I kan sell for eighteen hundred and thirty-nine dollars, a pallas,
a sweet and pensive retirement, lokated on the virgin banks ov the
Hudson, kontaining 85 acres. The land is luxuriously divided by
the hand of natur and art, into pastor and tillage, into plain and
deklivity, into stern abruptness, and the dallianse ov moss-tufted
medder; streams ov sparkling gladness, (thick with trout,) danse
through this wilderness ov buty, tew the low musik ov the kricket and
grasshopper. The evergreen sighs az the evening zephir flits through
its shadowy buzzum, and the aspen trembles like the luv-smitten harte
ov a damsell. Fruits ov the tropicks, in golden buty, melt on the bows,
and the bees go heavy and sweet from the fields to their garnering
hives. The manshun iz ov Parian marble, the porch iz a single diamond,
set with rubiz and the mother ov pearl; the floors are ov rosewood,
and the ceilings are more butiful than the starry vault of heavin. Hot
and cold water bubbles and squirts in evry apartment, and nothing is
wanting that a poet could pra for, or art could portray. The stables
are worthy of the steeds ov Nimrod or the studs ov Akilles, and its
henery waz bilt expressly for the birds of paradice; while somber in
the distance, like the cave ov a hermit, glimpses are caught ov the
dorg-house. Here poets hav cum and warbled their laze--here skulptors
hav cut, here painters hav robbed the scene ov dreamy landskapes, and
here the philosopher diskovered the stun, which made him the alkimist
ov natur. Nex northward ov this thing ov buty, sleeps the residense
and domain ov the Duke John Smith; while southward, and nearer the
spice-breathing tropicks, may be seen the barronial villy ov Earl
Brown, and the Duchess, Widder Betsy Stevens. Walls ov primitiff rock,
laid in Roman cement, bound the estate, while upward and downward, the
eye catches far away, the magesta and slow grander ov the Hudson. As
the young morn hangs like a cutting ov silver from the blu brest ov the
ski, an angel may be seen each night dansing with golden tiptoes on the
green. (N. B. This angel goes with the place.)
Biagrams kan be seen at the offiss ov the broker. Terms flattering.
None but principals delt with. Title as pure as the breth ov a white
male infant, and possession given with the lark. For more full
deskripshun, read Ovid's Art ov Luv, or kall (in yure carriage) on Josh
Billings, Real Estate Agent.
LXX.
OUT WEST!
Tha sa the praree chickens are so thik, out West, tha hav tew put up
poles awl over the kuntry for them tew roost on.
When tha bust up, out there, tha pay their debts, by jineing the church.
It being agin the law tew carry consealed weepons, evry man carrys one
in his hand.
A man who don't kno how tew pla uker, would not be believed under oath.
It iz 5 dollars fine, in Cinsinnatti, tew strike a hog, in anger.
Tha don't bore for ile, out thare, tha bore for whiskee, and hav the
best luk in the visinity ov the graveyards.
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