Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-10-30
No. %.


ieet ~ height and weighing some 800
pounds, who lived ia Dutch settlement
no, far from the grea, CITY of New AM
s,erdam in the DAYS of the redoub,able
Peter Siuy vesan,, Governor of his Dutch
Majes,y's possessions in America. This
same Nynheer Won Speckleburg was
cons ldeted the wit Of the lii,le village in
which he lived, ard was proving him.
sell such, whenever traveller stopped at
his door. upon whom he ,horsht there
was cSance Of putting joke.
One evening. Tin pedlar drove up TO
his house and gave directions to have his
team put UP for the night. As he was
the first live yankee ever known in thai
region, the bar room WAS soon fill ell with
worthy buFghers. anxious TO see one Of
those people of HON they had heard SO
much.
The old landlord. although lie had
| heard something Of Yankee jnkeis, still
felt confident in his own powers, and
soon commenced running IRE OF Dutch
wtlicisms leveled at the pedlar, who
however seemed to take little notice Of
them, bu, sal comfortably whiting chip
in the corner; after while he looked up.
aud calmly surveying mine host seemed
10 dwell with much satisfaction on the
old gen,leman's abdominal preponderance.
offered TO BET sum sufficient TO moisten
the threats Of the company, that he would
swallow the great Mynheer Won Speckle-
burg, big belly and all
The bet was accepted, and the YAM
kee forthwith proceeded to business. He
directed the Dutchman to divesr himself
OF his coat aud boots and stretch himself
at full length on an old table standing in
the barroom; this having been done,
John, after opening his mouth several
! times so wide as 10 make the bonesI
landlord wish he had no, been so will
ing to bet, ravenously seized the Dutch
mans great toe with his teeth, which
caused him TO make a furious plunge, and
exclaim.
'Dunder and biixen, vat YOU bite my
toe for!'
'Whv you old goose said Jonathan,
you didn't think was going to swaller
yer whole, did yet
Mynheer Won Specfleburg agreed TO
pay the toast and ,oddy.
Pat Playing The Yankee.-No, many
years since, a general muster OF militia
and regulars was called by the Govern
or Of Lower Canada near lie town of Hall
fax. His Excelency called together the Of
icers who commanded the regulars and
told them to prepare for fine days sport,
for that he ordered troop militia, fifty
men. composed Of Irishmen. to play the
Yankee at a sham figh, in the afternoon,
and His Majesty's regulars would have
fine sport in transferring the Irish Yam
KEGS in the character of prisoners of
war from the field Of battle to a neigh
5ouring log house, which was converted
for The lime being, into guard house
The Pats, commanded by truly original
character by the name of John Morris,
issued forth at the appointed time and
formed themselves into two lines deep on
an elevated spot near the town: their val
liant leader at the same time exhorting
them 10 stand firm and mind orders. and
play the game as real Yankees should
and even give The HOLSTERS taste of
steel rather than submit to become pris-
oners. The regulars consisting of two
hundred men, formed some two hundred
feet from the sham Yankees, and COM
menceda regular peppering of musRetty,
which was returned with prompttude by
the Irish AT this stage Of the action the
regulars were observed 10 extend their
line in order TO surround the enemy; but
our hero, Morris. ordered 10 'chsrge bay
onets.' without any particular injunction
no, 10 hurt the foe. His Majes,y's regu-
lars thought the most prudent course was
to'give leg bail for them valor. by per-
forming reirograde movement at a brisk
trot. But Morris was not TO be cheated
in this manner; he pursued the retreating
red coats, ard could not resist the templa-
ton Of repeatedly yocifera!ing, Hurrah for
Jackson until he succeeded in taking
4 fifty prisoners, among whom was His
Excellency, who ransomed himself and
his fellow prisoners by paying for a din
ner OF which two hundred Irish partook in
honor OF The victory. II is but fair 10 say,
i that they conducted their prisoners into
town. alternately playing Yankee
DOODLE aud that aul stirring air Garry
Owen. staq4 SOS VIZ
z al Boys till they're Married. The
marshals for taking the census have no
doubt collected fund Of anecdotes which
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