Saw a great multitude of monkeys, streaked face, white face, black
face, hairy face, bald face (Bull Dogge prefers the latter), with a
great assortment of tails, differing in length, and varying as to color,
long tails, short tails, stump tails, ring tails, wiry tails, curly
tails, tails interesting and insinuating, tails indignant and
uncompromising, big tails, little tails, bob tails, (Damphool suggests
Robert narratives), and no tails (Bull Dogge says that some effeminate
descendants of this latter 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 Grimes's coat,
autocrats, autobiographies, autographs, chickens, cheeses, codfish,
Shanghais, mud-turtles, alligators, moose, mermaids, hay-scales, scale
armor, monsters, curiosities from Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Beaverdam, Chow
Sing, Tchinsing, Linsing, Lansing, Sing Sing, cubebs, cart wheels,
mummies, heroes, poets, idiots, maniacs, benefactors, malefactors,
pumps, porcupines and pill machines, all mingled, mixed, and
conglomerated, like a Connecticut chowder, or the Jew soup of the
Witches in Macbeth.
Upstairs at last, and into an adolescent theatre, christened a Lecture
Room, (Damphool says it is known as the Deacon's Theatre, and that all
his pious namesakes attend). Saw the play, laughed, cried, and felt good
all over. Much pleased with a bit of fun originating in a jealous
fireman, and terminating in a free fight.
Fireman Mose saw Rose, his sweetheart, with Joe, the hackman; got
jealous, pitched into him--fun--thought of Tom Hood, and went off at
half-cock--thus--
Enter Rose with Joe--sees Mose--Mose beaus Rose; Rose knows those beaux
foes--Joe's bellicose--so's Mose--Mose 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 shows Joe's nose blows--Joe's nose grows rose--Mose knows
Joe's nose shows those blows--Joe goes--Mose crows.
Joe being whipped, and moreover being the only innocent one in the whole
fight, was arrested by the vigilant and efficient police.
Damphool says that Joe treated the Emerald conservators of the public
quiet, and is again at large.
Let Mose beware.
VII.
Model Boarding Houses.
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