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HERMIT IN PHILADELPHIA.
SECOND SERIES.
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CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF
YOUNG BELLES AND ELEGANTES ANDCOQUETTES;
SPOILED DANDIES AND OLDRUFFIANS;children;
MAIDS DANDY SLANG AND LA-AND OLD BACHELORS;
MORNING VISITS AND EVENINGDY-SLANG; PARTIES;
DRESS AND FEMALE SLANDERERS ANDORNAMENTS;
MALE LONG BRANCH LETTERS ANDexquisites;
and BIL-PRICES lotteriescurrent; quacks;
LIARDS AND GAMBLING ANDPHARO; SPORTING;
elections AND THEATRICALS ANDAMUSEMENTS;
HORSE wife SELLING AND BOX-BETTING;racing;
AND DOG ANDING FIGHTING BULL BAIT-cocking;
&C. &C. &C.ING,
You o' the as if were a God tospeak people, you punish,
a of !not man their Coriolanus.iufirmity
— for aYou think this cruel? take it rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool. Pope.
--.BYBY PETER ATA]AT ESALL,l^
" HEftMIT ANDEDITOR OF THE IN AMERIOA,^ AUTHOR
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OF "AMERICAN BARDS" AND SISYPHI OPUS OR
TOUCHES AT THE TIMES."
PHILADELPHIA:
FOR THE AtJTHOR BY J. MAXWELL AND MOSESPUBLISHED THOMAS,
BY HALEY AND NEW YORK.AND THOMAS,
1821.
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« tCONTENTS.
Preface. Page.
- - - 7Chapter,!. Coquettes,
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2. 20Dandy Slang,
- -3. Female 32Slanderers,
-4. Fashionable 47Conversation,
- 635. Philadelphia Amusements,
- -6. 83Spoiled Children,
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7. Elections 98
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8. Lotteries and 112Quacks,
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9. Letters from 127Branch,Long
- - 14610. Foreign Follies,