American wit and humor
The man in the moon[18]—preparations for departure—hints to travellers about packing their trunks[19]—straps, buckles, and bed-cords—case of pistols, _à la cockney_—five trunks, three bandboxes, a cocked hat, and a medicine chest, _à la Française_—parting advice of my two sist...
The man in the moon[18]—preparations for departure—hints to travellers about packing their trunks[19]—straps, buckles, and bed-cords—case of pistols, _à la cockney_—five trunks,...
2. CHAPTER II.Newark—noted for its fine breed of fat mosquitoes—sting through the thickest boots[21]—story about _Gallynippers_—Archy Gifford and his man Caliban—jolly fat fellows—a knowing t...
3. CHAPTER III.Brunswick—oldest town in the State—division line between two counties in the middle of the street;—posed a lawyer with the case of a man standing with one foot in each county—wa...
4. CHAPTER IV.Princeton—college—professors wear boots!—students famous for their love of a jest—set the college on fire, and burned out the professors; an excellent joke, but not worth repeat...
5. CHAPTER V.Left Princeton—country finely diversified with sheep and hay-stacks[29]—saw a man riding alone in a wagon! why the deuce didn’t the blockhead ride in a chair? fellow must be a f...
6. CHAPTER VI.Trenton—built above the head of navigation to encourage commerce—capital of the State—only wants a castle, a bay, a mountain, a sea, and a volcano, to bear a strong resemblance...
7. PART II.—_Great Thaw._—This consists of the most melting strains,flowing so smoothly as to occasion a great overflowing of scientific rapture; air, “One misty moisty morning.” The House of Assembly breaks up—air, “The owls came out and flew a...
8. CHAPTER I.Cross the Delaware—knew I was in Pennsylvania, because all the people were fat and looked like the statue of William Penn—Bristol—very remarkable for having nothing in it worth...
9. CHAPTER II.Very ill—confined to my bed with a violent fit of the _pun_ mania—strangers always experience an attack of the kind on their first arrival, and undergo a _seasoning_ as European...
10. CHAPTER I.Battery—flag-staff kept by Louis Keaffee—Keaffee maintains two spy-glasses by subscriptions—merchants pay two shillings a year to look through them at the signal poles on Staten...
11. CHAPTER II.Custom-house[62]—origin of duties on merchandise—this place much frequented by merchants—and why?—different classes of merchants—importers—a kind of nobility—wholesale merchants...
12. CHAPTER III.Bowling Green—fine place for pasturing cows—a perquisite of the late corporation—formerly ornamented with a statue of George the Third—people pulled it down in the war to make b...
13. CHAPTER IV.Barber’s pole; three different orders of _shavers_ in New York—those who shave _pigs_; N. B.—freshmen and sophomores,—those who cut beards, and those who _shave notes of hand_;...
14. CHAPTER V.Bought a pair of gloves; dry-goods stores the genuine schools of politeness—true Parisian manners there—got a pair of gloves and a pistareen’s worth of bows for a dollar—dog che...