The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-05-31

swept crossing which seems to invite your
footsteps, for the passage Is guarded by
grisly black, with red n,ght-cap and stunt
ed broom, who clamorously demands you to
spare a half-penny; follows you the whole |
length of the crossing, and from his mutter-
ed curses of disappointment when he leaves
YOU, makes you begin to think 1t is almost
crime to come out with copperless pocket
Talking Of street.sweepers, who that mas
lived six months in London, and has six
grains of bile in his composition, that has not
execratcd in his heart, him whom come to
describe. Emerging from the neighborhood
of Convent garden. through the marrow
courts into Coventry-street. midway be.
tween the shop of Hamlet, the jeweler. and
that of Hawley, of the same craft, there is
short crossing (made by Rupert street,
think,) which is gua ded by agrcat he sailor
looking fellow, with broom in one hand, and
hat in the other. In the winter, he OCCASION
ally puts both in one, by way OF pretending
to keep himself warm, slaps the unoccupied
hand vigorously against his LETT side, which
has become SO worn with such repeated ap"
plcations, that the garment below the arm
has been patched with strong piece of
leather, and that now being thickly encruSt-
ed with grease, defics the application OF his
ponderous palm. In summer he cuts off the
toes OF his shoes, and letting his worsted
stocking protrude into the mud, pretends to
have bad feet; but summer or winter, he is
ever at his post. save at his visits to the
neighboring gin shop. and has one unvarying
whine, which never alters or ceases from
nine o'clock in the morning till cusk-"Now
do sir! =" God bless you, sir =" Spare a
halt-penny."
Having passed this abomination of besom-
ers, this prince of pests. and encountered a
few more, not quite SO interesting as he OF
: Coventry street. you recolect, perhaps, that
YOU want to call on friend in Berkeley
) street or beyond it. Well, wen grant YOU
get safe along great part of Piccadilly,
with nothing to rutf1e your temper or dis.
: turb your thoughts but few new tunes up
on old organs, such as "Scots villa hae,"-
"NVe'rc a. nodtlin,' "Home, sweet home"
the "1OOth Psalm" and "Pray, Goody;" or
perhaps, good natured man, in the streets,
with wife and three following children, fa-
: yor you with some re0(hy new compositions
and sing CHERRY ripe and 'I'ye been
=, roaming" at the top of their voices; OF per-
haps another, equally good-natured, Will
not only oifcy you these very songs for sale
but actually three or four yards of such nov
elites. which he unros and displays fol
your lnSpectoh W ell, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
: these little interruptions, yon pursue you'
walk in comparative peace, till you come
near the White Horse Cellar, to that conf
I tatus of coachmen and cads, that synagogue
let loose, that emporium of oranges. ans
that multitude Of persons Of all sexes, who
to nv astonishment, arc always wanting t.
! .go down the road" as the coachmen have
il. There you are regularly in for it; hust
led by BOYS, beseechng YOU to buy thcil
penknives and pencils, lemons, pocket books
sealing wax, and sword canes. While 20,
stand for moment, pityiDg poor woman
whom two mercile>s cads are forcing into
h wrong coach, a third runs up, and insist
! upon it YOU want to so to Putnev; and th'
i worst of it is, he does not seem the least a
s. Dashed az your contemptuous look in return
s but seems to think it quite natural thinI
y that well dressed gentleman (such as yo,
e natter Yourself to be) should want to "g
~ down the road' Escaped from this. AM
3 tired with your walk, you perhaps wish
take coach to the next part of the tow
n YOU are going to. With some little bawline
J. the coachman is awakened. with some diff
: Guilty the machine is put in motion. and wit
: some rattling the step is let down at th
curb stone. Now the calamity to be com
S, Dlaned of is this-when comfortably seate
- in the COaCn HaNlhp toid VIC hi"h "hSt
J. to drive, the waterman still keeps the doc
of opcn, and with rapid touch Of his hat
e hopes you will remember him. Now, the
IS this may appear Il small evil to some VIII
~ would quietly say "Drive on" yet to other
70 it is an intoerabe nuisance to be asked to
1T any thing which you are either unwilling t
II give, or obliged to refuse; at all events, ii
n an evil when you state to the man that yo
D. have no ceppers. or, without any such state
/ ment, desire him to shut the door--to hav
d that door slammed with such energy ot dis
appointment, as if you had grossly insulte
o. o. the fellow by your reasonable non-c"mpl
:! ance
= So much for some pedestrian calamities
- which he who ventures forth into our street
=, is subject. The concluding one, tor the pre-
-, sent, Shall be equestrian. There IS no or
q, who ever rode through a street III town thi
III is not as conversant as disgustea with III
~ calamity Of little boys or black guard me
70 running after you, and following YOU, stree
80 after street, exclaiming at regular interval
=. and in the same tone, "Shall old your ors
'd sir? Want your orse eld, sir!' Nor i'll
=, precautions. nor cutting at them with yot
he whip, avail; and equally vain is it to try al
in escape them by putting your horse into
/, tret on the pavement, and endangering Ii
~ knees; when you think you have fairly s
nd out of their reach and the sound OF the
~ spleen-iuspiring voice YOU look round a,