[The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookThe Guardian Angel CHAPTER I 5/6
More of those PRIME GOODS! Full Assortments of every Article in our line! [Except the one thing you want!] Auction Sale.
Old furniture, feather-beds, bed-spreads [spreads! ugh!], setts [setts!] crockery-ware, odd vols., ullage bbls.
of this and that, with other household goods, etc., etc., etc.,--the etceteras meaning all sorts of insane movables, such as come out of their bedlam-holes when an antiquated domestic establishment disintegrates itself at a country "vandoo."-- Several announcements of "Feed," whatever that may be,--not restaurant dinners, anyhow,--also of "Shorts,"-- terms mysterious to city ears as jute and cudbear and gunnybags to such as drive oxen in the remote interior districts .-- Then the marriage column above alluded to, by the fortunate recipients of the cake.
Right opposite, as if for matrimonial ground-bait, a Notice that Whereas my wife, Lucretia Babb, has left my bed and board, I will not be responsible, etc., etc., from this date .-- Jacob Penhallow (of the late firm Wibird and Penhallow) had taken Mr.William Murray Bradshaw into partnership, and the business of the office would be carried on as usual under the title Penhallow and Bradshaw, Attorneys at Law.
Then came the standing professional card of Dr.Lemuel Hurlbut and Dr.Fordyce Hurlbut, the medical patriarch of the town and his son.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|