The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-09-04
Jemima Ann and Ciuthy Jane
Smith Took a Trip 10 The CITY.

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Dere Harriet Elizabeth:
| thot l would tel you about a TRIP
Cinthy Jane Smith an me TUX wunce
We wus goin to the city tn witt friend
NV Ourn neither NV us he'd ever bin
thare before; thinks / tn miself, 90 We
must, an see all we kin, so we jis sol
our beds tn git reddy. Howsumever
tina wus kinder kurjumbled up as to
what kind NV dresses we would take
with Us, bein as we wus goin tn the
city, We would hev TO take a good men,
ny. Cinthy Jane Smith Il alters told
her that her name wuz mighty purity,
sounded so majestically like an me
wus'nt ashame tn 90 no WHARF, kause
we he'd bin to the semetry, and stood
he'd in the grammer. You kin see |
did from mi letter. Wei we thot we
would git reddy in time for the kears
that evenin. Cinth. wus jis delighted
with the ride.
| must tel you about sum NV our
dresses we had a silk dress apiece,
Cinth's wus green an blu checked, aw-
tul purity, she looked wei in it tn, q
nue. all the time it WIS her grate-grand
mothers dress made over nue., but |
would nt tel eunybody NV kourse) mine
wus the same color rs a wash pan mi
mother used tn hev. | alters liked tn
ware it kause mi poor, deere John Sam
uel thOt it wus so purity. Then we
he'd lusterS, bumbazines, lawns, tart
lings, &c, We wuz purity well fixed up
fur cur visit.
We got our trunks parked at last,
an Cinth. cum runnin, and SEE she
1.-The enjine is hollerin, an of we start
ed in a spring Vaughn tn the depo. l
think il he'd better hev bin called
humping Vaughn, for / never got so
menny bumps in mi life. As soon as
we got to the depo, out cum a little
teller with his hat a settin on wun side
NV his he'd, talked mighty perlite tn
US / seed Cinth. a lookin at him kin
der cross-ide, ne TUX our ridakles for
us. / cum very near fallin in love
with Teller on the kears, be reminded
me so much NV mi JOHN Samuel. At
ter a while Cinth. SEES, "loOk out at
those beautiful evergreens," i nue. she
had orter sed wintergreens, but would
not tel her emmy better; she alters wus
kritesizin me.) 1t didn't take us long
tn git thare. Tha didn't no what time
tn meet us, so we gifts in wan NV them
big Wagons, as he'd tn little mules a
pullin NV that big thing, jis krammed
full of people 1t looked rele kruel.
John Samuel wouldn't dun SIGH thing
fur nothin. That Vaughn wus purity,
all painted up inside an out with red
an blu inside wus sum writin in big
letters, what sed "no smokin," like
Cinth. and me woud think NV sich a
thing it had straps NV nue. leather
a runnin all in the top NV it sum NV
the men wus IA holdin onto EN- tn keep
frum losin thare equilibrium 1 reck-
on. for some NV EN- looked like thay
wus goin TO lose it emmy how. BY the
side NV the man what wus drivin, wus
q little box, / guess he kept his pipe
in it; bless mi stars, | seed a man go
up an drop a nickel in it, thinks |, he
wont git emmy NV mi nickels tn buy
his his terbaccO with he kept a look
in at US so hard, told Cinth. mebby
he had fallen in love with wun NV us.
Well we got there at last; Bets was
powerful glad tn see us, so wus Bill,
CHATS Bets old man j and little lack
jis LATED and crowed, that baby wus
the sweetest thing you ever seed, ]
never seed people as proud NV emmy
thing as Bets and Bill wus Nv that
boy.
Cinth. an me tux nap as we wus
tired. 1t was all l koud do tn keep
her in doors that day. l don't believe
she ever had bin in the city before
she said, whats the use NV havin as
menny fine dresses as we hav, an not
show en-"
We didn't see emmy NV the boys that
day but Josh Stone, he wus a nice fel-
Ter tn, had dark hair and blu Use, rite
fine lookin boy.
The next day was in Bets room a
talkin tn her when we herd Cinth. jis
a latin, Bets SEE, Ego see what is the
matter with her." l jumped in a hur-
~ and fell kersplash on the floor, |
had kaut mi foot in mi tiltners, (my
stars, never did like tn ware them
things, but nOthin would do Bets but /
must, an was alters a catchin mi heel
IL EN- an nearly fallin he'd over heels. }
Wei ! went in, an thare wus Cinth. a
settin on the floor a holdin sumthin in
her hand, SEE she, "look what a purity
thing a boy Civ me-" l sed, you goose
it is a keard, you see it WIS writ on
sum kind NV paper that she had never
seen, soon as she looked inside she nue.
what it wus, it wus frun mister Jere-
miah Beniiman Packenham, an mister