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No. 33.
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Tlie Spring of Life is Past.
The following lines, from the Louisville Journal,
are above all praise surpassingly beautiful.
The spring of life is past,
With its budding hopes and fears,
And the autumn time is coming
With its weight of weary years
Our joyousness is fading,
f , Our hearts are dimmed with care,
And youth's fresh dreams of gladness,
All perish darkly there.
While bliss was blooming near us
In the heait's first burst of spring,
While many ho'pes could cheer us,
Life seemed a glorious thing!
Like the foam upon a river,
When the breeze goes rippling o'er,
' These hopes have fled forever,
To come to us no more.
'Tis sad yet sweet to listen
, To the soft wind's gentle swell,
t And think we hear the music
; Our childhood knew so well ;
, To gaze out on the even,
And the boundless fields of air,
fAnd we feel again our boyhood's wish,
' To roam, like angels, there.
Tiiere are many dreams of gladness
That cling around the past
And from that tomb of feeling,
r Old thoughts come thronging fast ;
c, ; The forms we loved so dearly,
In the happy days now gone,
, ; The beautiful and the lovely,
So fair to look upon.
t Those bright and genile maidens
Who seemed so formed for bliss,
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Too glorious and too heavenly
For such a world as this ;
. . .Whose soft, dark e2s seemed swimming
In a sea of liquid light,
-'-And whose locks of gold were streaming
O'er brows so sunny bright.
Whose smiles were like the sunshine
In the spring time of the yeat
m ;Like the changeful gleams of April,
3 They followed every tear;
ts .They have passed like hope away
All their loveliness has fled
Oh ! many a heart is mourning,
r, - That they are with the dead.
f ''Like the 'brightest buds of summer
They have fallen from the stem
Yet,.Oh ! it is a lovely death,
, , To fade from earth like them !
And yet the thought is saddening,
To muse on such as they
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away ;
That the fair ones whom we love,
Like the tendrils of a vine,
'Grow closely to each loving heart,
Then perish on their shrine !
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m.And we can but think of these
In the soft and gentle spring,
When the trees are waving o'er us,
And flowers are blossomings
mz .For We know that winter's coming,
With hij r.nld nnd stnrmv skv
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And the glorious beauty round us,
Is budding, but to die !
To-day and To-morrow.
Don't tell me of to-morrow,!
Give me the man who'll say,
'p. "That when a good deed's to be done,
Let's do the deed lo-day.
We may all. command the present,
,lf we act and never wait ;
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R(i mr.nnii rra is tnp nnnntom , V
mi, , Of the past that . comes too late.
imU Don't tell me of-to-morrow !
There's much to do to-day
T.liat -can never be accomplished,
'; If we throw the hours away!
fm Every moment has its, duty
f Hvho the uture can foretell,? ,
tThen why put off till tp-mpjow,
What tp-day can do as well,?- ;
&& Don't tell me of to-morrow f " ;.
''tm. 'K we look upon the jpast,, ' ' ,
IL)V much that wo 'have lejjW.do
' We cannot .do at last ,
V .To-day ! it is the onlv time n
Por all prfthis frail earth.;
It takes an age to form a life,
A moment gives its birth.
New Article of Fooditleat Biscuit.
Some time since we noticed a new kind of Meat
Biscuit, or ,l Portable Desiccated Soup Bread,"
invented by Mr. Gail Borden, Jr., a highly res
pectable citizen of Galveston, Texas. The dis
covery being fully secured by a patent recently
granted, we will give a brief but clear description
of it, as it is an invention of the first importance,
both to our own country, and it may be said, to
the whole human race. The nature of this dis
covery consists in preserving the concentrated nu
tritious properties of flesh meat of any kind, com
bining it with flour and baking it into biscuits.
One pound of this bread contains the extract of
; more than five pounds of the best meat (contain
ing us usual proportion ot bone) and one ounce
of it will make a pint of rich soup. Biscuits by
Mr. Borden's process may be made of beef, veal,
fowl's flesh, oysters, &c, and thus in a compact
j form the very essence of agricultural products,
fitted for the traveller or mariner, or for the dwel
! lers in distant cities, may be transported by sea
1 or land, from distant rural districts, where flesh
J meat is comparatively cheap,
j In a letter to Dr. Ashbel Smith, Mr. Borden
thus relates the way he made this discovery :
1 was endeavoring to make some partable
meat glue (the common kind known) for some
lriends who were going to California ; I had set
up a large kettle and evaporating pan, and after
two days labour I reduced one hundred and twen
ty pounds of veal to ten pounds of extract, of a
consistence like melted glue and molasse ; the
weather was warm and rainy, it being the middle
of July. I could not dry it either in or out of the
j house, and unwilling to lose my labour, it oc
I curred to me, after various expedients, to mix the
j article with good flour and bake it. To my great
; satisfaction the bread was found to contain all the
primary principles of meat, and with a better flavor
j than simple veal soup, thickened with flour in the
ordinary method.
I This process of mixing and baking, I found to
i be easily -and quickly done, and to answer the doub
le purpose of concentrating in the same cake, the
nutritious properties of animal and vegetable food,
so essential to the healthful sustenance of man.
This extract of animal flesh may be also combined J
with corn, or other vegetable meal, and for some
marine purposes, 1 intend to employ the potato
and other antiscorbutic vegetables, having farin-
; aceous qualities, to desiccate the extract."
! Dr. Smith, a gentleman of scientific reputation,
j has communicated a paper on the subjeet to Prof.
; Bache, President of the American Association for
j the Advancement of Science. He says, "1 have
! several times eaten of the soup made of this meat
biscuit," and thus describes the manner of mak
! ing it :
J The nutritive portions of beef or other meat,
t immediately on its being slaughtered, are, by long
j boiling, separated from the bones and fibrous and
cartilaginous matters : the water holding the nu
tritious matters in solution, is evaporated to acon
j siderable degree of spissituda this is then made
I into a dough with firm wheaten flour, the dough
I rolled and cut into a form of biscuits, is then de-
siccated. or baked in an oven at a moderate heat.
the cooking, both of the flour and the animal food,
j is thus complete. The meat biscuits thus prepared
! have the appearance and firmness of the nicest
j crackers or navy bread, being as dry, and break
ing or pulverizing as readily as the most carelully
made table crackers. It is preserved in the form
j of biscuits, or reduced to coarse flour or meal. It
i is kept in tin cases hermetically soldered up : the
exclusion of air is not important, humidity alone
is to be carded against. I have seen some of the
biscuit perfectly fresh and sound that have been
hanging in sacks since last July in Mr. Borden's
kitchen : and it is to be borne in mind, that in this
climate articles contract moisture and moulder
promptly, unless kept dry by artificial heat.
For making soup of the meat biscuit, a batter is
first made of the pulverized biscuit and cold water
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tins is surrea into oouing water me uuiuug is
continued some ten or twenty minutes salt, pep
per, and other condiments are added to suit the
taste, and the soup is ready for the table. I have
eaten the soup several times, it has the fresh,
lively, clean, and thoroughly done or cooked fla
vor that used to form the charm of the soups of the
Rocher de Cancale. It is perfectly free from that
! vapid unctuous stale taste which characterizes
j all prepared soups I have heretofore tried at sea
I and elsewhere. Those, chemical changes in food
which, in common language, we denominate cook
inir, have been perfectly effected in Mr. Borden's
biscuit by the long continued boiling at first, and
the subsequent baking or roasting. 1 he soup pre
pared of it is thus ready to be absorbed into the
system without loss, and without tedious digestion
j in the alimentary canal, ana is in me nignesi ae
: gree nutritious and invigorating.
I The paramount excellence of Mr. B.'s discovery
! appears to me to consist in this, that it is a meat
biscuit it is meat and bread, numan me may
be sustained, as we all know, on a diet of a single
kind, but the highest degree of corporeal and men
I lal strength and health can long be maintained only
j by the use of both vegetable and animal food ; es-
pecially when labors, fatigues and privations are
j to be undergone. I believe there does not exist
I in nature or art the same amount of nutriment in
as small bulk or weight, and as well adapted to
suuDort. efficiently and permanently, mental and
physical vigor, as is concentrated in the meat bis
cuit in question, une ounce oi tne oiscuu mea
makes a pint of rich, invigorating animal and
larinaceous soup by us combination wun water
all the reauirements oi a good lood are answered
animal and vegetable aliment in a sufficient bulky
form.
We Dtiblish the remarks of Dr. Smith, as ex-
j planative of the process of making it, and to show
the opinion o! a scienunc man on uie suujeui
We have also partaken of this soup bread, and
! consider it to be a most excellent discovery, one
invaluable to the geologist, surveyor, traveller and
j voyager. Two pounds of it will supply one man
i for a week, and fourteen pounds will support him
'for a month. It provides the means of making
i'the journey through the wilderness, to the prom
ised land on tne borders ot the raciuc, compara
lively easy.
Large feet. Some ihink that largo feet are
' ungeuteel, but they are convenient. A person
.with larce feet siands a belter cnance in a nign
i wind than one of small feet, as he 13 not so li
i able lo overset. Large feel are aLo more con
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v.enient lor KicKing ra&uma. jh mo umo
hand larae feet are inconvenient on accoun
of the expense of shoe leather and stocking
varn. it also takes longar 10 wasn large ieei
ilnn small.
It i mi II another advantage of large fee
t'hai it puis ihe owner on a "&ubtantial fooling
in aocieiv !" besides, there is safely in board
foundations everywhere.
Selling old Goods.
One P. G., a gentleman of quality, well known
to many citizens of New Hampshire, as a success
ful merchant ofC , owed much of his good
fortune to his knowledge of human nature, of
which he always endeavored to take advantage.
He once in connection with another person opened
a " branch store," in a town in the north part of
the state, which was mostly filled with unsaleable
goods from their principal store in C . These
goods were as 'good as new' among the rustics,
and sold quite as well, if we except a large lot of
that unique article of gentleman's wear denomina
ted hog-skin caps. By the way, we remember of
wearing one ourself, and the reader of course is
also aware what a hog-skin cap is, or was.
G. generally kept himself at his home in C,
but often visited his country store, staying some
times a week or more, and attending the country
church; and as a matter of course was looked at
with astonishment by the go to meeting young
men of the town. Indeed he was honored by their
imitation of all his acts, dress, &c. What Mr. G.
wore to church of a Sunday, gentleman as he
was, was the prevailing fashion there, unless he
introduced a new style at his next visit.
G. asked his partner about the business, pios
pects and other matters wherein. he was interested,
and received the reply that things went pretty
quick at good prices.
4 Keep those old caps yet I didn't make a great
bargain in buying them,' said G., espying a large
box filled with the caps. 4 Can't you get rid of
them at any price V
4 Haven't sold one yet ; people don't like them,
and I've had a notion of throwing 'em out of the
back window, and getting rid of the trouble of
them. They won't go here, I think.'
G. looked at them a moment and exclaimed.
4 1 have it ! You have kept them out of sight, I
see. INext Monday, you get them out and brush
them up, and I'll send you a score of customers
before the week is out.'
The next Sunday G. appeared at church with
one of the identical hog skin caps tipped grace-
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Diamond Cut Diamond.
The other day a gentleman who had occasion
lo cross New-York in a cab, found on alighting,
that he had no change in his pocket. I he only
shop at hand was a cigar store in which were
some three or four fellows, besides the proprietor,
putting the villainous weed.
The gentleman entered, requesting the cab-man
to follow him, and handing'a five dollar bill to the
"Yorker," asked him to change it. The cigar -
vender handed him a three dollar bill and the bal
ance in silver, out of which the cab-man was paid,
and went on his way rejoicing.
But a moment afterwards, the gentleman, look
ing at the bill, found it to be a very suspicious
looking document, purporting to be a promissory
note of the Dogtown Lumber and Mining Compa
ny, or some such ambiguous or apocryphal insti
tution, .binding he had been shaved, he asked
the cigar-vender if that was a good bill.
44 A good bill ! yes I wish 1 had ten thousand
of 'em," was the answer. 44 Bill," (winking to a
villainous-looking 4.4 B'hoy") " isn't that 'ere a
good bill!"
44 Good as wheat," said the b'hoy; and 44 good
good " was echoed round the shop.
44 Very well," said the gentleman, 44 1 asked for
information. You seem to have no doubt of the
genuineness of the note, and as you were kind
enough to accommodate me, I think the best thing
I can do is lo break it at your counter. Gentle
men, try another. cigar apiece at my expense."
The cigar-man was regularly taken in and done
for caught in his own trap. With great reluc
tance he changed the spurious note, and the oper
ation cost the intended victim but about a shilling.
As he was leaving the store, one of the ,4B'hoys"
touched him on the shoulder.
44 You're one of 'em," said he. " and I'll bet high
that you're a Yankee."
44 1 ain't anything else," replied the gentleman,
44 and while I'm in this small village, 1 mean to
keep my eyes open."- Olive Branch.
ITIan ivitli one Garment.
The following amusing paragraph we clip from
the Springfield Republican. It certainly contains
a moral which may be commended to the attention
of all parties or sects who base their faith upon
one idea or one principle.
44 There was once a man, wise in his own eyes
and deemed by his heighbors a Utile strange,'
who upon rising from his bed one morning, paused
and considered before he dressed. He was an
awaking dreamer, and thus he dreamed. Panta
loons are essential. No other garment is so abso
lutely essential as pantaloons. In truth, no oth
er is essential but pantaloons, therefore I go in for
pantaloons, and nothing but pantaloons. Any man
who goes in for anything else is a hypocrite, and the
truth is noi in him." Well, this man went out
into the world with nothing but pantaloons on.
He met men in coat, hat, and boots, and clad as
men usually are. ' My friends,' said the dreamer,
4 you are wrong. You must take off your coat
and pull off your boots, and lay aside your hat, for
those are all non-essential.' 4 But we have just as
good pantaloons as yourself,' answered the men.
4 1 know, but they are partly covered with your
coat-tails, and are not the prominent objects of
your dress. Look at me ! I'm nothing but pan
taloons.' Thus the man went up and down the
country, and thought he found many who admitted
that pantaloons were essential, he could find but
few who did not consider other articles of dtess
in the same category. He was wroth at this, and
brawled, and in process of time gathered to him
some wise and more simple, who lifted up their
voices and cried, 4 pantaloons forever !' The
world jogged on as usual, but as is usual with a
curious world, it would like to know what the
party in pantaloons, and nothing else, propose to
do. Let us have the programme.
All Instance of Female Devotion.
For five months there has been confined in the
jail of this county, a young man charged with
lorgmga 12 note. At the time of his arrest, his
wife was 100 miles distant, and the mother of an
infant but a week old. As soon as she was able
she immediately journeyed lo this city, had an in
terview with her husband, made herself acquainted
with the case as far as she could and provided for
defending the trial by procuring counsel, &c. She
then went west as far as Batavia.returning through
Palmyra, Lyons, Newark, &c, endeavoring to
procure testimony which should clear her hus
band. At the December Circuit, the District At
torney moved the case for trial, but on the urgent
application of the wife, it was permitted to go over,
to give further opportunity for the defence. From
that time until the trial, which was had last week,
she was constantly employed in efforts to secure
a favorable issue for her husband. During the
five months her husband was confined in jail, she
was under the same roof with him full one half of
the time, making her home in the jailer's family,
constantly visiting him in his cell, administering
to his wants and cheering his spirits. During the
month of December she made a journey east and
again west, on her old errand traveling, in both
trips, more than eight hundred miles.
In all her journeys she was accompanied by
no one save her infant child whom she carried in
her arms. During the trial last week, she was
constantly present in court, watching, with visible
anxiety, every stage of its progress.
The trial resulted in the acquital of the defend
ant, and the husband and wile were restored to
each other, and the doubts and feara the intense
mental agony of five long months were ended.
Tears of joy attested the deep feeling which hung
upon the result.
Such instances of female devotion to the hon
or of the sex be it said are not rare, but quite
sufficiently so to render the mention of them at all
times proper. I hey serve to illustrate the tenaci
ty of female affection, and force us to regard the
irue woman as indeed man's guardian angel in
misfortune and sorrow, as well as in joy and sun
shine his best counsellor and ever-abiding friend,
willing to plead, endure, and suffer, for the one
she loves, to the last. byracv.se otar.
Thawing out a Fortune, Almost.
A Dutch washerwoman in West tltica cut a large
piece of ice from the canal the other day, and took
it home to melt into water for use. As she watched
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! selves, and, when the thawing was finished, she
picked from the water three bank bills, one fo
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' streak of luck rather ahead of California, with no
in the profits ; $1015 was to pay for washing 3030
; lz- of pieces, without the work,
out even as
; the ice had thawed into waier, so did the fortune
fished from lhe water vanish int0 air, for the bill
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Agricultural Discovery.
Com-ock's discovery in Agriculture, which
. the New York Legislature proposes to test,
professes to be a botanical one, which is of
such a nature, that it cannot be made the sub
ject of a patient. It is claimed that it will keep
in health and fertili'y that sickliest and most
difliculi of trees to manage in this country, ihe
peach, that it will ensure ihe thrifiiness of any
plant to which it may be applied, and make ihe
raising of good crops a far more certain thing
than it now is.
The discovery consists in avoiding ceriain
errors in cultivation which are most likely to
be prejudicial in the best soils, and often pro
duco disappointment to the farmer who has ta
ken the most pains. It is our opinion, how
ever, that there can be no certain nor infallible
application of any one substance nor one pro
cess, that will suit every plant, and answer in
every soil and clmate it is impossible. Sci
entific American.
The Trial of Genius.
Many of our readers (says the Bosion Re
publican) will perhaps remember Sidney
Smith's account of his first airempt at letter
writing. He had a very rich maiden aunt in
the country, whom his mother wished to im
press with a favorable opinion of the son's ge
nius ; and so. after much coaxing, she got him
one day fairly seated for the purpose of writing
a letter. He tells us he had mended his pen,
and scratched hia head for more than an hour,
bui had got no furiher than ihe date and ad
dress, when his anxious mother bolted into the
room, she got a glimpse of ihe wonderful epi
ile before it was despatched on its.errand. So
she seized ii, and read its whole contents
' My dear Ant." Her disappointment may be
imagined by all "proud" mothers. Bestowing
upon ihe delinquent a rousing box on the ear,
Wha', she exclaimed, " have you been here
two hour in learning to call your dear aunt a
piswire
?'
44 You have broken the Sabbath, Johnny,"
said a good man lo his son.
44 Yes," said his little sisier, "and moiher'd
long comb, too, right in three pieces 1"
Fa, is Beach good lo eai 1"
Certainly not, Simon. Why do you ask
me such a question as that V
" Cause the ncspaper says that during ihe
hot weather the rich people all go and li e on
the beach."
Phebe, be quick and grease this boy's torn -pies,
and put him to bed, or he'll die with the
brain fever.
Curious Custciu.
A very curious mode of trving the title of land
is nmnticed in Hindostan ; Two holes are dug in
the disputed spot, in each of which the plaintiff
and defendant s lawyers put one oi ineir iugs, aim
remain there until one of them is tired or com
plains of being stung by the insect?, in which case
his client is deleated. In this country it is the
Client, and not the Lawyer, who puts his foot into
it.
Wonderful Thunderbolt in Connec
ticut.
The Hariford Courant, speaking of ihe de
duction of a large Iree by a thunderbolt, at
New Puquonock, and the effect in ihe vicini
ty, saya : The next day it was ascertained that
the lightning, or, as some supposed, a meteor,
had fallen upon a large oak tree, which stood
n an open pasture, west of Phelpi's Hotel.
fhe tree was about three feet in diameter, and
without a limb to the height of forty feet,
when it branched out and formed a heavy lop.
i he lightning nrat struck ihe tree at the forks,
dropping the branches, and sctattering tho
ruuk in every direction. The trunk was
shivered inio aamll pieces ; no one of them is
arger than a man can lift. Even the rooia
were scattered about, and many pieces were
carried a distance of more than thirty rods.
Some portions of the tree were crushed as
ine as sawdust. The fragments cover an area
of eight or ten acres. The poBts and rails of
fences, lor Boveral rods, were broken oft by
the flying franients. One slick wss hurled
through tho body, and into a room, of an un
occupied houso, that stood fifteen rods from
the tree, and some pieces of tho tree have
been found at a distance of one hundred rods
rom the place where it stood. Much of tho
body of the tree was riven into splints, like
those used by basket-makers ; and so small
are the pieces, and so evenly distributed over
the ground, within the distance mentioned,
that a person can hardly find a place to put his
fool without treading on some of them, per
sons residing seven and eight miles from tho
place, say they felt their dwellings shako from
the explosion.
Great Invention iu Engineerings
The Cincinnati Times says that Mr. Sellers,
of that city, formerly of Philadelphia, and known
as one of the most ingenious mechanics of the
United Stales, has just completed an invention
which it is said, will simplify and revolution
ize the whole science of Engineering. Mr.Sel
lers submitted hia machino to the inspection
of Dr. Locke, T. W. Bakewell, Mr. Rickey,
and other scienifiic gentlemen ; all of whom
approve of it, and consider it a greai triumph
of mechanical skill. The machine, the Times
learns, combines the operation of the peram
bulator wiih that of the peniagraph, giving
profilo lines of plats, surveys, and measuring
distances. By trundling over a tract of coun
try, more accurate survey for a railroad can be
made than by any oilier method, and at least
fifteen miles per day mapped with correctness
altitudes, depressions and space. It can al
so be used on our streets, thus dispensing with
the services of an engineer.
Cattle from Hie West.
The New York Express says:
"But few people in New York, weapprehend,
have any just conception of the magnitude and
importance of the cattle trade of the West; nor
is it known, we dare say, beyond the precincts
of the drove yards and the markets, that of all
ihe beef we consume in this part of the coun
try, full two-thirds, or more ihan two-thirds of
it, come to us from the banks of the Ohio
and its tributary streams. The average week
ly demand from the city of New York for beef
catile is, throughout the year, fairly estimated
at twelve hundred head, at $6 per cwt., the
lowest price for which perchases can be made,
just now. this will give us an aggregate valua
tion of nearly 8100,000. Kentucky sends us
annually a vast number of cattle, as well as
Tennessee and some parts of Western Virgin
ia, but by far the greater proportion of il comes
from the 'Buckeye State.' "
Charring; Butt-JEuds of Posts.
We lake occasion, as the spring will be up
on us in a week from ihis, and fences will haro
to be constructed and repaired, to commend to
the favor of our agricultural friends, the prac
tice of charring the butt ends of posts before in
seriing ihem in the ground. We advise thai
the butt-ends of posts be charred sufficienily
far 10 leave aboui four inches of the part so
treated above ground. That the durability of
posts, thus prepared, will be greatly prolonged,
we have not the slightest doubt nay we be
lieve that ii will make one post last as long as
three would, that had been planted without
such previous preparation, and that any wood
susceptible of being wrought into posts, can by
this process, be rendered comparatively dura
ble. Our reason for ihis opinion are these.
I. Charcoal being indestructible, is not liable
to be acted upon disadvantageous by heal and
moisture, those active agents in the process of
decay. 2, Charcoal though possessing great
affinity for moisture, is a bad conductor of heat,
and therefore, it is not to be presumed, that it
would, in ihis connection, exert an injurious of
fice upon ihe interior of the wood beyond the
charred part, because ihe necessary degree of
heat and moisture, to excite and carry on de
composition would not be present. 3. Becauao
the vety process of charring iho butt-end, would
8xpel a considerable quantity of waier or sap
iu the body of the posts, and thus relieve them
in a great degree, of the presence of the agent
by which rotiennesH, when operated upon by
heat, is most generally brought about. There
fore, if you deprive the poat of the cause of
decay, as a consequence, you mu3t assure its
preservation through a very great length of
time.
Sun and Air.
A cross-grained, antiquated maiden vixen went
to a physician for advice. "Madam," observed
the doctor, 44 it seems to me that it would do you
good to have a little sun and air.-' " Oh, you a
bominable critter! a son and heir! Ohp dear!
will somebody fan- me-! L shall go off! The
outrageous brute !" The old maid vamosud, and
has not since been seen.