Page:Halleck.djvu/149

 He had read the newspapers with great attention, Advertisements and all; and Riley's book Of travels—valued for its rich invention; And Day and Turner's Price Current; and took The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews; And also Colonel Pell's; and, to amuse

His leisure hours with classic tale and story, Longworth's Directory, and Mead's Wall-street, And Mr. Delaplaine's Repository; And Mitchill's scientific works complete, With other standard books of modern days, Lay on his table, covered with green baize.

His travels had extended to Bath races; And Bloomingdale and Bergen he had seen, And Harlem Heights; and many other places, By sea and land, had visited; and been, In a steamboat of the Vice President's, To Staten Island once—for fifty cents.

And he had dined, by special invitation, On turtle, with "the party" at Hoboken;