TRAVERS.
The Unique Character of Travers.—His Versatile 407
Attainments.—Although of a Genial and Humorous
Disposition, He was Always a Bear.—How He was the
Means of Preserving the Commercial Supremacy of New
York.—He Squashes the English Bravado, and Saves the
Oratorical Honor of Our Country.—Has the Oyster
Brains?—It Must have Brains, for it Knows Enough to
Sh-sh-shut Up.—The Dog and the Rat.—I d-d-don’t want
to Buy the D-d-dog; I will Buy the R-r-rat.—Travers
on the Royal Stand at the Derby.—How He was Euchred
by the Pool-Seller.—My Proxy in a Speech at the Union
Club.—If You are a S-s-self-made Man, Wh-wh-y the
D-devil didn’t You put more H-hair on the Top of Your
Head?—Other Witticisms, &c.—Death of the Great Wit
and Humorist, and some of His Last Witty Sayings