Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1838-05-18
nTwas any thing but pleasant from that Park
TO - the stir Of ms sad Babel as f
And not feel the flsues"

"Oh Heaven and the other place, only run away
from Swedish ship. don't fear water, but can
stand fire, excsptia an engagement
Let me out-l m only in for getting drunk-rv
got fire enough in my nside-the brandy is burning
me up fast enough without any fire."
, my God /! must be burned to death for being
neR-resident?-h been in the city six days, ant
J I'm to be roasted alive for not being citizen
thought this was free country"
Sand let me out, for Pm only in here for swearn,
myself ia as citizen before my tme.'
The engines came clustering round the brldewell--
hose after hsss was fastened to hydrants-thump-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS flew the water over tn,
old brdewell to no particular spot, and to no goot
purpose
where's the fret" said fireman to awatch
man.
"Dont know no more than the devil" said thu
Waterman.
81 should think he knew exactly where il was j
he aims belied."
"Where's the Ere2'
Somewhere close BY"
"Where's the fire p
In the bridewell."
Then let's go in and play on It'll
"They won'tlet US"
Let's get the poor prisoners outv'
They won't let ass
"Then let US leave off playing"
1.-THE foreman won let us"
Crack smack !-crash! dash went several axes
in the room on fre-sIish whish went several
buckets Of water. We were leaving the spot to pro-
coed to our sanctum or our smthy, which words are
SYNONYMOUS, to write this xccsant for you, gentle
readers Of ours, when foreman caught us by the
sleeve. s7rsr M al
rs Nsf &
"Coms, Mister pale-facs lay hold Of this break and
give as q burst for about ten minutes" ReMon-
STRANGE was useless We did lay hold and we did
lay to, and gave them burst at the break until
burste every button OF breeches. We then left the
break and broke for the Office. II was o'clock.
The men, tired, worn and wearied with their exer-
tons to prepare a palatabe dish for our twopenny
readers were putting on their go homo and
comfort their wives and rsslze the ulth Of Montgo
merys sublime stanzas-- tsl se .t.e s.
Might !. the time for sweet :, labor: close
stretch The tired LIMBS And Lay The bead ~
One man alone remained, and that one, one of our
best and staid workmen, Mr.. Walker Mr.. Davis,
our excellent foreman, who has almost worked him
self bald and blind the service of the public and the
public press, was busy making mp the form. We ad-
dressed him. as
"Mr Davis have another paragraph to write-ihs
engineer in the press room had better not get the
steam up just yet" %
Steam is up, sir.
bash sv B nd M on sa 6. u...
service"
| "The public and our patrons, now in bed and fas,
asleep must be informed of this fact though il is pas,
midnight. Whist men slept or are sleeping, we
must be stirring. Printers must never be sleeping"
Enough sald sir, said Walker " write the para
graph and I'll set il up"
II was done-put in the form the form put 10
press, and we laid down the sofa in eur ssnctum,
| ITO sleep, On pessible) perchsnce to dream.v
The press was set in motion at one in the morning
Our Incompatible cutter, Mr.. Whitney had left his
wfes side and al his post to deal out the papers
to the carriers. Our rosy faced pressman, Head,
(no relation to Sir Francis but far better many was
ready with his smart and steady feeders and fly
boys, all
Like greyhounds the slip, s,rssing for the start
for the sole object of preparing and putting forth
pala,abe dsh for the Peevish and perverse public.
| Crack arrackl whack smack went the press,
and the sheets Of the Herald were ready for it's read
| ers.
A disturbed dose of four hours, and the red round
Il
sanctnm. We strolled across TO the Police Office
Justice Hopson was lecturing love-sick swain for
getting nebrated and bawlng under his lady's win.
dow, the cupnt called IL serenade.
Hepson.-Why did you disturb the young lady q
rest-don't you know it's against the law 10 break
| any ones rest ae III -Fn
alas that law applies not to prn tiers ednors.)
Prisoner was tpsy, sir-non compos | was
PEI!
Hopssn-Non compos. 1 guess you was men,
co npass. You couldn't compass your ends-you
wanted that young lady to e, you into her bedroom
al that late hsur, bat she was too wide awake for
you, and il would be well il all girls weuld follow
her example. Tpsey Ell! and how do you feell good,
chi
The prisoner put his haad TO his aching brow and
looked transferable things" st. Hth
We felt any thing bat good, and left the place foI
our mornings stroll on the Battery.
Resdsr-or rather, what is much better, subscribe,
-you perhaps, feel any thing but good at reading
this garbled account; il you do lay the paper do Wn
sip your ceaee, say YOU have lost two cents in spe.
Gle, and twenty minutes in precious time, and 20
about your business.
But If you want to know how the person spends