The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-04

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is the title of a new work, by ''Boz," -published
I by Messrs Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia; and
for sale in this city, by Mr.. N. Hickman. From
the third number, we extract the following
esAfore the governor vith-draws," said Mr.
+ Weller, "there is a pint, respecting vich Sam
+ my has question to ask. vile that question is
( a perwadin this here conversation, praps the
genl'mem viii permit me to retire"
stWot are you goin' away foTi" demanded
Sam, seizing his fatlr.r by the coat tail.
seI never see such undootiful boy you,
Samiyel," returned Mr. Weller. "Didn't you
make solemn promise, -anountin' almost to a
speeches o wow,-thet you'd put that ere qves-
ton on my accountH'
eFWclI, Pm agreeable to do it," said Sam;
"but not ii you so cuttin' away like that, as the
bull turned round and mildly observed to the
tlroyer, ven they wos goadin' him INTO the
butchers door. The fact is, sir" said Sam, ad-
dressing me, f'that he wants to know somethin'
respectful that ere lady as is housekeeper here"'
@Ayi What is that'"
FeYy, sir" said Sam, grinning stall moreS ''he
wishes to know vether She"
eeIn short,D interposed old Mr.. Weller, deci-
sively, perspiration breaking out upon his fore
head, "vether that ere old crcetur is or is not a
widder.7
Mr. Pickwicl laughed heartily, and so did l.,
as ] replied decisively, that "my housekeeper
was a spinstero
esThere" cried Sam, snow you're satisfied
You hear she's a spinster.7
GA wot3" said mis- father, with deep scorn.
fFA spinster," replied Sam.
Mr. Weller looked very lard at his son for a
minute or two, and then said,
enc mn ve+her she makes lOkcS not.
that's no matter Wot ! say Is, IS that ere fe-
male wilder, or is she no.'7
ssWot do you mean, by her making joiIes?"
demanded Sam, quite aghas. at the obscurity Of
his parents speech.
esNever YOU mind, Samivel,' retained Mr..
Weller, gravely; sfpuns may be very good
things, or they may be very bad 'uns, and fe-
male may be none the better, o. she may be noae
the vurse for making OF 'cIa; that's got nothing
TO do With widders.'
eSvy, now" said Sam, looking round, 'iwould
anybody believe, as man at his time o. life,
could be a running his head agin spinsters and
Punsters being the same thing"
eeThere ant straws difference between EN-,
said Mr. Weller. feYour father didn't drive a
coach for so many years, not to be ekal to his
own langvidge, as far as that goes, Sammy"
Avoiding the question of etymoiogy, upon
which the old gentlenan's mind was quite made
up, he was several times assured that the Eou'e-
great satisfaction airing this, and apologlsed
for the question, remarising, that he had been
greatly terrified by widow, not long before,
and that his natural tiMidity was increased IN
consequence.
esIt was on the rail" said Mr.. Weller, with
strsng emphasis 81 wos goin down to Blr-
mingharn by the rail, and wos locked up IN a
close carriage, With a living wilder. Alone we
wos; the wilder and wos alone; and be-
1ieye it was only because we acos alone, ard
there wos no clergyman in the conwayance, tn: I
that 'ere wilder didn't marry me afore We reach
ed the halfway station, Ven think how she
began screaming as VIC wos goin' under them
tunnels in the darA-how She kept on iaintin'
and kitchin' hold o. me-ana how tried to bust
open the door as wos tight-locked, and perwent-
cd all escape.-Ah! 1t wos awful thing-rnost
awfuIw
Mr. Weller was SO very much overcome by
this ret ospcct, that he was unable, until he had
wiped his brow several times, to return any reply
TO the question, whether he approved of railway
4 communication, notwithstanding that If would
appear frora the answer which he ultimately
gave, that he entertained stro.lg opinions on the
subject.
Il consider" said MIR. Weller, t'that the rail
is unconstitutional, and an inwaser q prlwlie-
ges, and should very much like to know what
that ere old Garter, once stood up tor oar I'D
critics, and wun er1, tool should like to know
wot he would say, if he wos alive now, to Eng
ishmen being locked up with widders, or with
1 ANYBODY aqin their wills. Wot old Carter
would have said, old CoachmaR may say; and
assert that, in that pint o. view alone, the rail
is an inwaser. AS to the comfort, vere's the
comfort o. sittin in harm cheer, lookin' at b1lck
walls or heaps O. mud, never comm to Puolic
house, never SEEM glass; o ale, never goln'
through pike, never meetin' change q no
kind kind Oorses or othervise), but Arrays com
IN to place, ven you come to one at all, the
VERY picGer of the last, With the same peesemen
standing about, the same blessed old bell ring
in the same unfortunate people standin' behind
the bars, a waitin' to be let in; and eyerythiu
the same, except the name, vieh is wrote up in
the same sized letters the last name, aud With
The same colours. AS to the honor and dignity O
travellin', we're can that be without coachman
and wot's the rail to SIGH coachmen and guards
as IS sometimes forced to go by it, but a outrage
and INSULT As to the pace, 1ot sort O. pace dc
YOU think /, Tony Weller, could have kept Q
= coach goin' at, for five hundred thousand pound
a mile. paid Ia advance, afore the coach was OF
fhe road' And as to the ingein--a nasty, Wheel
IN, creakin', gaspin', pufin', Dustin, monster
aIyays out O. breath, With shiny green and goie
back, like unpleasant beetle in that ere ga:
maenifier;- -as to the ingein, as is always pour
in, out rcd-hot Goals at night, and black smoke
"a the day, the sensiblest thing it does, IN my
opinion. IS, ven there's somethin in the way, ant
IL sets up that 'ere frightful scream, vich SEEM
"a saw. iNow, here's two hundred and forty pas
ssagsrs, in the very greatest extremity 2 dan