The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-03-09

A YANKEE TRIcK. A friend has furnish
ed US with the following narrative. Time,
u. Location, Albany County, New
York. Parties, Dutchman and Yankee.
Jonathan was tired of sweating for his ia
Their, because, TO use his own words, he
didn't git nothin but cabbage and home
spun," and as for honors, he might once
have been promoted to the rank of corporal,
If his sire had not utterly refused to loan
him his cast off regimentals. But, for all
his disappointed hopes, Jonathan was a
shrewd parsonage, ready to "gum the flats"
whenever occasion offered, and exceedingly
ambitious of boarding sinners which he
could call his own. His pockets, however.
never had felt the weight of a single ftp
which did not somehow or other find its
way into the family locker. He, therefore,
broke his allegiance with " The old man."
begged three and sixpence from his grand
mother, and journeyed westward. Fortune
adopted him as her own; and he soon fell in
with Dutchman, whose inner-mar borrow
ed Its vlvaclty from his outer, which ranged
somewhere between the Falstaff and Tur-
tle-soup fashions, inclining as years multi
Piled to the former and indicating absence
OF thought in proportion to his corporeal
| retundity. Michael Van Higginbock girted
precisely eight feet Flemish. His words
were few and emphatic, his movements de-
flberate to a charm, and he made it his
chief boast, that he never had been cheated
Jonathan learned at an inn, that Michael
( had snug but untenanted farm in distant
county, and, after making inquiries touching
Mynheer, repaired to his homestead and
offered to take the untenanted farm sat
the halves" To this proposition Michael
agreed, adding a condition, that he should
have the tops, and Jonathan the bottoms of
all that was raised. Jonathan retired to
his new abode to make the best of his bar
gam; and Michael to his pipe, clucking at
his adrotness in overreaching the Yankee.
Time brought the harvest, and with it Mi
chael to demand his rent The season had
been ,propltious, and Jonathan gathered in
abundance. "Will you take your half now,
Slr" "Yaw," replied Michael. Jonathan
pointed to huge pile of tops-the bottoms
were-potatoes. The truth suddenly flash
ed upon MchaePs understanding, but it was
too late to grumble-there was the bargain
and there were his tops. Thinking still to
come round the Yankee, he rented his farm
to him second year, conditioning at its ex-
plration for all the bottoms. Another year
elapsed and Michael appeared to claim the
bottoms, but Jonathan had planted nothing
but wheat. "Mine Got" exclaimed Myn-
heer, " tie tam Yankee gets to tops and tie
pottoms, put | will have tenn both mneself
next year" At the close of the next year
came Michael with his teams, but Jonathan
had dceamped with his corn, leaving him ac-
cording to agreement all the tops and bot
toms tor his landlord.-Hanford Repiew.
ihe following nnutteraJly curious sentence
10 frequently used in Schools for the correction
OF s'ammering =" Theopolis Thistle the thistle
sitter sltod sive full of unsifted thistles. and
It lhoopo' Thistle the thistle sitter sifted a
slye tull Of unsfted thistles where's the sivo
tu!l OF sittsd thistles that Theopois Thistle the
thistle sitter alted"
1t is hardly equal to the following, from the
famous Ben Johnson -" re twister a twisting
doth twist him twist, and one twisted twist
OF the twster while twisting, untwists, then
the twster, who, twisting, untwstod the twist
the untwisted twist iaust untwist ~