. The ball of yarn;. Mose as he now appears. Mose as he used to appear^jgflnr ^»a«»..i in i i ~TT^—i. MOSE KEYSEE, the pet of Centre Market and the Bowery bully—evcrjbwdy knows Mose ; and them that dont know Mose, dont know any body, asis any body; a spree wouldnt be <a spree if Mose wasnt thar, at a i ^\fire or a Vauxhall Ball, our hero < ^is equally at home, and wo to thegreen horn that attempts to makea muss when he is about; hewalks into a row like a pile ofbrick, unlike General Taylor, healways has a friend to reward andan enemy to punish, and is al-ways to be found by either—we


. The ball of yarn;. Mose as he now appears. Mose as he used to appear^jgflnr ^»a«»..i in i i ~TT^—i. MOSE KEYSEE, the pet of Centre Market and the Bowery bully—evcrjbwdy knows Mose ; and them that dont know Mose, dont know any body, asis any body; a spree wouldnt be <a spree if Mose wasnt thar, at a i ^\fire or a Vauxhall Ball, our hero < ^is equally at home, and wo to thegreen horn that attempts to makea muss when he is about; hewalks into a row like a pile ofbrick, unlike General Taylor, healways has a friend to reward andan enemy to punish, and is al-ways to be found by either—well,now Mose as I was saying, goesup to the hub fer the New YorkSun, because the said Sun didsay that the Smoke and Thunder / ^Guards was the best drilled fire s £company in our diggins, so incourse Mose reads the Sun, andreading the Sun got the Californyfever; he knowd the Gold wasthar, cause it was in the Sun, and sbeing in the Sun was So \he read and re-read the corres- ^pondence in the Sun, until heheard the Hall Bell ring for fire. }- fancy sketch of caliph-houity


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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, booksubjectamerica, bookyear1854