John Bull in America: Or, The New MunchausenC. Wiley, 1825 - 226 pages |
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Page 110 - CHORUS Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.
Page 1 - Bay, which we entered just before sun-set ; and being favoured with a fine fair wind from the north, came up to the wharf in about two hours from entering the Capes. Coming up, we saw the famous sea-serpent, but he was nothing to those I had frequently seen in the Serpentine, so called from its abounding in these articles. Being very anxious to go on shore, I desired one of the sailors to call a hack, which very soon arriving...
Page 126 - Such is the extent of this practice of smoking tobacco, that at a certain period of the year, during the autumn, when the people of the country have finished gathering in the products of their fields, and their leisure time comes, they commence a smoking festival, in which every man, woman, and child partakes.
Page 5 - ... to see black ones in a similar situation. My heart bled, with sympathy for the wrongs of this injured race, and I could not sufficiently admire the philanthropy of the members of the Holy alliance, who have lately displayed such a laudable compassion for the blacks. Next to the continual recurrence of these disgusting exhibitions of cruelty, the most common objects seen in the streets of Boston, are drunken men. women, and children.
Page 74 - ... until they see the contrary ; thinking imposition and extortion fair business, and all men, fair game ; kind, obliging conduct is lost upon them. A bold, saucy, independent manner towards them, is necessary. They love nobody but themselves, and seem incapable of due respect for the feelings of others. They have nothing original ; all that is good or new, is done by foreigners, and by the British, and yet they boast eternally.
Page 79 - But my prudential resolves were of no avail, for the genUemen sweepers told me it was against the law to save our wages. On my demurring to this, they took me before the judge, who decreed me a beating, besides taking away the money I had saved, which he laid out in liquor, and we got merry together. " Seeing there was no use in laying up...
Page 47 - ABOUT daylight I was roused by a most horrible noise, which resembled nothing I had ever heard before. On going upon deck, I perceived the whole surface of the water, as far as the eye could reach, covered with immense bull-frogs, who leapt and croaked, to the infinite delight of these tasteful democrats, who were all gathered together to hear this charming concert, which they would prefer to the commemoration of Handel. Some of the largest of these frogs actually jumped upon deck and a canoe alongside...
Page 14 - D , whom, by the way, he had lately observed in the street, " amusing himself with the niggers." He tells us that The dinner was, in the main, good enough. That is to say, there was a plenty of things naturally good, but what was very remarkable, it was brought up in wooden dishes, out of which they all helped themselves with their fingers, knives and forks not being in use in America, except among a few English people. There was a very suspicious dish on the table, which they called terrapin soup,...
Page 4 - ... while every boy has a little negro, of about his own age, to torture for his pastime. The blacks here, as I was assured by his excellency the Governor, whose name is Hancock, have but one meal a day, which is principally potatoes, and fare little better than the miserable Irish or English peasantry at home. The Governor told me a story of a man who tied his black servant naked to a stake, in one of the neighbouring canebrakes, near the city, which abound with a race of mosquitoes that bite through...