The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-09-06
A QUEER CUSTOMER.


aiI vyn' as he reIinqulshed the attempt to r
ed rom the gutter at the corner of--4
IN --Sreels. q. is really astonishing hr
IT. soon this dreadful climate Of America brin
i on old age. shall never survive to o
ID home and write a book about the place
h never. Here am, SIX feet two, wi,ho
'e my s'ocklngs, sprawllng in dirty repubI
can gutter, without being able TO help my
% self out of ii. There's a amp winkipr an
, blinking IN my face, as if il wants to laupl
8 and would, ifil had mouth, ard bi
a o'n'e OF dog just now nosed me 10 Sc
whether was good TO eat. What coun
u Fry!-wha' gu''ersl aud what liquor! on
ely look nine smalItrs Of whisky, and wbs
with that and premature old age, | veriI,
r oelle'e am assassnaled--l gone
/ chicken"
Mr. Mervyn now clamoured 80 loudI,
that assistance soon came.
Silence ,here!--wha,'s The mster1'
Matter yourser-Pm being done, or a..
some people say, I'm doing. The march
OF mind has tri0red, and Richard MeryvrI
Is to deep for himself Help me out
ge"''y-'here' Am'' | in pretty plckle'
MS IS what The doctors call gutia serena
.isn'til
'"heo { was at school The boys would
have called you guuural.'
'They wouldn't have known much prsm.
NAL If they did I'm a liquid-~see me
drip
'Oh! no! said The watch, 'don'l try 10 De
funny; ] know you well enough, now YOU
have washed your face. You're the chan
That, me did tina, thing. How do
YOU like the ups and downs Of public lite!
Isn't variety chsrmlng'
III i, wasn't that I'm public fuucionar!
and mustn't give wOy TO my feelings. Ia
crack your cocoa, and ease my mind OF do
ing as | was done by. I'll make an exam
pie of you, however. You're my prisoner
Haly cOoSha to the watch us. Thal's the
Dutch for being took up.
well, give us your arm. Don't be "
lrald Of the mu' It's very wholesome. Look
a, the pigs how fat it makes 'em; ard 1t
you like fat pork why shouldn't you like
wha, makes pork latl So-so-slcady,
Now Il leIl you all about .'other night.
was passing your box in friendly promis
cuous son of way, | though
you were asleep, or had run down, aud
turned the key to wind you up, ii can
either keep good time, or even CO.
We'll, what eIsef
.Why, then | walch'd the box and when
YOU come out, boxed the watch. That's
ALL /, grew ou, Of my obIigOg disPOsi'
ton
'Hs! very obliging. Now ils my turn
to wind up, and. to do it in the same way,
I'm take you before The matchmaker, TO be
ceansed and regulated. You go 10 tssl,
but 'll pu, spoke in youi wheel; he'll Sc
you by the regulator, and make you keep
good time
'Wby, wa,chy, yon're wag, why
don't you say that wa, horizontal q
that ou lifted me up like. Ipa'ens IeVer'
YOU'RE awake now, bu, that night you
was'n. up to trap, or yon would have
c.ugh, me, caught weazel asleep ina
Iime-I pu, fresh sal. on your for once.
, TO add one more to his vagarIes, Mer
'vyn now refused TO walk step further
land sitting down on step, loudly aVowe'
Ihis resolution, and declared his name wat
not W aIker.
Whether your name be Walker or not.
you mus, go.
NO, wIhou. go.car--you cant force
=, me to eo-lm legal tender. and you mus
lake me- Hav'nl got an Office, or al Iea''
/ pubie situation, here on the sseps' II
must 90. it shall be on the yankss PrIncl'
=, u,e OF rotation, bring me a wheel.barrow
Reform me on, regularly. 1t was procured
,t and away they went. SO we co. ss'f
e Mervyu, 'Chaaley's making barfow.nigh
!, of me. Gently over the stones! l don