With that I took out my hankercher and kinder dusted off my new coat and trousers, and slicked down my hair a leetle, and I follered Mr. Purdy, right up tu where the President was a standing, in his yaller clothes and his cocked hat.
"Mr. Tyler, how do you du?" sez I, a taking one hand from my trousers' pocket, and a holding it out.
The yaller chap, he stepped back a leetle, and the tall coon, with the nose, he gin my hand a tarnal grip, and sez he,
"Mr. Slick, I'm glad tu see you."
"You're kinder got the advantage of me, I reckon," sez I, but that minit Alderman Purdy whispered to me,
"Why, it's the President," sez he.
"Gauly oppilus," sez I, "you don't say so!"
"Mr. President, how do you du, and how are all the folks tu hum, about these times, all purty smart I s'pose?" With that I worked away at the old chap's hand, with both mine, as if I'd made up my mind tu pump an office out of him, afore I let go.
"Wal," sez I, "Captin, I hope you mean to stay in York a spell, now you've got here; some harnsome gals about these diggings jest now, rale sneezers in the way of beauty—you haint no idee of that sort, nor nothing have you?" sez I, a giving him a slantindicular squint from one eye, and a leetle punch in the ribs with the tip eend of my finger, "no you haint now."
The captin he larfed, and sez he, "Oh no, I'm only making a little unpremeditated tour a—"