The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1829-06-11

tea fofum, IN search OF tea pot.
Having at length suited himself, and paid
half guinea for his purchase, he hasten.
cd to the Angel Inn, st. Clements, and
took possession Of his place in the mail;
and all his trunks, and travelling bag, be.
ing already packed up in The boot, he put
his tea pot into what he facetiously called
the slipper, that is to say, one OF the pock-
cts OF the coach. My friend slept soundy
till he arrived at Dover, where he took a
hurried breakfast, having tried and proved
the virtue Of his teapot; and knowing the
manufacture it was composed OF to be
prohibited in France, his fertile and con.
traOand Imagination soon devised an expe-
dent for getting it through the custom.
house of Calais.
Many a specimen of sea sick passengers
has been from time 10 time served up for
the public amusement--bu never was one
$50 sick, so sad, SO wo. o.begonc," exhibited
OF the pier Of Calais, in sad reality, as this
gentleman on the day in question. He had
the true tea green hue of suffering on his
cheek, and looked the very illustration Of
a breathing emetic, as he totteTred out Of
the packet, ten pot in hand.
"hh, In, Monsieur, est tres malade pin
quired the keen and compassionate officer
of customs, sharply eyeing my friend, as he
spoke, quietly and cunningly feeling round
his body with one hand, and taking hold Of
his tea pot with the other.
"Malade--sick-ye yes -oui--tres sick, We
| ry mdiade--yery indeed--very malade 'pon
my life--d 'ye hear, don't you seize that
teapot, give me my tayere sill vous plat
| you please, d 'ye see"
"Ah! pas possible--c'est prohibie, Mon.
sieur."
"Not possible the devil it isn't-bui
you must give it me for all that, mon ami
uneso you'd commit murder it's infected
-'poisoned--what dye think Of that. II
contains my ptisan-posonous ptlsan--ar'
senic, hcllebore, and hemlock, mixed
death TO any other man, life to me--'pOn
| my life It's true--so now, give me the tea
pot, like good folow-I faint for drink"
| ana fei, you say true, indeed "cred the
custon.house officer, in amphibious Eng
lish. "You do live on poison, indeed-you
aro YER looking Take yonr tayere, and
drink your poison, my dear Saar, It's trop
| vrai, Sec"
Looking very i'll, you spooney," cried
my friend, "don't you know the difference,
and be damned to your And he walked
off without any feor of the officer going the
| same rdy that he 0ld.
! Well--the baggage was hurried through
tho custom house--the places secured in
the diligence my friend in his seattle
teapot carefully deposited in the side pock-
ot--and opposite TO Our traveller was a.
mother, French gentleman, who had also
come down from London in the Dover mail
and had been busily employed OH the road,
taking notes fofadmirstion Orinterrogalion,
no doubt in little commonplace book +,
which he carried constantly in his hand.
Arrived the next evening at Paris, coach.
| es were 10 be again exchanged and my
4 frlesd was soon trnnsplnntsd INTO the YER
salles stage, with his old companions, the
French .taker and the mental tea pot,
for which be really began to conceive a
sort Of travelling affection. When the
coach stopped at the door OF his female
| friend, he got out, tea pot once more IN
hand, made his adieux to his fellow travel.
lcrs. his salutaton to his tair hostess, dellv
cred the treasure into her keeping, told the
arsenic ar,ifce by which he eluded the Ca.
lais Customs, took coplous cups ofihe bright
beverage, distilled in his own olembc. went
buck to Paris, laid in rich store of whin
and comicahty, and soon after arrived IN
London.
Three years passed over the head Of my
friend, touching il as lightly, and polishing
liz as gently, as the hand Of his spinster &C
luuainta nee polished and preserved the un
injured surface Of the memorable tea pot
(which was long since banlshed from hl'
memory. One day, about the expiration
OF the period mention, my friend went t
dine by invitation at the house Of frien'
Of has. Having arrived somewhat beyon'
| the time appointed, and even after the ex
ira half hour which prescription allows a
tho privilege OF the cook. A party o
eight or ten persons were assembled u
the drawing room. My friend entered
paused moment on the outside, TO max
= those little irresistible, and | might add
I after all, imperceptibls adjustments OF wrist
8 bands, collar, and side curls, which nc
o one man in a hundred-lnot even m
j. friend, though he is man in thousand
g ever enters a drawing room without stop
h ping 10 make. No sooner had he followe c
4 into the room the servants announcomen
: Of his name, and Just as he advanced
make his bow TO the hostess and shak
d hands with the host, than tall, black-han
- ed, whiskered parsonage, rushed betwee
l. him and tho legitimate object ct his earhe'
D. salutations, and with most vehement e'
,r clsmations, half French, half English, b
seized my friend IN his brawny arms, hug
n ced him almost to sufiocat and imprip
c ed two burning kisses on his bushlng All
y, unacc customed cheeks.
r "Ah, mon Dieu, my God ls II yo
TO Saar-Est ce vous, Monsieur? Est IL po
e, s,ble-is it possible! Que je suis enchan
n. de veus revoir that avn enchanted at one
p- more see you again over and over! DC
,n homme de la ,syere--My tea pot gentl
q. man Es, ce vrai? Is IL a true, not lie:
~ Que ie anis content de vOns embIassel