The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-27

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shuk her few times an slapped her
IN to her back an out few the gizzard,
IN [ tell you eff Jonathin and Sairy
lane want glad to see it cum; but she
s gettin long all rite now. wus
! tellin you about the fuss the school
narm an the widder he'd, want I?
Wal the schoolmarm finally got red
| n the face an tole the wilder tibet her
lotter shouldn't go to school to her
mother day. Ses she, It'll assine fust, !"
IN up she gifts an goes over to another
olace, and all of the winning folk they
goes an shakes hans with her. O but
| he widder was mad, but she he'd foun
me schoolmarm she couldn't boss.
An then the schoolmarm cut the wild
Ter out with Jerry to, and it do look
Kind hard on the wilder. Land sakes
.live, Mr.. Edftur, you'll think we air
.Pays havin fuss of sum kyand heer
% the Corners, but I insure you it is
.eel quiet respectable naborhood. An
he schoolmarm ses Kilkenny Corners
the most opprobrious name it Good
| lev.
I cum nifty nigh furgittin to tell
7ou about the time we he'd over to
Unkle Lige Purdy's university an his
wife Letisha, she tibet wus Letisha
Nelson; an I mus say the Nelsonses
vus alays master mans at keepin house,
md Letisha's house is alays as clean as
| ,ope in waiter an elbow greece kin
make it, but then the Nelsonses is re-
lated to my granmother on her moth
,rs side, so praps that accounts fur it.
But, as [ wus sayin, Mr.. Editur,
we give EN- a big surprise on Their
'ortyeth university. Everybody roun
3eer went, and the school marin an
preacher, to.
My! sech sites an piles of grub es
wus TUX in. There wus apple pie, an
oumkin pie an squash pie an pertater,
IN 1cince an cranberry pies, an I don't
know how menny other.
I baked a big weddin cake in my
lish-pan, an the school marin helped
rite smart lot putin the shugar
IN aig on it-she called tibet frosty
ng it. An I mus say it did look awful
1ise. When she had finished it she
stepped back an put her thums into
her arm-holes an ses mo flies on tibet. +"
tole her sh'd hope not.
| Well, as I wus sayin, everybody
;uk heap of feed. Miss Roper and
Peters wife brung hull ham, billed,
IN three chickings, and pale full of
,ookys, an don't remind what all elts,
out there wus plenty fur all and lots
lef. Good see William Henery coodnt
hardly waite fur us to git the vittles
onto the tables; he WIS dodgin here
an thar wantin to holp an tastin of
everything, til it is wunder to me
thet he Good etc bite Of dinner, but
ne did. Arfter we had got things
onto the table then we he'd
5he Presbyterian preacher to give i'm
The things. We he'd got EN- sum cheese
an a sophie an pare of spectickles
APIECE an sum knew hives an forks an
lamp tibet you cud hang up by a
,hane to the top of the room. Mis-
Roper, Peters wife, sed they wus awful
fashinable an SO we got EN- one. But
les see; got got leetle ahed Of my
story. William Henery he sez alays
10.
Heigho, I must 60 to gittin supper,
fur the schools marms new bow is a
comm to take her to see play tibet is
. goin to be in Sackville to-nite; it is
a theayter play, but [ don't no as it is
emmy thing weeked. Emmy way the
school marin is a goin. An the Widder
is hoppin mad. Yourn trewly,
HESTER ANN SCooPER.
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