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Bleecker Van Winkle had married at least two gentlemen of Gotham in the struggle to feel at home there. Therefore, we are permitted to announce that Jefferson and Ripley Van Winkle resigned their positions as golf- instructors the instant the wedding bells began to ring, and went upon the retired list with the record of an honourable, even distinguished career behind them.
If some of the last-cited stories are not precisely Gothamite drolleries, though all are droll enough in their way, there can be no doubt whatever that we have a Sinhalese brother to the men of Gotham in the following: A villager in Ceylon, whose calf had got its head into a pot and could not get it out again, sent for a friend, celebrated for his wisdom, to release the poor animal.
"From the manufactory of foreign goods in the city of New York, or from their traveling agents!" "Oh, my dear young lady, how you wrong me! This article came from " "The factory of Messrs. Hocus & Pocus, corner of Can't and Come-it Street, City of Gotham!" "Oh, my dear young lady " "Look here, my brave buccaneer, I know all about it!
Having the entrée of Gotham select circles, Claude sailed on an extended tour of the world. He had visited at leisure nearly every port and important city of earth. With a quick sense of the remarkable in ordinary commonplace, he had seen much of interest. His descriptions greatly entertained Oswald, who never tired of listening to Claude's narratives.
Silks rustled and diamonds flashed every Sunday in the cushioned pews of his "uptown" church; the élite of Gotham sat under his teaching, and his sixty years and the cares of life rested lightly on his broad shoulders. It had been a very smoothly flowing life those sixty years gliding along as sluggishly calm as the waters of a canal.
Everywhere was gaiety and good cheer, except on the stage of the Gotham Theatre, where an early rehearsal, preliminary to the main event, had been called by Johnson Miller in order to iron some of the kinks out of the "My Heart and I" number, which, with the assistance of the male chorus, the leading lady was to render in act one.
'H'after'er, he said. 'Looks more as if she was h'after them wanting fourteen dresses at once. Dingee shewed his teeth from ear to ear. 'You bery wise man, Mas' Gotham! he said. 'Spect now you can tell a feller all about dese yere. And Dingee threw off the white paper which covered what he carried this time, and displayed to Gotham's astonished eyes a basket full of bouquets.
An unreasonable pride is taken in their very bulk as if forty pages per se were better than one; as if the tons of garbage in the Sunday issue of the Gotham Gasometer outweighed in any valuable sense the ten or twelve small pages of the Parisian Temps. Not but that there is a great deal of good matter in the Sunday papers.
Though why he couldn't drive his h'own team, if he'd such an 'ankering for the ribbands, he muttered to Dingee as he got down, 'I'm sure is a perplexity. 'Wanted to drive Missee Hazel, said Dingee, climbing like a cat into the other conveyance, and proceeding to drive Mr. Rollo's man nearly out of his wits. 'You never does sound de gen'lman, Mas' Gotham. Telled you so long ago.
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