The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844: Volume 23, Number 6Various
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The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844: Volume 23, Number 6
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A THRUST WITH A TWO-EDGED WEAPON.--We rather incline to the opinion that
the 'complainant below' is infringing the law which forbids the use of
concealed weapons; that are not the less to be guarded against, certainly,
when as in the present case they cut both ways. But our readers shall
judge: DEAR EDITOR: The country, strange as it may appear, has peculiar
and permanent inhabitants; neither dressing in skins, nor wearing their
own feathers, but habited after the glimpses of fashion which reach them
through their trees. As we have never yet met with a man who was so
fortunate as to have no relations, we take it for granted that all
city-zens, yourself among the rest, have country-cousins. Think of the
countless multitudes that turn their longing eyes in the direction of a
metropolis like this, yearning for a visit, and sending off by frequent
_Opportunities_, never by mail, those remarkable epistolary compounds of
hopes and wants which no other race of beings can compose in perfection:
'Hope JOHN is well, and BETSEY will come and see us next summer; and
want'--LAWSON and STEWART! what do they _not_ want? Every thing; from
twenty yards of silk down to a penny's-worth of tape. The letters run
somewhat in this guise, though less poetically:
'Cousin John, please to send down to-morrow,
At eight, by the Scarborough mail,
'Claudine, or the Victim of Sorrow,'
Don Juan, two mops and a pail;
Six ounces of Bohea from TWINING'S,
A peg-top, a Parmesan cheese,
Some rose-colored sarcenet, for linings,
A stew-pan, and STEVENSON'S Glees;
A song ending 'Hey-noni-noni,'
A chair with a cover of chintz,
A mummy dug up by BELZONI,
A skein of white worsted from FLINT'S.'
Half the things that are sent for, they might buy at their own doors.
Again and again we have known them put in commission and procure from an
oppressed relative the identical productions of a manufactory within a
mile of them. A singular virtue seems to abide in all that comes from the
sunny side of Broadway.
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