Chapter V
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Left Princeton—country finely diversified with sheep and hay-stacks[29]—saw a man riding alone in a wagon! why the deuce didn’t the blockhead ride in a chair? fellow must be a fool—particular account of the construction of wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, and quail-traps—saw a large flock of crows—concluded there must be a dead horse in the neighborhood—mem. country remarkable for crows—won’t let the horses die in peace—anecdote of a jury of crows—stopped to give the horses water—good-looking man came up and asked me if I had seen his wife? heavens! thought I, how strange it is that this virtuous man should ask me about his wife—story of Cain and Abel—stage-driver took a swig—mem. set down all the people as drunkards—old house had moss on the top—swallows built in the roof—better place than old men’s beards—story about that—derivation of words kippy, kippy, kippy, and shoo-pig[30]—negro 82driver could not write his own name—languishing state of literature in this country;[31] philosophical inquiry of ’Sbidlikens, why the Americans are so much inferior to the nobility of Cheapside and Shoreditch, and why they do not eat plum-pudding on Sundays—superfine reflections about anything.