The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1881-03-17

MARCH /.
My DEAR NEFU:
havn't send you a letther since the last time
wrote to you, bekase we moved from our FORM
er place of living and couldn't tell where let
ter would find you; but now wild pleasure take
up the pen to inform you of the death of your
own living uncle, who died very suddenly last
week, after n lingering illness of six months.
The poor man was in violent commissions during
the whole time of his sickness, lying parfectly
quiet and spachless, all the time talking inco-
herently, and calling for wather had no time
to inform yOu of his death sooner except had
wrote to you by the last post, which went off ten
day before he died, and then you'd had the post
age To pay. l can't tell you how his death was
occasioned by, but fear it was by his last sick
ness, for he niver was well tin days Mt a time
during the whole of his confinement, and be-
lave his death was occasioned by his ating too
much of rabbit stuffed with pase and gravy, OF
pase and gravy stuffed with rabbits, can't tell
which; but be it as il may, soon as he breath
ed his last the doctors gave over all hopes of his
recovery. / can't tell you anything about his
age, for you know in March next, he would have
bin twenty-five years old lacking tin months,
and had he lived till that time, he would have
been just six months dead.
His property now revolyes to his next kin, who
all died some time ago, that expect il will
be divided between us; and YOU know that his
property was something considerable, for he had
4 fine estate that was sowld to pay his debts,
and the remainder he lost in horse race; but il
was the opinion of every body at the time, that
he would have wun the race, if the horse he run
against hadn't been too fast for him.
niver saw man, and the docthors all say so,
that observed directions OF TUX medicine betther
than he did. He said he conld as lave take bit
Their alloways as sugar or candy, if it only had
the same TASTE and IppecacuanO rs whiskey
punch, if it would only put him in the same hu-
NOR for fighting. But, poor sowl, he will niver
ate OF drink more, and You haven't living rela-
tiOn IN the world except mesilf and your two
cousins who were killed in the last war. can't
dwell on this mournful subject, and shall sale
me letther wild black sailing wax. and put on it
your nncle's coat of arms; so | beg you not to
brake the sale whin you open this litther, and
don't open il till three or four days afther You
recave it, by which time you will be prepared for
the sorrowful tidings.
Your swatehart, Judy McGee, sinds You her
love, unbeknown to me. When Finnegan arrives
in America, ar him for this letter, and if he
does not know il from the rest tell him that it's
the one that spakes about our uncle's death, and
sailed in black.
] remain your affectionate
Ovid Grandmother,
JUDY OHooLIGAN.,
To Mister Larry 0'HOoligan, lately of the town
of Tullymuccescrag, in the parish of Ballyragget,
near Ballysluchguttery, In the County of kilken-
ny, ireland, now in America forninst the pump.
n. ID. Don't write to me again till you recave
this. p. s. Whin you come to this place, stop, and
don't read any more till me next.