Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-03-05
M | S c L L L A n Y.
THE YOUNG ENGLISHMAN.

We copy the following story from new work,
"The Arabian Days Entertainments" Just issued, in
volume, price sl.25, by Messrs. Phillips Sampson
& Co, OF Boston. Neither the title nor the commence
ment of the story give any nmation of Tie pleasant
hunor which pervades the whole after the secret is
known, or of the excellent moral TO be drawn from it,
This is but one of many others which make up the
book and well deserve the name of Entertainmentl
NV Lord Sheik, in the southern part Of Ger
many lies the little city of Grunwiesel, where |
was born and bred. 1t is small, us all cities are
in that country. In the centre is little market
place with a fountain, an old guildhall on one
side, and round the market the houses of the
Justice of peace and the more influential mer-
chants; and couple of narrow streets hold all
the rest of the inhabitants. All know each 9TH
or every one knows what happens everywhere
else and if the priest, the burgomaster, or the
DOCTOR has an additional dish on his table, by
dinner time it is known to the entire city. In
the afternoonthe ladies go to each others houses,
paving visits as they call it, to talk, strong
coffee and sweet biscuits, about this great event;
and the general conclusion arrived at is that the
priest must have invested in lottery and won
money sinfully, or the burgomaster have taken
bribe, or the doctor have received money from
the apothecary on the condition Of writing ex
pensive prescriptions. You may imagine. my
lord sheik, how disagreeable circumstance it
must have been for so well-regulated place as
Grunwiesel, when man arrived there, Of whom
nobody knew whence he came, what he wanted,
or how he lived. The burgomaster, to be sure,
had seen his passport, "a paper which every one
is obliged to have among us
"Is it SO unsafe in your streets" interrupted
the sheik, "that you require to have iirman
from your sultan to inspire robbers with re-
spect"
No, my lord, d,-answered the slave these pa
pers are no protection against thieves, but are
made necessary by the law, which requires that
it must be known everywhere who is who. Now,
the burgomaster had examined the passport,
and had declared, at a coffee party at the doc
tors, that it was certainly correctly vised from
Berlin to Grunwesel but he feared there was
something behind for the man had very sus-
picious look about him. The burgomaster had
great authority in the city, SO it is no matter of
surprise that in consequence the stranger came
to be regarded as a very doubtful character
His mode of life did not tend to disabuse my
countrymen of this opinion. He hired house
for his exclusive use, put into it cart-load OF
strange looking furniture, such as furnaces sand
baths, crucibles and the like, and lived hence
forward entirely alone. Nay, he even did his
own cooking, and his house was entered by no
human being, except one old man of Grunwiesel,
whose duty it was to buy his bread meat, and
vegetables. Even this person was only admit
ted to the lower hoor where the stranger met
him to receive his purchases.
| was q boy of ten years of age when the
stranger took up his residence in this city; and
l can call to mind, as plainly as if it happened
but yesterday, the excitement the man OCCASION
ed in the place. He never came of an after
noon, like other people, to the bowling green
never of an evening to the tavern, to talk OF the
times over his pipe and tobacco. In vain die
the burgomaster, the justice, the doctor, the
priest, each in his turn, invite him to dinner oi
tea; he invariably begged to be excused. Ii
consequence of all this, some people regarded
him as desperate; some thought he must b'
Jew; and third party declared with grea
solemnity that he was magician or sorcerer
/ grew TO be eighteen, twenty years old, anC
still the man was always called in the city 9TH
Stranger"
1t happened, one day, that some people CAM
to the city with collection of strange animals
The troop which showed itself on this occasion
in Grunwiesel was distinguished by the posses
sion of a monstrous orang-outang, nearly a
large as man, which went on two legs, ant
knew all sorts of cunning sleights of hand. !
chanced that its performances took place in from
of the strangers house. When the drum ant
o fife sounded, he made his appearance, at frs
$ with visible vexation, behind the dark dust-be
grimmed window of his residence. Soon, how
, ever, he grew more amiable, and, opening hi
window, to everybody's astonishment, locke
out and laughed heartily at the orang- outang'
, gambols. Nay, he paid so large piece of s
a yer for the entertainment that the whole cit
talked Of it.