The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-03-12
Latest from Babbletown.

--latest from Babbletown.
JEFF. DoDGER WRITES PIECE AND DROPS
INTO POETRY.
BABBLETOwN, Feb. 'S5.
MISTER EDITOR: While was lookin over
the Journal the luther mite it come to me that
place of as much Importance as Babbleown
otter be rit up for the paper once In a WHILE
There is, Dudevie which jines US, contrives to
git her name inter the paper most every week,
an she haint no great shakes neither. She has
got a few more stores an saw-mills than we
have, to be sure, but we can muster twice as
menny polertishuns an trottin horses to the
aker as she can. Our poertishuns are mostly
of the Demercratick variety. To be shure we
have got good meEny Republicans here, but
they are kinder out Ov polerticks this year.
Well, the more ! thot it over the more l
wanted to see somethin about men an things in
Babbletown in print. Before I went to bed
that mite I'd made up my mind to undertake
the job Nv gittin them there myself. an told
Rhoda (Rhoda is my wife, She Iafed an
said | was Il pritty hand to rite for the paper
when | couldent rite dew-bill that would
stan law. Rhoda never did give me much en-
curigment when | sot ont on new projick.
said no more, but thot to myself that I'd give
the old lady bit ov a surprise one NV these
days. l laid awake about all oy that mite com
posn somethin for the journal. Long bout
4 O'Clock I got it fixt up to suit me, an as the
nu>sin bottle hurt my side priity bad | thot
might as well git up an rite it down. After
o.
child was born Rhoda thot she must foller the
fashun have nusSin bottle for him. She
don't need it more'n a cat needs tales | have
to lay on that pesky bottle mites to keep it
warm. 1t has ct my side so lame that it most
kills me to laif. I don't hurt my side much
latin At home, but when | git with congenuI
sperits al Pogson's store git reminded where
my hurt is rritty often. | said "A little somethin
to Rhoda about my side one day an she said |
she guessed | famed it settn on Pogsons nail |
kegs or leann over his counter. She never
would allow me to have bonny tide grievance.
| told Rhoda | afraid the suller would |
freeze, an hustled out and started on fire,
hunted up some rin tools and set down to
make out that article. have at difrent times
in my life felt convinced that was a MATERIAL
born poet an tiIosserfer, an haint quite gin it |
up yit. | had that pece all made up in rae.
l got the fust verses down, which was some
thin like this:
Dear readers all, it is with pleasure
That ! do set me down
To rite of things a- they are found
Up here in Babbletown.
| haint no great in grammer,
An my spen hant the best
SO lean on me for simple fackts,
An your larnln for the rest
(Now don't you think them verses is good
evidence that have ben badly scorched by the
poetick tiame:) Here | stuck an couIdent
think ov anuther verse to save me. | was
never 50 stuck up in my life. I'd hearn tell ov
the trials ov the literary aspirunt but dident
know they come early in his | sot
up till in my absracktidness I'd ct Rhodas ten
cent pen-stock most all up but it was of no
use; that pece had bid me final adoo an had
to wag back to bed an take my place on the old
bottle agin. When | make up my mind to do Il
thing 10 chanses to one that don't do it. sum
how. | call this frmneSs. Rhoda says it is
plagey contraryness, an that I'm as full of it as
a hog. Let that be a, it may I'd made up my
mind to rite pece for the paper, an it was as
good as done | tried to think ov that pece OF
git up another the next mite, but George WiIlum
how'd 50 | coudent think ov anything | want
ed to. If you are a canderdate for literary
oners don't never be farther; but if it is
po!itercal oners have your eye on the more
you're farther the better it is for you gently
speaking. Your boys will be voters. an your
girls, if they are good lookin, will be likely to
control more votes than you can.
Today it is stormin so hard that there wont
be much ov a gatherin at Pogson's, an I'm
maxim an effort to rite you by daye. When,I
got out The r.tin tools | told Rhoda thot I'd
rite to ant Jemimy. Ant Jemimy is uncle
Jerry Cummin's wilder. She lives up to New
Hampshire an comes down to make a visit
ev'ry summer Ant JENNY is the worki>hest
old lady ever see. When she was down here
last summer she couldent sleep we'll hot mites,
and ulster take her nittin- work to bed with her
an improve her wakin ours in nittin When
told Rhoda who | ritn 10 she tLol ov
moren 40 questions she wanted me to ask her.
Wanted to know if she thot pepmint would be
better'n annis for George Wum when he had
wind on his >tummuck. if she thot a red cows
HIN NuuIu Dt ANY DtlttT lDf MN ltn Il D!dtk
ones, an "a lot of questions of the same kind
| made believe rite EN- ali down AN cot lid ov
her arter While.
In tellin you ov the affairs ov Babbletown
will begin with the corner which is the hub ov
the town, to speak. There amt much done
round here that is worth speakin ov which
don't receive the attention oy Us here at The
corner, There are 3 stores here ;-Pog>on's.
which is the headquarters ov our lokal Dem
mercraSy, johnny ,Jink>es, where the Republic
cans git togather, an Sticks, which is the meet
n-place ov the Independents. Jinks has got
the post-otce, Slick the biggest stock ov goods
an the most oy the trade an Pogson the most
ov the lQafers.
Now jest as have got ready to rite somethin
Rhoda says must stop rtin make up faces
to keep George Willum still while She gifts
dinner. SO | will have to stop here an try to
tell you the rest at some other time.
Gourn truly,
JEFF DOpGER.