The Nevada journal., 1857-12-11


YANKEES AS DESCRIBED BY UNF OF
EN- i now propose to give a sketch of
his juvenile history, and description of
his personal appearance, at different Pc
RODS, from youth to manhohd.
eve first make his acquaintance in
the district school, He was four years
old in March and his mother, tired of
the trouble of watching him at home,
thinks he will do to go to school this
summer with sister Jane, upon whom is
imposed the task of seeing that he don't
get hurt. Accordingly he is fitted out
III new suit of clothes, consisting of a
coarse cotton shirt without collar or
wristbands; a garment of blue cotton
drilling, serving for vest and trowsers !;
the upper part being like the waist of a
gown, and the trowsers which are at
tached to this reaching just three inches
below the knees and the whole gar
ment buttoning up behind calico
apron and a palmleaf hat. These four
articles of apparel constitute the sum
total of his summer dress for the next
four years. In these habiliments, with
two-quart, covered tin pail, full of
johnny cake for his dinner, in one
hand, and a blue-covered, sheepskin-
backed Webster's spelling book in the
ether, he daily makes his appearance at
the school-house at about half-past nine,
and begins to question the teacher: M
L gwout M | leave my seat ?'-'M l
speak etc, until about half-past three,
when he tops off with, M be dismiss
ed when lie Is so liberated.
Between seven and eight, he drops
OFT the upper part of the blue-drilling
garment, above described, and suspends
his trousers by strings of the same ma
terial, which he calls 'galluses' When
he is about twelve, we see him at church
dressed in striped pantaloons, trihe
longer than those in which we first saw
him at school; calico vest, and white
spencer. His coarse shirt collar is now
starched stiff as tin, and tied with a
black ribbon; and his mammoth feet are
cow-hide shoes. without stockings. He
has a $50 come in possession Of huge
jack-knife which seems to constitute a
part of his very person, for he is never
seen without it, and he never allows it
to rest, cutting his long tinger-nails, and
prying apart his teeth when he can find
nothing to white.
cat sixteen he graduates from school,
having done most of the sums in the
'rlthmetic, and licked the MASTER At
twenty, we shall perhaps, meet him at
a circus in the very zenith of his glory
es, there he is the identical Jonathan,
mounted on an antiquated cart. dealing
out pins, needles, combs, brushes, sus.
penders, hose, thread, thimbles, buttons,
Jew 's-harps, and tin whistles. His dress
now consists of a pair of wine-colored
velvet pataloons, much worn, the warp
and lining of what was once satin
vest; and a linen coat, with hole in
each elbow. His linen is badly soiled,
and his cravat, the black silk handker-
chief his father gave him on leaving
home, is tied in sailors knot, and Or
namented with huge 'buzom-pin.' His
boots of calf-skin have run 'over,' and
are minus the original black of the leath-
er from which they were made. He is
Just SIX feet three inches in height, some
what round shouldered, and weighs one
hundred and twenty-five pounds. His
face is thin and freckled. He has a
Roman nose, large mouth, small grey
eyes, sunk deep in his forehead, and well
shaded by long, red lashes. His hair is
long, straight, thick, and-near his head
brown; but the extremity of his locks
fades to a straw COLOR
7. S. HE soon after left New Eng
land for the Great West where we I'M
derstand he has succeeded in acquiring
an immense fortune. He contemplates
visit to the home of his childhood,
the present season, and we hope then to
learn from himself the full history of his
western life"