Lieutenantess

To the Queen of Arragon. To the most illuſtrious Queen, our moſt dear and moſt beloved Wife, and Lieutenanteſs generall.

But what shall be our uniform? As I hope to be at least a Lieutenant-ess in the new Female Battalion, I should like to be getting the materials together.

Here I never see a white woman, save two Irish lieutenantesses.

Capt. S. B. Bentley and a select quartet then sang “Beans for Dinner,” the band played “Bully for You,” and the march was at once taken up for McGregor’s Hall, where Mrs. Gregg and her lieutenantesses had spread the board for about as well prepared meal as ever we struck.

Let it not be imagined that I am high and mighty enough to associate on terms of an equality with lordly Lieutenants and lordlier Lieutenantesses. No![…]I approached an open window to feast my ears with the music and my eyes with the beauty of the aforesaid Lieutenantesses.

Imagine Sam. going down Broadway some afternoon with a captainess in front of him, a lieutenantess on either side of him, and a sergeantess in the rear!

But instead, the soldiery will fatten and grow sleek and strong and Commissary Sergeantess Morgan will be promoted and become a Lieutenantess, and then a Captainess, and afterwards a Majoress, and from that to Coloneless, and who knows but some time when she inspects the camp the voice of the sentry at post No. 1 will be heard calling as she approaches: “The Generaless of the Colorado Militia! Turn out the guard!”

From this hour until Christmas eve “Burke’s” will be emphatically a Christmas Store. We have turned the entire establishment over to Santa Claus—and to you, his legions of lieutenants and lieutenantesses —to the gift-gatherers and gift-givers of Rochester and surrounding towns.