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SANDERSYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1852.
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POETRY.
My Fattier.
by JUDGE H. R. JACKSON.
As die the embers on the hearth,
And o’er the floor the shadows fall,
And creeds the chirping cricket forth,
And ticks the death watch in the wall,
I see a form in yonder chair _
That grows beneath the waning light.—
There are the sad features—there
The pallid brow and locks ot white.
Mv Father! when they laid thee down,
And heaped the clay upon thy breast,
And left thee sleeping all alone
Upon thy narrow couch of rest.
I know not why I could not weep—
The soothing drops refused to roll,
And oh! that grief is wild and deep.
Which settles tearless on the soul.
But when I saw the vacant chair,
Thine hat upon the wall,
The book—the penciled passage where,
Thine eye had rested last
Thc tree beneath whose friendly shade
Thy trembling feet had wandered forth
The very prints whose feet had made
When last they feebly trod the earth;
And though while countless ages fled
Thy vacant feet would vacant stand-
Unworn thy hat—thy book unread—
* *-— % a x »v« fno sand,
Effaced thy footstep from the sa
And widowed in this cheerless world
The heart that gave its love to thee,
Tom like the vine whose tendrils curie
More closely round the lallmg tree;
Oh! Father! then, for her and thee
Gushed madly forth the scalding tears,
And oft and long, and bitterly
Those tears have gushed in later \ears,
For as the World grows cold around,
And things take on their real hue,
’Tis sad to learn that love is found
Alone, above the stars with you.
MISCELLANEO US.
A CLEVER SKETCH.
The New Trowsers; Or Chinese
PATIENCE-
Dumas in bis “pictures of Travel in the
South of France, relates an amusing exam
ple of the patience and minuteness of Chi
Jiese workmen. He visited the Museum of
M. Grassett, at La Charite •
“We went, he says, through four or five
rooms successively, which were filled with
curiou-objects, the majority of which had
v ■» i* „ vf f'wnccat.t. h\7 on a nt his
been procured for M. Grassett by one of his
friends, a learned sea-captain who had sail
ed round the world, 1 don t know-how
many times, and who arrived from China
about a fortnight or three weeks previously
bringing with him a most singular example
not of the intellect, but of the patience of
the worshippers of the G reat Dr agon
Among the different p airs ot trowsers
which the captain had ma^e for him be
fore leaving Paris, there was one which was
considered a master-piece; it was one ot
those miracles which sometimes issue from
the establishments of Humann or Vaudeau
and which envelop the boots, indicate the
calf, abolish the knee, mark the thigh, and
denv the existence of corporation. Accor
dingly thanks to the predilection which the
owner entertained for them, the trowsers,
after having flourished along the coast, at
the Cape of Good Hope, and the Isle o
France, arrived at Canton, nearly worn
out. Nevertheless, owing to the fashiona
ble cut which nothing, not even the fact ot
being new can supply the place of, they
still looked very well, when the sailor, who
served as the captain’s valet, let fall half
the oil contained in a lamp which he was
cleaning, on the thigh of the unfortunate
pair. .
In spite of his philosophy, this blow had
such an effect upon the captain that he he
had not quite recovered from it when one
of his Canton associates came as usual to
smoke a pipe with him—He found him in
such a state of vexation that he feared some
great misfortune must have happened to
him, and accordingly he inquired what had
taken place to alter his habitual good hu
mor. The captain showed him the unfor
tunate trowsers, which he had now thrown
aside: “There!” said he, “just look! The
very pair you were complimenting me on
yesterday !”
The friend took the trowsers, and turned
them about with the most annoying calm
ness. YVhen he was quite convinced that
they could not be worn again, be observ
ed :
“Well, you must have another pair
made.”
“Another pair P answered the captain.
‘And who’s to make another pair ; some of
your Chinese fellows ?”
“Certainly!” some of my Chinese fel
lows !” returned the friend, with irapor-
turable coolness. “Yes, and get a sack
sent to me, made in their regular style !’,
continued the captain, shrugging his shoul
ders.
“They won’t make you a sack,” said the
other ; but if you only give them the mod
el upon which you want them made, they
will turn you out a pair of trowsers that
Vaudeau wouldn’t know from his own.”
“Really ?” said the captain.
“Upon honor,” assured the friend.
“Well, I have have heard hundreds of
times of the fidelity of the Chinese imita
tion.”
“And all that you have heard upon the
subject has been less than the truth.”
“You make me anxious to try them.”
“Do try, especially as it won’t cost you
much. How much did you pay for those
trowsers ?”
“Fifty-five or sixty francs—I don’t quite
remember.”
“Well, you can see what they’re capable
of doing here for fifteen.
“And what tailor must I take them to ?”
“The first you come to. Mine, if you
like; he lives at the gate.”
The eaptain, rolls his trowsers under his
arm, follows his friend, and arrives at the
tailor’s.
“Now,” said his friend, “explain what
you want, and I will translate your words
to him.”
The captain did not want twice speaking
to. He spread out the trowsers, pointed
out their cut, and ended by saying that he
wanted a pair exactly like them. The triend
translated the order, and laid great stress
on the directions.
“Very well,” said the tailor, “in three
days the gentleman shall have what he
wants.”
“What does he say?” asked the captain,
impatiently.
“He says you shall have what you desire
in three davs.”
“Three days! That’s a long time,” says
the captain.
The friend translated the captains re
mark to the Chinese, who looked at the
trowsers again, shook his head, and said a
few words in reply to the interpreter
“Well,” asked the captain.
“He says there’s a great deal of work to
do, and that three days are not too long in
order to have it properly done.”
“Well, three days, then; but don’t let
him break his word.”
“O as for that there is no fear, In three
days, at the exact time, he’ll he at jour
house.” And the two friends went away
repeating their direcnBhs to the artist for
the last time.
Three days afterward, as the captain and
his friend were smoking their pipes, the do
mestic opened the door, and announced the
tailor. . ,
“0, indeed, said the captain. ‘ Well, let
us see if he is as skilful as he is punctual.’
“There they are,” said the tailor.
“Let’s try them,” said the captain
look the trowsers from the tailor’s hands,
and put them on, and, in order to be cer
tain that they fitted well, told the tailor to
draw up the blinds.
“Why, they fit wonderfully,”
friend.
“I should think so,’ said the captain;
“he has given me my old pair. But where
are the others, you stupid ?’ 1
to the Chinese.
The friend translated the remark . to the
tailor, who gave the other pair a triumph
ant look.
The captain changed the trowsers.
“Well, I must be mad 1’ said the captain.
“This new pair seems to be*mine. VV here
can the new ones be ? .
The friend expressed the captain s doubts
to the tailor, who held out the trowsers on
which he had just finished operating,
“Well, here is the new pair ”
friend. ..
“No 1 can’t you see they are the old
ones ?” replied the captain. “Why, there’s
the spot of grease!”
“And there’s one on the pair you have
as well!” ,
“What a fool’s wit can this be l
The friend turned to the Chinese, ques
tioned him, and upon hearing his reply,
burst into a shout of laughter.
“Well,” said the captain.
“Well,” said the friend, “what did you
order from the good man ?”
“I ordered a pair of trowsers.”
“Like your own 1”
“Yes like my own.”
“Well he has made them so like that
you canhot tell the difference—that’s all.
But he tells me that his greatest trouble
has been to wear therrf out, and spot them
in exactly the same place ; and that he
must charge fiva francs extra, because he
failed with two pair before coming to a sat-
isfactory rfs^ £
You must allow that , that’s worth twenty
franas.”
“Indeed it is,” replied the captain, as he
drew a Napoleon from his pocket, and gave
it to the Chinese.
The Chinese thanked him sincerely, and
asked for the captain’s custom as long as
he remained in Canton, although, he ad
ded, if he always had such difficult work
given him there would be nothing gained
by it.
From that day the captain could never
tell one pair of trowsers from the other so
much were they alike. He brought them
both back to France as specimens of Chi
nese industry.
The Labor Market in Australia.—Labor
is scarce, and is rapidly becoming scarcer,
wages are enormously high, and are still on
the rise. As regards our chief city, we can
safely say that never within our recollection
was labor so difficult to procure as it is at the
present time; nor do we believe that wages,
taking all classes of operatives togetiier,
were ever so high. Not only do mechanics
command their 8s or 9s per day, and com
mon hodmen 7s and 7s Gd, hut even on
these terms they are scarcely to be had
And, even with remunerations like these the
working classes are far from satisfied. There
is among them an independence a restless
ness, a craving after more, which leaves no
doubt that, unless something he done, and
done promptly, to redress this evil, it will
wax worse and w : orse. We think our gov
ernment possesses the means of importing
from the United Kingdom as many immi
grants as the colony actually requires. Meas
ures have already been adopted, since the
goldeh era, for importing them to some ex
tent—which experience shows them to be
necessary.—Sydney Morning Herald of the
1st of May.
Production and Consumption of
Cotton.
We endeavored to show some days ago
the importance to the commerce and civili
zation of the world of the production of Cot
ton by slave labor.. We return to the sub
ject to-day for the purpose of giving with
more distinctness the statistics upon which
our views were founded. As already sta
ted, the entire supply of the raw material
last year, as nearly as we could ascertain it,
was less than 3,450,000 hales—thus:
BALES.
Crop of the Southern States 3,016,000
“ Pernambuco, Aracali and
Ceara, about
“ Bahaia and Maceio, about
“ Maranham “
“ Demarara, Berbice, &c., about
“ West Indies, about
“ Egypt “
“ East Indies “
“ All other places, abont
-will, in all probability, not be greater than
t was the last. It is not anticipated that
the supply from foreign production will ex
ceed that of last season, say about 450,000
hales. It is probable that the present crop
of the Southern States will go beyond 3,000,-
000 bales? If not, and we estimate the sup
ply of the raw material from all quarters
the same as that of last year, and consump
tion should continue at the same rate, it
would result as follows?
as he
said the
A Clergyman who is in the habit
of preaching in different parls of the coun
try, was not long since at an inn, where he
observed a horse Jocky trying to take in a
simple gentleman, by imposig upon him
a broken-winded horse for a sound one.
The Parson knew the bad character of the
Jockey, and taking the gentleman aside
told him to be cautious of the person he
„as dealing with. The gentleman finally
declined the purchase, and the Jockey,
quite nettled, observed—“Parson, I had
much rather hear you preach, than see you
privately interfere in bargains between man
and man, in this way.” “Well, (replied
the Parson,) if you had been where you
ought to have been last Sunday you might
have heard me preach.” “Where was
that,’ inquired the Jockey. “In the State
Prison,” returned the clergyman.
The Two Dutchmen.—Two dutchmen
not long since, had occasion to go to a
blacksmith’s on business, and finding the
smith absent from the shop, they conclu
ded to go to the house; having reached
the door, said one to the other “come
Haunse you ax about de smit.” “Nain,
main, (said the other,) but you can tell so
better as lean.” “Veil den so I knocks.”
The mistress of the house came to the door.
Haunse then inquired, “is de smit mitin ?”
“Sir,” said the woman. “Is de smit mitin ?”
“I cannot understand you,” said the wo
man. Haunse then bawled out, “vot de
debbil, I say is de smit mitm 3” The other
Dutchman, perceiving that the woman
could not understand Haunse, stopped up
and pushed him aside, and said, “let a man
come up what can say something; is de
black smit shop in de house ?”
said the
you to distinguish one pair from
Had a Hand in it.—The celebrated Dr.
Busby having chastised some of the boys at
Westminister school, they resolved to re
venge it, which they effected in the follow
ing manner : They daubed with dirt the
balustrades of the stairs leading to the
school, which the doctor, being infirm, al
ways laid hold of. He was much incensed
at the trick, and on reaching the school of
fered a reward of half a crown to any boy
that would inform him who had a hand in
it. The apprehension of those concerned
may be imagiued, when a junior boy rose
and said that he would tell, provided the
doctor promised not to flog him, which be-
ing agreed to, the lad directly exclaimed
“You Sir,- had a hand in it.”—He re
warded the boy for his wit. .
A Ghostly Wish.—I wish I was a ghost,
blamed if I don’t said a poor covey, the
other night, as he sat soliloquizing in the
cold. ‘They goes wherever they please
toll free; they don’t owe nobody nothing,
and that’s a comfort. Who ever heard tell
of a man who had a bill against a ghost ?
Nobudv. They never buy hats and vittals,
nor liquor, nor has to saw wood nor run ar-
rents as I do. Their shirts never gets dir
ty, nor their trowsers out at the knees as I
ever heard tell on. Ghosts is the only in
dependent people I knows on. I railly
wish I was one.’
75.000
40.000
30.000
1,000
7,000
135.000
125.000
24.000
A Scotchman in New Hampshire being
sick, waa called upon by a clergyman, who
conversed with him upon his religious con
cerns. Said the minister, “Do you repent
of all your sins? Do you repent of Adam s
?” “Adorn! Adorn!” said the
“I never knew the mon !”
first sin
sick Scotchman,
Making the crop of 1852 about
To which add stock on hand
Jan. 1.1852, viz:
Liverpool
Havre
United States
3,448,000
425.000
23,000
128.000
And we have the total supply of Cot
ton for 1852, about 4,024,000
The crop of 1852 as above stated, was dis
tributed lor consumption, as nearly as can be
ascertained, as follows:
U. States Home consumption, 603,000 bales.
“ “ Exports to England, 1,688,749 “
« « « “ France, 421,375 “
« « North ofEurope 168,875 *'
“ “ “ “ other Foreign
ports, 184,647 u
Imports from other countries
into England, about 375,000 “
Imports from other countries
into France, about 25,000 ‘
Consumed at other places, 1,354 “
Bales.
Estimated production of Cotton in
the world
1 Stock September 1st 1852
3,450,000
771,400
Total supply for 1853
Probable consumption at present
rates
4,221,400
3,793,000
428,400
3,448,000 ‘
The increase of the consumption of the
raw material both in England and France,
as well as in the United States and on the
continent of Europe, has been more than
commensurate with the increase of produc
tion, notwithstanding the appliances of im
proved agricultural implements and a more
systematic mode of culture. In support of
thi3 fact we need only mention, that the
stocks of cotton on hand on the 1st Septem
ber 2852, in America, England and France
(notwithstanding the increased production
last year over the previous crop of the South
ern States of nearly 660,000) were very lit
tle if any, greater than the stocks of the 1st
Sept. 1851. This shows that our surplus
production has been consumed, and that
with this surplus of 660,000 bales in this
country, the stock of cotton now on hand
would not exceed 150,000 bales. We will
illustrate:
Stock 1st Sept. 1852 in the U.
States, 91,000 hales
do do. in England, 617,400 “
do do in France, 63,000 “
Leaving a stock of
Thus it appears, that even allowing the
supply from all quarters to reach the maxi
mum of 4,225,000 bales, at the present rate
of consumption there would only be a stock
of 428,400 bales left of it at close of the
next cotton season, being 340,000 bales less
than the stock on hand 1st September last.
But two contingencies can arise that
would be likely to curtail the consumption
of cottou. First, revolutions or warlike
demonstrations between any of the leading
commercial nations, which would disturb the
even tenor of trade. Second, a deficiency
of supply to meet the demand, and ihe con
sequent advance of the price of the raw ma
terial to a point, at which it would be un
profitable to manufacture it. . The first of
these causes, happily for mankind, does not
exist. Should any deficiency of supply oc
cur, we think it will tend to enhance the
value of the article, and perhaps without
materially curtailing consumption, so that
if our planters should not make so much, the
deficiency of production would be supplied
by the advance of priees. If they make
less cotton it would nevertheless yield them
as much ready money as though they had
made full crops.—Sav. Republican.
in
Total stock on hand 771,400
Deduct increase of last over the ) ggQ qqq
previous crop of South \ ’
And it would leave stock of only 111,400
It plainly appears that if there had not
been an increased production the last over
the previous season, under the present rate
of the consumption of cotton, the stock now
remaining on hand would be but 1KI,400
bales. The consumption having overtaken
the increased production, the enhanced val
ue of the article is now firmly based upon
the law of “supply and demand.” It is
therefore a legitimate conclusion, that if the
article is now worth the price at which it is
selling in our markets, that price will at least
be maintained, even with another crop of 3,
000,000 bales.
The average weekly deliveries of cotton
for consumption in 1852, are as follows:
In the United States, 11,595 hales.
In Great Britain, 38,500 “
In France, 8,750 “
To North of Europe Germany &c 10,550 “
To other foreign consumers, 3,550 “
Two men in dispute, reflected upon each
other’s veracity. Oue of them said, that
he was never whipt but once by his father,
and that was for telling the truth. “I be
lieve then,” retorted the other, “the truth
was whipt out of you, for you have never
spoken it since.”
Making the weekly consumption 72,945 “
This at fifty-two weeks to the year, would
show the consumption of 1852 at 3,793,140
bales. As large as this calculation appears,
we think it is based upon reliable data. At
least we venture the opinion, that if the
present stocks were not replenished by the
influx of the new crop, the stocks in the
American and European ports on the l9t of
January, 1853, would not be over 111,400
bales as stated above.
The most ingenious and persevering ef
forts to calculate the probable extent of any
crop, before it has been brought to market,
have only proved the utter futility of such
efforts. Even the most experienced plant
er, who daily visits his fields, and is cogni
zant of all the adventitious circumstances
which would tend to increase or dimin
ish his crop, can rarely guess within twenty-
five per cent of the result before his crop is
gathered. How difficult must it be then
for merchants to forma correct idea of the
probable supply of cotton from the vague
and.indefinite and often contradictory and
exaggerated reports which reach them, of
the damages by rain and the ravages by
worms and caterpillars of the crops spread
out over the entire cotton region?
If our estimates of the weekly deliveries
of cotton for consumption be near the truth,
and the present rate of consumption is not
checked,
commerce
ly 3,800
raw material
the stock re
wifi be eons
that the demands of
crop this year of near-
This amount of the
be produced, otherwise
mg over, from the last crop,
' The supply this year
Scarcity
of Silver Coinage
Europe-
There never was known for many years
so great a scarcity of the silver currency as
at present, in consequence of the very large
exportations of silver that have recently ta
ken place to Part Philip, Melbourne, Gee
long, Sidney, and other ports of our Aus
tralian colonies, for the convenience of the
adventurers at the “gold diggins.” Not a
vessel leaves the port of London, Plymouth,
Bristol, Liverpool, &c., -but takes out a
considerable amount both of gold and sil
ver specie, either by speculators who are
proceeding to the above colonies for the
purpose of making large purchases of gold
from the emigrants now working at the
diggings or consigned by capitalists and
bullion dealers to their agents at Port Phil
ip, <fec., for the same specific purpose. It is
with much difficulty that the bankers in the
city and west end can obtain silver
currency to any amount, either at the Bank
of England or the royal Mint, to accom
modate their correspondents in the differ
ent parts of the United Kingdom with sil
ver coinage. At Birmingham, Manches
ter, Liverpool, and other large commercial
towns, the demandat the various banks for
silver is so great that they are unable to
supply parties with more than £100 to
£200, as not only is a vast quantity being
shipped off to Australia and India, but the
demand for silver bullion and specie for
France, Belgium, Holland, Hamburg, and
the continent, are also very extensive. In
consequence of the immense call for silver,
it appears that the authorities at the mint
intend having a considerable amount imme
diately coined into specie, and likewise
gold currency of half sovereigns and sover
eigns for the convenience of the emigrants,
who are placed in great difficulties for the
want of a small circulating medium in ex
change for the gold.
The Turpeatiiie business in tieor-
g*a.
We had the pleasure of an interview with
Richard Cogdell, Esq. formerly of North
Carolina, but now of^McInlosh county in
this State. He has befen engaged for some
time, in t he production of turpentine on the
Altamaha, ten miles above Darien. The
result of his experiment, he says, has con
vinced him that the pines ©f Georgia are
equal to those of North Carolina in every
particular. They will yield as ranch tur
pentine, per dip, and as the season is longer,
they give an extra dip per year. In North
Carolina the turpentine gatherers calculate
upon four to five dips in the season, yielding
each from 40 to 45 barrels to the hand. In
Georgia Mr. Gog dell has had from five to
six dips, ranging from 40 to 50 barrels to
the hand. The turpentine ii also quite equal
in quality. It produces from 6 to 7 gallops
of spirits to the barrel, when carefully dis
tilled, and the rosin brings as high a price
in New York as any other article offered in
the market.
Mr. Gogdell spoke of the influence of
tar and turpentine business in. building »p
cities. Only a few years ago, Wilfeyngton,
in North Carolina, was but little more-.pros-
perous than Darien now is. The turpen
tine business gave her the first impulse on
ward. Distilleries were established. CapK
talists invested their means in them. Wil
mington soon became a depot for naval
stores—her shipping was increased, and now
she has a population of nearly twelve thou
sand! Tho town of Washington, North
Carolina, had a population ot about five
thousand, supported formerly by the same
trade. A single mercantile' house there,
has been known to purchase eleven hund
red barrels of crude turpentine, per day, from
carts, which carried from one to four barrels
each!
What has been done in North Carolina,
Mr. Gogdell says, can be done in Georgia.
The Carolina pines are comparatively ex
hausted. They no longer yield either the
quantity or the quality, formerly obtained.
Hence the men who have been engaged in
the business, are looking to Georgia. Some
five or six of them have already purahased
lands on the Altamaha, and will commence
operations during the coming Autumn.—
There will be force enough employed there
to produce from 10,000 to 12,000 barrels
the next year. At present rates, this would
sell at about $60,000.
The question now is,—will the people of
Georgia embark in the enterprise—will tho
merchants of Savannah make the necessary
efforts to turn this trade to their seaport—
will parties here enter into the business of
distilling—so as to create a market at this
point? At present the products of this la
bour have to be shipped direct to New York,
and a considerable portion of the profits and
commissions are thus lost to <Sie State.
We call especial attention to this matter,
and trust that some of our enterprising
merchants will give it more mature consid
eration. It is true the trade is at present in
its infancy. If properly cherished and pur
sued, however, there is no reason why it
should not, as in Carolina, amount ultimate
ly to millions per anum. It may be ex
panded into a direct trade with Europe Lo
calise freights are as cheap* and often cheap -
er hence, to Liverpool than from New
York.
We intend to resume this subject again.
Georgia, in her almost boundless forests of
pines, has a mine of gold, richer and more
reliable than the placers of California.- We>
have heretofore alluded to the lumber busi
ness in the same eonnection. YYe have no
doubt that persons are now living, who will
yet see the pine barrens of our State sell
for ten times their present value. They are
capable of producing enough n&*al. scores
alone, to support a seaport the size of Sa
vannah.
The Cotton Crop.—We have collected
together numerous accouts from the cotton
growing region, all corroborating former
reports that the caterpillar, the boll worm,
rot and rust, have committed immense des
truction upon the crop, by which it must be
materially lessened, but to what extend may
depend the time the first killing frost makes
its appearance; unless, as it is said is the
case in some sections, the bolls, both green
and dry, are all destroyed together, and
there should be no chance for any further
opening. Should that be the case general
ly, of course the crop is already made.—
Griffin Jeffersonio'u 30th ult.
An attorney who was lame of one
leg, was pleading before a judge who had
little or no nose. “I am afraid you will
make but a lame case of it,” said the judge.
“Oh, my lord,” replied the attorney, “have
but a little patience, and I’ll prove every
thing as plain as the nose on your face.”
When young men have nothing to
live upon but love, they commonly fall in
love and get married just as if hugging and
kissing were a substitute for mutton chops,
or as if it terms of endearment would supply
the place of mashed taters and fricaseed
mackerel.
“I thought you told me that ’s
fever had gone off,” said a gentleman. “I
did so,” said his companion, “but forgot to
mention that be went off along with it ”
ggr Many ladies have two faces; one face
to sleep in, and another to show in compa
ny; the first is generally reserved for the
husband and family at home; the other to
put on to please strangers.
- @11 -
Preparing for a Storm*—A few night*
ago, Mr. Bodkin, who- had been out taking
king his glass and pipe, on going home late,
borrowed an umbrella: and when his wife’s
tongue was loosened, he sat up in bed, and
suddenly spread out theparaplnice..
“What are you going to do with that
thing?” said she.
“Why, my dear, I expected a very heavy
storm to night, and so I came prepared.” _
In less than two minutes Sirs. Bodkin
was fast asleep.
jftp* “Madam, what age shall I put you
down?” (No direct answer.) “How old is
your husband?” “Sixty-one.” “And your
eldest sou?’ r “Twenty-seven.” “And the
next?” “Twenty-one.” “And how old do
you call younjglf?” “I do not know my
age exactly, but it is about thirty.’ “Did
I understand you, madam, that your eldest
son was twenty-seven?” “Yes.” ‘‘You
must surely, then, be more than thirty!”
“Well, sir, (quite snappishly,) I told you
about thirty. I can’t teil exactly. It may
be thirty-one or two, but I am positive it ia
not over that.”
. A pert young lady was walking one
morning on th eSteyne, at Brighton, when
she encountere dthe celebrated Wilkes? You
see,” observed the lady, “I have come out
for a little sun and air.” “You 'had better,
madam, get a little husband first.”
03° A military officer, <
viewing his company,
thrown from his lit
sprawling on the ground,
who ran to his assistance,
had improved in horsemanship,
I have fallen off.