Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-08-26
Communicated.
A Letter to Betsey BObbet,
FROM " JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE WHO IS
{" sUMMERlNG AT PUBLIC LANDING.

call you Betsy Bobbet for short in my
minds eye, shall head this epistle
with, for your agreeable enjoyment -
! Josiah Allen and / included TO take
summering for the season, and after
trials at here and there, We reached
q Ocean View" House, on Chinco-
league Ca fine, long Injin name) Bay.
Now, Betsey Bobbet, instead of Ian
gushing for the I" Editar of the Arjah"
and the towns, come down to Josiah
Aliens wife-here are partners for life
signing to be chung to; gentle cliffs to
sit pensive upon and in no danger of
falling off on, sea breezes and generous
diet, and commodious apartments. The
day landed was given up to watery
gaieties, the young gals disporting
themselves in bathing suits, and their
partners in gauzy attire very careful
of their partners looking on and en-
joying of it all. We wound up the
evening with what lady spelled for
me-private theatricals-a it beat
all ! 1t is just your "speak," Betsey,
and come you must, another watering
place season. The Irishiest Bridget
and Pat, if that Biddy dared set
broom to my floor, for all the con-
structions of the distracting mistress,
my names not Josiah Aliens Wife
and then them rafting pie pans-that
brown and needing rubbing Bridget
couldn't see Pats face in them for all
she tried, and such goings on in my
house assthat q" bus " (Which | calls by
rights q" kiss u can't abide no
menclatures } between Bridget and
Pat. would have spoke about to their
faces, eff Bridget hadn't seemed SO
penitential about afterwards. Then
they had up poor afflicted critter
with his head all handkerchief round,
and grooming that hard that was about
to give him that receptions l use for
Josiah Alien on occasions, when in
pranced female, and when she sot
eyes on him she settled him onto bed
and had doctor called forthwith. If
he had one bottle he had a thousand
and one, which he begun to put in a
row before him until l thought the
sick mans fits would shake him 10
PARTICLES. l groaned in speret for him,
especially when / saw the doctor a.
whetting of his carving knife but
bleeding done him such deal of good,
| shall call that physician in, in case
josiah has such another turn from eat
ing oysters in their dirty shells, which
| told him not to. As fast as one play
was acted, out they would go, and such
laughing and clapping you never saw
as that aujience divuIg ed in. shadcr
pictures, too, were helt at the open
door, with a sheet afore it, don't
think folks in the dark ages, which
you, Betsey, is fond of quoting on,
could have equaliiied the magical skill
on. felt concerned when the fork
and knife went down that comparison
ed throat, but | didn't wonder at his
groanS when the shovel, broom, bottle
washer and all them things that that
ontidy Bridget had piled up behind
that door were devoured lit was a
harrowin operation. Then after that
young man had done for himself, in
came female woman and her husband
which she ordered around like a six
teen years old boy, and her sobbings
were terrified when hi us tramp ap-
paritioned at the door. Ii ended in
two hirish servants using the mello-
dions in the absence Of the folks be-
longing to the house, and such a waltz
ing as that female kept up it sot my
head a-spinning. Josiah Allen mean
dered round and told me they were
guests from village in a seven miles
distance from this selectable residence,
and when those folks took their de-
partures josiah overheard them dement,
their absenced friends, who had pre-
viously said they were coming too, and
then didn't. When he mentioned it
to me, / said, Josiah Allen, those
folks don't know what they have miss
ed, and l shall tell them of our enjoy
ment, and in an equinomical way,
will write to Betsey Bobbet, disclosing
our private theatricle detainment, and
allow those folks to peruse it.
Your friend in the causes of physical
and mental progresses,
JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE.
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