High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut

LETTER IX.

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A New York Parvenu--Jonathan's Account of his Cousin Jason Slick, and how Jason was too lazy to work, and got rich on soft sodder--The dinner of a Connecticut Coaster--A New York Coat of Arms, lions couchant and levant--Yankee Ancestry--The way a Yankee speculates, and gets up States, Railroads and Banks, by soft sodder 87