Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-22

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| do the same thing. and, If possible NY
10 sell them your gold-brick before they
make you buy theirs.
There Is no describing the sensations
Of one who sees the 'Oid Country iof
the first time. II makes you feel funny
al over. You crawl out on deck, ana
after watching the snowy seaguHs as
they play a grab game after the snip >
garbage. YOU suddenly see rugged
streak Of gray. That's lrelanu-'ne
mother country OF New York policemen
and the adopted land of the modest but
sweet-tempered and warty potato. BY
and by the mists clear away; the sun
digs out OF the fog and the indented
cOast-line OF gray deepens into an enc
rald-grecn-a green a. vivid as the COM
pleXiOn of a june bug. You are aston
isaed and anna zed-nOt because what you
see is so marvellous but because it's 50
like what you've been used TO all your
life. Somehow you had expected some
thing entirely different and you ieeI
that you are not getting your money 3
worth. But keep quiet and don't 80 OIL
into hydrCphObia, for while Ireland may
not suit you, there are lots cd people
who have written poetry about il or
1t may be the ship will stop little
while at Queenstown, but only long
enough for you To- catch your breath,
and then you continue your tortuous'
seasicky serpentnlnss alOns The trouzy
waters to Liverpool. And here you
land in England, pay up your Ups
to the steamboat cut-throats have UNI
limited trouble with your basgage' and
proceed 10 start on your Wanuetlhss.
Don't eush over Liverpool IL IS not good
form. Although il is great big fine
gflt-cdged city, almost AZ large as Phlla-
dephia or some other town. forget
which-it is not distinguished. Liverpool
has miles Of wharyes, colossal shipping
enterprises, and plenty Of beggars, but
II isn't romantic place. II some poet
had been born there or they had had
massacre on its streets, or IL some "old
masters" oil painting. AL cracked and
faded. was i'm its museum, people would
rave over the place and say you missed
the chance Of your life by not seeing it,.
For the benefit Of Liverpool, which meets
my endorsement. | recommend that some
good. romantic poet, who doesn't pay his
debts. be born there. Leave the city as
soon as you can and hurry TO London.
IL will take YOU al least "A day and 4
half to see the latter town. Don't be
offended if the Engl.shmen YOU meet on
tho trains, at the stations and elsewhere
fail to recall the fact that your
/ father was I'm the city Counci or
on the County Board OF Supervisors. In
fact. you ought not TO get mad if they
treat you coldly and let you know by
their supercilious ways that they take
/ you for a bunco steerer. It's little way
they have, and I'm all probability they
mover saw the newspaper item Of your
/ town which announced to the world that
( you were going abroad.
Don't criticise London the first day you
get there. IL is the best the English can
do and had a place i'm biographies before
Columbus wore pants.
London H. the ever-sc- mauy-times
great-grandmother OF municipalities, and
thinks a heap of herself. Several poets
have either been born or died there; she
has had amply enough bloodshed on her
streets. and il altogether winning ia
yorite i'm guide-books.