Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

OLD-SCHOOL GENTLEMEN. 117
copy at hand)-should it not be Waterhouse? I think so,
and I have always heard the old people speak of' Charley
Water'ouse's coppers,'-the word was clipped "a la cocki
ney" to Water'ous. Portsmouth people, as well as their
forefathers, having a great dislike to the letter h.' Down
in the w'ite'ouse near the w'arf" was a direction I once
heard a Portsmouth lady give a servant, and I give it in
illustration of the above.
Yours respectfully, C. E. POTTER,
RAMBLE CI.
Things of 1790 to 1S00 - Old School Gentlemen -
Respect by Youth - Mlinor Offences - Prompt Punishlient of Crimainals - Justice Penhallow's Impartiality - irst Pavement - Buck Street Prom-nenadeN-orth and Southenders - Sioloking not Allowecd -
EKdfward Hart elected Police Officer - His Success,
and what produced it.
IN the last ten years of the last century, the inhabitants
of the quiet, good old town of "Portsmouth upon the
Piscataqua" had not entirely outlived the salutary influence
of the aristocracy of the colonists of earlier times, when
scarlet colored broadcloth cloaks, worn by our Warners
Jaffreys, Cutts, and other gentlemen of the old school of
politeness, good order and decorum, warned the boys of
the severe reprehension, if not of rods, which awaited them
for any neglect of respectful recognition of the approach
and presence of those august personages, by the low bow,
or dofed hat, or by both, especially on Sabbath days, when
tithingmen took due care that none were seen loitering
about the streets while the bells were tolling the good
people to meeting.
Nevertheless, it came to pass, in the course of time,