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

rURDAK, MARCH ~, ls3S.
oilswas, and if it would bear doing any
thing in; when who should come along
but Jabish Green. Slick, says he, how
do you do; isn't this as pretty day as
you'll see between this and Norfolk; it
whips English weather by a long chalk !:
and then he looked down at my watch
sealsas if he thought I'd stole 'em. At
last he looks up, and says he, Slick. I
suppose you wouldn't go to Warsaw,
would you, if it was made worth your
while? Which Warsaw {? says !, for !
believe in my heart, we have a hundred
Of 'em. None Of ourn at all, says he
Warsaw in Poland Well, | don't ex-
actly know, says |, what do you call
worth while? Six dollars day, ex-
penses paid, and bonus of one thousand
dollars, if speculation turns out well. l
am offsays !, whenever you say CO.
Tuesday, says he, in the Hamburg pack
|et. Now, says he, I'm in a tarnation
hurry, I'm goin pleasurin to-day, in the
Custom House Boat, along with Josiah
Bradford's gals down to Nahant But
piltell you what m at; the Emperor
of Russia has ordered the Poles to cut
off their queues on the lst Of January {;
you must buy them all up, and ship them
off to London to the wig makers. HUI
man hair is in great demand scarce and
risin. Lord massy! says |, how queer
they will look, wont they. Well, vow
that's what the sea folks call sailing un-
der bare Poles, come true amt it? 1
guess it will turn out good spec, says
he; and good one it did turn out-he
cleared ten thousand dollars by it.
WhenrI was at Warsaw, as was a
sayin, there was Russian officer there
who had lost both his arms in battle, a
good natured contented critter, as lev
er seed, and he was fed with spoons by
his neighbors, but arter while they got
tired oft, and guess he near about starv-
cd to death at last. Now Halifax is like
that are Spooney, as | used to call him;
it is fed by the out ports, and they begin
to have enough to do to feed themselves.
1t must larn to live without 'em. They
have no river, and no country about 'em;
let them make . rail road to Minas Basin
and they will have arms Of their own to
feed themselves with. If they don't do
it, and do it soon, | guess they'll get in
to decline that no human skill can cure.
They are proper thin now, you can cen
a mestcount their ribs as far as you can
sseihem. The only thing that will make
or save Halifax, is rail road across the
country to Bay of Fundy.
II will do to talk of, says one; you'll
see it some day, says another; Yes, it
will come, says third (; but we are too
young yet.
Our old minister had darter, real
clever lookin gall, as you'll see in days
ride, and she had two or three offers Of
marriage from sponsible men-most par
ticular good specs-but minister always
said-'Phebe. you are too young yet
the day will come, but you are too young
yet, DEAR Well, Phebe didn't think SO
atlall; she said she guessed she knew
better nor that so the next offer she
had, she said she had no notion to lose
another chance-off she shot to Rhode
Island, and got married ; says she. Fa-
theirs too old, he don't know. That's
list the case at Halifax. The old folks
say the country is too young--the time
will come, and so on; and in the mean
time the young folks wont wait, and run
off to the States, where the maxim is
youth is time for improvement; a new
country is never too young for exertion,
push on-keep movin--go ahead
Darn it all, said the Clockmaker, rising
with great animation, clinching his fist,
and extending his arm-darn it all, it
fairly makes my dander rise, to see the
nasty, idle, loungin, good for nothin. do
little creatures--they amt fit to tend a
bear trap, | vow. They ought to be
quilted round and round a room, like a
iady's lap-dog, for the matter Of two
hours day, to keep them from dyin of
apopIexy. Hush, hush, said ], Mr.Slick,
you forget. Well, said he, resuming his
usual composure-welI, it's enough to
make one vexed though, | declarc--isn't
il?
j.ts CHAPTER XIV i
81 SAYINGS AND DoINes IN CUMBERLAND.
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