Excerpt from A Gallop Among American Scenery, or Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure North-east by the flags of the shipping in the bay! North-east by the chill rain dashing on the Window panes! North-east by the weather-cocks on all the steeples, from St. Paul's to the dog-vane on the stable end! North-east by the ache of every bone in my body! Eheu What's to be done? N o going abroad in this torrent. I've read all the landlady's little library. How Shall I kill the enemy? I'll Whistle; vulgar. Sing; I can't. There are the foils and the gloves. Pshaw I have no friend to pommel or pink; besides, the Old lady in the room below, has nerves. Whew! How it pours. I'll - I'll - Stand and look out into the street. Jupiter! How nhar the bread-cart came to going over the chimney sweep. Poor Sooty - how he grins He owes the worm no silk-whatever obliga tions his rags may be under to the sheep. Poor fellow! Holloa! Ho! Blackey; catch this quarter, and get you a hot breakfast. There goes that con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.