Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-10-02
The Cat Out of the Bag.
HIGEE HOTEL, OLD POINT Cum
FORT, VIC, August 80, 1884.

FORT, VIe., August 80, 1884. !
DEAR MAR-Mean Par are havin'
a hi old time down here; mos too hl
] am thinkin'. 1 feel kinder sneekin'
about it, but I'm afrade par don't.
You know when we left George
town you told me to be good boy
an take care of mi pore, deer old
father. Well, 1 have bin a good,
good boy, but mi pore. deer, old
father amt needin' any takin' care
of, notis The way he is spludgin
aroun hear you'd most think he could
take care of the hold place. He said
las mite that if wrote to You about
him, he'd larrup me good, and then
took me in the candy shop next door
and said to the girl who keeps the
place that this was his little boy and
to let him have what he wanted and
to charge it to him. L bot five cents
worth of peenuts while he WAS in
there, but went back and got 81
worth of carymels and few other
nesecerys of life. But mi pore, deer
old father can't give yer Uncle Fuller
taft like that, thinkin' all the while
l am agoin' to keep mum. Nixey!
It's too much cusin, that's wees
the matter with mi pore deer old
father He looks on the big book on
the counter in the offs, and be sez, bi
joye, if here amt luck, and sez wot,
par, and he sez why, here's your Gus
in, Sary Pendleton. and your cusin,
julie Vanmeter, from old Winchester,
KY, on your mothers side, and then
he pulls out his morocy case and
takes out card, and sez to the dood
behind the book, send that up to 449,
and then he give me q quarter and
told me to 60 in hathin'. But yer
Uncle Fuller amt no goslin, and he
jus hung aroun the parlor and KEEP his
eve peeled. Par stood before the
mirror and fixed his bangs, and smiled
and craw-fshed aroun like a regler
dood. Perty soon about SIX girls
come in, and, mar, they were dasys.
Par klst the hole outfit twist and
wanted to kiss 'em agane, but they
woulient have it. / gest they were
taken kinder by cerprise or tha'd
kicked before. 1t made me have
freckles on the back to See him ac'
SO, and you athinkin' all the time
about his bein' so sic.
Ever since meetin' the cusins WI
have become relashuned to every one
in the Higee-that is, all the females
Some how par don't seem to ketch o!
to any men cusins. The dood clerl
sez to par, you are regular masher
and par seZ come and take something
and they laffed and went inter tn
bilyard room, and when they com
out par seen me and winked at th
dood clerk and sez he, that lemonad
was dasy. Mar, you never pu
cloves in your lemonade at home, d
you:
You'd die to see nv pore, deer oil
father IN Il bathin' The niger tlis
keeps the bathin' place SEE pars clos
fit him quick. He and cusin Jul
Fanmeter were swinging on the ROY
in the cerf, aud par sez to cusin Jul
sez he, you remind me of Vents risii
from the see | don't know wi
VEINS Is, and what she was risin' fro
the sec for, but if she looked an,
thing like cusin julie Nanmeter, G
yer mothers si'le, after she got we
God help Venis. But cusin julie gi,
gied and splashed water on par, al
sez. OH, you nawty man.
Say, mar, who i. Vents! / AIN g
in to say it to my yellow-haired da
lin the next time we 60 in hathin
Mar, my girl is d:,sy. and don
you forget it. She beets Lizzie Tia
lor all heller, and her hare looks lii
the golden Deems of the orb of d,
as they lovin'ly kiss the silve
waves. That's what par told Mi
Hall, who is stoppin' here, about h
hare.
Say, mar, wouldent it be boss t
you to come down here and give 4
poor, deer old father cerprise part
Don't give me away.
No more at present. JOHNNY.
P. S.-Please send me dolla,
and dent let on to par about sendi