Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-03-17

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Brown, what do you ak for that are
horse? !? Two hundred dollars, says he.
Well, says !, will take him out and try
him, and if | like him will keep him.
So | shows our Carolina Lord the horse,
and when he gets on him, says'I, Don't
let him trot as fast as he can, reserve that
for a heat; if folks find out how ever
lastin fast he is, they'd be afeard 10 stump
you for start. When he returned, he
said he liked the horse amazingly, and
axed the price four hundred dollars,
says |, you cant get nothin special with
out good price; pewter cases never hold
good watches: | know it, says he, the
horse is mine. Thinks Ito myself that's
more than ever could say Of him, any
how.
Well, was goin to tell you about the
soup-says the MAJOR, its near about
dinner time, jist come and see how you
like the location. There was a sight Of
folks there, gentlemen and ladies in the
public room, Il never seed the like afore
except at commencement day, } all ready
for start, and when the gong sounded,
off we sol like flock of Sheep Well,
if there warnt a jam you may depend
some one give me pull, and | near a.
bout went heels overhead, so | reached
out both hands, and caught hold Of the
first thing could, and what should it be
but lady's drsss--well, as I'm alive,
rip went the frock and tear goes the pet
ticoat. If she didn't scream, its pity,
and the more she screamed. the more
folks larfed, for no soul could help larfn,
till one of the waters folded her up in a
table cloth. 5H a5.s .er
What an awkward devil you be, Slick,
says the Major, now that comes of not
fallin in first, they should have formed
four deep. rear rank in open order, and
marched in TO our splendid national air,
and filed off 10 their seats, right and left
shoulders forward. | feel kinder sorry.
too, for that are, young heifer, but she
showed proper pretty ancle tho didn't
she Slick guess you don't often get
such chance as that are. Well, | gets
near the Major at table, and afore me
stood a china utensil with two handles,
full of soup, about the size Of a foot tub,
with large silver scoop in it, near about
as big as ladle of a maple sugar kettle.
| was jist about bailing out some soupin-
to my dish, when the Major said, fish it
up from the bottom, Slick.---well, sure
enough, gives it a drag from the bot
tom, and up comes the fat pieces Of tur-
tie. and thick rich soup, and sight Of
little forced meat balls. No soul could
tell how good It was--it was about as
handsum as fathers old genuine particu-
lar cider, and that you feel tingle clear
away down to your toes. Now, says
the Major, III give you, Slick, a new
wrinkle on your horn. Folks aint
thought nothin of unless they live at the
Treemomnt; its all the 60. Do you
dine at Peeps tavern every day, and off
hot foot to the fremont, and pick your
teeth there on the streets steps, and folks
will think you dine there. | dol often,
and it saves two dollars day. Then
he puts his finger on his nose, and says
he, : Mum is the ,oord.' f
Now, this Province is just like that
are soup, good enough at top, bat dip
down and you have the riches. the coal,
the iron ore, the gypsum, and what not
Halifax, is well enough in itself, though
no great shakes neither, few sizeable
houses, with a proper sight of smaller
ones, like a half dozen old hens, with
their broods Of young chickens; but the
people. the strange critters, they are all
asleep. They walk in their sleep, and
talk in their sleep, and what they say on|
one day they forget the next, they say
they were dreaming. You know where
Governor Campbell lives, don't you, in
a large stone house, with great wall a.
round it, that looks like state prison !;
well, near hand there is a nasty, dirty,
horrid lookin buryin ground there-its
filed with large grave rats as big as kit
tens, and the springs OF black water go
through the chinks Of the rocks and flow
into all the wells, and fairly pyson the
folks Its a dismal place. i tell you--i
wonder the air from it don't turn all the
silver in the Generals house Of brass
color, (and folks say he has got four cart
loads Of it)it's so everlastin bad--its al
most as nosey as a slave ship Of mig
gers. Well you may go hereand shake