k you
among the Salon passengers. Now, Shakib dilates with pride as he takes
the envelope in his hand; but when he opens it, and reads on the
enclosed card, "Mr. Isaac Goldheimer wishes you a _bon voyage_," he
turns quickly on his heels and goes on deck to walk his wrath away.
For this Mr. Goldheimer is the very landlord who received the Turkish
rug. Reflect on this, Reader. Father Abraham would have walked with us
to the frontier to betoken his thanks and gratitude. "But this modern
Jew and his miserable card," exclaims Shakib in his teeth, as he tears
and throws it in the water,--"who asked him to send it, and who would
have sued him if he didn't?"

But Shakib, who has lived so long in America and traded with its
people, is yet ignorant of some of the fine forms and conventions of
Civilisation. He does not know that fashionable folk, or those aping
the dear fashionable folk, have a right to assert their superiority at
his expense.--I do not care to see you, but I will send a messenger
and card to do so for me. You are not my equal, and I will let you
know this, even at the hour of your departure, and though I have to
hire a messenger to do so.--Is there no taste, no feeling, no
gratitude in this? Don't you wish, O Shakib,--but compose yourself.
And think not so ill of your Jewish landlord, whom you wish you could
wrap in that rug and throw overboard. He certainly meant well. That
formula of card and messenger is so convenient and so cheap. Withal,
is he not too busy, think you, to come up to the dock for the puerile,
prosaic purpose of shaking hands and saying ta-ta? If you can not
consider the matter in this light, try to forget it. One must not be
too visceral at the hour of departure. Behold, your skyscrapers and
your Statue of Liberty are now receding from view; and your landlord
and his card and messenger will be further from us every while we
think of them, until, thanks to Time and Space and Steam! they will
be too far away to be remembered.

Here, then, with our young Seer and our Scribe, we bid New York
farewell, and earnestly hope that we do not have to return to it
again, or permit any of them to do so. In fact, we shall not hereafter
consider, with any ulterior material or spiritual motive, any more of
such disparaging, denigrating matter, in the two MSS. before us, as
has to pass through our reluctant hands "touchin' on and appertainin'
to" the great City of Manhattan and its distinguished denizens. For