American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-10-26

and can't stay in town TO advertise it, for Pm
goin' away 10 day; so, if you'll Jest give me ten
dollars, you kin take the pocketboO and ad-
veItse it i'll the mornin', and MORN likely,
you'll make stake on it. | wouldn't trust it
with every body, but you look like an honest
man, and wnn that'll do the clean thing"
"Much obliged 10 YOU" SEES |, "for your
good opinion; but haint got no ten dollars,
nor ten shilins, and you'd better leave it with
some quaintance, who is goin' to stay in the
CITY,"
He 'peared to be perfectly satisfied wen sed
that, and he sed he guessed was right, and he
thort he should do so; and he put the mummy in
his pocket, and started off
"Well, " thinks to myself, these New York
ers arn't SO mighty cute, arter ALI one Teller Of
iers to bet me five dollars | haint got no eye
sight, and anuther offers to sell me a smashn'
big pocket book full of mummy, fur ten dollars!
What fortin' old 'Sah Dobbns, or any body
else, wot's got stretchy conshuns, would make
in this ere town in little while!
While | was walkin' along, Tuminat-
in in this ere way, and thinkin' wot way
should go, there come up very Spectacle
lookin' young man TO me, with a black suit
and white handkerchief on, and ses to
me
"My friend, kin you tell me ware the Park
is?"
| mo, sir, ;" ses ], al cant, for Pm a stranger
| here myself and | was Jest gon' to ask some
! body ware a Teller could see the most of Fourth
Of July"
"That's Jest my case,' ses he; 'iand l've bin
told that the Park is the best place, and eff you
have no objections, Wen go together"
! told him ! was much obliged to him, and
on we went, and he begun to talk about wot
la horrible place he had hearn tell the city
was, and how careful the people must be, and
I sed he guessed they wouldn't make much outer
him, and wound up by askIn' me eff I'd take
drink2
oval" ses /, ''it's gettin' to be pooty warm,
and haint drunk but Wunst this mornin', and
! lguess wil3'
so we went into a tavern, and the landlord
mixed us up orlul nice dIink-lull of mint
and other fxins, which didn't go bad, tell
you; specially, as | kalkilated | was gittin' it
fur nuthin', and was bout dry as anytMn'. AZ
ter we'd drink'd, the stranger wanted should
smoke; tell'd him | didn't care ef | did, SO we
took cigar a piece and lit 'em; and then he
begun TO feel for his mummy. He funbIed
round, tust inter Wun pocket and then inter
anuther, and then he begun to look skoered,
and said his mummy was gone, and he must
lost it; and then he wanted me to pay for the
drinks and cigars, and sed he'd make il good,
fur he had gold watch in his pocket, wot he
could sell, and then he'd pay me. felt 'mazin'
sorry fur the poor Teller, and thort l couldn't do
less IAN agree to such farce bargain, so paid
and out we started.
The stranger wns almost cryn bout losin'
, his mummy, and he took me into q kind of n
outer-away place, ware there wasn't many folks
a passin', and he show'd me his watch, and it
was a beauty, | tell you now-I never seed a
potter gold watch AN it was.
|, "Ths watch" ses he, "cost me eighty dol
lars, and it's good thing I've got it with me,
or else | couldn't get mummy to take me hum
, agin; and, "ses he, ''you look like very hon
est man, and ef you'll let me have twenty dol
lars, you can take the watch, and give me your
| dress ware you live, and wen git hum, I'll
redeem it agin; for don't want to sell it out
and out, cos my father gin Inc the mummy to
buy it, and it's "A sorter present like"
"Ef had the MUMMY" ses |, "l'd gin it to
you in mint, (and so | would but haint
t got even as much as dollar; for the old man
would mt let me take much, COS he sed I'd have
it robbed away from me, some how"
The poor feller lCok d very much dsappoint.
3 ed wen told him that, and sad he was 'ieer'd
3 he should have to sell the watch, and told me
!, eff I'D wait for him, he'd 60 and try, and be
$ back agin in five minits. | agreed, and off he
went; and | waited five minits, and len minits
and twenty mnits, but he didn't cum back, anC
, began think he'd furgot all about the egh
teen pence I'D paid fur him, and | wanted il
S poorly bad, too, fur only had five shilns' left,
7 While was thinkn' welher it was best t
wait any longer, long Gums band of sogers
4 and hull crowd folerin' em; so ses i to my
! SELF "here goes!' and mixed in with the Test
, asked niger wot was walkinf along jus
ahead of me, ware bouts the sogers was gon'
: and he told me to the Park. That was jes
wot wanted, SO logged long quite content
a ed, though it was pooty desp'rate walkn' owe
8 the hard pawn stones.
Wal, at last l got inter the Park, and wal
4 glad to git out oftagin, for SIGH anuther smoke
a and dust, and noise, and smell, and crowd,
u never dreamt of; and got hole burnt init
r my trowsers, by bunch of fire cIa ckets wot
Teller set off under my feet, aud like to had my
7 ear blow off by chaser.
. got out at last, though, away down at the
lower eend; and right on the other side of the
= way was monstrous big buiidln', with all sorts
7 of birds, and beasts, and vaimints, painted OF
it, and clmin' 10 look little closer at It, seec
| it was the American Museum. I'd orlen hearr
the old man speak about it to hum, and mem
bered he said once, thare was b g elephant ir
it, and lhoIt eff it was there yet, I'D go in anc
see ii jest to spite that internal Niger cook, Coz
! | thort from wot ho Sod that he had idea
wouldn't know ware to go to find 1t; so to make
n sure, SEES to man wot was standn' there
and lookin' at me pooty hard every once in 4
d while
: "Mister," SEES |, lis thera elefant in that ere
: mu cum yel2"
t "Yes," scs he, very pcrlteIy, "thcre is one
/ bat it's nothin' but stuffed wun, and i'll cos
! you sutthin to see it; ef you don't mind walk
IN little ways up the street, I'll take you tt
r place ware you'll see the elsiant for nuthinn'
, "Wal, ses |, that's very kind in you'll