New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-16
TIE CLOVERT0PS AT THE SEA.
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EvEN1N', Mister Barnaby Evenin',
sir. Light an come in won't yc?
Miggles, git Mister Barnaby q cheer
Set ye down, Sir. Powerful glad to see
yon; was afraid ye'd be gone back to
Nashin' ton aforc we come home. Ye
wouldn't hardly knowed Miggles,
would 70. She's growed awful stylish
sinst we been down. to. the sea shore.
An her mother, sirp Well, I'm blest
Ct the old lady ANT nigh as bad as the
the only one in the lot that's the same
old fool that he always was, an is glad
to get back TONE daWay County an the
farm.
8 Yes, sir, we summered down to the
sea shore. Miggles has just been wild
to go for more'n three years back an
her mother has kept her agoin'. So
along last July, airlv in the month,
things was lookin' well about the place
an luck had ben weth me all last year,
an so we packs up an went. Stayed
around down East thar o couple o.
months or so.
All the time we was to Boston I
didn't see but one piece of ground big
enough to put in any kind of crop,
and that was all put down in grass.
Twasn't more nor half cleared, either.
don't suppose. Mr.. Barnaby,. thar'u
be three hundred bushels of corn raised
In all Boston this year.
I'VE got onto o steamboat thar. an
went down to Maine. Lemme tell you,
Mister Barnaby, the Courthouse at
Maryville amt circumstance to that
ar steamboat Everything so white ye
was ateared to touch it, an niggers to
wait on ye at every turn. We had sup
per right after we went on board, an
ct we didn't lay right into the fxin's
thar's no snakes. I reckon we Jest
about tired two fellers clar out, carryin'
hot cakes. Then we went out an sot
down an watched the waves rollin' an
tumblin' around. Pleasant? Oh, yes,
Mister Barnaby, 1t was kind O. pleas
ant, at fust.
''Bime-hy, however, we sort O. quit
talkin' and sot lookin' straight ahead,
Uneasy like. Ma began to look awful.
Ma l says, 'ain't you feelin'
wellp What appears to be the matter
with your
'.Wen, ma she sayed she didn't Jest
know, she didn't feel well, she reck.
oned she'd better lay down for while.
An helped her to our room, an 1
swar to goodness thought that wom-
an was goin' to die. Out run agin.
:" Miggles, I sayed, You'll hev to-
60 an set weth your mother while hunt
up a doctor, she's -'
:" An jest then / looked at Miggles.
g. SIS Je-roo- zalem!
Says I, 'Miggles, what ais yep
IS Pa she says, Pa, + Sc awful sick,
cant hold my head up minnit long.
er; I.don't know what ais me-
Well, holp her to the room where
ma was, and before could turn around
60 go for doctor, Mister Barnaby. sir.
hope to die right hyar, eff I didn't
catch it myself.
Oh dear, oh DEAR groans ma,
I'm goin' to die; oh, I'm goin' to die.
It's them pesky COW cumbers! Oh dear,
oh dear!'
".Oh me, oh N.Y. walls poor MIG
giles, I'm dyin', oh know I'm dyin' !,
I'm dyin' / can't live an hour! Oh
dear, oh dear. It's the ice cream, pa
she says.
BY George l hollered, I'm a
dead man now, but I'll lay out the man
that killed me fust-I know what's the
matter!'
..An' weth that I rushed out, or
rether tumbled out of the room, and
set up yell for the Captain. Every
body come runnin' to me, an bime-by
q man all covered with gold tape and
brass buttons wanted to know what was
the matter.
- Matter enough!' yells. -.Pizen!
Rank pizen, thet's what's the matter!
I'm pizened right on this boat! Me an
my family has been pizened right at
your table, an want doctor for ma
an Miggles mighty quick!'
Well, sir, Mister Barnaby, eff that
man didn't stand there an laugh at me.
'''Oh, yes,' he says, kind o soothin'
an unbelieyin' like, I. guess ye amt
pizened: l ct at the same table, says
he, an / amt a bit sick!'
''Well, somehow, his latin riled me.
Ye can't fool me!' I roared; we
can't play no old man Bender on me-!
know pizen when see it workin', an
know hull family that hain't spent
two dollars for medicine in sixteen
year amt goin to be took deathly sick
oil at the same time, an in the same
| way, lets'n thar pizen in their vittles!
Says l, this amt no milk sick!' Send
me the doctor for ma and Miggles
mighty quick says I, tell him to run
every step of Che way
1.-The Captain he turned around an
as well as he could for latin, for I