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pure growlin’ because nobody axes 'em to many. Marry, indeed 1
Who'd marry the likes of Peleg Swipes?
B oy in A udience.— Polly Snipper would,
P olly S n ipper.— 'Taint so! What outlandish boys] Mr. President,
if you can’t keep them hoys quiet, youfd better consign your position.
P resident (in a loud voice).— Order there, boys; order, I say!
Surc's you live, I'll drag ye out if ye don’t be quiet. Polly, percecd
with the question at issue.
P o l l y S n ip p e r,— Now, Mr, President, T submit, would n gentleman
talk in the aforementioned way? Would a gentleman dare to defame
the character of an unprotcetabic female? No, Mr. President, no, no!
From the heights of the Andrews to the Gibraiters oi Jackson county,
may be heard one spoontenaginous No f From the rice fields oi
Florida to the duck ponds of Maine, may be heard the ringing echo,
No, no! T repeat, it, Mr. President^ and I re-repcat it, Peleg Swipes is
no gentleman. His colleague, John Brown, is a gentleman. When he
comcs to speak, he will speak to the point, and in no such way as
Pel eg Sw ipes will speak, I have done.
P resident,— Pel eg Swipes will rise and define his position,
P eleg S w ipes.— I t is with the profoundest consternation and the
most unsufferable indignation that I rise to repel the attacks of my
opponent, Polly Snipper. Kvery person knows that she has been
hunting a husband for the last twenty years—
Bov in AUDiLNCii,— “ That’s what's the matter with Hannah.”
Pra.i'ii S’vvrp]-,H.— And now, when she finds that she cant get one,
she embarks m the Woman’s Rights ship and sets sail.
Bov i x ADi-jjENCii.— Let her sail!
PicLiiij S wifks.— M r. President, I can explain to you the cause of
her unparalleled attack on me. She has kept a shiftin' up to me ever
since last grass a year, and t'other Jay I took occasion to tell her to
stay at hum and mind her knittin'.
P o l l y (very muck excited').— It isn't so, Mr, President, it isn't so.
I call the speaker to order. Mr, President, arc you going to allow
my character to be profangd in that manner?