Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1829-07-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
FROM THE coLLEGIANs.

FROM THE COLLEGIANS.
THE GALLYOWEN HAIR CUTTER
He had scarcely taken his seat before
the toilet, when a soft tap at the door, and
the sound Of a small, squeaking voice, an
nounced the arrival Of the hair cutter On
looking round him, Hardness beheld a
small, thin faced, red haired little man,
with a tailor's shears dangling from his
finger, bowing and smiling with a timId
and concluding air. In an evil hour for
his patience, Hardness consented that he
should commence operations.
"The piatcz were very airly this year,
sir,' he modesdy began, after no had
wrapped a check apron about the neck of
I Hardness, and made the other necessary
/ arrangements.
very early indeed. You needn't cut
so fast"
every airly, sir. The white eyes espc
lcially. Them white eyes are fine Piatcz.
I For the first four months | would'a ak a
better platte than a white eye. with bit O
butter, or a piggin Of milk, or bit o ba-
con. if one had it; bat after that the meal
goes out of 'em, and they gets wet and bad
The cups ar'nt so good in the beginning
o''the season. but they houId better Turn
your head more to the light, SIR, if you
please. The cups indeed are fine sub
stantial lasting platte. There's great M
triment in 'em for poor people, that would
have nothing else with them but themselves
or a gram of salt. There's no platte that
eats better, when you have nothing but a
bit O. the little one (as they say to cat
with a bit O. the big. No platte that eats
so sweet with point"
"With pointl" Hardness replied, little
amused by this fluent discussion OF the
poor hair cutter, upon the varieties Of a
dish, which, from his childhood, had form
ed almost his only article of nutrlmeut--
and on which he expatiated with as much
Icognoscence and satisfaction, as fashion
able gourmand might do on culinary pro-
auctions of Eustache Ude. "What Is
point"
Don't you know what that is, sr2 I'll
tell YOU in a minute. A joke that them
that has nothen to do, and plenty to eat,
make upon the poor people that has moth
en- to eat and plenty to do. That is, when
there's dry piateZ on the table, & enough
of hungry people about it, and the family
wop,l have, only one bit O. bacon hanging
mp above their heads, they'd peel a platte
first, then they'd point it up at the bacon,
and they'd fancy with their own mind that
It would have the taste o. the matt when
they'd be aten after That's what they
cali point, sir. A cheap sort o. diet it IS,
lord help Us, that's plenty enough among
the poor people in this country. A great
plan fer making a small bit of pork 30 4
ionc war IN a large family"
Indeed il is but a slender sort Of food.
Those scissors you have are dreadful
ones"
"Terriblc, sir, I sent nv own over to
the force before left home, to have an eye
put in; only for that Ia DC smarter, q deal
Slender food il is, indeed. There's a deal
o poor people here in Ireland, sir, that are
run so hard at times, that the wind of i bit
o. matt is as good 10 'em, as the matt itself
to them that would be used TO 1t. The
piatez are every thing, the kitchen little or
nothing. But there's sort Of piatez, "a
white plates, q plate that has great produce,
don't know did your honor ever see EN-, J
that's get,en greatly in vogue now among
'em, en- IS killing half the couotrv; the