Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-04-07
MAUMEH CITY, OHIO, SATURDAY, ArRIL !, rsas,


go harder, for there's just about as much
sense in that. Well, then, says he, 9TH
ers say its smugglin has made us so poor.
That guess, said l, is most as good as
tother one. whoever found that secret
ought to get a patent for il, for it is worth
KNOWN, Then the country has grown
poorer, hasn't it, because it has bought
cheaper this year than it did the year
before. Why, your folks are cute chaps,
! VOW; they'd puzzle a Philadelphia
Lawyer, they are so amazn KNOWN. -
Ah, said he, and he rubbed his hands and
smiled like young doctor, when he gets
his first patient; ah, said he, if the tim
ber duties are altered, down comes st.
John, body and breeches, its built on a
poor foundation--its all show--they are
speculatin like mad--they'll ruin them
selves. Says !, if you wait till they're
dead, for your fortin, it'll be one while
| tell you, afore you pocket the sinners.
Its no fun waitin fora dead mans shoes.
Suppose an old feller of eighty was to
say, when that are young fel!er dies, |
am to inherit his property, what would
you think q Why, Iguess you'd think
he was an oldifoola No, sir, if the Eng
lish don't want their timber we do want
il all. We have used ourn all up. we
hant got a stick to whittle., If the Brit
ish don't offer, we will, and st. John, like
a dear little weepin widow, will dry up
her tears, and take to frolickin agin. right
off. .
There isn't at this moment hardly such
a location in America, as st. John; for
beside all its other advantages, it has this
great one, its only rival, Halifax, has got
dose of opium that will send it snorin
out of the world, like filler who was
asleep on the ice of a winters nights II
has been asleep SO long, Iactilly think it
never will awake. Its an easy death
too, you may rouse them up if you like,
butt vow | wont. | once brought. a
fellerto that was drowned, and one night
he got drunk and quilted me-, l couldn't
walk for week says Il, you're the
last man lllever save from drowning in
all my born days, if that's all the thanks
gained by it. No, sir, Halifax has lost
the run ot its custom. Who does Var
mouth trade with /? ST. John. Who
does Annapolis county trade with2 St.
John. Who do all the folks on the Ba-
sin of Mines, and Bay Shore tradewith?
ST John. Who does Cumberland trade
withi 81, john. Well, Pictou, ,Lunpen-
burg, and. Liverpool supply themselves,
and the rest, that amt worth havin, trade
with Halifax. They take down a few
half-starved pigs, old veteran geese, and
long legged fowls, some mutton and tuff
beef, and swap them for tea, suga :, and
such little notions for their old women al
home; while the railroad and canals Of
ST. John are going to cut of your gulf
shore trade to Miramichi, and all along
there. Flies live ia summerand die in
winter; you're jist as noisy in war as
these little critters but you sing small
in peace.
No, you're done for, you are up tree,
you may depend, pride mustfall. Your
town is like bali room arter a dance.
The folks have eat, drank, and frolicked
and then left an empty house -;
the lamps and hanginJs are left, bat
the peopleare gone. stil sssa9sasg
Is there no remedy for this {? said he
and he locked as wild as a Cherokee In
dian. ni Thinks !, the handle is fitun on
proper tightnow. Well, says |, when
a man has acold, he had ought tolook
out pretty sharp, aforel il gets seated on
his lungs; if he gets into a galopin con
SUMPTION its aagone2 goose with him.
THERE'S a7remcdy,yll applied in time; !;
makes a railroad from Minas Basin, and
you have a way foloyour' customers to
get to you, and a conveyance for your
goods To- othem. WhensI was in New
York lasf,'a a cousin of mine, Hezekiah
Slick, said to ome, i do believe, Sam, |
sha.l lbe ruihed; sfvelos all nv custom,
they are ssWidesingg' and improving the
lstreeis3 and sofmany carts and people to
-wofkin il, lthe folks cant come to my
ishopto tfade,y e,ywhat on aifth shall 4 do,
and FIN 'payin a. dreadful high rent tool
Stop III, .sayslI, when the street IS all
finished Off and slicked up, n they'll aial
come backagain, and a whole raft more
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