No sooner doth a young man see his sweetheart coming, but he smugs up himself, pulls up his cloak now fallen about his shoulders, ties his garters, points, sets his band, cuffs, slicks his hair, twires his beard, &c. When Mercury was to come before his mistress,

We thought mebbe yew'd want ter slick up the room an' git ready fer the new" He was allowed to say no more.

It's slicked ez slick ez it kin be naow."

The Southern highway surveyor, if such a personage exists, is evidently not consumed by that distressing puritanical passion for "slicking up things" which too often makes of his Northern brother something scarcely better than a public nuisance.

He look kinda slick an dressed-updiffunt from de rest.