Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others. By William Irving, James Kirke Paulding and Washington Irving. Printed from the original ed., with a preface and notes by Evert A. Duyckinck.

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yard, who, having accidentally in his scratchings found a worm,
immediately begins a most vociferous cackling-calls around
him his hen-hearted companions, who run chattering from all
quarters to gobble up the poor little worm that happened to
turn under his eye. Oh, Asem! Asem! on what a prodigious
great scale is everything in this country I
Thus, then, I conclude my observations. The infidel nations
have each a separate characteristic trait, by which they may be
distinguished from each other; the Spaniards, for instance,
may be said to sleep upon every affair of importance; the
Italians to fiddle upon everything; the French to dance upon
everything; the Germans to smoke upon everything; the
British islanders to eat upon everything; and the windy subjects of the American logocracy to talk upon everything.
For ever thine,
MUSTAPHA.
—. r. --
FROM THE MILL OF PINDAR COCKLOFT, ESQ.
HOW oft in musing mood my heart recalls,
From grey-beard father Time's oblivious halls,
The modes and maxims of my early day,
Long in those dark recesses stow'd away:
Drags once more to the cheerful realms of light
Those buckram fashions, long since lost in night,
And makes, like Endor's witch, once more to rise
My grogram grandames to my raptured eyes I
Shades of my fathers! in your pasteboard skirts,
Your broidered waistcoats and your plaited shirts,
Your formal bag-wigs-wide-extended cuffs,