A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . acted. An exceedingly benevolent-looking gen-tleman in clerical black nearly murdered me in ac- :508 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK complishing the feat of extracting the molar, and Ifelt that he amply deserved his fee of fifty cents. Inthe confiding innocence of early youth, I handed hima $2 bill upon one of the oldest and safest banks inthe City of New York. The good man looked at itsternly, glanced at me sadly, and then remarked: Did you know that there is a fine of $5 for attempt-ing to pass New York currency in
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . acted. An exceedingly benevolent-looking gen-tleman in clerical black nearly murdered me in ac- :508 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK complishing the feat of extracting the molar, and Ifelt that he amply deserved his fee of fifty cents. Inthe confiding innocence of early youth, I handed hima $2 bill upon one of the oldest and safest banks inthe City of New York. The good man looked at itsternly, glanced at me sadly, and then remarked: Did you know that there is a fine of $5 for attempt-ing to pass New York currency in this State? No,replied I, with a blush and a shudder. And what saidthe good man ? With a brand-new glow of benevo-lence on his serene countenance, he remarked, gener-ously and gushingly: Well, my boy, I will protectyou. I will keep the bill myself. Good-bye! Oftensince that time I have been led to apply to the twocities a remark which a friend was accustomed to ap-ply to Hartford and Providence. Theyre a littlemore pious in Philadelphia, but theyre a little morehonest in New VAN CORTLANDT S SUGAR HOUSE A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 309 CHAPTER XXV PUDDING ROCK—AN ANCIENT SCHOOL-HOUSE—A TEMPERANCE HAM-LET GONE WRONG — LANDMARKS AND MEMORIES OF THE NEWPARKS — VAN CORTLANDT AND PELHAM BAY — THE UNKNOWNLAND OF THE BRONX—RURAL SCENES IN A CITYs BOUNDARIES Sweet are the uses of—advertising. So the poetdid not sing; but this is the theme of the brush asthe peripatetic artist wields it on rock and cHff, whosebare, bold beauty even the mosses and lichens havespared. It is bad enough to become interested in anewspaper paragraph only to find it a snare to leadthe unwary on in the direction of a plaster or pill, butto settle ones self back in a luxurious palace-car chairand prepare for the enjoyment of a delicious bit ofrocky scenery, and then to find the foreground ruinedby sprawling displays of the advertisers art scatteredover every available surface of smooth stone, impli
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