Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-05-06
For the Spirit of the Age.
HOW WE WENT WEST,
Or
HE D R FA IL 7.
Being selections from the letters of Mr.. Alderman
Dry and his family, while in the West & South.
EDITED BY DAVID DRY, ESQ.,.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
LETTER VII.

From Mr.. ROBERT DRYE TO DR.. JOHN DIGGEs.
MEMPHIS.
MY DEAE D1GGEs: I have your very wei
CONF letter open before me. You have nap
pened to hit the time exactly but tor the
next month, or so, you must direct your ie1-
tiers to Maplewood, Arkansas. The ottener
the better, for / expect to be bored to, death
AS to the "name," | think you are right"
It looks decidedly better when written
DIGGEs. I've a notion to make an improve
ment in nv own name. DRYE, take 1t looks
better than the old name. Lesty and the
old folks have adopted the change by accla-
nation. Consider the thing settled.
And now, my dear Doctor of Physlc, what
of all things in the world, do you think, Is
NV excellent Go v~ernor's last notion None
other than sup plying me with a tutor-a
travelling tutor; a man whom he has picked
up on the way, and to whom he fancles hlm'
self under some obligation or other. The
man seems pass ably bred, intelligent, and q
tolerable scholar. | can, at any rate, vouch
for his skill in g bluff" the use of pistols,
and the small sword. and has capacity ICE
drinking more "sperits' than any man l
ever saw. De,eidedly, he has a gift in these
several accomplishments, as | happen to
know.
"Haud in expertus loquor."
Il nave q n0dlI-dCu0, VI " NA0A @AoJ
horse power, at this very minute ; the result
Of his FIRST lessons to his promising pupil
The Governor cautions me against g apply
ing myself too closely;" and | shall dutlrully
obeY him. Indeed, it was in defiance Of
mothers remonstrapces that he employed
the tutor she being of the opinion that l al
ways : aoas of a delicate constitution y
wish you mad been with us, coming down
theOhio. We took a steamer OF light draught
as the water is low. We got under wa.
aboat sunset, and were soon out of sight 0
the Queen City. The banks OF La BeH
Ricie're. (ais the French called the Ohio ar
most beaut lful. Nothing grand, to be sure
nothing a pproaching the Hudson or tn
Rhine, bu { indescribably lovely; endfessl
diversified. We got aground several times
= and / hal ,dly know how we should have sul
vived the. passage, if we had not happene
to have, on board a vagrant minstrel, WI
occasion ALLY seated himself in the cablr
L and. aft er the passengers had each contribl
ted O Inething to a pile" Of silver, on Il
e deck, entertained us with q host of Ethiopes
airs. He accompanied himself on a guita
and his performance was really quite cred1
= able.
I have forgotten to tell you a little in'
dent that happened at cleveland, the NOR
ing we took the cars for Cincinnati. ~
as we were about starting, a rough'lookl
specimen of the West, came with his ".
I'd and white headed children and, havl
le seated them in the cars, went for tickets.
or "eAll aboard !" cried the Conductor, j
as the man was taking out an old eel-sl
purse and, seeing the cars in motion,
n beckoned to the Engineer, and shouted:
= "Isay, old boss! Thess Gustl hold
let a minute ~ But the Engineer didn't n
h. on :" and the last / saw Of the stranger,
was following the train, at about two
OF ty" speed. The occurrence has inspired
and l send you the result, in the tolloWln
he song-Hold on.
oh AIR" Her eyes are so bright and her J
oh steps so light"
A Yankee set out on a journey, one day
With Sally and Nancy and John
10y But, forgetting a bill he had promised 10
Ia The Sheriff just made him =" hold on !!
En- When the Sheriff was paid, for ticket he Y
The engine and tender hooked on
7a- "Au aboard!' was the cry; and the cars
To away, -,
ach Said Jonathan " Hello f! hold on !"
Los
Ell Alas for our hero they left him benin
so And bore away Nancy and John;
And Jonathan, not being able to fly,
Is Had nothing to do but hold on p
ally
hich This occurrence a lesson to jonathan
not Which, often, he pondered upon;
'oy's And I'll give it to you as he told it to 4
the Provided, you all will " hold onP"
the
1ere' When a dentist has seated you once
him' chair,
ghty Tho yesterdays soothaehe is gone;
ID When tho n;nchers are on. Won NAV
asant L.
L. It's no use to sing cut hold on y
Pom When. ON Broadway, for bonnets, or
seller, or shawls,
for a Your wife, or your daughter, has 60
-oE The most sensible way is to settle the
It's no use to sing out " hold on !!
" Pic
high If your sweetheart should fancy ahand
part mar,
Porte no ; aoo'e you, ~ nst - -
of our 40 49,
J, than It's no use to sing out " hold on y
ngs he
Ife-like When a singer is singing q very long
y per- anu 49, 49, 80 ont. Int ID,
whom him aoainl
lstand- It's no use TO sing out " hold on"
a wide Yours always, ]
pie and NoTE,-The mantle of neither Hon
. This Shakespeare has very evidently, not
City of ded unon Mr.. Robert Drye but as f
pencil offences are perpetrated in the Drye
matter the Young man, it is hoped, viii be f
led and for the writing of that sort of poetry
nd get neither gods nor men are said to PER-
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