21. XXI.
LIST OF HOUSEN TEW LET.
FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED.
BI * * * * *.
Real Estate Agent and Property Broker.
Number One—Gothick cottage, (with chimbleys,
and windo blinds attached,) and water, (in the suller,)
lokated for the present on the south-east angle ov
Soap and Myrtle streets; house kontains a bay windo;
would suit a lawyer or a blacksmith. Rent, for the
summer months, (including the good will ov the naberhood,)
$4,500. No children and doggs aloud on
the premises. Cards, tew view the hous, kan be
obtained ov the agent (admitting a gentleman and 2
ladys) for the trifling sum ov 5 dollars. N. B.—This
hous waz taken yesterday, and customers are forbid
tew bother the agent bi inquiring about it.
Number Two—Will be tew rent in a fu daze; the
hous iz being put in perfeck order bi being white-washed,
and the floor sprinkled with sum sand.
This hous is a cross ov the Ionian & Dorick style,
waz built when lumber waz skarse, and iz almitey
hard finished throughout, rat-holes awl plugged up,
and a bottle ov bed bugg pizen, neatly labeled, and
hung up in each room. To a tenant who kan bring
testimony, and a good pedigree, this hous would
be leased for a term ov 30 or 40 years, for about
2,500 hundred dollars a year, the tenant tew pay the
taxes, and remove the mortgages now on the premises,
and put in the gass, and git the hous insured
for 6,000 dollars, and assign the polisy tew the agent
az collatteral security for the faithful performanse
ov the kontrakt. N. B.—If thare iz enny things
else that i hav forgot tew menshun about the terms,
the tenant kan hav them inserted, when the papers
are drawed up, without extra charge.
Number Three—Iz kompletely furnished with gass
fixtures and meether, and ile cloth in the front hall,
and pegs in the closets, and back verandy. This
delightful property iz now occupied bi a phisician,
(“whose sands ov life hav about run out,”) and sum
ov the rent would be took in boarding the phisician
(“whose sand iz about run thru,”) and hiz wife, and
wife's oldest sister, and her unkle, and the 9 children,
who are awl lite eaters, havin bin kept for the
laste 6 months on sperm kandle soup. Tew a tenant
who could loan the phisician $1,500 or two
thousand dollars, and take a first mortgage on the
furniture in the hous, a liberal rent would be named,
payable quarterly in advanse. P. S.—fust cum,
fust git.
Number Four—Iz the property ov a two-millionaire,
who iz about going tew Urope with hiz entire
family, tew spend sum munny. This hous haz one
ov Chickering's 10 oktave, iron-frame, overstrung
bass, rosewood, round kornered, pearl keyed, pianners,
built expressly for the owner bi Mr. Chickering
himself, after the design ov the pantheon in
Rome, (Italy,) and also haz a hole cut thru the roof,
from which the North star kan be distinktly seen
with the naked eye. Rent iz no objeck—tew a small
family ov one or two persons, this hous could be had,
if applied for within 2 daze, at the nominal prise ov
20,000 dollars a month, reckoning 26 working days
tew the month.
Also—A superb hoss ov a black culler, warranted
16 hands hi, ov grate enduranse, tew stand without
tieing, and kan trot in 2:53; would make a good
card for a hearse hoss.
