American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-10-26
From the Spirit Of the Times. ]


SIMON sHARP's VISIT TO NEW YORK.
! I've bin TO New York once on a Fourth of
Ny, and drat my pictcr if ever You kctch me
that orchard on that day agin. Why, fell
wot has never bin there, can't begin to form
notion what one has to 60 through with
specially if he happens TO be what them Gus
y skunks calls ga lutte green"
! The old folks didn't want to let me go alone,
os they said it was onkimmon bad place for
young man TO be in, as wasn't very well
zuainted with the diggins. But | was ter
fned on it; so the night before the fourth, |
essed myself up pooty slick-put the dollar
e old man gave me in my pocket he
6ouldn't let me have any more, COS he sisted
1 it I'D lose it)-and orph started down to
! e sloop-got aboard-and struck the landin'
ear Cath'rine Market Slip bright and airly
E9xt mornin'.
4 Heavens and airth! what racket there was!
! ellis ringin', cannons FIRM, tquibs wiz
! ~ about, boys and men hollerin' and swa-
HIT 'peated to me as if old BelZebub had
ken possession of the place, and was goin'
pay high premium to them wet makes the
ost noise.
Sip, the niger man wot dun the cookn'
GARD the sloop, tel'd me I'd better take him
ong, for he know'd sutthin' bout the city,
! ad he'd show me around.
] "Git QUIT" says I, "you drafted niger: don't
ou s'pose Pm big enuf and KNOWN enuf to
Ike care Of myself"
Then the niger grinned: "Yah! yah! eff
4 Iassa Simon don't see the elephant fore he
its back agin, old Sip mistaken, that's ALP
nd the niger made such hole in his head,
gu might chucked good-sized Pumkin in
tbout techin' his teeth.
81 kalklate shiIl see the clefant!" says |,
you cussed nigger-hope | shl!l, anyhow''
nd away started, on my own hook.
Ithort I'D take a turn round the market iust,
| nd see wot was goin' on there, but | hadn't
brely got clear of tn warf, fore | seed cou-
lie of felers, dressed up mighty scfumpshus,
|,ne of 'em leanin' his back again spite, with
i is leg cock'd upon cane, and some little
| hings wot louk'd like acorns, on it, which he
,as movin' about over some snall-sz'd peas
,hich he called jokers; and the other one was
bettin' which acorn the joker was under, and
,innin' money like fun. | walks up to 'om
nd the man wot was playin' 'em ses to me-
es he
"I'll Jest take and bet you five dollars
,or can't tell me ware ! put tho little joker
his time!"
''You won't Jest take and bet me any such
hing" ses |, "fur haint got five dollors; and
ou're dern'd fool, any how, TO be THROWN
way your money in that ere manner-why
ny body kin see ware you put that thing eve
time, as plain as anything!"
al know it," ses he--"l orter Just git q
lunch in the head for losn' my money in this
way; but it's passhun for gamblin' I've got,
md can't help it; and eff you amt got much
nunny," ses he, "jest let's bet drink fur fun
for I'm darn dy-l amt nothin elss-you
peter b'lieve it-and I'd jest as leave pay for
he drinks as not"
didn't know wot made the Teller so pertikleI
bout my b'hevin' he was dry, but jest for the
?un Of the thing, ses /
"Well, III bet you drink for three on US. ,
So no moved the pea about, fust under wun
acorn and then under anuther, 'tll could a
swa1ed he lett it under the middle wun, and
;uessed the middle wun.
4 "Raise it," ses he.
81 did raise it, and III be goshdern'd ef
fda'i les.2 So went into corner store, and
paid the drinks; and as | was goin' away,
heard one on 'em say to the other
awe couldn't made any more out of him
there wasn't any Of the filthy about"
Wal, logged along up the street, and hae
rot considerable smart distance, wen, just a
ore got to the corner Of the street W ot cross
ID the wun was in, thort seed suttin' tha
ook'd like pockel boOk-and 'mazn' ia
Hun, too--a layn or the walk. So slept OF
At tol'rable smart pace, but just aiore Gun
o 1t, teller, who 'peared to have been aIteI
t, up the cross street, got to it just alore mo
and pick'd it up.
"My friend" ses he, ''hs this here you
pocke t-book?-l seed somebody drop it, as they
was crossin' this street, and goin' down, and
didn't know but wot you was the psIson, anC
vas walkin' back after t?'
This was right smart temptation to me,
ell you nov and was almost on tho point o
'telln' the fe Ter it was mine; but | got the up
Der hand Of Old Nick at last, and told thu
nan dn' know nHshin' about it. So he ses
ses he