Transcibers note:
Mostly, the original text has been left alone complete with misspellings,inconsistencies, etc. as these are part of the charm of the book. Also,inconsistent hyphenation and paragraphs that end in commas have also beenleft as per the original.
Minor punctuation and apparent printing errors have been corrected withoutnote.
A list of changes that have been made is shown at the end of the book.
"Come, now, s'posing we strike up a trade. I've took a sortof a sneaking notion to that ere new-fashioned side-saddle. Soif you'll throw in the tackling, I'll give you ten dollars for it,cash on the nail."—Page 150.
"I wish you could a seen that Astor House chap when he read the name; helooked as if he didn't know what to du, but at last he stepped back, and madea bow, and sez he—"—Page 184.
HIGH LIFE IN NEW YORK.
BY
JONATHAN SLICK, ESQ.,
OF
WEATHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT.
A SERIES OF
LETTERS TO MR. ZEPHARIAH SLICK, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND
DEACON OF THE CHURCH OVER TO WEATHERSFIELD
IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
EMBELLISHED WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ENGRAVINGS.
Philadelphia:
T. B. PETERSON AND BROTHERS,
806 CHESTNUT STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
JONATHAN SENDS A PREFACE.
A letter was dispatched to Weathersfield requesting Mr.Slick to forward a preface for his volume of epistles, butthat gentleman instead sent the following letter, which is sofull of his own peculiar humor that his friends will no doubtgladly accept of it in lieu of one.
The Publishers.
Weathersfield, Connecticut.
Gentlemen, Surs:
Your letter got tu the old humstead last night, nigh uponbed time, and it eenamost upsot me to think that a fellerthat's printed so many smashing books, had got a notion tuprint my Letters tu, and asked my consent jest as mealymouthed as a feller asks the gal he's been a courting