The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-03-24

nor am | as crate profit as Governor
Seward or Deacon Beecher; but one
thing kno as well as any other man,
a that is the real swriforious gold when
1 see it. $50 much on that affiiction, "
as the obsarvient Samivel Weller
might heV sed, but he didn't
hey travelled enuf and visited Jew
elry Dizziness in marbel palazis with
alabaster chandeliers, but he'd no
ideer of the splendur or marvellous ele-
ganz of the Gold Gift Sail
1t was q halsiund day when we furst
entured the open portles of that be-
neVolent show, | sed we, for mi own
Betsy Jane hung to mi wing, and shell
tered by my coat collur from the rood
bredth of any bystanders, she spread
herself muchly, in her most languishin
stile, clingin proudly to her protectur.
We we're skumpanied by a towerist
and artist, Sir Croutcutter furrin gen
| tleman, who acted as mi treasurer
! this is COAX, for he is not in none
tury of the kaes, but he merely treas>
ures up the CRATE and little saylns. that
ockashunslly drop from mi lips, and he
reports them weakly to the Times
newspsper-not the little villin's
Times from M York, but the thun-
derin big one from Londun.
Sir Croutcutter is one of the hunkiest
| ienisus and most habituaI connosure
| English society onse a while can afford
to spare for the benefit of US benited
or rather unlimited Yankee roosters.
When we furst entered the festive
shop mi Betsy Jane punched me softly.
| | turned to the left, where in q little
pigin box ! seed the most exqueezite
| French lady settin. She had black
eyes and looked reel frisky. She he'd
/ in front of her post office full of let
/ ters. 1t remined me of our Baldinvill
post Office, under old Bockanan's ad-
ministration. l axed the young femail
in mi most gushin manner, as there
any letters there for me2'
The French lady who was born in
Posie county, Injianny, as she told me
behind my Betsy James back, sed "25
cents for an envelope" and l dipped mi
| finger in the box Of fortin, and drawed
prize the first time tryin, and it
/ proved a regular bulgeT-a large paint
IN all dun in lie, worth Is dOllaIs-the
] buDlENAY % NnE AEhNAA AAAl AAOAl L toAC
county, Injianny, informed me, repre-
! sented Moses leadin the children of
Israel throgh the red see, bein pursued
by Faro aad his flistines, all armed
with Sharp's rifles, latest improvement
| / looked mighty hard at the pictur, but
nary single Israel cud / diskiYer My
Betsy Jane looked for Moses, but there
was nothing on the pictur except q
| iandskap representa- sea-shore. My
| Betsy Jane aXed the French femail
from Injisnny, right sharply, where
are the Jews, when the naaYe young
lady sed, they he'd all got across the
red see, long while ago" ] saw my
own Betsey he'd got herself in a sling,
and l run, as in dooty bound, to her
Feseu axed the French lady in the
mildest manner where is Faro and his
tilistines. She answered promptly,
"They all got drowned" That was a
sumner on me, and paid . dollars for
the pictur, gold frame included. Sir
Croutcutter set it at pounds stirlin.
The next dip my own Betsy Jane
took and she drawd gold ring. A
butiiul young lady with sincere coun-
tenance sed It was 10 carrots; my Betsy
piucked hair out of my mustash and
laid it on the counter, and then she
rubbed the ring on mi coatsliye a vile,
and then she held it over the single
hair and 10 the ring drawed the hair
rite to it like catfish does a minny.
Betsy Jane sed, "all right" Paid her
the rhino.
/ was trOoly disgosted.
! Mr.. Croutcutter, who had been re-
conOiterin through the store, and play
in with the wildcat, punchin his stumpy
| tail with his cane IN varius ways, Just
then cum up, and anilized the ring by
putin il in his mouth and then holdin
/ il to his nostrils, when he said, 1T was
a pound and six penny's worth
/ shall always think he made mis-
take, though ] hated to tell him SO;
but the ring did not seam to way over
a kwarter of pound. ! shelled out
the greenbacks
Next / got a meershame pipe. Sir
Crouteutter assured me it would co!ur
finely, as he pointed towards my nose;
when lie sed that, | don't know which
of the , he meant, and l grasped it
| tightly mean mi bugle, and paid
dollars more, and put my pipe in my
pocket
Mi admired Mary Jane went one on
her own hook, and drawed clock, and
a regular ten strike it was, for that WAS
Just wat it struck
mo tick here seG a green young
man, with a plaster stuck across his
nose.
He thot himself cunnin, but be re-
ceived q slight correction from our
I friend Croutcutter, who sed IN very
stimulated manner: "Dri up.
was very muchly sstonished to here
1 him use sich a tru Andy Jonsical Erase,
bat he assured me that the langwldge
now used by our politishons was strict
ly psrleymentury and good Queens
English as the parley on Billinsgsta
daily witnesses, tho he sed, an Wash
ington, the Erase of cork up is now
very much in vogue"
| Ifelt somewhat shaky in my friends
high respectsbility, but sed nothin,
merely watchin my chances, of which L
tuck enuiI TO start a new show
All at once my own Betsy Jane sed
In , tremulus voice: Look here,
what haze drawd l tuck eide-long
squint, and sed.
For dollars can be hot a gold hun
tin watch market 500 dollars. As am
now and always hev been habituai
hunter / grabbed the splendid chromi-
tur which that hansum young femall
with the sincere countenance handid
10 me, most gracefully. J paid her the
, dollars, and presented her with ! OF
nv best cards of visit then ! inquired
for the proprietor, when fat, govial
Dutohman cum up. asked; Are you
the enterprisin proprletur Of the only
Gold Gift Sail in Amerlka.
He answered with beemin smile;
81 am that unfortunate indiyidsl'
] sed: "Will you allow me to embrace
yuY' and without waitin his answer
clspped him at once 10 mi manly buz-
zuna. Ri own Betsy Jane squeezed his
hand, snd Sir Crouteutter cum up and
sed Shake which he did.
left the plais soon after, With the
J enterprisin Good Proieetur, for a saloon,
where we TUX > squar drinks. Ny Bet
sy Jane Lad meanwhil ben well con-
Quoted to the hotel
) / bid adoo 70 my friend Stein, and
let me here stait ono for sll. that the
gil bizziness, the way be conducts i,
Is the best dizziness yet in this go
ahead country for q man can buy
there a bigger bsrgin for ais dollars
than be eOald Eit EnyEhere else, those
big shibangs chaTging eRormous profits
on every aTticklei and Ebat tcl- led ne
the most in mi visit 20 that AlisdIn
Palas. was the great harmony which
prevails throughout the hull establish
meat. g. the piano never stopped 10
talk musick While We wss there.
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