Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-11-11

wester; play on three stringed-fddle
like Apollo, and, as to dancing, no Long
Island negro could shuttle you double
trouble, or shoe corn and dig potatoes"
more scientifically: in short, he was a
second Lolhario. And the dusky
nymphs of Hayli, one and all, declared
him u perpetual Adonis. lucky walk
ed about whis,ling to himself, without
regarding any body, and his ncnchalance
was irresistible.
| found Will had got neck and heels
into one of his travellers stories, and
there is no knowing how far he would
have run his parallel between Billy
Dimple and Tucky Squash, had not the
music struck up from an adjoining
apartment, and summoned the company
to the dance. The sound seemed To
have an inspiring effect on honest Will,
and he procured the hand of an old ac-
quantance for country dance. Ii hap
pcucd to be the fashionable one of''lhc de-
vii among the talors,' which is so vocit-
erously demanded at every ball and as
scmbly: and many a torn gown, and
many an unfortunate toe. did rue the
dancing that night; for Will Numbered
down the dance like a coach and six,
sometimes right and sometimes wrong;
now running over half a score of little
Frenchmen, and now making sad in
roads into the ladies' cobweb muslins
and spangled tails. As every part OF
Wills body partook Of the exertIon, he
shook from his capacious head such vol,
umes of powder, that like pious Eneas
on the first interview with Queen Dido,
he might have been said to have been en-
veloped in cloud. Nor was Wills
partner an insignificant figure in the
scene; she was a young lady of most
voluminous proportions, that quivered
a, every skip; and being braced up in the
fashionable style with whalebone, stay.
tape, aud buckram, looked like an apple
pudding tied up in the middle; or taking
the flaming dress into consideration, like
bed and holsters rolled up in suit of
red curtains. The dance finished.-l
would gladly have taken Will of, but
no he was now in one Of his happy
moods and there was no doing any thing
with him. He insisted on my introdu-
cling him to miss Sparkle, a young lady
unrivailed for playful wit, and inno-
cent vivacity, and who like b. illiant
adds lustre to the front offashion. ! Iac'
cordingly presented him to her, and be.
gan a conversation in which thought
he might take share; but no such thing
Will took his stand before her straddling
like a colossus, with his hands in his
pockets, and an air Of the most profound
attention nor did he pretend to open his
lips for some time, until upon some lively
sally of hers, he electrified the company
with a most intolerable burst of laughter.
What was to be done with such an in
corrigible fellow Ito add to my distress,
the first words he spoke was to tell miss
Sparkle that something she said remin-
ded him OF a circumstance that happen.
ed to him in China ;-and al it he went,
in the true traveller style,--describcd
the Chinese mode of eating rice with
chop-sticks ;--entered into a long eulo-
gium on the succuent qualities OF boiled
birds nests: and made my escape at
the very moment when he was on the
point Of squattng down on the floor to
show how the little Chinese JoSaes sit
cross legged.
WHAT WILL YOU WAGRR?-The dill
ligence stopped at the White Horse
Inn, in the principle street of Fontain-
bleau. Faligued and opp essed by the
heat Of the road, we slowly stretched
ourselves, and descended the steps OF
the vehicle as Iazily as possible, smiling
al the vacant appearance which sleep bro
ken by our sudden arrival, had stamped
upon the visage of some of our fellow
travellers. The baggage was dismoun-
ted and dinner ordered. Some of the
country folks were eagerly pressing for
ward to gaze upon the newly ar ived, to-
gether with ,her packages. bird-cages
and child en-. In the midst of this bust.
Ie, fat, red faced man, about thi ty
years of age, and insiped babbler, who
had favored us the whole length of the
journey with the history of his great
speculation at Fonlainblcau, and of his
marriage. which he was at the present
time coming there to consummatc, drew
out his watch and exclaimed Already
4 Q clock III bet you that it is not
said a gentleman in slippers, who was
smoking cigar before the door Of the
low rooied apartment. ''Tis one of Bri-
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