Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-22
The following chapter on little troubles is
from the last number the Knickerbocker -
Little Troubles.


Little Troubles.
1t is DR.. Johnson, we believe, who SAYS that
little vexations are more trying TO the temper,
and harder 10 be borne, than greater troubles
We heard the other evening a querulous.look-
ing little manufacturer illustrate the truth of
the remark, by a ludicrous narrative Of small
annoyances, that made an aggregate of large
misery. Il went said he, into my BARRIERS
this morning, with my temper soured by letters
from the attorneys of five bankrupt creditors a,
the South west, postage unpaid of course
oh ! yes; bankrupts don't pay postage to their
dupes-oh 20! was vcxcd too, at painter, who
had received hai-pay IN advance to pairt the a
new sign but he must 90 a-saing on the bay
a-Sunday, and get drowned-just like as not
on my money anyhow he died and mddc no
sign was in dreadful hurry, for had to
raise money to take up the note, and vas short
full one halt. There was young sprig in the
barber's chair, who passed me and got into the
shop about yard before me, by acting as if
he wanted to speak TO a man ahead of me
"A contemplate trick Well, Sir there he
sat feeling OF his chin after every round ofthc
razor, and asking for more till his beard was
'close'-reaped into the middle of next week
reading the whole time the only paper that
ever do read which he continued to do all the
while the man was curling his hair and whs-
kcrs, evidently just to spite me. 1t was an
hour before got away from the barber's and
then the friend who would have loaned me iii.
ty dollars, in my strait, had taken the morning
cars for Newark, After attending to some ne
cessary business at the store, sailed out for a
'shin'dy in Wallstrect. Every body was
short though each one could have done it
yesterday,' which struck me as rather curious
Ii was not far from three, and the day was Of
the nastiest August kind hot as moted lead
muggy and STICKY. | had on pair of new
boots, which my shoemaker for the first time
| really believe in twenty years, had been made
too small. Heavens! how they bit in the heels,
bllstercd as they were from slipping up and
down in them My stock was continually
twisting round. hindsidc-aforc. Ny shirt, too,
seemed possessed. | couldn't keep it down be-
hind. 1t kept crawling up, and finally rolled
/ into an inaccessible lump, saturatc with perspi.
ration, and rested in the small Of my back.
/ This annoyed me almost as flea, the first |
had felt this summer, that was nlpping me It
J his leisure, in a secure position which he had
/ taken up between my shoulders Al this in
| terestng iuncture, was seized by the button
by perhaps the most perfect specimen of a bore
! that can be found in New-York not one OF
your big pod-augcr sort, bu, fellow that twists
a glmlet into you with his right hand, while
he detalns YOU by the button with his left, Ia.
king IT out now and then, when he thinks it is
going rather hard, tn blow off the chips, anI
forthwith inserting it in another place. He
was telling me, IN loud voice, of shabby
trick that he had lately been served him by a
man that had Just passed MS, and what he had
that morning sand 10 him: Said l. Sir, you arc
id liar and scoundrc : etc. and could
see, as the passers. by turned round to look n
us that they thought he was addressing thi,
complimentary remark to me. | dln't wonder
either, that they ShOuid think so, for my face
must have been good deal nllamCd with i'm
patient endurance. Well, when could StspC
it no longer, broke away, to drop in upon the
only friend who | thought would hel lp me ont
aud what to do you think ? lie had Just len
every dollar he had to the man whom my but,
tonholder had been serving UP TO me in parcels
his Enartirulor fir end - As I Camn ont Of his of