Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-05-30

then, | began to ask him all about him.
sell; and he told me he was a great
traveller; and that he had been so far
north, that the north star was south OF
HIM. And then he asked me if knew
any thing of navigation and the use OF
tbs globes. TO be sure | do said /;
'aint they made for people to live onl'
Then he inquired if | ever heard Of
Hershell, or Hisshell, | forgot which,
and told him knew him as well as q
squirrel knows hickory-nut from an
acorn He's Dead said the queer
cretur.
"No, no." says /, ''that won't do,
there's no mistake in Shavetail, YOU
may swear. | saw pedler " it'll some
splendid sausages made of red flannel
and turnips go by our house and
changed with him some wooden bacon
hams. He came from Litchfield, where
Hershell lived, and didn't say word
about it," Here he made note in
his book, and | begun to smoke him
for one of these fellers that drive a
sort of trade of making books about
Old kentuck, and the western country;
so thought I'd set him barking up the
wrong tree little. And | told him
some stories that were enough TO set
the Mississippi afire; but he put them
all down in his book. One of my men
was listening, and he sung out, swell,
Sam, you do take the rag off the bush,
that's sartin;" and | was fearful dam
dy would find out was smoking him;
so | jumped up and told Tom short
| horse was soon curried, and I'd knock
him into a cooked hat if he said anoth.
er word. And that broke up the con-
versation.
'Next morning we stopped to wood
little below New Madrid, and the
dandy, who seemed one of the curious
est creturs you ever saw, and was po-
king his nose everywhere, like dog
! smelling out a trail, went with me a
little way into cane brake, where we
met woman living under board shed,
with four or five children. Dandy ask
ed her if she was all alone-she said
her husband had gone up to Yellow
Banks to look for better land. Then
he wanted to know what she had to
eat, and she said nothing but sweet
pumpkins. "What, no meatP said
he-"No, nothing but sweet pump
kins." "Well," said dandy, 81 never
saw any thing half so bad as this in
the old countries And then he put
his hand in his pocket, and gave her a
pickalion. "Thank you," said she, 'sas
am living woman, I've tasted no
meat for the last Notwithstanding
but venison and wild turkeys" "The
ID you hain't," said dandy, and wan
ted to get. the pickalion back again. %
"What wild goose of a Teller, not
to know that nothing is called meat in
these parts but salt pork and beef.
He's pretty hand to write books OF
travels" said Spooney.
81 wish | may be forced to pass the
sold sycamore root upstream twice a
day, if I'd give the Mississippi Naviga-
tor for a whole raft Of such creturs.
Bat what did you do with him at last,
captainl" said another.
"WAy, got tired of making fun Of
the rlng-tail-roarer, and happening to
meet the steamboat Daniel Boone, Cap
tam Lansdale, coming down stream,
Just as sae had smashed a broad-horn,
and the owner was sitting on the TOP
of it, singing,
"Hail, Columbia, happy land,
II amt ruin'd l'il be-.
persuaded the captain to let dandy
come aboard again, on his promising
to keep out of the ladies' cabin. Sc
we shook hands, and | wish might be
SMASHED too if wouldn't sooner hun
such a raccoon than the latest bucl
that ever broke bread in old Kentuck.
IFrom the New York Mrror.l
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EUROPE.