The Shasta courier., 1854-12-30
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HIS MEETING WITH BULL DoCaE AND pAnsnoor

Soon after.my entrance a>young man. astired
in dress coat, q huge standing collar and . hish
hat introduced himself as "a. Dam pheol. ESQ"
gentlemen of leisure, aud a man about town.
Having never before had any experience IL =
class OF individuals who compose, am told. =
large proportion of the masculine population ef
the city. l eagerly embraced the opportunity sf
making his acquaintance. He also presented. his
friend, Mr.. Bull Dogge," and we three then
proceeded to view the curiosities; .we CON-
menced with the double-barreled nigger baby,
(Which Bull Dogge says is an .illegitimate devil)
went on to the Rhinoceros, who is slways
provided with horn, .Barnnm's temperance
talk to the contrary nevertaeless)-the Happy
Famiy-lhe twolegged calf (BlD. says il Is NOT
the only one in the city ia red darky-a green
Yankee-a white Irisiman { Dam phool says the
latter is an impossibility, aud could only have
originated with Barnum) )-wax.6gure Of tall
man in blue coat, with star onhis breast
(Damphool saws it is a policeman who was found
when he was wanted but Bull Doggc says
there was neverany such person, and the,s*hols
story is a Gay fable y found by the programme
that it is supposed to represent Louis Napoleon;
never knew before that he had one eye black,
and one blue, (Bull Dogge asserts that than
custom is to have one eye both black and blues)
model Of the railroad man who swindled
the community (now living on his money, anal
president of the Foreign Mission Society for the
suppression of pilfering on the Foo Foo Islands,)
wax figure of the abandoned, dissoluie, and to-
tally depraved woman who flched half losf
of bread to give her hungry children. and who
very properly sent to Blackwels Island for
It-aso OF the City Contractor who did clean the
streets--( Damphool states that he is residing at
Uuca.) Saw great multitude of monkeys,
streaked face, white face, black face, bald face
(Bull Dogge prefers The latter) with great as
sortment Of tails, different in length, and vary
ing to color long tails short tails stump tails
ring tails wiry tails, curly tails tails interesting
and insinuating, tails indignant and uncompro-
missing, big tails, little tails bob tails, dam.
phool suggests Robert narratives,) and no tails;
.(Bull Dogge says that some effeminate descen-
dants OF this latter class now promenade Broad
way, and he swears that they have greatly de-
generated in intelligence;) j pictures, paddles,
pumpkins, carriages, corals, lava, boats, breech-
es, boa constructors, Shells oars, snakes, toads.
butterflies, lizards bears, reprobates, bugs bells,
BATS birds, petriiactions, model railroads, model
churns, model artists, model babies cockneys,
cockades, cockroaches, cocktails, scalps toma.
hawks, Noah's ark, Paganinis fiddle, old
Crimes coat, autocrats, autobiographies, auto
graphs Otto Goldsmith, who ought-to-be whip
ped, Chickens cheeses, Shanghais, mud-turtlss,
moose, hay-scales, scale armor, curiosities Of
Sched-m, Amsterdam, Beaverd-m, Chow
Sing, Lang, Sing Sing, cob webs, cart wheels,
mummies, maeactors, pumps, porcupines, and
pill machines all mingled, mixed and conglom-
Grated, like Connecticut Chowder, or the Jew
soup of the witches in Macbeth.
Up stairs at last, and into an adolescent thea.
tire, christened lecture room, (Damphool says
it is known as the Deacon's theatre, and thai
all his pious namesakes attend.) Saw the play.
laughed, cried, sneered snorted, and felt good
all over. Much pleased with a bit Of fun origi-
mating in jealous fireman, and terminating in
free fight.
Fireman Nose saw Rose, his sweetheart, with
Joe, the hackman; got jealous, pitched into him
-fun-thonght of Tom Hood, and went of at
halfcock. thus -
Enter Rose with Joe; sees Nose; Nose beaux
Rose; Rose knows those beaux foes Joe's bel
licose SOS Nose Nose blows Joe's nose Joe's
blows pose Nose; Rose Obs; Nose hoes Joe's
rows; Joe's blows chose Moses nose; Moso
shows Joe's nose blows; Joe's nose grows;
Joes nose grows rose; Nose knows Joe's nose
shows those blows; Joe goes; Nose crows
p. S. Joe being whipped, and moreover be-
ing the only innocent man in the whole fight
was arrested by the vigilant and effective po-
lice.
P. p S. Damphool says that Joe treated the
conservatives Of the public quiet, and is again
at large.
Let Nose beware. Yours
g. r. PHILASDER DoEsTIcKs, p. B..