FENWICK, WARING, BARNWELL, &c. OUT with it His name? softly! PARKENRATH. Softly, Haven't you seen a tiny person about Town, and, in and about this house,-who wears a remarkable looking hat? — Little dark eyes he has for all the world like those of Sir Joshua's PUCK,which seem to petition the passengers for HUMOROUS MATTER.—He hath a pimple of a nose that looks as if it could snuff Fun at a mile's distance ;-and he keeps his nether lip under a chain of teeth, conscious, perhaps, that it is apt to be too free in its merry gambols. FENWICK. He wears a dismal looking coat, with a hole in it; a pair of over-washed yellow trowsers; and boots that have evidently seen their best days. But his hat, as you say, WARING. His hat looks, as if it could speak Latin.— There's a great dent in the front, in the shape of a man's mouth, that seems, as though it was always grinning at you! The rim is covered with thumb, and finger-marks all round (a proof of the politeness of its wearer) and the shape of the thing! WALSINGHAM. Oh, Hats, like women, may grow out of shape, you know. But its color! I don't think you could find the fellow to its color, if you were to pull a rain-bow to pieces! BARNWELL. He walks very fast, doosn't he?- and has a knack of sneezing in the street, makes a horrible report when heblows his nose, and is frequently heard, muttering and chuckling to himself. - GAULTIMAN. And, (if he be the man you mean,) he has a habit of twiddling his fingers, as if he were going to snuff a candle, At times he looks even melancholy ;— and his cravat is always tied in miserable style — grave, RAGUSAN. As tho' he did think he shall be hang one day or ordere! Yees, dat is de man. I regard him of ten! — and often; and look at his foot! 1 CONTI. I hear him laugh once, dat was goot! He shake a de tree on de Mall all overe- His ha ha! ha! Then, every now and then, he scribbles in a book which has a black cover. RAGUSAN. dat is de BLACK BOOK!-1 look him overe once, and I see he write in de caractere, no English – no Frenche no German mark, to look at, horrible! They tell me he is on the look out for drôles : A wit-catcher! RAGUSAN. A witch-catcher! Aha! I says so! De witches is hish property! CONTI. I see him yesterday, and to-day, and de odere day, he always-walk-walk - walk-all de day long! GAULTIMAN. Yes, the fellow is every where. Go, where I will, he is sure to come across me, - I met him yesterday, prowling about, what one might call, the back Slums of Boston. RAGUSAN. Black Slums! what is Slum? Aha!-I tink dere is great many black Slums in Boston; -ha, ha, ha! Parkenrath, FENWICK, AND GAULTIMAN (speaking together.) COSTARD SLY. WARING. COSTARD SLY! RAGUSAN. COSTARD SLY!! (a noise heard within; as of some person endeavoring to suppress his laughter.) WARING. There he is, again, by Jupiter! Catch him who can ! |