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After all, Dutch is not so very much unlike 

 English. It was easy enough to understand 

 this: "Let her stay a week and she will be 

 hungry enough to eat it." Perhaps she might, 

 but it was not more than twelve miles to New 

 York, so that Fanny was not compelled to try 

 the often-told experiment of the Irishman's 

 horse of living without eating, of which his 

 owner remarked that it was an entire success, 

 but that unfortunately "just as he got cliverly 

 larnt he died." I pitied her, but reminded 

 her of the old song which runs : 



" There was a man who had a cow; 

 He had no hay to give her. 

 He took his pipe and played the tune, 

 * Consider, cow, consider.' " 



I gave her a lump of sugar, and promised to 

 bring her out a piece of bread to " stay her 

 stomach." The landlord could wrestle some- 

 what better with English than the boy, but 

 his language was very composite in its con- 

 nection. He readily assented to my request 

 for some dinner, but when I ventured to ask 

 for a broiled chicken, having seen some fowls 

 picking about the premises, he awoke from his 

 stupor, and the blood coursed rapidly through 



