The native American., 1838-03-03
From the Metropolitan Magazine.
EpHEMERA; OR ETCHINGs FROM LIFE

It's the Queen, said the apple stall woman,
'and my young urchint as lift both my s'ai,
and my apples to take care O themselves anu
run off to see th'roccamatlon Won ~ warn,
the wax of his ears within ketch the sPapeen.
rs il the purcession you mean, mother! SAID
. huge Gfe-onardsman, that almost filled with his
oioantic person the side arch of Temple Bar, as
he stood, about to make one gulp OF penny
worth of curds and whey.
.Purcession!-throth, and by thin mousetashes
of your own be sure it is, said the daughter OF
Erin, pettishly and well it is you knows it, with
all your stammering for if there was one, there
was hundred of you chaps, with your brast-
plates, an kittles, an trumpits, upsetting poor
krathurs things in the gutther. Cruel it is av
yees. It's more I've lost by the thieving childer
in the scrummage for the frute to-day than I'll
make this week to come, any how. And Ia only
gether up the ramlets from in and onder the big
black horses feet, an put clane face upon the
frute whin steps in to number tin, (shure IT'S a
most faintng was,) to rekiver myself with a
hawf pint O. hawf-and-hawf, and oh, it's off he
was, bad cess to him, though he's my own son
and honest Murty's, that I'll nver see agin;
for its murhurd he was fighting with Gineral
WINS for another queen. Musha! God be good
10 his poor soul? It's beggard | am in masses
for his 'demption from Purgatory ever since
March last. Ali thin it crast me in my dhrame
last night, that if could only git to speak to his
honor the councillor-for Murty's Kerry man
too, and Mister O'Connell's own blood relation
only FIVE removes-that he'd make a clever point
in his favor with the clargy. For the blessed
Jasus' (here she crossed herself devoutly) knows
its little my poor man had to reprint av, except
whin he was disguised in liquor; more's the pity
for the likes of so clane boy
Raising her head to take breath, and finding
bod Of tb,
unacquainted with rules of rhetoric, aptly seized
the occasion to apostrophize the dead, and eyeing
sorrowfully the wreck Of her stall, wound up her
woes, exclamng, Och, it's murthurd we are
entirely, Murty jewel, by these queens
The greater part of this rhapsody was uttered
as a soliloquy. The e-guardsman, at the word
procession, received dull, faint impression
through the fumes of the last nights potations,
that all was not right which, during the next
sentence or two, ripened into a full conviction
that all was wrong He had been selected to es-
cort the procession on this occasion. lie was
absent from duty. He recollected that on the
preceding day he had committed similar offence.
The horrors of court-martial, the terrors of a
cat-'o-nine-tails were all embodied to his mind S
eye. Though brave, and body-guardsman, his
courage failed, his loyalty wavered. TO his fud.
died apprehension his offences seemed to be, by
some fatality, connected with the accession Of q
female to the throne. He dashed the untasted
dainty from his lip, and fled, cursing his luck
and the Queen.
Never mind, my dear, it's our turn now,' said
a rigid featured old maid, to the chaste friend of
her chaser bosom for the last thirty years, never
mind, my dear. Every dog has his day. It's a
long lane that has never turn, | used to say.
Better late than never You know, Amina, I've
always stuck up for the rights of woman as reso-
lutte as Mary Wolstonecraf. We've been long
enough domineered over by the insulting male
kreeters,' continued she, her eye kindling, and a
hectic flush sufusing itself over her face. But
Providence seems at last" and here she took
a pinch of high-dried snuff from twist of paper,
vulgarly 'yclept screw-box, which she rendered
companionably to her friend-sProvidence seems
resolved now to afford us chance of retrieving
our lost equality
Heaven grant it! calculated the tall, slim
starched celibatare thus addressed, accepting the
prohered pinch with bend of the body, intend
ing to be enchantingly grateful. You are, am
sure, my dear Amelia, aware that this is the
only instance upon record of three Queens filing
three thrones at one period, in the whole history
of Europe
The damsel who spoke riyaled in years, and
in requirements, her more voluble companion.
Those years, and her comparative taciturnty,
were the secret causes OF her lveller friends par
TALLY. Amina had, after years of solitude, and
many anxious experiments on the subject, de-
cided with herself that her points of personal at
traction would be best developed by dressing
d la Recamier. She recollected the eciafante
effect which had been produced some thirty odd
years ago upon the male public of the court-end
by the elegant and graceful Parisienne of that
name, in part attributable to dress and attire
that, including her solitary knit pettcoat, which
fitting that exquisitey proportoned form as close
ly as woven wind, left little to imagination
Whether through niggard habits, for Amina was
expensively TALL and close fit saved cloth, or
through personal vanty-by the by, wag of
relative once protested in our hearing that she had
fairly worn out looking-glass in her time-shc
continued, despite Of the tickleness of fashion,
whenever she went abroad, to adhere to her cos
tune. Now, though on anti-italic principles,
our sylph spurned all masculine authority, fem-
nine delicaey induced her to sacrifice her scruples
and she wore mourning for the sailor king. It'll
consisted of muslin, white and pure as herself
short-waisted, scant in the skirt black ribbon
encircled her waist, black bonnet with slippers
to match, enveloped the extremities A parasol
of that epicene proportion that equally served
to protect her person from the rude ardors Of the