OF OLD NEW YORK

tress,  bcforc  her  guest,  "the raore you  ring,  the  more  I
won't corae."

General La Fayette, too, Icft us a compliment of dubious
import, on his late forraal entree at New York, when,
seeing such crowds of well-dressed peoplc, and no remains
of such as he had seen in the period of the Revolution—
a people whose dress was adapted to their condition—he
exclaimed, "But where is the people "—eraphatically raean-
ing, where is the useful class of citizens, the hewers of
wood and drawers of water. Before the Revolution, all
inen who worked in any employ, always wore his leathern
apron bcfore him, never took it off to go in the street, and
never had on a long coat.
 

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