This was a fatal error, and one very common to the bran new bridegroom.
The census will show that there are several, if not more, desirable young ladies who are still on deck.
I am sorry that you have placed yourself in the position you have, and so far as possible will assist you; but these suggestions which I might offer, could only be partially successful.
Could you earlier in the season have given your wives say a dozen able-bodied hens apiece, with instructions that they were to be stimulated to the utmost by their respective owners, the egg-crop might have assisted very materially in purchasing circus tickets with the consequent concert tickets and vermilion lemonade.
There are other suggestions that might be made but it is too late now to make them. I can only offer one more balm to your deeply wounded and disappointed heart. You might by economy and frugality, secure an available point on the route with your mass meeting of household gods and goddesses, where you could sit on the fence and see the elephant meander by.
Yours, enveloped in a large wad of dense gloom.
THE CROW INDIAN AND HIS CAWS.
Early in the week five Crow chiefs passed through here on their way to Washington.