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TRIBULATIONS OF TRAVEL.
FooT or HEADauAnrEns June 18th ls47.


o, Misther Edither, darlin', bud its meseif has o
power to say, only as name to houd me tongue
won't say it, barin' . little that nobody can take
hould Of Q, bud isn't this mighty CRATE country
int rely, fr bars-or crow-bars and sand bars and
Miss Kitty bars Chad cess to them same Miss Kitty's
they Worsethan our Irish aunts, and all other
poor reatisns,) and fer hotel hars--that call a
purely American invjnton--in fact as me fathers
countryman's son, Misther Calhoun ses Of the nay
gurs regard your hotel bars as one Of the 'pecu-
liar institutions Of the South Why, they bait the
world for the aytn' and the dhrinkin'. Only think
Of il, three males day, and the best of brandy for
wash down. and all for thirty cints day O, be
gor, it's livin' made aisy=zreduced to practical
science; and if had but met some purity little girl
that could conscientously declarem intintionst
bljeve I'd have settled down here for life. But that
iday is all over now, for I'm listed as bould dra-
COON, and am goin' 20 slay as many Mexican a.
can Jay hould of If live to return shall certain
" cum back-that ID barin some black-eyed Mexican





with me- thing, judgin from me past experience
elsewhere, not altogether improbable. Or, afther q
payce, which wen be sure to conquer afther 60
there, if not sooner. might, purely from motives
Of philanthropy you sce be induced to remain there
jst to instruct the barbarous natives in the polite
sciences and the larned accomplishments, such as
taychin them to spayk, read and write the English
language with grammatical propriety, the beautiful
art Of self-defence, the proper mode Of dictatn'
challenge, or as call it in Ireland pisto-ary cor
| respondence. In this way, think, I'm bound to b.
bepefa thor to me race, or rather to the Mexican
race. which seems be gor, to be but scrub-race
afther all.


Our Sargint is a divi Of fellow for dhrillin
he carries his dhrilin 10 such an exlint that,
to me. be is perfect bore. If you were only
to hear him ''eYes right "eyes left "eyes
front!'' be gof. lie seams to think mans eyes
turn on a swivel, and that he can look three
ways at wonst. Tellin' US sometimes to stan
at ayse, he laves us for half an hour out und-
ther the burnin' sun. as if any one could be a,
ayse in such q position. aHandy," sis he to
me, "you march very badly" "May be do,
Sargint," sis l."but its more than know.
always used to be counted handy with me
feet" O. there's that thievin' dhrum agip,
calm us 10 drill, and in baylia' that into me
head, everything else is bet out.


Yours, uniformity, in uniform.


ANDY HANDY.