298 HIDING IN A STEAMBOAT. 



In some parts of our own island the people talk of. sailing 

 in a cart, and the German sees nothing wrong in speak 

 ing of his having experienced a severe sea-sickness, 

 (See-krankheit,) as he came in the Diligence from Dres 

 den to Berlin. The German reiten is usually applied to 

 progression on the back of animal. But the Dutch use 

 their ri/den not merely as we do to riding in a carriage, 

 but to riding on skates, and in other ways ; so that to the 

 Dutch on the Hudson is probably due the riding in 

 steamboats. 



With us the judge tries, and the lawyer conducts, 

 pleads, or defends a cause. I met here, however, with 

 lawyers who talked of having been so far off trying a 

 cause, or of having tried so many causes, when they had 

 only appeared in each as counsel in behalf of one of the 

 parties to the suit. 



