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e time of my metropolitan advent, by a shining beaver with white fur on the under side; had run in debt for a new suit of clothes, and sold my trunk to bu

e town. To this end I proposed to visit the various places of amusement, to go on excursions, join volunteer companies, run to fires, in shor

thereto appertaining-know where the City Hall is-ditto Hospital. Also where the Astor House is generally located-can tell the general direction

remember, that hereafter you may not mistake a Grand Street stage for a perambulating Circus wagon; or again, point out the Wall Street Ferry House to

ledge of the city that I could find any of the theatres without a Direct

me was not so classically correct as I could have wished-looked at the glorious fountain which adorns the centre of the spacious lawn-admired the magnificent proportions of the vast forest trees which rear their lofty forms therein-gazed long and earnestly at the glittering jet (not quite so lofty as I had been led to suppose,) of the magnificent fountain which embellishes the princely grounds-then turned to look at a circular edifice, which, I confess, did not strike me as being remarkable for architectural beauty, but which undoubtedly is exceedingly useful-then turned to feast my wondering eyes upon the diamond-glittering drops of a fountain near at hand; looked with

sty majesty" (vide somebody,) the jet of a fountain. Resolved to return and have another look at t

ments for the evening. Desiring to see the Museum, of which I had read, and also to behold Barnum, of whom I had heard some mention, in connection, I think, with one Thomas Thu

," so was necessitated to get a bill broke; offered him Washtenaw, but that was too effectuall

ol, Esq.," gentleman of leisure, and man about town. Having never before had any experience of a class of individuals who compose, I

is an impossibility, and could only have originated with Barnum)-wax-figure of a tall man in a blue coat, with a star on his breast, (Damphool says it is a policeman, who was found when he was wanted; but Bull Dogge says there was never any such person, and that the whole story is a Gay fable,) found by the programme that it is supposed to represent Louis Napoleon; never knew before that he had one eye black, and one blue (Bull Dogge asserts that the usual custom is to have one eye both b

class now promenade Broadway, and he swears that they have greatly degenerated in intelligence); pictures, paddles, pumpkins, carriages, corals, lava, boats, breeches, boa constrictors, shells, oars, snakes, toads, butterflies, lizards, bears, reptiles, reprobates, bugs, bulls, bells, bats, birds, petrifactions, putrefactions, model railroads, model churns, model gridirons, model artists, model babies, cockneys, cockades, cockroaches, cocktails, scalps, Thomashawks, Noah's ark, Paganini's fiddle, Old

the Deacon's Theatre, and that all his pious namesakes attend). Saw the play, laughed, cried, and felt good

the hackman; got jealous, pitched into him-fun-th

blows Joe's nose-Joe's blows pose Mose-Rose Oh's-Mose hoes Joe's rows-Joe's blows chose Mose's nose-Mose

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