gentleman

[George Thompson]

This is from the New-York evening Post, mid-October, 1825:

  Yesterday morning a well dressed female with her servant behind her, stepping up to a huckster in Washington Market enquired whether she had "any peaches proper for sweetmeats?"  "No, aunty, but I guess you may get some of that there lady with a pipe in her mouth, what sits opposite, and sells them savoy cabbages and blue nose potatoes."

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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