Jonathan’s arrival from New Orleans

The Comic Almanac for 1836, Being Bissexile, or Leap Year.

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The Captain shivered, all hands shok; I seized the cook’s bucket of scalding dish water and if I did’nt give Mr. Catfish a fly blister, guess I give him a water one. By snookers how he snorted and sneezed as he twisted himself off—all hands call’d me their deliverer;—The Insurance folks gave me salvage,—sold ma clocks to the tune of twenty thousand dollars, and if old widow Muns wont give me her darter now, why—I’ll look arter another, mind I tell ye.