Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-12-16
FoR TIE LITERARY CADET.
TRAVELS OF A TRoc c-orYTE,
CHAPTER 4.
"a pint Of rum and pound ofpork,
And we will march unto Newly ork -

| Sir" said John Randolph to gentleman iron
Maryland, one evening, at levee IN Washington
| "did you never okserye that lonktr Away
answers question by asking another ?" OF,
Roger Shearman as at3that instant entering IN.
drawing room. "Aha !" says Jack, ' now for In,
| experiment-here comes old Shearman, of Leather
hreeches memory--a thorough paced Yankee from
wig tail to shoe buckle" Mr. Shearman, has the
eastern mail arrved?" Why ?" said Roger, with
the greatest simplicity, "Do you expec, letter /"
".4b disco OnneS - whispered Jack to his com.
| pan.on The grandson of Pocahontds, has me-
hod in his madness There is certainly an ingui-
SHireness, characteristic of the good people 'nort
of the Tweed"-and whatever be the proximate OF
| remote cause-whether it result from the principle
Of exactng " quid pro quo'-or a laudable itch
for information, like that which excited Jeremy
Dddler in his search for struggling ienpence-yet
the fact remains unimpeached to this hour. Eel
low passenger! art IA Yankee? Listen, while ad-
dress single query to yonder tall, elderly gentle
man-with the long drab iearnoueht, "all button
ed down before7-who is standing near the fJrecas-
good Sir" replied he Of the iearnought, " what
makes you think o." Why, Sir, perceived you
had steady habit" of standing in this part of the
boa-and then, upon nearer inspection-excuse
me--the keen air has given a marvellously bite
tinge to your-uose! Never Connecticut nose
hut will turn blue in cold morning !--The azure
flashed from his lrohoscs TO his chez k in a twink
ling--'twas but Tor a moment-depravityg got the
etter of cathechsn and struggled hard for maste-
ry; but in vain-the lips soon twisted their capa-
cous folds into something hike a SMILE as if asking
pardon for the unsanctfed conduct of the cheek,
"I understand you" said he strangers take great
delight in cracking their jokes al the expense of my
native state But surely, an acqua ntance with her
manners and instituons--the works Of her scienti-
fc and literary sons living and dead. afford some
ground for admiration 10 the philosopher AMI man
of ftaste-,hough wit seems TO have discovered an
inexhau,tible fund of rdicule in her puritanc pc
culiarites' The old gentleman now put himself
into an oratorical a'ttuiei. c. gu9a out his lett
leg--strokel his nose with one had Ind thrust the
other into his breeches pocket. saw he was for" a
iaik'-so | made no Interruption, save now and
then query thrown in edgewi,e, to quicken his
eloqueuce, when it was like to ha!--as boy adj
ministers lick TO his top, 10 keep it whirlns-and
he went on for some two hours, spinning grave
yarn uron the excellence of the manners, nsttu-
tions, Sc of his native land, from the days of VIM
throp and Hooker, upward. From the whole
speechifcohon,l was ahIe to collect that the first
settlers OF Conncctcu, were Pilgrim bodies, who
a"1 snssd and p'o'e1 from the fiery furnace d
En,scopal wrath .and having ulade crcditabie pro-
dcenry as pupils set 40 for teachers In the art OF
cooking hrretcs-" lckled the, ,caiasrophcs' "i the
q Olakers-promulgatel a cole of Blue Laws--pro-
hibited kissing and fiddling, lat made amends, by
iustitutius CERTAIN droll economic custom for the
saving IF iirewood and candles, in spite OF God~In
aud Malthus-as we'll they misht-and logged
beer barrels for breach of daS-'hat bi"e - "a
" fast color" IN Conncctcut-that one town " rurn-
blue" az the name o! btaaS-another al idmprey.
eeis--W lniham at the croak'ng oi frog NJ edth
,,sfed at the sight OF an onion-tiartiord at he
sourd OF Coapcniion, and New London AZ the nea<
ton of Blue LightS--ihat DNIrht "babb'cd
abou, Grcenfcds" aud conquered C".,aa forever
Barlow tlrned muddy water lato siiycr-wilness
- Delaware siipsr stream;' lrumbull spawned "a
triotic doggerel-and Humphrey something tlla IS
neither poetry, prose- Or dogserei, but conro. 4,
OF all-hat the preseot literary reputsueIty. y.h,
State rs consigned TO the gusrdian,aIp alia ino, "
look makers in Hartford, who lIspcrse 40 ks y
genius through TIE country. to be pc died out VII
TN ware, midi 20 ahd ie. thers-that the uniuck
wight who recited Shakespeare over H'sht. na,Ic
to be "jugged' Ia the moruing: or, peradyeu,rrc
pullel out OF bed. IN ms robe dc choRbrt- q. f."
for that purpose----,hat rsspcciabi, t,a. ,
vas at one time uposs1k<l threshho,u .. "s.a.. .
.cene." h,oush tic klnines. OF .uua oous,
ami just ces, transmgrdied 'gto LORI. of tae ic.
chamber. shat .hose 4" ptoUt cerr.s, .at,."s
those CON pounds of ie,d, bees * aiid '. .. '..
which 60 about No country unde' he ... I'D. p
names OF Has m ton, BohOir, (accen, o. 90. ss.
and syllallu) Lorenzo Dor, ~. ~er' &c.. ...
arrested and brought before +" lbs csc.o. '--.-,
no man could lawfully ria wi,hout'su'u'' %. @
| to pis,arqen. pa.s - hir~u'c stated 'i''. r
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