The Arkansas banner., 1843-09-16
From, bse Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
 |M SLICK IN ENGLAND

IA JUICY DAY IN THE COUNTRY.
 Il our preparations for the voyage having
 completed, we spent the last day at oul
 bosal, in visiting Brooklyn. The weather
 uncommonly fine, the sky being per ilv clear and unclouded and though the
 shone out brilliantly, the heat was tenn
 ed by cool, bracing, westwardly wind
 influence was perceptible on the spirits oi
 ny body on board the ferry-boat that = bsported us across the harbor.
 Esquire said Mir. Slick, ''aint this as pret-
 day as you'll see, atween this and \ ova
 bta2 You can't beat American weather.
 en 1t chooses, in no part of the world Pve
 Er been in yet. This day is tip-toppur;
 T t's the last we'll see of the kind till we
 back agin Iknow. Take fools advice
 once, and stick to 1t, as long as there IS
 of 1t left, for you'll see the difference Den you get to England There never was
 rainy place in the univarse, as that,
 n't think, unless it's Ireland, and the only
 hrence atween them two is that 1t rains |ey day amost in England, and in Ireland ii
 ns every aav and night too. It's awful,
 you must keep ont of a country house
 such weather, or you'll go for it; 1t will
 you, that's certain. l shall nevei forget
 ulcy day once spent in one of them dis
 old places. I'll tell you how l came to
 there.
 rI'he last time was to England, was a Pln' with our consul at Liverpool, and a v gentlemanlike old man he was too; he sappointed by Washington, and had been
 Ire ever since our glorious revolution. lks give him great name; they said he credit to us. Well, met at his table e day an old country squire, that lived |hewhere down in Shropshire, close on Wales, and says he to me, arter cloth was
 and cigars on, 'Mr. Slick says he, ! be very glad to see you to Norman Ma |r, (that was the place where he staid, when was to home,) if you will return with me |hall be glad to show you the country in neighborhood, which is said to be con- |erably pretty
 i" sWeil' sais |, as have nothin' above rtlcular to see to, don't care if do go.'
 50 off we started; and this l will say, was as kind as he cleverly knew how to ]; and that is sayin' a great deal for a man at didn't know nothin' out of sight of his VII clearin' hardly.
 "Now when we got there, the house was lock full of company, and considerin' it amt an overly large one, and that the Brit hers won't stay in house unless every Her gets a separate bed, it's wonder to e how he slowed away as many as he did. lis he, excuse your quarters, MT. Slick, r find more company nor l expected Ire. In day or two, some on 'em will be 1, and then you shall be better provided "With that was showed up great stair se, and out of that by door way into a lrow entry, and from that into an old | le looking building, that stuck out behind e house. It warn't the common company eepin' room, 1 expect, but kinder make lifts, tho they was good enough too for the alter O that; at all events, l don't want no ,tter
 Well, l had hardly got well housed almost ore 1t came on to rain, as if 1t was in rael yht down airnest. It warn't just a roaria' cin', sneezin' rain, like a thunder-shower It it kept steady travelin' gait, up hill and 'wn dale, and no breathin' time nor batin ell. It didn't look as if 1t would stop til was done, that's fact. But still as 1t was o late to go out agin that afternoon, didn' Ink much about 1t then. hadn't no no- on what was in store for me next day, nc ore nor child; if had, I'd double deal 'oner hanged myself than gone brousin' il leh place as that, in sticky weather
 "A wet day Is considerably tiresome, any here or any way you can fix it; but it's us at an English country house than any here else, Cause you are among strangers rmal, cold, gallus polite, and as thick il e head-piece as 2 puncheon. You hain' ethm' to do yourself, and they never hay, othm' to do; they don'tknow nothin' abou merlca, and don't want to. Your talk don' llerest them, and they can't talk to interes ooody but themselves; all you've got t O. IS to pull out your watch and see how me goes; how much of the day is left, ant len go to the winder and see how the sky 'oks' and whether there is any chance 0 oidn up or no. Well, that time wen eed little airlief than common, for fel