Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-23
A LEGISLATIVE FLIRT.
"Reuben Scraggs' Picturesquely De-
scribes the Remarkable Legislature
That Died at Dover Recently.
t,Rouhen ScraQgs'' in Dover Sentinel.

"Reuben Scraggs " Picturesquely De-
scribes the Remarkable Legislature
That Died at Dover Recently.
s'Reuben Scraggs' in Dover Sentinel.
But the legislator of 1895 IL thing Of
the past. Long may SIGH rename past.
She's dead Peas to her ashes. Let them be
collected into urn, and deposited in sum
obskure mitch in oblivion's silent halls.
What coquette the old thing wuz. She
tride to flirt with everybody.
How she flirtcd with Addicks. How
fondly she embraced him. She lade her
dainty hand upon his shoulder, looktwl
roguish eyes into hiz face and sed
MY bravest and best. My Pygmaiion,
can you dowt the Galatea, whoze marble
hart thou did'st caws TO beetf 10 thee
owe nv being. Thou did st make it possible
for me to live and breeth. All my favors
| thou shalt have, for thay belong to thee.
Cum love, and let us sit together, and
| will sing to thee"
Then She heeved sum signs of t-emenius
size, but Addicks winked hiz eye and sed,
aside; "Ill keep my eye on you, old gal. !"
| But she soured on him, slass.
How she f1irted with Higgins. Cleo
patry like she called him her beloved
| Anthony, and swore she'd rutber die than
part with him. She sung to him her
| syren song, and hoated with him mong
the heecv clouds, whispered burnln
words and told of greener lanrels, brighter
fame, that shood be hiz Then she drapped
him from biz giddy hight, all bruzed
mangled and squasht.
She firted with Massey. She told him
in the slverest akceats how she longed to
see the day when she Good call him herr n.
She vowed to him that he, of all her
wooers wuz the favorite. She walked
with him clandestinely, and met him oft
by stealth, WHARF jealous eyes Good not
I Ca, sK1ft a afa "a
swore that while she lived, she wood be
troo, and dying breeth hiz name. But
she turned her back on him, az on the
rest.
She fiirted with Pennewill. She sported
with her youthful wooer, mid leefy
bowers, and WHARF piezant fountains
squirted. She showed him flash lite views
of the Yoonited States SENT, and lade her
blushin cheek agin his'n az she sed; :,
"All this shall be yourn-1 adore you.
But she left him in the suds, like the rest
She ilirted with Burton, and while she
whispered burnin words into biz ear, that
no waters can allay, she filled his eyes
with sand-reel Sussex sand. And III hi'
blindness he saw visions Of the Capitol
And when he thought, good, eazy man.
full surely hiz grateness was a-ripenln-
she nipped the bud and left it.
She flirted with Richardson. She winkec
her eye at him, and throw'd him kiss
He sent her love messages and bokays
but the other wooers got on to the tlirta
, ton, and broke it up, She never lookt a
him agin,
She ilirted with the du Points. She lee
, the kurnel to the SENT Chamber door
and even thare dezerted him. She tool
; young William by the hand, and led hin
| almost thare. then, like tickle strumpet
+, fled and left him.
Thus did she firt with all her wooers
, aud thus she Tilted them, and died. Xix
fair Elizabeth, a virgin queen.