The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-09-12
From the N. Y. Spirit of the Times.
A LIVE YANKEE SNORED" OFT
BY THE YOUNG 'UN

tt BY THE YOUNG 'UN
Keader--do you snore in your sleep?
You dont-Well, | suppose not! never vet
met the individual who would acknowledge the
corn.
Shall tell you of little adventure was once
witness to with a 'Snorer2'
The varieties of the genus Snorer' is very CIV.
| tended. There is your quiet slphinq. unob,ru
sive snorer-who always has "a good time' at il
and troubles nobody There is your wheeznp.
ch"ckling, sqneaking snorer-who makes repu-
lar business oft, but who keepsit all in the fam
ny, and, peradventure, annoys only the partner
OF his joys and sorrows. There. is also, yonr ma
sal grumbler, (who sleeps in the next loom y who
mumbles and grunts-and gets over it,
But it there be under Heaven an object of pitv
-one that should excite the sympathy of the be-
nevoiently dispOsed-mo that another, commend
me 10 yonr genuine, ont and out snorer!
10 appreciate his qualities fuly--you should
be fatigued and restless yOurself-afer three
days journey over humping had road, and you
shall run athwart him, where the steamboat line
connects, at late hour in the night. You shall
retire to one OF the few cots left--which You find
stretched in the centre of the cabin for this accom-
mediation OF the last comers-and after the dreadful
joItng you have passed through for the previous
twenty four or forty eight hours as The case NAV
| De, you shall regae yourself, imaginatively (du-
ring the process of undressng.) with the prospec-
tive enjoyment which Natures sweet restorer has
| in reserve for youi
Your weary head touches the pillow, hut al I'M
usual nervousness troubles you and despite your
most earnest endeavous, IL IS midnight before YOU
can compose yourself. You are at last worn oui
with tossing and turning-and though the niob, ia
warm. and the vermn are active-your deter
mine To sleep.
For the last half hour you have been listening
u what you Imagined distant thunder, (your are
afraid of lightening,O and at the instant Won
have concluded TO resign yourself to the embrace
OF morpheus, your eyes suddenly agape--wide
open-and, as your brow is slightly knitted, you
invountariy ask yourself, What's that p
In reply TO your inerrogotary, a sort of explo-
sion takes place-a miniature eruption of Vesuvi
US, blast whoo-oof- p !'-and the sound
rolls away IN long drawn, unearthly sigh-lke
inc last effort OF suffocang man to recover his
breath--and all is silent again.
In such plight and at such time-some yea
| ago. remember to have met a Yankee in the cab.
In of crowded canal Packet
IL was nearly midnight when he came on board !,
at fittsourg, from one of the Ohio river steamers
| Tie was very plain man, and had been out west .
50 ne said-and was satisfied to go home again!
:, L ne cabin was crammed, and an upright was
allotted him IN The middle of the floor with some
others. lie was live Yankee-and occupied
some considerable time in undressing, securing his
watch, adjusting his bed-clohes, and caring for
his tin which he slowed away under the pillow
lie finally mounted the piece of furniture, which
some ladywriter compares to a fence rail, COW
cred with two strips of tape,' and stretched him
self for the night
For long time he tossed uneasily in his cot
muttering to himself sometbino ,bont. sbslyed M
between heaven and afth'-but he finally turned
over as supposed for the last time-when fell
low on his extreme right, near the door, who had
evidently been pettinU ready for some rninutes
burst out with
'Aka-r r-roo-wh.e-p,'
Had thuoderbolt s,ruct Tho yonI,oo ,o, ,ho
crown he wouldn't ha ve re,cbed tho a. o;i,
er than he did as it was And there he stood in
| his tracks'-his teeth cbaterng bis sveo die,.n-
ded, with both hands oraspino The side roll of bis
cot-as he yeloed ont
Hell low!'
| Phoo-O-'
Volts ,hat?
The unconcious sleeper was relieved momenta-
rily-- and vouchsafed no answer.
The Yankee cazed about the cabin cau,iouslv
but his fellow dodgers were all sound rseep ID
parently, and the quiet ripping Of the water
against the sides of our fra boat, was all that
now broke the silence
Again he mounted the COT and at the moment
had supposed he had al leas, nnne IN tho I.nd of
nod for the nipht-another.
'Kerr r-cthee- e-whot' hurst from the
throat Of the snorer on his riobt. who had NOW
got the steam we'll up. While the stranger start
ed up to look for the cause-a
Observation-Disclosures escaped the orun-
ter, and our Yankee could contain himself no lon
ger; With one bound he spraog to the floor