Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1844-11-08
THE YANKEE IN ITALY,
HOW TO CURE DYSPEPSIA,

HOW TO CURE DYSPEPSIA.
One day as | was walking along a crowd
ed street of Lcgllorn, my attention was ar
rested by singular figure esconced in the
doorway OF fashionable inn. II was lank,
sharp featured man, clad in linsey woolsey
with white felt hat on his head, and an
enormous twisted stick in his hand. He
was looking about him with shrewd gaze,
IN which inquisitiveness and contempt were
strangely mingled. The moment / came
opposite to him, he drew very large silver
watch from his fob, and after inspecting it a
moment with an impatient air, exclaimed
i say stranger, what time do they dine in
these parts 2
AT this house the dinner is about fve.'
Five why, am half starved, and it's
only twelve. | can't stand il later than two.
say, guess you are from the States 2
Yes
Maybe you come to be cured of dys-
pepsia 7
Not exactly
well, Pm glad of it, for it's plaguey
waste of money. just arrived from New
Orleans, and there was man on board who
made the trip all on account of dyspepsia
| as good as told him he was "A fool for his
pains. know a thing or two | guess. You
see that stick Well, with ,hot stick I've
killed six alligators There's only one thing
that is certain cure for dyspepsia
and what's that 2
For moment the stranger made no reply.
but twisted his stick, and gave glance from
his keen grey eyes, with an air of man
who can keep his own counsel.
'You want to know what will cure dys-
pepsa ?
Yes
well transportation .
was plan;iES'd vsfevaGffamheg,t. the hinge stick
challenging contradiction. Apparently sat
isGed with my tacit acceptance Of the pro-
position, the man of alligators grew more
complacent.
III tell YOU how found out the secret
| was a school master in the state of Maine,
and it was as much as could do to make
both ends meet. What with logging the
boys, leading the choir Sundays, living in
lcakv school house, and drinking hard Ct.
der grew as thin as a rail, and bad TO cal
on travelling doctor. After he had looked
into me and on my case, Mister SAID he
there's only one thing for you to do, yo,
must speculate | had a kind of notion
what he meant, for all winter the folks hat
been talking about the eastern land spccula
ton; so says |, Doctor havn't got cen
he, "a man who has money is fool to spec
nlale !; you've got nothing to lose so bcgi,
the right way sold out all nv things bu
one suit of clothes, and nciglbor gave m,
lift in his wagon as far as Bangor. tool
lodgings at the crack hotel and bv kecpin!
my ears open at the table and in the bar
room, soon had all the slang of speculation
by heart, and, having the gift of CAB, BY tn,
third day out-lalked all the boardcls abou
lots water privileges sites and deeds.
One morning found an old gentleman sit
ting in the parlor looking very gum. 'AI,
says ], great bargain that Of ones, two hun
drcd acres, including the main street as IA
as the rail road depot-that is where the
are to be when Joncsville is built Som,
people have all the luck, says the old gen
ieman. 'Iherc isn't "A better tract in al
Maine than nine, but can't get on offer
It's because you don't talk up says L.
Well, says he, you seem to understand tn,
business. Here's my bond, all you can pc
over three thousand dollars you may have.
set right to work got the editors to mention
it as a rare chance, whispered abou, in al
corners that the land had been surveyed fo
"A manufacturing town, and had splendit
, map drawn with IA coored border, six NEE
ting houses, a yceum, blocks of stores, ha,
scales, state prison, and rural cemetery
with Gerrytown in large letters at the bot
: tom, and then hung i, up in the hall.
Before the week was out, sold the Jan,
} for cash TO company, for twenty thousan'
dollars, gave the old gentleman his thre
: thousand, and have been specializing eve
since. Town two thirds of a granite QUAR-,
in New Hampshire, half coal mine il
} Pennsylvania, and prairie in Illinois, be
} sides lots of bank stock, half canal. and
whole India Rubber factory. I've been il
New Orleans, buying cotton and came her
to see about the silk business. and mean Il
| dip into the marble line little. I've neve
had the dyspepsia since | began to specu
; late. 1t exercises all the organs and keep
. a man going like a steamboat
Just then bell was heard from within
and the stranger thinking it was the sigma
for dinner, precipitatey wi,hdrew.-Gra
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