Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-02-24
A YANKEE IN THE ADAMS HOUSE.

a tall bell rOwne White hat,
coat with enormous pewter buttons, a vest as
"%yallar" as a barberry blossom, and a pair OF
corduroys, whose highest ambition seemed to
be TO maintain their ascendency over a pair of
enormous cowhides, that had trodden many
hundred miles of logging paths, might have
been seen, jacknife and shipgle in hand, wend-
ing his way up Long wharf, in the realization
OF his life long anticipations of ''seeing Bos-
ton," At the corner of Merchants Row his
progress was arrested by the numbering transit
of a two story house on wheels, drawn by half
a dozen yoke of oxen, with the people inside
pursuing their usual avocations.
"What on airth is that ere?'' he asked of a
bystander.
"oh, nothing replied the "towpey."-'ttbe
fol ks are only ~moving-that's all. When we
move down here, we do it house and all
Jerusalem Wall! that beats all natuf.
Wall, cap'n, what's that ere big stun house ov-
er the left?"
"That's the new Custom House, It's a nigh
ty bad location, but they're going to move it
next week"
"Thunder and molasses! It'll take all the
oxen in creation to start her -
sob, they use elephants for moving such
large buildings"
@And how many elephants it'll take?"
"Upwards Of "a hundred"
The Yankee cut a deep cash in his shipgle,
and walked on.
He next inquired for the Adams house, for he
had 'fhearn tell" Of that, and was determined to
progress during his juyenility, aware of the i'm
possibility of doing so at a more advanced age.
He soon found the tavern and the ''dea-
con-" and ordered aceofpodations literally,
charming expense" Having "slicked up a lit
tie, he witnessed with some amazement the
Oparatiooc Ofa caryant on tho n sim nj " O
marking, that she knowed what sheet light,
ming was, but this was the fust time he'd ever
heard sheet thunder" He followed the crowd
into the dining-hall and was ushered to a seat
where he e%nsconced himself, tucking his towel
under his chin with a sort of desperation as if
he was going to be shaved or scalped.
The sightof the covered dishes added to his
amazemept. "lDoddarn it p he EXCLAIMED, EFF
/ ever heerd of cookin on the table! but here
they've gone and sot tin kitchens all over the
lot. Whar'sthe fire to cum from-that's what
TX like 10 known
He got along with the soup very well, and
was pausing for breath, before he finished it,
when a waiter snatched his plate away and was
running off with it.
"Hello you sir! vociferated the Yankee, 81
see you-fetch that 'ere back quicker'f light
ming, or else you'll hev your head punched"
His plate was returned and he finished his
soup with dignity. After waiting a moment he
raisedhis voice again, and summoned the of
Tending waiter sternly.
"kaikelate to starve me?"
"No sir"
tWall-why don't you fetch on some fresh
fodder.drrn YEP
''There's the carte, sir?'
"Whar's the cart? And what in thunder
l to do with the cart when I've gotit? Look
out, you pesky sarpent, or you'll catch it
"The bill of fare. | dom pay my bill till
I've had my fodder"
The waiter humbly explained his meaning.
"What's all these crack Jaw names mean?''
'Give me something plain and hearty-biled
corned beef-and done in about the quickest
while look over the. paper and see what I'll
hey" The meat was brought him.
"Hold on !" was the next order. ssWhatis
this here? M-a-c-c-e-read it, won't you sir?'
"Maccaroni, sir"
"All right, cap'n. Hurry il up."
''The dish was brought. s'You etarnal cuss p
roared the down easter-.'efI haint as great a
mind as ever he'd to ker-wollop yer, and make
an example OF ye on the spot. What do you
mean by running your rigs on me jest because
Pm a stranger in these parts? Take away your
bild-pipe-stems, and fetch us on some cabbage.
That's right. And now squire, some vinegar"
lllCSdlS III tlG CdStOI, S1I, I6Dlltu lUc
waiter, and made good his retreat.
"In the castor, is it-hey?" soliloquised the
Yankee, "and where in thunder is the %castor?''
The gentlemen opposite pushed it towards
him. He looked at it-took the stopper out
of the vinegar, and turned it up. But all the
cruets manifested a desire to illustrate the laws
of gravity and leap from their locations, and
the Yankee was compelled 10 set it down
again.
Jerusalem = he exclaimed. 'sThis here is
a curious continuance and no mistake. How
on airth am | to get at the tarnal vinegar? I'll
try it once more"
Again he canted the castor, but this time all
the ~stopples tumbled out.
s'Thunderation!7 he roared. theresa pretty
mess. Darn itall!-here I've got the darned
castor all into my gravy, and the darned red led
on my cabbage, and the yallar on my tater.-
Darn the thing! Isay!"
"My friend" said the gentleman opposite
with a strong control over his risible muscles,
sit appears to me i'll were in want of vinegar,
that I.should take the vinegar cruet out of the
stand, and by that means | should avoid all
trouble"
Here the whole company, walters and all,
burst into a conclusive fit of laughter. The
Yankee rose in a rage, upsetting his chair, and
glazing defence on his neighbors.
HOW III the name OF all the tarnal cuSSeS IN
CREATION he yelled, "should | know anything
about the way the darn thing worked when !
never seed one of 'em afore? You've Matched
this up again mel knew it. Whar's the land
lord? Fetch your bill on-Ill get out of this.
| ha'nt eat ten cents worth, but I'll pay up like
a book-and cuss andquit. And if ever I set
out to eat a meal of whites in Boston town
again, you may take my head and tan it. Darn
your castor-and your castor leland you, to,
one and all!' And ffinging down.a dollar on
the table, he seized his white bell top from the
hand of a trembling waiter, and UamoSed.-
Down Washington and State streets, he streak
ed it like a comet, and never Stacked his pace
till he pulled up on board the Kennebec.
"Cap'n," said he TO the commandments
off your line just as quick as you're a mind to.
And if ever you catch me wanting TO see Bos-
ton town agin, jest you take me by the slack
and throw me right into that ere biler, boots
and abby gravyFI Yanhee Blade.
A man by the name Of Austen ran away the
other day from Chester, Mass, with the wife
of another man and her two children, and was
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