SAYINGS AND DOINGS AT THE TREMONT HOUSE. IN THE YEAR 1832. EXTRACTED FROM THE NOTE BOOK OF COSTARD SLY, SOLICITOR AND SHORT-HAND WRITER, OF LONDON. AND EDITED BY DR ZACHARY PHILEMON VANGRIFTER. "Here are some score of good fellows, my Masters, primed with salt sayings- "Though my desire be to make FUN for the many, I have taken care that no VOLUME II. BOSTON: ALLEN AND TICK NOR. 1833. 1 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1833, BY ALLEN & TICKNOR, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. PRINTED BY I. R. BUTTS......SCHOOL STREET. * * 952 5634 say V. 2 "TRUTH 's a dog, that must to kennel," says the fool in King Lear. But though you whip him out to-day he'll come back to-morrow, and take his seat by the fireside. Certain friends of mine, however, are not over fond of his company. A pretty description they have given of me, I find, on looking over some of my last notes ! I deny the fact of the fun-hunting nose, -I deny the Puck-like eyes, I deny the hole in the coat, -I particularly deny the yellow unmentionables! - My hat has anything but a learned appearance. Speak latin, indeed! I never saw a more unpretending chapeau. I have not a knack of sneezing in the street; - and my nose is, at all times, a very sober, quiet nose. It is too bad to say such things of a man's nose. "Twiddling my fingers!"-What is the English of that? "Muttering and chuckling to myself!" Do not believe a word of it And," my cravat always tied in miserable style!" I will put on a cravat with any man in the United States, for a thousand pou—, dollars There ! People should be cautious how they talk ; — they may be overheard, when they least expect it ; — spite of their aspersions, I shall continue to take notes. There goes the gong, for supper. I'll go see, if there is any FUN to be booked. Wednesday Evening. C. S. M554282 |