life has sos herself up h
write poetry. like Polly Ann.
I q
zebulon says athe greatest wonder Of al
10 that the Doctor aud old Squire Snap
pington both agree about that ere piece
for the whole town knows it's the first tim
they ever agreed on any pint in all thci
lives"
Now there's Hon. Stink Lofty, he passc,
= mighty nice compliment on Polly Ann
talent, tho he didn't know it hisself. III
said be was sgreatIy tuck with them verses
especially the style; it was SO aspirin
and gushin' like. He said 1t didn't stan,
to reason that anything like that coult
como out Of Polly AIMS head. Of course,
says he, "she copied 'em out of book o.
yav,or -, snr,ath;r, also
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~ o,..A y 80, 49, - = !,
things. You see, Hepsey, by that, hi
thinks they're amazin' fine, Zebulon heer
'i'. 'sP's..n ~ n'sse 'o'ne' u1s' - ,oa'
a'. en 'e' nn ~,
.'. - ~ :. wv - 1'A Ao
mp nun ~ 'ne Duu
1sbalon said ne 'spoaed ne was a-tryln
It GIT up aspeech 70 reply to Peggy Hard
scrabble next debatin night
Twas a-goin to tell ron little more /,
this ere lstssr, Hepssy. about the srea
timss they hsve hsrs debatin' on Woman'
Riehfs, bat I 20 I'VE cot nv letter might,
nigh full, and hain't told yon half what
wanted 10.
70 may look sut for that ere paper
Hspssy& &aad I know you'll enjoy psrusil
Polly AIMS sUblime sAnsiou. I'll jist writ
down them ere two vefsss that struck m
/ ard ZabuIon n him a laakle the flneek avu
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