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.

78 SALMAGUNDI.
way into my pocketbook;* —melancholy reflections on the death
of great men-beautiful epitaph on myself.
CHAPTER IV.
Princeton-college-professors wear boots I-students famous
for their love of a jest-set the college on fire, and burnt out
the professors; an excellent joke, but not worth repeatingmem. American students very much addicted to burning down
colleges-reminds me of a good story, nothing at all to the
purpose-two societies in the college-good notion —encourages
emulation, and makes little boys fight; —students famous for
their eating and erudition-saw two at the tavern, who had just
got their allowance of spending money-laid it all out in a
supper-got fuddled, and d-d the professors for nincoms. N.B.
Southern gentlemen-Churchyard-apostrophe to grim death
-saw a cow feeding on a grave-metempsychosis-who knows
but the cow may have been eating up the soul of one of my
ancestors-made me melancholy and pensive for fifteen minutes;
-man planting cabbagest-wondered how he could plant them
so straight-method of mole-catching —and all that —query,
whether it would not be a good notion to ring their noses as
we do pigs'-mem. to propose it to the American Agricultural
Society —get a premium perhaps-commencement-students
give a ball and supper-company from New York, Philadelphia,
* Vide Carr and Blind Bet! Carr, in his travels, meets on the roadside in Wales, a stone-blind woman supporting herself and infirm mother
by the sale of gloves and stockings. The traveller perpetrates some
verses on the occasion, which he introduces in this ludicrous fashion:
"Upon her quitting us, the following lines found their way into my
pocket book!"
t Vide Carr.