The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-10-30

Common people, Biily-low, onery,
common people, can't make it out when
nstur's raised gentleman in the iamily---a
gentleman all complete, only the moneys
been forgot. II man won't work all the
lime-aay in and day out-ifhe smokes by
the fi.e or whistles ont Of the winder, the
very gals bump agin him and say 'tset out Of
the way loaf.
'.Bul, Billy, my son, never mind, and
keep not a letiin' on, continued Nollikins,
and beam Of hope irfsdiated his otherwise
.au,rnine countenance 'qhe worlds rail
road and the cars is comin'-all we'll have
to do is to Jump in chalked free. There
will be time-somsthins must happen
Rich widders are about yet, though they are
snapped up so fast. Rich widdeY, Billy,
are special providences.' as my old boss
used to soy when broke my nose in the
entry, sent here like rails to pick up deser-
vim chaps when they can't swim no longJ
When you've been down twy'st Billy, and
are list off agin, then comes the wilder a
ioaiin' along. Why splatterdocks is
nothin' to it, and wilder is the best Of all
fepueservers, when man is most case,
like you and me"
"Well I'm not pertiklar, not |, nor
never was. I'll take wilder, for my
part il she's got the mint drops, and never
ask no questions. I'm no! proud-never
was harrystocratic drinks with anybody,
and smokes all the cigars they gives me-
What's the use Of bein' stuck up, stifiy !!
It's my principle that other folks are nearly
as good as me, if they're not constables,
nor aldermen. can stand them sort"
"No. Billy" said Nollikins, with an en-
couraging smile, mo, Billy, SIGH indi-
widooals Us them don't know human ma
tur'-but, as was goin' to say, if there
happens to be a short crop Of widders, why
can't somebody leave us iortin' THAT
will do as well, if not better. Now look
here--what's easier than this I'm stand
in on the wharf.-the rich man tries TO 60
aboard Of the steamboat--the niggers push
him off the plank in | jumps ca-splash
The old gentleman isn't drownded but he
might have been drownded but for me, and
il he had bin, where's the use OF his
money then? So he gives me as much as
want now, and great deal more when he
defuncts riggler, accordin' to law and the
practice of civilized nations. You see
that's the way the thing works. I'm at the
wharf every day--can't afford. to lose a
chance, and begin to wish the old chap
would hurra about comm along. What
can keep him :?
'.If it nd come to the same thing in the
end, " remarked Billy Bunkers, 'I'd rather
the niggers would push the old mans little
boy into the water. if it's all the same TO
him. Them fat old fellers are so heavy
when tI7gdse skeered, and hang on So
why, might get drownded before had
time to 60 to bank with the check But
what's the use Of waltin Couldn't We
shove 'em in some warm afternoon. our
selves? Who'd know in the crowd?"
1--we thought Of that, Brnkes, when a
man was before me that looked like the
right sort. I've often said to myself, "My
friend, how would you Ike to be washed
for nothin' ?"-but Billy, there might be
mistakes--perhaps when you get him Cut he
couldn't pay. What then ?'''
eNhy, keep a-puttn' new ones in to soak
every day, ill you do fish up the right one. "
1T won't do, my friend,--theyd smoke
the ioke--all the nf-raif in town would be
pushin' old gentlemen into the river, and the
elderly folks would have to give up travel
lin by the steamboat We must wait, I'm
afeard, I'LL the real thing happens. The
right person will be sure TO come along.
81 hope so; and so it happens quick, |
don't much care whether it's the old man,
or his little boy, OF that rich wilder, that
gets duckin' I'm not proud.
.'Then you'll see me come the nonsense
over the old folks--who's oafer now and
my dog will bite their cat-.whos ginger
pop and Jam spruce beer, ut this present
writin,' Id like to knowi'
Thus, wrapped in present dreams, and
future anticipations-a king that is to be-
lives Nicholas Nollikins--the grand exem-
plar Of the corner loungers. There he
stations himself; for hope requires bound.
less prospect and clear lookout, that by
whatever route fortune chooses to approach,
she may have prompt reception. Nicho.
las and his tribe exist but for tomorrow,
and rely firmly upon that poetic justice
which should reward those who wait patient
" until the wheel Of fortune turns up @
prize. They feel, by the generous expan
sion of their souls, by their impotence o.
ignoble toll, by their aspirations after the
beautiful and nice, thai their present posi-
ton in society is the result Of accident and
inadvertency, and that, if they are not false
to the nature that is within them, the time
must come when the mistake will be recti
fed, they .'shall walk in silk attire and sill
Ter have to spare" which is not by any
means the case at present. All that can b.
expected Just now, is, that they should SPAR
other peoples "siller.'
Love OF THE SuBLIME.-A most re
markabie instance OF animal sagacity ha