The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-03-03
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PAPA says may write and tell YOU
shat sic are all wen and You must en-
joy yourself and net worry about as
lor we ere getting along splendid
ilafs iust What o. told me io /
vtic.Hnalc has directed al clvo- J
o2e ur0ai, .or me to put the lcr0 /
ha. / dou SEQ Whl le means .
ef eay,g We Gro 3 wa.. ror there's /
lo- li things The matter Wiil us I
There measles. ana humps, and
malaria. and if there was any mol. I
sickness chat hogan with 81, 4 guess |
az would have them, Too.
Ganiua--ahe's got The malaria
that's ihepretlicst name, and think
lee The preiliest looking sickness ItI
makes ner face yellow, but it don't
pun her ont like humps. Edith and
me think il makes her cross. Do
grown folks get cross when they are
sick just like children? She takes
Queoneen 10 break up cmlls, she
says, but / am afraid she will bresk
up herself, for she shakes IS il she
would fly to pieces some days III
think she's got all the malaria there
Is IN The house, for none OF the rest
Of US have had any; but there was
measles enough TO 60 round, and
we've all had EN- except me. sup
pose / should have had some Of
them, too, but grandma says / had
EN- nine years ago when 1 as'cnly
a year old
Billy, the boy that carries news
papers, brought US the humps. and
we amt much obliged to him. ask
ed him what he wore his face In wor-
sted comfortable for, an he said 'caus
ed he'd got corn behind his ears,
ana then he asked me i'll saw any.
thing green, but Of course I couldn't
through his big comfortable Any
how, don't believe il was green
corn in the middle Of winter Han
nah said, the next 20 morrow, when
she saw him, that twas humps, and
he had no business to come here,
and she said, you'll catch It, Miss,
Tor talking to that naughty boy in
the hall when you was told not to Z"
| Ibid catch It too, and / wish hadn't
talked to him, for my humps was
awful, tbut,they are most better now
Once / sneezed while | had them, and
/ thought had torn of both ears
and turned my nose wrong side out,
It hurt so, but / hadn't.
Sister Edith took them from me.
/ grandma says, but / don't see how
sne could, fer kept 'em till LONG az
ter hers began. They said she was
only going to have EN- on one side,
but she was most through with the
measles, so she had room enough to
have 'em on both sides just like
me.
Jimmy and Josey have each got a
| mamp apiece, and they are eedlul-
| ly measled, too. Their faces are as
red as red can be, and the little spots
on them are redder still, and their
humps are all red and speckled, too
Isn't il iunnyY Perhaps it's because
they are twins.
Your canary bird isn't we'll, and
we've took him out of the nursery.
| i can't be malaria, because he is
/ yellower than grandma, anyhow,
and couldn't get any worse and ]
| don't suppose its measles, because
the feathers take up too much room
and if it's humps, it will have to be
a very small kind or else they will be
bigger than he is,
/ This is the baby's birthday. She
is eighteen months old, and she's gel
two humps and lots OF measles
GRANDPA says they've come out
splendid | should think they had
7 don't believe there's a half a on,
legt inside Of Der, and she's as cross
as cross; she goes yaou, yaou, yaou
+ waou, waou, wsou, and she keep:
knocking her mumps, automatically
all the time, and then she Just hol
ers-my, how she hollers
I've made up some poetry for yol
to put in your Ortografr album ]
begins:
We are all 10 the dumps,
Because Of the humps,
That swelIs Us in bumps,
Aud gives US big humps,
And will not bear any thumps,
................. trumps,
.................. gumpss
.....t............ Humps,
............ crumps.
That's far as | could make up thU
: lines, but / know lots more word
that rhyme, SO I've written then
down for you to make up sop.e line
to yourself
Grandma sends love and says
am not to write anything that vii
worry you, so / guess I had bette
! stop now for fear shall / hop
your cough is better, and you dom
have to take Doyer's powders to max
you sleep.
Your aaeciionately daughter,
MAZE HUNGgRFoRD.