CHAPTER II, 



UNIVERSAL EQUALITY NEW JERSEY THE CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICER 



TO THE CLARENDON AN ATTENTIVE CAB-DRIYER ACROSS THE FERRY 



WASHINGTON'S STATUE COMFORTS ON LAND DRESS FOR THE TA 

 BLE 3>'H6TE OLD-FASHIONED HOURS MISNAMED BIRDS NOT TO 



BE PERSUADED A NEW WAY TO COOK WOODCOCKS IRISH SERV 

 ANTS SLAVE-STATES DISUNION TOO MUCH LIBERTY. 



IN our way up the Bay of New York, merchant ves 

 sels, small steamers, and what in England would be 

 called " coasters," were steering in all directions, and 

 even these, with comparatively speaking the colossal 

 bows of an English ship above them, and water enough 

 to annihilate below, in the event of collision, every sail 

 and wheel of them, seemed to illustrate a democratically 

 childish desire at the risk of self-destruction to proclaim, 

 " I'm as good as you, Master Englisher, we're all equal 

 here, yas sir ; so we reckon, Capting Shannon, those 

 two thousand five hundred tons o' your'n shan't make 

 our half-deckers get out o' the way, no how, yas sir ! " 

 Once or twice Capt. Shannon's muttered but sup 

 pressed broadside within his own waistcoat, amused 

 me, when a lolling "Boh-hqy" at the tiller would not 



