Old beaux of Brown Bess.
There are probably some old martinets who still retain their admiration of old Brown Bess as she was when she wore powder in her prime; and who contend that she was preferable at that early period to what she became when, before discarded for her Enfield rival, she took to wearing caps.
The Maine-iac’s Advice.
“Friend! Imitate the example of the railway-engine. He is the greatest teetotaller running – can keep up for hours at the rate of forty, and even sixty, miles an hour – and whistles over his work all the while; and yet he never takes anything but water when he wants to wet his whistle!”
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