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kingston chronicle nec rege nec populo sed utkoque vol 12 saturday april 16 1831 lid 42 miscellany from the keepsake the brighton coach concluded fiut sir said the big lady m does 11 tk5 here coach git to the olephant and castle u a little past eightsaid i wc goes through kcnmngton 1 believe said the ladv we do iritis quite flprerable sir the awful dame to your good lady to have that ere window up i should he uncommon oblcgat- cd because my little emily la win la is jist out of toe scarlet fever and i am afeard of her taking could tho combination of blunders in this little ppeech set the late weeping funny into a laugh for there was in the corner of her eye that playful sparkle which no grief can quite ubdue she was aa readily akve to fun a assailable by sor row and soil is with all people who fee strong ly for as mcore says in one of his melodies tbshjart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touchd by the thorns the plump lady however found that she had made some mistake and not at all taking into the account that people in general do not very much approve of shutting themselves up in a coach hermetically scaled with patients in the scarlet fever set me and my good lady down as two proud conceived upstarts and revenged herself to our utter dismay by dissipating the sorrows of silence in enjoying the solace of pep paruint lozenges one of which she herself took and admit tered another to her darling pet on the opposite seat so that while my companion was gratified by the redolence of the fragrant herb ihrmish the medium of the old lady 1 was indued by the more active and efficient exertions of the living anatomy next her the coach rattled on and iheheld my opposite neighbonctm longer as a stranger she leaned fornanl just as we passrd kennington turnpike and asked me whether i went on to charing- cross or left the coach at the elephant and cas tic i told her that i stuck by the ship to the last and hoped she would permit me to assist her in securing her luggage it was at this period in thcinidst of the jangle of the vehicle and the clatter of the macadamized road thai i endea voured to induce her to tell me her name this afto poamvety reiusetf then t fonfced ftft the superscription of a letter which sometimes very inflexible ladiesunder similar circnmslonces will considerately let slip and thus one gets in a moment qccidentauit what worlds would not tempt them deliberately to disclose but no it tv as too dark to read writing yet i was so con ffinced that she actually held a card ready to give me that i endeavoured gently to force her deli cate right hand open in ordr to obtain the de sired informal ion but 1 found i was wrong she seemed dctetmincdteithcrthat 1 should know nothing more of her or if i did that i should at least have the trouble or pleasure as the case mght be of hunting after my intelligence failing in the main point of my enquiries i endeavoured to ascertain what part of london she resided in and tried every street square row and corner from groveroad puddington to dogrow whitechapcl in order to excite an af firmative nod and oneof those bewitching smiles which i began to love but no well thought the time must come when yon must go and then i shall follow and so if you choose to be silent and uncommunicative and dignified and dis agreeable i can bo revenged upon you not that 1 could believe a woman who would generously confide the sorrows of her heart to a man could be ulnolurrd enough to withhold the trifling ad dition of telling him when that heart was doom ed to beat the moment arrived and wc reached the ele phant and castle the sudden check of good mans team took my poor fanny by surprise and threw her forward so as to bring her somewhat in contact with myself but the lamps of the coach had been lighted at smi the rsbot torn and wc were in the dark compared with objects without and never shall i forget the hurried scramble into which she righted herself as her eye glanced on a countenance outside the carriage brightly illuminated by the lamp on that side she seemed thunder struck who the devil is charles v said i hush my husband replied the lady he is coming 1 am so glad these people areiivthe coach the door opened and a hand was introduced fanny said the master of that hahd io a soft tone of endearment 41 here 1 am love said my companion alone what quite full said the htis- band yer dear said the wife and so tired 1 never was so glad to get out of a coach in my life 11 in a moment i thought i recognized the voice of the husband i coiled myself into the corner she would have got out without my being be trayed if she had not dropped her glove why the deuce had she taken it off a lioht was the glare of the inn door i thought i saw affirma tive in the glance of the eye which induced me to believe that my visit would not annoy her and bo really rather than doom her to a ttua ute with her tyrant though he was my friend i consented to put myself in a position as irksome almost as position could be wc left the coach my trips from brighton be ing periodical and frequent- i had no luggage and we proceeded with the maid and the band boxes tomy friends houseof course 1 shall he excused mentioning the locality but it was one of the pretties bijoux i everaw good taste pre dominated in every part of its decorative and 1 soon discovered by certain druwinpjftli were pendant on the walls that my fair companion was an artist while the piano rorte and harp be spoke her as she had herself indeed informed me she was accompanied in other sciences after a suitable delay of preparation such as taking off things and refreshing and all thatour dinner waa served nothing could be nicer or neater fanny dearest said franklin let me give you this wing i know my life you like it no charles dear not a bit more thank you said fanny come love a glass nf wine with me said j and accordingly took my leave earnestly pressed charles mis an old fashion but we have been by both parties to repeat my visit as often as i apart some weeks so our friend will excuse it if could and to let them see as much of me aspos- m to be sure he will said fanny and theyisibe i returned them my warmest thanks for drank to each other with looks admirably suited j their kindness but named no day for my return to the action j and wished them good niht how strange it is said franklin that af- i have not been there since i called indeed ter so long a separation we should meet in this once and charles called on me but i have been extraordinary manner and that fanny should not 1 little in london during the last season and they have found you out or that you should not have have been much in the country i could not discovered her have equitably maintained an intimacy with them u why my dear charles said mrs franklin j for i fell that neutrality would bo quite out of the strangersdo not talk together in stagecoaches question thus although the recurrence of my very tnie my angel said mr franklin but betray any thing that is told me in confidence her looks explained that she was particularly glad to hear me say so and the smile which fol lowed was gracious in the extreme now said charles that you have thus strangely found your way here hope we shall see you often and i hope so too said mrs franklin i really believe sometimes that things whieh we blind mortals call chance axe preordained i was not coming by the coach in which 1 mot you nor should i have been in it if the other coach had not been full sud then i should have loat the pleasure said i of cion old friend enjoying the delights of do mestic happiness a lfc fanny gave me a look expressive oithe perfect misery of her condition and charles whose bark was turned towards us at the instant in coming up the room again while her back was turned to aimmadea sort of face something between the sorrowful and grotesque which i shall never forget but which indicated most une quivocally whathis feelings on the subject were shortly after this the happy pair began to be 90 excessively kind and tender to each other that i thought it was quite time to beat a retreat some accident might have brought your name to at ears or au to yoms while all this was going on i sat in a state of serfect amazement charles franklin and i ad been schoolfellows and continued friends to a certain period of life he was all that his wife had described him to be in the earlier part of his life but i confess i saw none of the heart- icssness the suspicion the neglect the violence the inattention of which she also spoke nordid i perceive in the bright animated look of plea sure which beamed over hct intelligent counte- uance the slightest remains of the grief and sor row by which she had been weighed down on tbe journey do you feel tired my fanny said franklin no dear replied the lady not very now j but those coaches dfe ad small whfl lltttfg ftf four people in then that one gets cramped here 1 felt a sort of tingling sensation behind my ears anticipator of what appeared to me to be a very natural question on the part of frank lin as to whether we had been full during the whole journey mrs franklin however saw in a moment the false move she had made and therefore directed the thoughts of her barbarjhpp husband from the subject by telling him she had a letter for him from dear mamma meaning his mother under whose surveillance she had been forcibly immured at brighton old friendship with charles franklin has been productive of no very satisfactory results as re lates to ourselves personally it has given me an additional light tn my path through the world and now whenever see a picture of perfect hap piness presented to my eyes affection on one side and devotion on the other assiduity met by kindness and solicitude repaid with smiles in stead of feeling my heart glow with rapture at the beautiful scene before me i instantly recol lect that i once travelled to london in the brighton coach an from the new monthly magazine adventure on the mer de glace continued in a letter to if c esq- geneva august 10 1830 i had observed lor some time past a change gradually taking place in the wea- thor the sky was overcast the clouds were gathering on the mountains tops get ting darker nod lower and at last assum ed the murky grey appearance sailors call greasy and which foreboded not a transient shower but a settled rain mentioned it to my companion and hint isratspmm fanny mind and procccdetil ed the propriety of turning hack i repre- to the drawing room cautioning us as she part- sented the extremely disagreeable situation ed not to be lon charles flew to the door j we should he placed in were roy prognos- and opened it for his departing fairhe accom- tics fulfilled a distance of fully three panied her beyond its threshold and i thought 1 hours from the refuge by tho quickest heard a sound of something very like a kiss as they parted how strange it is said he resuming his seat and pushing the wine towards me that you should have thus accidentally fallen in with fanny she is very pretty doot you think so more than pretty surely said i j there is an intelligence an expression a manner about her to me quite captivating if you were present whenshe is animated said her httshana you would see that playful ness of countenance or rather the variety of ex pression to advantage her mind lights up her features wonderfully there is no want of spirit about her 1 assure you i was quite surprised when 1 heard of your elopement said i her mothcrsaid charles an old woman as proud as lucifer was mad after a title for her and some old broken down lord had been whee dled or coaxed or cajoled or6atteredinto mak ing her an offer which she woold not accept rate of travelling and with the glacier a- gaio to cross in a narrow valley where the slightest concussion even speaking loudly was sufficient to detach tho masses ofaoow which but slightly adhered to the rocks immediately above us much more so when the rain and its accompanying evils might render our own return difficult if not dangerous my objections were overruled and we continued to wade on through the mud but were scarcely over when a lengthened peal of thunder burst through tbe sullen air and striking from rock to rork prolonged itself io countless echoes large drops of rain fell wide and pattered heavily no the ice a thick mack mist spread itself on every side the gloom waa terrific heightening the natnrol horrors of the place it caused even my companion to pause and reluctantly to and then the old lady led hrcucli a life that she i j r- jr- mod ud her mind to the ten which made her i b p 8 t lo m f made up her mind to the step which mine andoneured voutv horotbesmiijili why yes said franklin upon my word taking all things into the scats i see no cause to repent the step between ourselves of course i speak as an old friend fannv has not the ve ry best temper in the world and of late has taken it into her head to be kalous an old acquain tance of mine whom i knew long before 1 was married haa been over hero from france and i have been a good deal about with her during her stay i and as i did not tbinkhcr quite a person to introduce to fanny she took huff at my fre quent absence from home and benn to play off a sort of retaliation as she fancied it with a young lieutenant of lancers of our acquaintance i cut that matter very short i proposed an ex- cutsion to brighton to visit my mother to which she aecceded and when i bad settled hor out of jeachof her younghero and under the eye of my sent for and the moment it came ibeheldinthe mamma i returned to fill my engagements in object of all my indignation and the caoseof all her sorrow the oldest friend of my life charles franklin why exclaimed he the moment he recog nized me is that ysil- fellow traveller with my wife and not known to each other this is curious franklin tald i in a sortoftremour do you know my htfthand said thcla- idy how very strange yes thought 1 1 wish it were impossible i have not seen you these ten yras said franklin u come horaewith us you must and ahttll i indeed said i i oh come come said franklin you can have no ongaement you shall have no engage ment to supersede this i rejoice in having found you after so long a separation and then mr franklin introduced me to his wife in due form much to the astonishment of ourfellow-tta- vellcr- at the other side of the coach who con cluded by what they had seen as indeed they had shown by wbnl they had said that we were if actually not man and wife two of tho oldest and most intimate possible friends 1 have a melting heart by way of a proposition from a friend especially when it is made under extraordinary dtcumstancrs like thcte which ac companied and preceded franklins but altoge ther 1 sincerely declare that i never was more einbarascd in my existence i stilt wished to bog the adventure through and behold my niobe in hcrown dcmocile i looked to my charming companion fur a telegraphic signal if she hud frowned ancgamvc i should bavo repeated the rigr wj i 2ivslj dcdldgairgi b by london and now that this fair obstacle to her happiness has returned to the continent i fc recalled my better half u you seem however to understand one ano ther pretty well aaid 1 to be sure repjied charles theonly point is to keep her in good humour for tntrt fiou her temper is the very devilnnce know how to manage tfcoj and all goes well and i flatter my self i have ascertained the mode of doing lhat to a nicety whether it was that fanny was apprehensive that tinder the genial influence of her husbands wine or upon the score of md friendship j might let slip som part of the da adventure i know not but we were very early summoned to coffee and 1 confess i was by no means displeased at the termination of a conversation whlrh every moment respected would take some turn that would inevitably produce a recurrence to the journey and perhaps eventually tend to betray the confidence which the oppressed wife had re posed in me we repaired to thedrowingroom ftfnny was reclining on the sofa looking as fasciri a ever i saw a lady look charles drarcst said she i thought you would never come up 0u and your friend must have had something very interesting about lo detoin you so long passing over to another many wcro only connected toith each other by a narrow slip of ice affording n perilous nnd inse cure footing every other part being encir cled by a chasm tif perhaps eight feet dis tant much joo wide to thiok of jumping the sides of these charms were rounded by continual rains nnd the surface of the ice rendered exceedingly slippery by that now falling in this manner alternately ad vancing atd receding we got to the centre and our situation was awful the rain pouredi torrents oor clothes stuck to the skin to 5pito of the necessary exer tions my hands and feet were benumbed by tho cold walking on tbe wet glassy ice in shoes thin at first bot now trodden down nt heal and burst at the sides the water squashing through them it was with tbe greatest difficulty could keep them nn my feci and ibis proved to bo very fortunate as had they been thick and strong i could never have kept my footing on the ice and must havo thrown them off nnd gone trifaotrt rather unpleasant to have walked barefooted over such a road for four or five hours at last we jumped doum upon a block of ico and found it completely separated from tho others by a crevice several feet wide into which an enormous block of granite had wedged it self and over this it was necessary to pass from one to tho other it rested high over the terible gulf whose sleek and crystal sides ran down io unknown depths the stone was narrow the piece of ice we wished to crops to was much lower than the one we were on so supposing we got over the siooc io safety and found our farther passage impracticable we could not get back ngain as lo climb op the stnoe again was impossible we were obliged to run all hazards and quickly too we gazed upon each other for some lime io silence thero was no alternative my friend mounted first he sat astride and placing his hands forward upon the rock drew himself aluog until he reached the middle when it was necessary to turn a most perilous thing to accomplish and ide down upon his stomacfa- however e got safely over and then my turn came and with thoughts far mp dlprfg- able i climbed up on the stone and when i catno to turn and embrace the cold dim stnoe its chill seemed to strike tho heart nevertheless i slid down and my compa nion assisted to m land me in safety we continued ourcourte io a sad plight our minds absorbed in the dangers it was evident wo should have to encounter we crossed another chasm over a simitar stone and whetf down we found ourselves upon large berg cut off from all commu nication with the rest except io one pbee and that by a passage so perilous that it seemod hopeless to attempt it- it was a narrow wasted ridge of ice like wall the upper edge worn so thin by the action of the elements as to be but little thicker than a horse backbone though it got broader downwards it might be twenty feet across this my companion declared it was impossible to cross and we sat down io mute despair here we were cut offfrom all hope of assistance far beyond the sight and bear ing of human beings i halloed but i felt at tbe time how hopelessly to bo continued t to talk charles n- wc didni think it long fan st because wc really were talking on a y tereslimr subject we were discussing ohrmy dear charles exclaimed we lady you flatler me and what did he say nie sari she addressing me leatteot tdjyco faction we turned our faces towards the bmpin far k tnm wmr we hi- wv proposed instead of recrossing the glacier where we were to keep along on the same aide uotil we discoyer the chalet and then attempt a passage and this waa the cause of all our misfortunes- no time was to be lost the rain increased the lightning flashed and tho thunder bellowed fearful ly from time to time we strode on as fast as the broken ground would al low keeping down along the edge ofiho glacier and under the rocks for about an hour and then prepared to cross obliquely to some poiot from whence we might reach the refuge we had insensibly passed all the smoother ice which had so recently afforded us a safe and easy passage and got to enormous ridges of frozen spow of perhaps is feet in height coveted with earth and pebbles the debris which had fallen in showers from the heights above making our way slowly and with diffi culty between these masses we came to tho reoiffoaer which had however com pletely changed it character instead of the comparatively smooth ico covered with a coat of frozeo snow we found tho blocks larger and the seams wider and to be traversed with increasing difficulty it was no pleasing thing to stand ou a block nf slippery ice and jump across a chasm o unknown depth upon a lump equally slip pery at the hazard of mitfsiog our footing and gliding beyond all possible relief a0r passing ovorsome nwkward places we found it difficult if not impossible to return aud must therefore keep on at all hazards and hero we began to feel the full weight of our folly the tempest was increasing frightfully the lightning flash ed across nur eyes tho thunder roared and the wind in fitful gusts dashed the rain io our faces whilst the black mist like a pall over natures dyiug face height ened the savage gloom around os of course we soon got wot thruugh bul made the best of our waynowards tho bers now became more isolat ed the seims increased to chasms it tftet c til- was often necessary to walk round a piece o discover sba 3s09 coreb0 ore of from the monthly magazine poland past and present concluded we are no lovers of revolution we know their almost necessary evil their fearful summoning of the fiercer passions of our nature the sullen civil hatred by which brother is armed against brother ifruftft wi tatwwrfw wwmfr r- narchy and promiscuous slaughter of all this we are fully aware the crime of tbe mao who leu loose the revolutionary plague for revenge love of gain or love of power is beyond all meatfuro and all a tonement the first revolution of france in 1789 wns an abhorred effort nf an ambition which nothing could satiate and nothing could purify tbe late revolution was a thing of strong necessity less aa assault on the privileges of royalty than a vindication ot human nature the people whn could have succumbed under so haso and inso lent a violation of kingly promises would have virtually declared themselves slaves and fit for nothing hut slaves the polish revolution is justified by every feeling that makes freedom of religion person and pro perty dear to man poland owes no ahe- giapce to russia the bayonet gave and the bayonet will take away so perish the triumph that scorns justice and so rise the holy claim of man to enjoy unfettered tho being that god has given ham nothing in history isequal io guilty and ostentatious defiance of all principle io the three partitions of poland tte pretences for the seizure of tho polish provinces were instantly the open ridicule of all kurope but russia prussia and ausuia had the power ihey scorned to wait f the right ihey as profligately scorned toaiok of tho torrenis of blood that poured out in the struggle by the indignant pofcs thou sands of gallant lifes sacrificed the field tens of thousands destroyed by the more hitter death of poverty exile ite duogeon aud tho broken heart the whale produc tive power of a mighty kingdom extin guished for half a century fifteen millions of human beings withdrawn from tho ge neral stock of ruropeao cultivation aod branded into hewers of wood and drawers of water the helots of the modern world were a price that the remorseless lust of dominion never stopped to contemplate its armies were ordered to march and the fire aud sword executed tho law tte change of ifco duchy cf warsaw ic- lo n kingdom by rtmja was a royal fraud tho name of independence had noueof the realities of freedom the governor was a tyrant publicly declared even to be unfit for a russian throne the only authori ty was the russian awnrd every net of government emanated from st peters- burgh the whole nation was in a state of surveillance every mao who dared to utter a manly sentiment every man whose views did not perfectly coioside with the dictates of the russian cabinet every mind superior to the brute was io perpe tual dangerof silrtin what would be the feeling of england if a doubt of the wisdom of a ministry whispered over the tahlo much more declared in a public journal would expuie tho doubter to in stant denunciation by a spy to instant sei zure by a police officer and then without further enquiry without trial without beiog confronted with the accuser to ba nishment to the farthest comer of the world to a region of horrors ten thousand miles from every face that he had ever known how is it possible to wonder that men should feel indignant under this hideous state of beiog that they should disdain life thus shamed and stung that they should rejoicingly embrace the first oppor tunity to struggle for the common rights of existence and think all things better than to leave a legacy of chains to their chil dren this it no fancied picture there is not an individual under any of the despotic throoes of europe whoso liberty does not depend on the contempt or the caprice of the monarch who may not be oodonein a moment at the nod of a minister who dares to utter a sentiment doubting the wisdom or integrity of any man in power where is the political philosopher of the continent the profound investigator of the principles by which nations are made wiser and better the generous defeoderof the privileges of the nation the honoura ble and mnnly detector of abuses and er rors no where or if any where in die dungeon those characters by which the whole greatness of england has grown her past light and strength and on whieh wtfl rsi for her pwblcsl depewjeow in all her future days of struggle on the con tinent are all proscribed how long would a manlike burke have been suffered to uumask the prodigality of a continental court how long would a locke have lived after developing the nakeducssof the right of kings how soon would the dun geon have stifled the eloquence of a chat ham upbraiding the criminal folly of o pro fligate ministry how long since would every leading mind nfour legislature eve ry public journal and every vigorous and honest writer of england have been si lenced or persecuted to their ruin by the baud of power if their lot hut teen enst on the continent hating aa we sincerely do af unprovoked violence and deprecat ing all unnecessary change it is impossible tor us without abandoning our humau feelings to refuse the deepest sympathy lo the efforts of our fellowmen in throwing off a despotism ruinous to every advance of oatioos degrading to every faculty of tho human triind and hostile to every prin ciple alike of justice virtue aud chris tianity our knowledge of the preparation of the polish people is itill imperfect hut wo must believe lhat they would not have so daringly defied the gigantic power of rus sia without already m counting he cost hitherto all has been success the rus sian viceroy has been expelled the rus sian troops have been deeated the ar mies nf russia have not ventured to ad vance the polish provisional govern ment has despatched agents to france and ne wre fo4fk commw trave hrrn made to this country here they will have the wishes of every honest man if the late french revolution could jnitify but slight differences of opinion among ainceie men the polish revolution oan justify none it is a rising not of the people a- gainst their monarch but of the oppressed against the oppressor of the native against toe stranger of the betrayed against the betrayer of the slave against the tyrant of a nation the victim nf the basest treach ery and the most cruel adfferiog inthe an nals of mankind against the traitor the spoiler the remorseless author of their suf fering their cause is a triumph io itself and may the great being who bateth in iquity and terribljjudgeth the oppressor shield them in the day of struggle and give anew hope to mankind by tho new victo ry of their freedom j the frog catcher methought i heard a voice cy deep no more bt macskth if you want to catcha gfauwnt yankee you must tako a trip up to the state of ver mont there they shootuplike weeds ge nerally ranging from six to seven feet in stature the bait at which they snap is a great bargain aud a tinmaus cart is the only show box in which they aro willing to he exhibited matthews who took his yankee from kentucky made as great a hull as the old frenchman that hired an irish servant to teach him tho eoglisb pro- nounciation once upon a time there lived in a town in vermont a little whipper snapper of a fellow uamedtimithy drew timmy was not more than five feet one in his thick soled boots when standing by the side of his tall neighbours ho appeared like a dwarf amoog giants tall pple are too apt to look down on those- of less dimen sions thus did tho long legged yankees hector poor timmy for not being a bigger man but what our hero wanted in bulk ho made up in spirit thk is generally thfjtsso with sm3llmea e fortirtray he was allplock and gristle no steel trap was smarter how such a utile one grew on the greeo mountaios was always a mystery wheth er he was actually raised there is indeed uncertain some say he was of canadian descent and was brought to thn slates by a vermont pedlar who took him in barter for wooden cucumber seeds mai timmy was above following the cart he disliked trade as too precarious a calling and pr ferred a machine art though small tim- my always knew which side of his bread had butter o rt let it not he supposed that timmy ahvays put up with tfourw jibes at his size v oo necessary occasion he was chock full of fight to he sure he could not suike higher than the abdomens nf bis associates but his blows were so rap id that he beat out tbe day lights of a ten footer before one cotrltl say robin son a threat from timmy waa enough how many belligerents irave breo quelled by this expressive admonition f v say that ere again ill knock you iotothe middle of next week this occurred in timmys yoonger days age cooled his transports and taught him to endure he thought itbenealh the dignity of an old man to quarrel with idle striplings timmy drew was a natural shoe maker v man coold hammer out apiece of sole leather withauch expedition he used hh knee fur a lapstone and by dint of thump ing it became as bard and stiff as ao iron hinge timmys shop was shuared near the foot of a pleasant valleyon the edge of a pond above which thousands of water lilv lies lifted their snowy beads in the pric it was a fashionable watering place for bull frogs who gathered there from all parts to spend the warm seasoo many of these were of extraordinary size and they drew nearhii shop raised their heads and swel led out their throats like bladders until the welkin run with their music timmy engaged at his work beat time for tbeoi with his hammer and the hours pftased a- way as pleasantly ai tbe day is long timmy drew was ootoneof ihbse shoe makers that eternally stick to their bench like a ball of wax it was ahvays his rula to carry hi work to the dwellings cfbig cut tomers to make sarc of tbe t on his way home he usually stopped at the tavern to enquire the news aod take a drop of something todriok here it was that tho wags fastened upon him with their jokos and often made him feel as uncomfortable a a shorttailed horse in flytime still timmy loved to sit in ihe bar and talk with the company which generall consist ed of jolly pedlars recruiting from the fa tigue of their inst croise with such soci ety much wastohe learned and timmy listened with intense curiosity at their long spun tales of the wonderful nod wiw here is no person that can describe m in credible fact with greater flexibility than a yankee pedur his difficult profession teaches him 10 preserve an iron gravity in expatiating on his wares which io few cases can be said to recommend themsel ves thus narratives sufficient lo em barrass the speech or any other relator carry with them conviction when sober ly received from soch a respectable source these pedlars took great delight io im posing on the credulity of titrtmydrew some ofthe stories stuffed into his ears were astonishing one man had been to the south and gave a marvellous account of the allegatnrs he had seed one scam pering into the water with a full grow o negro in its mnuih anoihcr laid a story of a erat canadiau giant that weighed 1750 lbs io his stockings another bad seen in boston the living skelletoo with ribs as hare as a gridiron a fourth had been to new york aod described tbe great ana rnnvfcr wtrtch yparte wflmnrwf j a iwge goat for its breakfast a fifth en larged no the shark that swallowed air- joseph filaney as exhibited by his sun the wonderful leaps of sam potch lost nothing io their recital here and tbe mys terious sea serpent not more than one bond red yards long in boston waa drawn out to double that length in being trailed up to vermont behind a tinman- cart ooe pedlar told what great smokers tho people were io new orleans said ho tbe vry mosquitoes flit about the streets in the night with cigars in their mouths y94 replied another aod what mosqui toes they are by tho living boky i have seen them flying about aa big as a goose with a brick bat nude r their wiogv to shar pen their stiog on ji would be impossible o repeat all the jokes played off on the poor shoemaker the standing jtist however was on bis di minutive stature which never was more conspicuous than in their company for most of them were as tall as been poles 00 this subject timmy once gave them a memorbje xetort half a dozoo of tbe party were sitting by tho 6re when our hero entered the room he sat down hut they affected to overlook him this goad ed timmy and he preserved a moody si lence presently ooe of tbem spoke f wonder what has becomeof little tim my drew i havnt seen that are fellow for a week by gosh tbe frogs have chewed him up 1 if he was sitting here before yiwr eyes you wouldnt see him slid another hes sodarumiion small tin y began togrow uneasy i wwggers says another 00 more yon couldnt for hes nt knee high to a toad 1 criiqi iorber day at his shop to get my new boot hut i couldnt see any body in the puce t hen heard something scratch ing in a corner like a rat i went up to take a hoot aod i heard timmy sing out 4 halloa where the dickens are you said i here said tirpmy to ibis ere feeotv asjil sniggers there ho wa sura