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only exercises a few of the muscles ; laughter , oh the contrary , stirs the whole body , and sets it in a healthy ferment . Broad grins for ever ! even though they be not very refined . What a treasure has been to mankind Colonel David Crocket , of Tennessee . Oh ! to hear him make a stump oration ! ' But such things arc not for all mortals , and we must content ourselves with minor
delights in the way of laughter . Reader , do you know Albany ?—not Albany Fonblanque , the analyst ; that were a superfluous asking to a * Repository' readernor yet Piccadilly Albany , which gives Lord Althorp his qualification . But do you know Albany , in America , the capital of York State , famous for many things , and many families related
to the * Knickerbocker' names , and amongst others , famous for its Cruttenden ? If you do not know him , by all means seek him out when you cross the Atlantic ; nay , I almost think it is worth crossing the Atlantic on purpose . Ask for Cruttenden ' s boarding house , and that is enough . All the world knows him . The house is of scarlet bricks—most likely brought from .
Hollandpicked out with verdigrise blinds , the outlook being on a' blumengarten , ' or green paddock , skirted with Dutch trees . But Cruttenden himself ! There is but one Cruttenden , and he is as though Sancho Panza and Falstaff were amalgamated in one person . Oh that smiling face , that goodly paunch , lined not with sack , but Madeira—and such Madeira , he can only afford to let guests
who are especial favourites drink of it ! Those oily lips and the rich wit that pours through them , without an angle in the sound Cruttenden is—I hope he is—a lawyer by profession ; but the profession did not suit him . He could not get food by the law , arid so he took to feeding lawyers , i . e . keeping a boarding establishment for the itinerant ' limbs' attending the Albany
lawcourts ; and he thrives well by it . He is also a man of some taste , knows Knickerbocker by heart , and all his relations ; moreover , he indulges a liking for patronizing painters . One ol tha results of this is an oil picture of Kyp Van Winckle , waking from his nap in the Kaatskil mountains , which hangs over the mantel-shelf of his dining room . One afternoon during the
process of wine-bibbing—people do not make rail-roads of their throats in Albany as they do in York , feeding against time—they take their food comfortably , as in the old country , ' and acq uire a knowledge that . different viands have different flavours , a m atter which is widely mooted by the inhabitants of New York , who
shovel all kinds of food so rapidly down their straight swallows , that the onl y distinctions they are accustomed to make as to quality , consist in hardness and softness , dryness and liquidity-I have seen a blindfolded man unable to distinguish wine from water , brandy from noyau , by the taste ; and thus it is with trie * Yankees ; their mental vision sees nothing but the counting-house , and there is little doubt but if the propensity continues tvyo genera-
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778 Preface to the New Bellendentfo .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 778, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/32/
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