. The Squibob papers . 102 THE SQTJIBOB PAPERS. XVI. HERES a health to ye, Tayloure and hys friend,And whatsoeer they undertake May full success , syringe, shears and press-board Doses, draughts and pills,Cabbage and cathartics, Scissors, lancet, buckram, Bills,. IX. LIFE IN PANAMA. Scene. — The interior of one of our principalhotels. — Gen. Plates, the spirited proprie-tor is discovered sitting behind his bar, engaged inthe pleasing occupation of estimating the profitsof the day, and reflecting on his sacred long table is seen in an adjoining apartment,covered wi
. The Squibob papers . 102 THE SQTJIBOB PAPERS. XVI. HERES a health to ye, Tayloure and hys friend,And whatsoeer they undertake May full success , syringe, shears and press-board Doses, draughts and pills,Cabbage and cathartics, Scissors, lancet, buckram, Bills,. IX. LIFE IN PANAMA. Scene. — The interior of one of our principalhotels. — Gen. Plates, the spirited proprie-tor is discovered sitting behind his bar, engaged inthe pleasing occupation of estimating the profitsof the day, and reflecting on his sacred long table is seen in an adjoining apartment,covered with dirty sheets, and lavishly spreadwith dark boiled rice, jerked beef, hard breadand the other delicacies of the season. Deepgroans are heard at intervals from the two hun-dred and forty famished boarders, imprisonedand partially smothering in squads of five insmall pens, six feet by eight. A decidedly un-wholesome effluvia pervades the entire building. LIFE IN PANAMA. 105 Gen. Plates (reflectively). — Two hundredand forty boarders, at two dollars a day, is, letme see, twice oughts an ought, and — four hun-dred and eighty dollars, from which take for ex-penses, say five dollars, leaves a clear profit of (Enter Dodge, Blatherskite, Flatbrokeand others.) Dodge.— Well,
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