The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-07-26
A NAN N BALTIN0TE


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".Iohn,"a Minister Plcnipotontlarv anl
! Envoy Extraordinary from the New York
| Sug, has been poking around Baltimore q,
the Shah Of Persia poked around London
| though perhaps not in royal society. HC
says his say in the following style, which i,
not a bad one for a historian
Baltimore clippers first grew in Baltimore
Baltimore clippers are ships, not BARRIERS
Jones, Falls, at Baltimore, are real water
John, falls at Baltimore were real banana
skins. If had boy wanted to teach to
skate without danger Of getting drowned, I'd
make him walk on banana skins When he
could do that without sitting down, I'd let
| him 20 ON the ice,
! Baltimore was first laid out as a town
| in 1929, and in 1863 it only had fifty houses
1t was chartered as a city in 1897 1t is called
the Monumental City, because it has so many
big graveSOnes in in its streets. Baltimore
| is twentytour miles from Washington. |
swallowed SO much dust coming through
Washington that | felt like had swallowed
pint OF .SaHd'S Sarsaparilla. Why is Sands
SarSaparilla like Il point of hand in Long
Island Sound? Because it's Sands Pint"
took the taste of the dust out of my mouth
by going with Il man to the Union Club
House, Baltimore. UNI I'm! what a nice
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ltrnr, .,sd ,,i1i nol,o ,,,nr e a." Iv" ,,
~, Two rai"ins " tin ~ a,
in the middle of a mincc pie
,r f"r 1,,;n h,,t Irimi, nv 49, '' -,
his head, but il makes his nose dizzy That
nose will never freeze. It's just the fright
shape to block a silk hat upon. He calls that
nose after piece of his native state "Old
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when fellow asked me what did it tor"
| told him d" | did il SO could feather the
oars didn't know then how it was they
could row with spoons, and called all the
oars bow oars, because all the fellow, bowed
when using them. And why, i'm the name Of
smoked herring. boatmcn should Law on their
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were to lock EN- To the wharf with: and
the first time | caught Il crab"
the other fellow who wa, riding backward
with me Sworc I'd caught p crab" and |
sworc " hadn't caught mylhinr" Saws II
where's the Crab:" Then he explained
d that catching the water on the end of the
oar was called catchip~ u crab Those oro
he sOtlcst shell crab, know. ofsond "a frllnw
could eat q GOOD many nr 'ru, and NOT ,ro,
we'll. IFS nautical fern C,tchin~ rr@Ls
will make the fellow behind Won ,wrs,r If he
+, ever 50 piouS
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ais watch run down. and he remarked to me