CURTAIN FALLS.
ACT VI.
Scene.—Betsey and Simon Slimpsey at home.—Eight or nine children in various stages of distress, faces tied up, etc.—Two cradles with children in them.—Betsey sewing.—Simon trying to take care of the children.
Enter Josiah Allen.
Jos. Good mornin’, Simon; good mornin’, Betsey.
Bet. (Haughtily.) Excuse my not getting up and setting you a chair, Josiah Allen. Being married, I don’t have to be so particular in my manners as I used to. Thank heavens! I can hold my head up now as high as anybody.
Jos. We heard you was all sick up here, and I thought I would come in and see how you was.
Bet. Are you not all coming to the reception to-night?
Jos. Yes, I ’spose so; and Samantha told me if there was anything she could do for the children, she would come earlier.
Simon. I wish she would come and see if something can’t be done for ’em. They have all got the mumps and measles, and colic, and everything. And she’s to work all the time on her ridin’ dress, and fixin for this doin’s of her’n. I tried to have her put it off till five or six of the children got better; but she won’t.