Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-18

FAMILIARITY sAssArrp BIZ nIMsEIs,
After sems Light skiimishing, h. con.


After ,cms Light SHRINKING, h. con-
e.uls, By ! desperate Engagement.
I suppose most folks Who honor Mace
Slopr By reading his Iitersry efforts have
heard the story Of the fellow who vent
duckshooting. nnd who, after getting
Grrt-rate set, kept mining sud aiming. and
never firing. why il thunder do,, Z you
FIRE :" says friend. .Why." says he,
II got three or four Er.trrafe sights already
that's fact but the mint lin going
I, fire there's always another duck comes
SWIMMING right III he voy..
Well, the stpry's an old one, but we can
make new application Of an aid stsy. as
the sri,o ! nrrlu said wien she spanked
tie little boy with '.Robipson Crusoe. -
And the application I'm going TO make is
this. There's certain duck that Mace
Sloper's been intending to have shot at
for some time. I've been willing. eager
and anxious To approach the fair subject.
Only the day before yesterday there
caue letter 10 which / was politely re-
quessed 10 say something more about her.
In fact, twas informed, on the best author
iiy, that considerable many readers Of
,hsse sketches considered il high time that
should learn that the subject in qucs-
ton was an object of-admiration to others
beside Mace Sloper, ard that il was high
tine for me to fire away. Need say that
the subject ia question was Amelia Twig-
giles
OF course needn't; but the fact is,
that when | sit down TO dilate ON that sub.
ject. some other notion is mighty apt To
strike in lnd put me out--and Imust al
low that Pm rather glad to let myself be
led astray and carried of on to another road
There are two stages Of being il love. In
tac first man never talks Of anything
else but the lady. He eats her, drinks
her, dreams her, makes scripture Of her
eyes, and feels call to preach them To
every soul he meets, as if nobody before
had ever been converted to good opinion
of her beauty. This is the newspaper and
kindling-wood Stage, when everythingi is a.
blazing and cracking. blower up and
sparks flying like winkey-he hinsel'
sparkling it all the time as much as he
knows how, while signs 90 a-roaring up the
chimney. a good deal OF the fuel expended
turning to smoke and gas, while the solid
balance appears at last in a complete love.
suit. Then, when the fire begins to regu.
LILY burn, d the Goals settle down, the
noise stops. The attention of the world is
no longer requested the fire does its own
warming; in plain words, the man who is
aw ully in love and fairly settled into quiet
devotion, and the transformations charity
of drives, bouquets, small fllipeener Jew
elry. and otheraninal, vegetable, and min
eral tributes of affection.
The duck viii III just now swum in and
discombobberated my ailn, was rejection
on how much easier it is for some folks to
see into things than others, and in how
much shorter tine than othors some folks
ctn make out how a lovc.suit is a-going to
turn out. Thinking about ladics made
me reflect on fancy wares in general, and
this again turned my undivided attention
to the fact, that waile some men O. the
cute sort can TIL 1T glance what their
SUI n-total nivral and common sense value
is, and whether they can hope to marry
'en or not, other fellows can find out, in
month Of Sundays, either one or the
other. Iniike manner there are men who
can appruise the value OF goods almost at
glance, and take count of stock, and set
down the prices in their head, sooner than
thc very salesman whose business it is to
know all that sort of thing. And reflect
ing IN this, puts me in mind of n story of
an old chap in Boston, that |, and Sam
Bachelor, and Hiram, were talking about
only yesterday afternoon.
Viewer smoking segar in the Young
New England Club Room, where Sam had
dtopped in to find DR.. Frank Fisher. with
whom we were very soon on talk, bring
ing up all sorts OF old times in the Bay
State.
"sid it ever strike you p says Hiram,
as we went in, othat there used to be Il
queer sort of jolly old fellows of a very
doll sort some twenty years ago-well, say
in Salem, Boston. New Bedford, Provi-
dence. and so on -
"Where the Penobscot Indian was
born?" says Sam; 'sall along shore"
"Where the speckled hens were" says
DR.. Fisher; "about in spots.
"Whcre the weddings were" says /,
"among the marry-time arrangements.
"Stop there" says Hiram. "Aace, no.
b,dy'll do worse than that. Well, as l
was saying, there used to be queer old
set of boys around in those days. Always
running saws on somebody, always biting
somebody deep on trade. all for the fun
oft, never laughing, and always doing
everything in the fear of the Lord, even
t. selling northeast rum, and holding up
the onion market by the tail. Yes, SIR.
Did any of you sver know old Squire Par
don Greene Cheeseberry?"
esquire Cheesebery" cried Sam
"Ra'trr. Why, after Iwcnt back to Bos-
ton from the West, was two years in his
store. That was while he was in the comb,
jewelry, aud fancy notion business.
rich now. amt he Y
.Sone. Ab,uteight hundred thousand
two hundred and fifty dollars, TWEEN
ty.three-and-a-h cents
.'Well," says Hiram, Il always took
y,u to be pions youth. and if you were
two years under old Squire Cheese, it's
easy to see how you came BY it. The
Squire was one Of EN-; loved money as
he did fun. and loved both better than any
thing bid you ever hear how he squared
accounts with Solomon Rosenberg Rose
bus they used to call him. of Savannah !.
q. course you have. but may be Hiram and
the Doctor haven't
eWell, III tell it" ssys Sam, s'For |
vas in the store aud helped at the time.
Solomon Rosenberg was shrewd chamc-
ter. but mighty odd and eccentric in his
w.ys, and full of9ueer WITNESSES: One OF
his fsncies was catfish fred in oil; anoth-
Ell was to wear Greek gold money for coat
buttons. And another WIS to always buy
goods BY the shelf. and a very profitable
fancy it was. i.ither Rosenberg was nat
uraliy one OF TIE sharpest men in exist
ence, or else long practice had made him
one, for il IS fact he gould run his eye
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