The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-11-25


Could SEQ very well through hole IN fence
And was honest and plain, without shame or
pretence, FED,
Ofsharp, city learning he couldn't have boast.
but he wasn't the chap TO be easily roasted;
Though, like many "Bll," he wasn't well
"posled,"
And here le, me say,
In very dogmalic, oraculat way,
Aud III prove il, before | have done with
my iay,)
Not only that hores,y's likely 10 "pay,"
But that one must be, as q general rule,
At least half knave TO he wholly fool!
OF pocket.book dropping Bill never had heard,
(or at least II he had, he'd lorollen the word)
And now when, al leoglh, the occasion oc.
CURED,
For that sort of chaf he wasn't the bird
The gentleman argued with eloquent force,
Aud begged him 10 pocket the money, Of
course,
But Brown, without thinking at all what he
said,
Popped out the fret thing that entered his
head,
(Which chancsd TO be wondrously flung and
ttue,l
'No-no--my dear sir-Ill be burnt il do Z
Two lively young fellows of elegant mein,
Amused him awhile with pretty machlne-
An ivory ball, which he never had seen.
But though the uCsusrecnng stranger
In the ''palent safe" saw no patent danger.
He easily lodged The nelarious net,
Because "he wasn't accustomed TO bet"
Ah!-here, wot,
Is exactly the spot
To make small fortune as easy as not
That man with the watch what lungs he has
got!
lt's Goiug"-he best of that elegan: lot
To close a concern, at desperate rate
Tho leweller ruined rs certain as fate -
A capital walch'-you may see by the weight,
Worth one hundred dollars as easy as eight
Or half OF that sum to melt down into plate
(BGown doesn', know "peter" from Peter the
Greal)
But then can't dwell,
I'm ordered 10 sell,
And mustn't stand weeplns-jdst look at The
she'll
warrant the ticker 10 operate we'll
Nine doliars.-it's hard 10 be letting the thing
For only nine dolars!-ii's cruel, by lingo!
Ten dosrs!-lm ofered-lhe man who Sc.
cures
This splendid-ten dollars!-say twelve, and
i's yoursi
'Dont want il'-quo,h Brown-I don't wish
TO buy;
Fifty dollars, Pm sure one conldn', call high
But to see the man ruined--Dear Sir de-
clare
Belweentwo or three bidders, il doesn't seem
fair;
To knock i, off now were surely sin;
Just wait my dear Sir, till the people come
in
Allow me 10 say, you disgrace your profes.
zion
As Sherf-consid'ring the deb,or's condi.
To cell such watch wllhou, more competi-
lionH
And here Mr.. Brown
Gave very black irown,
Stepped leisursly out, and walked further up
town.
To see him stray along Broadway
IN The afternoon Of summers day,
And note what he chancrd TO see and say,
And what peop'e he meets
10 The narrower streets,
Were pregnant theme for longer lay.
How he n,arveled al those geological chaps
Who go poRing about in crannies and gaps,
Those curious people in tattered breeches,
The rag g.weanng, rag-pickinS sons of-diches
Who find in the very nasliest inches
A decent living aud sometimes riches;
How he thought city prices exceedingly queer,
The buses too cheap, and the hacks too dear;
How he stuck in the mud, aud got lost in The
question:
A problem loo hard for his mental digestion,
Why, in cleaning the city, the cily employs
Sucn very email corps of such very small
boys,
How he Judges by dress, and, accordingly
makes,
By mixing up classes, the drolIest mistakes.
As il simple vanity ever were vicious,
Or women of merit could be merelrlcious,
He imagines Tue dashing Fifln Avenue DANES
The same as The girls with unspeakable
Iames!-
An exceedingly natural blunjer in sooth,
But, Pm happy to say, very lar from The
truth; r.. ,.. ...... eel.
Fer een at the worst, whae'er you suppose,
The one sort oil ladies' can choose their beaux,
While a, 10 The olher-bul every one knows
Wha,--h ;twere a secre,-l wouldn't dis
close.
And Mr.. Brown .....
Returned from lown,
With bran new hal, and a muslin gown,
AS he told the tale, when the sun was down,
How he spent his eagles, and saved his crown;
How he showed his pluck in resisting the
claim
or an impudent fellow who asked his name,
But paid, as gentleman ever is willing,
AT the old PaIk Gaze the regular shilling
w Pleasure unattained, is the hare which
we hold in chase, cheered on by the order
of competition, the exhilarating cry of the
dogs, and shouts of the hunters, the echo OF
the ambition of being in at tie death. Plea
sure attained, is the same hare hanging.up
in the sportsman's larder, worthless, disre-
garded, dispised, dead.
Fred DOUGLASS publishes a. card in the
Watertown IN. VI journal, express ing great
Indignation, because The proprietor of Ger :
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