The Englishwoman In America By Isabella Lucy Bird
























































































































 -  In the night he stole her, cut
her tail, painted her legs white, gave her a blaze on her face - Page 336
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In The Night He Stole Her, Cut Her Tail, Painted Her Legs White, Gave Her A "Blaze" On Her Face, Sold Her For 100 Dollars, And Decamped, Sending A Note To The First Purchaser Acquainting Him With The Particulars Of The Transaction.

"'Cute chap that;" "A wide-awake feller;" "That coon had cut his eye-teeth;" "A smart sell that;" were the comments made on this roguish transaction, all the sympathy of the listeners being on the side of the rogue.

The stories related by Barnum of the tricks and impositions practised by himself and others are a fair sample, so far as roguery goes, of those which are to be heard in hotels, steamboats, and cars. I have heard men openly boast, before a miscellaneous company, of acts of dishonesty which in England would have procured transportation for them. Mammon is the idol which the people worship; the one desire is the acquisition of money; the most nefarious trickery and bold dishonesty are invested with a spurious dignity if they act as aids to the attainment of this object. Children from their earliest years imbibe the idea that sin is sin - only when found out.

The breakfast bell rang, and a general rush took place, and I was left alone with two young ladies who had just become acquainted, and were resolutely bent upon finding out each other's likes and dislikes, with the intention of vowing an eternal friendship. A gentleman who looked as if he had come out of a ball-room came up, and with a profusion of bows addressed them, or the prettiest of them, thus:

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