. Mammy 'mongst the wild nations of Europe. r probabilities, and it was a profound comfort,when she confided to Dr. Irving after one of theseconferences, Dat Capn-man*s got mo* sense *n mosmen ; Id tek his pinion befo hangin up a clo*es-linemos* sames my own ! Mammy was by far the most popular member ofour party, and was invited to several four-oclock teasto which we were entire strangers. She was upondeck ** fo de washin down every morning, thoughshe acknowledged, **scrubbin time made her home-sick, and many were the yarns the Jack Tars spun forher benefit, few too fishy for Mammys credulity.
. Mammy 'mongst the wild nations of Europe. r probabilities, and it was a profound comfort,when she confided to Dr. Irving after one of theseconferences, Dat Capn-man*s got mo* sense *n mosmen ; Id tek his pinion befo hangin up a clo*es-linemos* sames my own ! Mammy was by far the most popular member ofour party, and was invited to several four-oclock teasto which we were entire strangers. She was upondeck ** fo de washin down every morning, thoughshe acknowledged, **scrubbin time made her home-sick, and many were the yarns the Jack Tars spun forher benefit, few too fishy for Mammys refused, however, to believe de man what tolame dat de wurl was roun like an apple. He didnhab nough circumspeckshun, did he? Ef dis wurlwas roun lik an apple, whats to hender de watehall runnin off, and leavin us n de ship stranded upon top, all high and dry ? she asked, scornfully. We landed at Liverpool, which Mammy immor-talized as ** IMverpill; presumably because of therelief it afforded her from the vagaries of the deep. / V. ^/-. id tek his pinion befo hangin up a cloes-lineMos sames my own. CHAPTER IV. STRATFORD. American, versus English, celebrities —The potry-manshumble lodgement—The **didos of dem rude, bad boys,Thackeray, Dickens, and Scott — ** Misteh Shakespire an* MisHathaways gyardens not a patch on ole mistiss — An ** un-godly play-acter — The stage a quare kinob a Sabbath-school — An artful death-motto. OUR first stop was at Stratford, where we wentat once to the old Red Horse Hotel, in whichthe illustrious sharer of the Professors patronymic,Washington Irving, wrote his delightful paper on Stratford-on-Avon. The chair in which he sat andthe poker with which he stirred the embers are stillexhibited as Geoffrey Crayons Throne and Scep-ter, and the Professor confessed he would have givenmuch to have been able to confiscate these inspiringarticles of vertu. As we arrived late we spent thefirst evening in becoming acquainted with the situa-tion and
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