The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-03-17
From the N. Y. Spirit Of the Times.
. L e NG n e r Slid e
And Effects of the Same.
A TRAVELLING skErcH-BY THE LITTLE 'uH.

sharp set, as our previous meal hadn't bee
much to brag Of as to quality, ,.t
was suddenly aroused out of the usus
stsge-eoach doze, by hearing voice hailin
Ithe ayiyer, and the stopping Of the stage I
take I'D two passengers. The elder, who's
name i lattsrwa.. IDS learned was Bradford, wa
a large SQUIRE nan, 'sftl good
lquief sort of expression. The younger.
man Of twenty five or thirty, was tall, SLIM ,r
and rather delicate looking, WIN a Joliy
devil-may-care style, and peculiar snort
ljerked-out sort of speech, which REM 1tte'
one Of the celebrated Alfred Jingle, Esq
of Pickwickian ntoriety. This latter person
(who was called by his friend, Mac,) was the
one who had stopped the stage, and whose
peculiar faconde parLer caused us some
merriment. The first was addressed to the
driver as follows:
Hold up, driver-room for two-just in
time-in with you! Let her 8lider-whict
latter clause, (alluding to the graceful, gil
ding, motion, he affixed to all his remarks
without regard to their bearing on the subject.
Both of these individuals were, | thought
slightly elevated
Isay, Brad, old fellow, hand her out--lst
her slider
Who the female alluded to was had lit
tie time to conjecture, for Brad thrust his
hand into an inside pocket AMI drew out a
pocket pistol Of immense size, and clap
ping the muzle to his own muzzle, he redu-
ced the load considerably, and passed it to
Mac who followed suit, and presented the
weapon 10 me, with an invitation to take a
pull-cool you down--hot day-capital
stuff, very-lct her slider declined, how
ever, when he returned the pocket compan-
panion' to his friend, remarking--
Dinner at old 'ooman's-lots O dogs-ba-
con and indigo-hominy and whisky. Lei
her slide!
At the mention of the fluid, the elder drew
out the 'pocke: companion again, and came
to a present arms, with the muzle applied
to the fissure othis countenance, Mac, (who
meanwhile, was becoming very communica-
tive,) remarking- -.-
High old gal-six foot eight-two fifty
fourteen barrel Let her slider
To which description, the stout man said
'WhoY
Granddaughter - Dye-house = niggers
and homespun-been there before. Lei he,
slider .
Mac received the pocket companion,
which he did justice TO, and handed it round
with an assurance that it was prime stuff
take snifter-appetite for dinner-lct her
slider
In few moments more we drove up 10 the
Hotel; Mac, and the large pattern Of small
nail Brad, } amusing themselves with 'pis-
tol,' with scarcely enough remaining to prime
with, though they were pretty well loaded
AS we drove up to the door, some score, al
least, of miserable-looking, half-starved dogs
came yelping out to meet us, snufing and
smelling about our heels as we ulighted
as if it would afford them considerable graft
fcation to sample our underpining. Mac
} here broke out, (as he histcd one Of the crowt
about rod y
Large assortment-constantly on hand
dozen, or great gross--liberal to dealers
prime sas'ges! Lot her slider
Our landlady was as Mac had described,
large, powerful woman, who kept dye
house and halfway house, and some half,
dozen niggers. Several pieces Of cloth wer
hanging on the fences about, noticed, as !
with the others, passing into the dining room
hastily scanned the table to see if any 'sas'
ges were there, for Macs hint seemed not al
| improbable idea. That pie made O kittens
may be a delicate and palatable dish, 'sas'ges
out of tough dogs we could not exactl
stand
But no such dish appeared; at the head o
! the table was large deep dish, containin,
about gallon Of sop or liquid grease. OF
the top of which few dried-up pieces of ba
can were floating; next, large dish 0
hominy; in the middle, a decidedly blush
looking loaf of corn bread was placed, which
derived its azure tints from the blue dye uset
in the establishment, as the darkey cook hat
evidently taken her hands from one of tb
dye-tubs (of which there were several in, TIN
room,) to the meal bag, without washing
at the extreme end there was pair Of mis-
erably mean-looking No, mackerel, done t,
a crisp. We were completely disgusted witt
this display of dinner for eight, and we re
treated to the pis7za, where Bradford AMI
\ Mac were holding a-hurried consultation, il
9 "a low tone. They returned TO the room, anC
Brad, addressing the landlady, said
EOld CONAN what's the p-pr-price of din
/ nefg lrltlr.,. ....s .',.5
a nifty cents was the reply.
THAT'S four dollars said Brad. Nov
whatM you / Ia take for the entire s-spread
fxins aud allp
Seven dollars was the reply. t3"
Brad immediately handed out very sus
picious looking $40 ona Mississippi bank
and receiver an equally dubious looking S
in return, when he and Mac suddenly graspe
the foufcofn Of the table-cloth, and hoist
ing it clear off the table, Macsung OUT
: sNow, then, here she goes---stand from un
tler--one, two. three Let her slide Pad lil
.Iet her slide they did, too, dishes, cloth
blue bread and all, out of the window J Th
smash was signal for q regular stampede Q
dogs, who were soon wallowing the eeatablet
and snefing and fighting emong themselves
which was pretty music, together with tn
var yars! Of the niggers, aud our roars
Mac, as the enraged landlady fastened on him
and before we could prevent it, soused hi
head several times into adye tub close BY
l filed with q blue liquid i,
We all made tracks for the stage, Bradior
n handing the driver the remaining S3, tellin
il him 70 start the wagon. Il.
u Mac had escaped from the grasp Of the 81
Q oman, and as we drove of, minus our dli
I ners, Mac Nnswiping his face with his hant
kerchief and exclaiming
Dye Is. cast dyed on the 18th Inst -s'lS
den and unexpected blue deeply and dnfI
Z iy,S-dyed N NJ WOOL fast eolQrs ye.Stan