418 Lafayette Moonshine. 
is his condition! With country dust fairly shaken off against 
country life; with country air exchanged for the more sickly at- 
mosphere of town; with brick walls in unbroken prospect in the 
place of smiling fields and variegated hills and valleys; with rum- 
bling carriages and the noisy hum of an untiring wave of 
moving beings instead of bleating flocks and lowing hferds gam- 
bolling on a thousand hills, he is highly delighted. Now he can 
mingle with the busy throng, sport a cane or tip a beaver, and 
though he thinks his confinement to business is rather severe, he, 
on the whole is not willing to exchange business with any country' 
chap. 
It is not necessary for us to enter into all the particulars of Mr. 
Lafayette Moonshine's city life. The reader will anticipate, per- 
haps, that an individual who had been brought up in utter distaste 
to an honorable employment and allowed, if not taught from his 
early infancy to look upon labor as drudgery, and attention to 
business as servility, must look upon constant employment in any 
occupation as an oppressive burthen. We leave it ior the mer- 
chant to say whether such an individual ever can make so faithful 
and trust-worthy assistant, as one who has been educated in habits 
of industry and accustomed to treat the minutise of business, sucfi 
as keeping things in proper places and doing all things at proper 
times with promptness and care, even if those services were ever 
so humble. 
Time is untiring in his rapid flight, and three short months had 
been borne away on his restless wing, when it was announced that 
young Mr. Moonshine would soon visit the parental roof The 
ecstacy that filled the ambitious hearts of the parents, when the 
joyful intelligence first penetrated the inmost recesses of those 
hearts, was partially developed by the tranquil smile that 
played upon the lip and gave new lustre to the eye, repeated the 
thrice told news to the neighbors, " that our son from the city 
was coming home." And who can tell the raptures of the young 
Moonshines, in anticipation of candies, sugar whistles, and all the 
et ceteras of childhood knicknackery when brother came home. 
It was the busiest season of the year, the time of the ingather- 
ing of the early harvest, when Mr. Lafayette Moonshine arrived 
to make his first visit to his country friends. His personal appear- 
ance during the time of his absence had passed througj^i changes 
which may well be anticipated in one who had thrown aside the 
rustic characteristics which so illy befitted his dignity. Every 
article of his, (rather sparse to be sure) wardrobe was city cut 
and city made. His head was dressed in the latest city style and 
his complexion had passed from the brown features, to which out 
door employments give an almost certain assurance, to the deli- 
cacy w^hich dwellers in the shade so often exhibit. A pair of 
