Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-10-12
wHATILIKE TO SEE.

l ike 10 see young HAL loltcilHS
about the premises of grog shop door
before breakfast, waiting for his liquor:
it looks like he was disposed to be
customer.
l like to see pennyless young man
run in debt head over heels, with the
expectation of never liquidating his
debts: il has the appearance of draw
ing long bills of interest.
l likeato see youth exert surplus
quantityof impudence in the presence
of his superiors: it looks like he was
disposed to be familiar and social.
/ like to see young man 'spree' all
night, and complain of a wretched
head ache next morning: it shows that
he is quite parsimonious in regard to
his health.
l like to see a young man wear in
expressibly tight inexpressibles: it
looks like showing off the contour of
mans figure to fraction.
l like to see young man bow, fawn,
kneel and crouch at woman's foot,
and lick the dust from her slippers
it has the appearance of slavish sub
serviency personifed, and looks like
he were the bigger fool of the twain.
/ like to see a young man quote
Shakespeare, talk Latin and French,
and sputter Greek and Choctaw, to a
circle of young ladies, the most intel
ligent of whom don't understand COM
mon English-it looks like teaching
the ''young idea how to shoot"
+ ! like to see young man ride a
cornstalk, play on pumpkin vine, and
serenade his mistress by moonlight
it looks like he was DESTROYS of seeing
the night-capped pate Of his dulcinea
thrust from the window.
l like to hear decent young man
tell a lie and swear it was the truth: it
shows integrity Of purpose.
l like to see candidate make fair
promises and cschew fairer practices:
ion s and ioofs ife Rs Rad more respect
for his friends than himself
| like to see young man court a
girl, obtain her consent to marriage,
and then forsake her: it has the appear
ance of unworthiness and immaculate
virtue.
l like to see a young man amuse
himself by killing musquctoes with a
.boe-handle: it looks like the work Of
'destroying angel"
like to see merchant ask one price
for his articles, and charge his CUSTOM
ers another: it looks like he was an
advocate for consistency.
Hike to see apreacher stave the
boards of his pulpit in, while testing
the quality of his knuckles: it looks
like he was disposed to make you
know the strength Of his arm and the
feebleness of his lungs.
l like to see an old lady, during
church, squall and bawl at her lap-dog:
it shows respect for the minister.
like to see young ladies disposed
to put wrong constructionsupon words
and "makc virtue vice." it has the ap-
pearancc Of refined gentiIity, and
makes modcsty peculiarly prominent
while their n,uatvaise h0zate casts Grim.
son beauty DER their laughing cheek.
like TO see young ladies sport the
streets with loose dresses: it looks like
a sudden surprisal in dishabille.
like to see pretty young woman,
when man asks her consent to mar
riage, say, 81 WON'T" and primp her
mouth into the cork-screw shape: il
looks charming
like to see young ladies with holes
in their stockings: it looks like atten-
ton above and no reflection below.
like to see the ladies', during leap
year, pop the question: it looks like
a determination to exercise reserved
rights.
like to see young lady keep her
bottle: it has the appearance Of preach
ing on dissipation and practising in
temperance.
like to see every person attend less
to their own business and more to their
neighbors: it shows fellow feeling,
and evinces the politenessin which they
were bred.-[G 0llatin Copiah Misp.
Democrat.
The New York Erie and Champlain
Canal, which was completed in 1925,
at cost of 81, 737,770 h0sertinguish-
ed this debt, and henceforth its inn
mense revenue will flow into the State
Treasury, to be appropriated either to