The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-11-30
THE CHEATERS CHEATED

Our readers will remember the petty piece of
villainy practiced upon the honest people of Mid
dlebury by two precious juveniles, who by pre-
tending to be mutes went so well in teaching the
divine art of Penmanship to very select few of
the young ladies of our village. From the follow
ing account it seems that they are diddling the
people in other parts of the country out of their
surplus cash in their modern style. They discov-
er the skill of veterans in adapting their new in
vented trickery to every combintion of affairs in
which they happen to be situated The Kingston
black legs themselves have been fast fooled by
their superior proficiency in the art of cheating
They found the flea had crept into their own ears
while the Deaf and Dumb rogues were so unex-
pectedly engaged in bagging their ready rino.
DEAF AND DUNE RoGuEs.-We clip the
following paragraph from the Exeter (N.H.)
News Letter.
Two Writing Masters from the South, re-
Gently made their appearance in this village,
and solicited subscription Tor a Writing
School. They protested TO be mutes or deaf
and dumb men, and mDch sympathy was felt
for their unfortunate situation, and large
School was obtained-they kept school for a
few nights in the Town Hall, and gave appa-
rent satisfaction. Among the scholars were
several young ladies, kind souls, one Of
whom whispered sporuvely TO another. Poor
enforiunates, they are pretty, should like
10 kiss one of them.' When one of the
nutes, who could remain silent no longer
exclaimed, You may,my deary, if you please
The next evening the mute masters were
missing at school. and we suppose are rejoi-
cling in the great cure effected, or regretting
that they missed of filling their shriveIed
wallets. by this new Yankee trick. We IN
derstand they played the same trick at Law
renee, Mass
That pretty miss, with such pretty
proposition on her pretty lips, should cause
The pretty 'deaf and dumb man 10 forget
himself and speak, is nothing strange 10 our
mind. Why. the celebrated Ezra Doolitlle,
Esquire, says that pretty gall is enough
to make Teller forsake father and mother,
twist himself right up into doube>breasted
molasses dough-nut, and hev wants on his
disposition as big as pertater balls p Think
of that
But, joking aside, we are convinced that
the above named deal and dumb persons
are 'old heads and up 10 all manner Of tricks
10 gain a dishonest living-'takin in the
honest, as well as those whose strict regard
far propriety may well be questioned, as the
following will show:
gentleman from Kingston, New Hamp-
shire, informs US that these mute gentle
men paid that town short visit few days
since, and came il handsome over couple
OF Kingston men who were given TO gam
bling The 'mutes,' through the instrument
tality OF states and pencils, invited the Kings
tonians 10 a game Of cards, which invitation
was very cheerfully accepted. They COM
menced, and the Kingstonians, thinking 10
take advantage oftheir deaf opponents, lrhis-
pered across the board, telling each other Of
the state of their hands. Of course the
.mutes' took the advantage of this, Gust
what they anticipated, )and gave them'Zack.
After the Kingstonians had been relieved OF
cool hundred spot fifty dollars each, they
concluded to retire. The next morning The
.mutes' went on their way rejoicing !; and
after their exposure by the Newsletter. one
of the Kingstonians. being something OF
wag, and liking good joke. even though
told al his own expense, lei the above gam
bling trick out, 10 the great merriment oil his
friends.
Those chaps were the same who so sue
cessfu.ly gulledthe good people of Chester
field. some two or three weeks since. They
passed themselves off in that town for Lee
turers OIL mesmerism, and succeeded in ma
king many converts, and in relieving their
audience Of quite quantity oil small change
While stopping few hours in this town, they
related their adventures in Chesterfield
They said they were the sons OF a rich plan
ter in Georgia; and having 'spreed out some
two or three thousand dollars which their
father had given them, in Saratoga, they
had taken that method to raise the Wind
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