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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Linkum Fidelius knew better, and gives a long description of a
bald eagle that serenaded him once in Canada;-digression;
particular account of the Canadian Indians;-story about
Areskou learning to make fishing nets of a spider-don't believe
it, though, because, according to Linkum, and many other
learned authorities, Areskou is the same as l~Iiars, being derived
from his Greek name of Ares; and if so, he knew well enough
what a net was without consulting a spider;-story of Arachne
being changed into a spider as a reward for having hanged herself;-derivation of the word spinster from spider;-Colophon,
now Altobosco, the birthplace of Arachne, remarkable for a
famous breed of spiders to this day;-mem. nothing like a
little scholarship-make the ignoramus, viz. the majority of my
readers, stare like wild pigeons;-return to New York a short
cut-meet a dashing belle, in a little thick white veil-tried to
get a peep at her face-saw she squinted a little-thought so at
first;-never saw a face covered with a veil that was worth
looking at;-saw some ladies holding a conversation across the
street about going to church next Sunday-talked so loud they
frightened a cartman's horse, who ran away, and over set a basket of gingerbread with a little boy under it; mem. I don't
much see the use of speaking-trumpets now-a-days.
CHAPTER V.
BOUGHT a pair of gloves; dry-goods stores the genuine schools
of politeness-true Parisian manners there-got a pair of gloves
and a pistareen's worth of bows for a dollar-dog cheap!Courtlandt street corner-famous place to see the belles go by
-quere, ever been shopping with a lady?-some account of it
— ladies go into all the shops in the city to buy a pair of gloves