Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-01-14


Can any body inform us who Nath'l Niles u
# Vermont" isl If Mr.. Polk has given the d.
,lomatic button to Vermonter, we should ike Il
20 know the man who is to wear it. Again we
anxiously inquire, therefore: :" Who is Nath' a
Niles ?" $
Will the Bello,cs Falls Gazette be good .
enough to look into this mysterious matter
little
BY an odd chance, Tor the mutual felicity OF |
an exchange does not exist,) we came into pos
session, few days ago, of the December num-
Der of our American Blackwood, the KNIcKER-
BOOKER. That Editors Table" is a gem of
the serenest ray. We know nobody (and, as
they say in the West, we are some pumpkins
ourself in that way who tells capital story so
oapitaly, with such unaffected humor, as the
Editor of the Knickerbocker. His Editors
Table" is a mosaic of good things, not unlike,
in certain considerable respects, the =" Noctes
of Kit North. If the Knckerbocker would, or
could, form tableau after the manner of the
Noctes, out of Yankee materials but who
would supply " THE SHEPHERDS" place? Com
| mon Hogs would Mt answer for that! The
thing is impractcable.
But, speaking of the Knickerbocker, and more
especially of the December number, in running
our eye over the table of contents we found this
entry
GA NEW RAPE OF THE LOCK. By J. G. SAKE:
p 4o3."
| "SAxE? What SAKE ," remarked we to our
| 1,,, boc , Oh
open as scissors usually are when they smile !;
1t cannot be oar SAKE, can it, who commen-
ced New Law Dictionary for our paper,
and, in medias res, fetched up, by way of illus
traiion, at the definition of " Equty!" "Well,
it is MT any body else!" replied Scissors. Re-
stranng our natural feelings of resentment, we
turned over to "page 49," and found poem
of XLIII stanzas, taken bodily 1--WE are sorry to
be obliged to say } not, indeed, from Pope's
poem on the same subject but - from the
intellectual laboratory of GODFREY GRANT
, Esquire !"
| "'Ts true It's pity :; and pity It's, It's true"
f We know not how others may be affected by
this discovery, but to us it is "most tolerable
4 and not to be endured"
But, joking apart, we have rarely been bet
j. ter tickled" than by reading our jolcose friend
h verses. If there is any thing to object agains
r them it is their exubcrance of point and humor
II Certainly every one Of the 43 stanzas has jok
d in it that sticks out" like frog in snake
?. The story or plot is no great shakes; but tn
:. way it is told produces great shakes" beyon
:. peradventure. 1t appears that Captain Jone
# - but who is Captain Jones!
N Captain Jones was a master bold
~ OF a merchant ship, some dozen years old,
II And every name could have easily told, 49,
(And never coniound the hull and the hold'D
Throughout her inventory
le And he had sailed to foreign parts,
% And learn'd number OF foreign arts,
And play'd the deuce with foreign hearts,
n, AS the Captain told the story.
I'd How Captain Jones wont to shine
&c In the line of ships: tnot Ships of the LineD
Is How he'd brag OF The Water, over his wine, !.
a And of women over the water
And then, if you credit the Captains phrase,
HeHps more expert in such queer ways
AS doubling apes and putting in stays
Than any milliners daughter.
This was Captain Jones.
And Captain Jones had an elegant foot,
oil II was Just the thing for his patent boot,
MS And could so pret,ily shove IT,
II was genuine pleasure TO see 1t repeat,
W In the public walks, the Monian feat
an Ofbearlng the calf above it.
bo But the Captains prominent personal charm
Ae Was neither his foot, nor leg, nor arm,
OF Nor his very distingue air;
~ Nor was, although you're thinking upon T.
e The front OF his head but his head and front
n OF beautiful coal-black hair.
- And though You may deem the assertion rash,
There never was such another muStdche
90 A genilemans lip TO cover
n IT was such q broad and shady shed
III Over his teeth as they lay in their bed,
Die That in English or French, twas properly said
To be perfect Chef CURE.
~ Now it appears that this Captain Jones fell
y" love with Miss Susan Brown, who fell in 10
~ with the Captains hair; and they were me
ried and, on the evening of the marria@
Swarry,' the newly installed Mrs. CAPITA
Jones, in an unlucky moment, attempted to pc
ns sess herself of one of the Captains locks, and
m his wig came off! This is the denoueme'
IT. Nothing rery funny in the plot, but, as we sa
u.s. before the way it is developed is rich.
E, We are not going to quote much Of this Gu
MS ming affair. Let those who wish to read it
w. themselves the justice to subscribe for 4
On Knickerbocker commencing with the Decor
OF Der number, and they will get two good thin
Dol at the price and value of one. We should
IN it, but that our poverty won't let our will co
sent.
We cannot refrain, after all, from quoting o
verse that contains a capital hit at the We
TO voluminous Mr.. James," the Novelist 81
red Knight of Gwynne" alone serving to add poi
ids to the poets wit, by rendering it slightly exa
- gerated:-
"u And Susan Brown had a Of names,
NJ Like the very yoluminous MIR. James,
~ (IPho got at the Font his strongest claims
u- To be reckon'd a Man of Letfers;)
But thinking the task will hardly please
- Scholars who We taken the higher degrees,
W. To be set repeating their A, b, Cs,
VI choose to reject such letters as these,
Though merely Nominal letters.
for Besides this, speaking Of Miss Brown, it
said -
The patronymica name of the maid
Was so completely overlaid
With long pranomnal cover,
lis. That il each additional proper noun
Was laid, with additional emphasis down.
arm Miss Susan done uncommonly Brown
ing The moment her christ'ning was over!
the We think that will do. Let nobody say, he
after, that there are not sacks of good things
Nc. "old Knck."
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