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All Lettorsand Communications addressed tto the Editor by mail must be post-paid, or they not be attended to THE GARLAND --"Withaweetest flowergenrich'd, Front various gardens cull'd with care." .\ 1 - Soar, to Kate. \ My eyes! how I love you You sweet littlo dove, you 711meg no ono above you Most beautiful Kitty So glossy your hair is— lake a sylph's or a fairy's, And youineek, I declare! is " ? .,',:.Exquisitely pretty! quite Grecian your:nose is, And your cheeks are like roses— SCI delicious-0 Moses! Surpassingly sweet! Not the beauty of tulips, Nor the taste of mint juleps, Can compare with your two lips, Most beautiful Kato! Not the black eye of Juno; Nor Minerva's of blur; no, Nor Venus's you know, Can equal your own. Oh! how my boort prances, And frolics and dances, When its radient glances. Upon me are thrown! And now, dearest Kitty, Its not very pretty—, Indeed its s pity To keep me in ?Tem. So, if you will but chime in, We'll have done with our rhymin,-- Swap Cupid for Hymen, And be married to-morrovr. atat:3olllaaaMMOZlCto From the Nov York Express. JOIINATIIAN SLICK IN NEW YORK. To Mr. ZEPHANIMI SLloit. Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the Church, over to Weather&ll in the State of Connecticut: Deer Par: I arrived here sale and sound, (tr ier a long and tedious voyage down the riv er and along shore to this place. The Cap tain loft me to navigate the sloop purty much alone. The lazy coot did nothing on arch but eat raw turnips and drink cider•brandy all the way down. I'll he whipped if he warnt half corned the hull time. Now its my opinion that the best thing you can do with that chap is to send him end foremost about his bisiness jest as quick as ho gits back. Ho don't am his salt to his porrage, nor never did. The first thing I eid arter the sloop was hauled up to the wharf at Peck Slip,was to go down to the stores about Ful ton Market and peddle off the cider•brandy and garden sarce. Captain Doolittle wan ted to go with me, but you sent me down here as a sail of super-cargo,and I warrant likely to let him stick his nose into my bu• siness. I know the critter like a book, and I'm sartin that he'd a gone home and told all about, that I wasn't capable of doing my own business here in York. By gracious, if it didn't make me stare to 13 e e the purty gals sad the handsome marri ed women walking up and down the market among the heaps' of beets and cabbages. They looked around mighty knowing, and I rather gum I got my share of attention, but somehow it made me feel kinder streak ed to have them looking at me so steady, for I hadn't nothing on but my every day clothes; besides the stock that n:iarm made me, out of her old bombasine petticoat,prep ped up my chin so that I coubrnt a stooped to look into a woman's face if I'd a wanted to ever so much. I do believe warm and Judy White must a put more than a peck of tatur starch into the lining. It's all fired stifithat'sa fact. Wal,l sold out the lading to putty good advantage considering the times. Then I went down to the sloop. and slicked up in my Sunday clothes,and started off full chissel to go and see cousin John Bubee. They told me that he kept store away down Pearl street een•a-most to the Battery; so I went on a s (wit re I could get along, through the boxes and barrels that lay in the streets,tiil I came to a great high brick storo that had cousin John's namo over the door. It seem+ that John has gone into partnership with a Mr. Co, for that fellers name is on the sign arter bissin as large as life. I knew that he and John Wheeler went into company but 1 suppose they wanted more chink than either of em could raise, and so engaged this Mr. Co to help em along. I swan if it warnt enough to make a fel ler dry to see the hogsheads of rum and mo lasses, and the heaps of tea boxes and sugar barrels, piled up inside the store; it looked like living, I can tell you. I went through clear to the other end of the store, for they told me that cousin John was to the count ing room away back there. Wal, I got to the counting room at last, and a handsome little room it was, all carpeted, and fixed out like some of our best rooms in Connecticut, 1 haint seen so purty a store scarce ever.— John was'nt there, but I could see that he had'nt got over all his old tricks, for a lot of chesnut shells was trod down round under the stove,and there was'nt a few empty bot ties standing round under the table and back of the desk. It was enough to turn one's stomach to• look at the spit box,it was more than half filled up with pieces of se gars, and ends of tobacco, that looked as if they had been chawed over a dozen times or more. I don't see where cousin got that trick of smoking and chewing, I defy any body to say he learned it in old Connecti cut. They need'nt talk to us about the Yankees,for these Yorkers beat us all holler in them things: I haint forgot the time when John would a turned uo his nose at a long nine, as if it had been pison, but now he's sot himself up for a gentleman there is no knowing what he haint taken to. There was a chap standing by one of the desks, with the edge of his dickey turned over his stock,—like an old•fashioned baby's bib, put on wrong side afore,—and with his hair curled and phrizzled up like a gal's. I knew in a minute this feller could'nt be cou sin John, so 1 went up to him, and sez I: "Friend, can you tell me when Mr. Be bee 'II be in?" The chap took a watch out of his vest pocket about as big as a nine pence and sez he— •'l dent know positive, but I spose in the course of half an hour or so. Its a .. .emit time for the banks to close." "Wall," sez 1, "I spose I may as well wait for him as 1 aint in much of a hurry jist now." So I sot down in a chair and ar ter histing my sole leather ontor the top of the stove, I begun to .crape acquaintance with the chap, as I went along. "Tough times with you merchants now, aint they?" sez I, looking over the top of the paper. "Very," sez he, a mending his pen. "Its as much as we can do to make both ends meet afore the banks shut up days. Mr. Sebee's out a stank( now." "A what?" sez I. "A shining," sez he,—"borrowing mo ney to take up hid notes with, and if he don't git it, I don't known what we shall do." Oh, sez Ito myself, this is the new part ner, Mr. Co, he must have a good chance of money in the concern, or he would'nt feel so uneasy. g‘l'Ve was doing a beautiful bisness," sez he, a shaking his head, "till the Philadel phia pinks stopped specie payments. I wish they'd a been sunk." "No," sez I "that snit fair, but its hu man natur, I spose to give banks as well, as people, a helping kick when they're a go ing down hill. I don't understand much of these things, Mr. Co.---" "My name heat Co," sez he, a staring, "its Smith." "What," sez I, "have they got another in the company?" "No," sez he, kinder coloring up, "I'm tho assistant doorkeeper." I could't but jilt keep from giving a long whistle right out. The tuck up varment! Wal," sez I, arter a minis, "Mr. Smith let me give you ono piece of advise, don't be. so ready to say we and to talk over your employers bigness with strangers next time. Such things do no good in any way, but they a good deal of harm. Its the duty of a clerk among us, to attend to that he's paid for and if he attends to much else, we purty generally find out that he aint good for much in the long run." Yort never saw a feller look so mean as he did when 1 said this, he turned all man ner of colors, and acted mad enough to eat me. I didn't seem to mind him, but took up a newspaper and begun to read, jilt as if he watent in the room, and by and by 1 got so deep in the paper, that I forgot all about him or cousin Bebee either. Look.a-here, Par, if you haint seen the New York Evening Express, jist stretch your puss.strings a little and subscribe for it. Its a peeler of a paper I tell you. You need'nt take my word for it though, for I've made this letter so tarnal long, that it'd cost more than the price of a paper a hull year to pay the postage; so I've a notion to git the editors to print this for me in their pri mest evening paper, and so you'll get my loiters and a paper too, all for five cents.— I'll jist give you a little notion how they make the Express, for I read it een'.a•most through, afore cousin John came. The Editors get all the papers in the countr3 to. gather, jist as we pick out oar apples in ci• der time, and they go to work and git all that's worth reading out on 'em and put it all in• one great paper, which they sell for three cents ; so that a feller can know what's said by every editor north and south on one side and tether, without the trouble of reading but one paper;—jist us we can git the juice of a bushel of apples all in a pint of cider, after its once been through the mill. I rely think it ono of the best plans I ever heard on, and I'm so sartin that every body will take it by and by, that I'vo a notion that if you'd jist as lives let OWieLPIZTJUIVZiii I / 4 80 t - twaxpciatir 411)2V2412,-W2113 0,, ans. me throw up the onion trade, I'll try and get in to write for it: but we'll talk all that over by and by. arter I've seen the editors. Major Jack Downing is writing for them and perhapi—but I haint made up my mind about it yit, though I kept a thinking it over all the while I was reading in the counting room. Wall, 1 was jest taking a dive into the advertisement, when cousin John came in. I rely believe you would'nt know the Grit- ter he's altered so. He's grown as fat and pussy as old Lawyer Sikes in our parts,but I raly think he looks better for it. 1 tell you what his clothes must cost him a few. Ho had on a superfine broadcloth coat, that did'nt coat a whit less than ten dollars a yard, I would'nt be afraid to bet a cookery. You could a seen your thee in his boots, and his hair was parted on the top of his head, and hung down on the sides of his face and all over his coat collar, till he looked more like a woman in men's clothes than any thing else, I thought 1 should a haw-hawed out a larfin, all I could do, though it made me kinder wrathy to see a feller make such an eternal coot of himself. 1 thought I'd see if h'd know me agin, so 1 only jest eras• sed one foot over Collier on the top of the stove, and tip my chair back on its hind legs, and kept an reading as independent as a screw jest ter see how he'd act. Wel, he coin right up to the stove, and took his coat tail under his arms, and begun to whistle as if there warnt nobody in the room. Once in a while,ns I took a peep over the top of the paper,' could see that he was a larfin at me kinder sideways, as if he could'nt exactly make up his mind whether ho knew me or not. I felt my heart kinder rising up in my throat,for it put me in mind of old times, when we used to weed onions and slide down hill together. At last I could'nt stand it no longer, so I jumped up and flung down the paper,and, says 1, " Cou - sin White, bow do you dot" He started like a struck pig at lust, but I rely believe the feller was glad to see me when he found out who I was, for he shook my hand like all natur. "Mr. Slick," eez he, "I'm glad to see you down in the city; tow's the deacon, aunt Eunice, and the Mills gals? you see 1 han't forgot old times." With that we sot into a stream o' talk about Weathersfield people, and so on. that lasted a good two hours by the town clock. Arter a while Cousin John took out his watch, all gold inside and out, and, sex he, "Come Mr. Slick, it's about four o'clock—go up and take a family dinner with us." I rath er guess! started at that few, to think of being axed to eat dinner at that time o' day; but as 1 had'nt eat any thing but a cold bite aboard the sloop since morning, the tho't of a good warm dinner warut by no means to be sneezed at. "Better late than never," sez I to myself, arter I put on my hat and stuck my hands in my pantaloons ready for a start. But jest as we - were going out, there came a fel ler in to talk over the meotin that the mer chants had just had at the City Hotel ; and so sez Cousin Bebee, sea he— " Here, Mr. Slick, is the number of our house; suppose you go along and tell Mrs. Bebee that I'll be home as soon as I get through a litt!e business—she won't make a stranger of you." '.l rather guess she won't," sez I, a ta king the little piece of paper which he'd ben a writin on ; "if she does, there must a ben an almighty change in her since we u sed to go to singing school and apple-bees together." John looked kind a sheery toward the stranger, and begun to fidget about, so I told him I could find the way, and made myself scarce in loss than no time—for I thought as like as net the feller cum to git him to put his name to a note or something of that sort ; so 1 thought I'd give him a chance to say no, if he wanted to. By gracious 1 Par, I'd give a quart of soap if you and marm could a ben with me in Broadway as I went along. I could'nt help from stopping een•amost every other minute to look into the winders. Some of them was chuck full of watches and earings, and silver spoons spread all out like a fan, and lots on lots of finger rings all stuck over a piece of black cloth to make em shine. I'll be darned if it did'nt make my eyes ache as if I'd ben snow blind a week;only just to look at 'em, as I went along. I stopped into one store jist by the Park, and bought a silver thimble for marm, & it was as much as I could do to keep from going into one of the stores where I saw such a heap ofcalicos, to git her a new gown too. But 1 can't begin to write more than a pri- ming of what a feller may see as he goes up Broadway. It fairly made me ashamed of our horses, old Polly in particular, when I saw the handsome critters that them aig. gore drive about them coaches with here. I tell you what, they make a glistening and shining, when they go through the streets chuck full of gals all in feathers and hurba lows ! That Broadway is a little lengthy, and no mistake I I believe 1 footed it more than two miles on them tarnal stun walks, and afore 1 got to Bleecker street, where cousin Bobee lives, I thought my feet would a blistered. - - %Val, arter all, I thought I never should a got into the house, when I did get to it. It was alfired high, and a heap of stun steps went up to the door, with a kind of picket fence made out of iron, all curlecued over on the sides. I looked all over the door for a knocker, but could'ut find nothing in the shape of one. only a square chunk of silver. with cousin &bee', name writ upon it. I rapped with my fist till the skin 'eenamost peeled off my knuckles, but nobody seemed to hear, and I begun to think the folks war nt to home, and that I should lose my din ner arter all. I was jis beginning to think "FEARLESS AND FREE." it bast to make tracks for Peck Ship agin, when a feller come by and kinder slack tackle, and looked as if he was going to speak. "Look a hers,7,tou, air," sez I, "can you tell me whether i% folks that live hero are at home or not I can't make nobody hear I" "Why don't you ring the bell ?" aez he, a looking at me as if he never seen a man a fore. I went down the steps, and looked up the rufrof the house, but it was so darned high, that I could'nt a seen any thing in the shape of a helfrey it there'd been a dozen on 'em. "I'll be darned, if I can see any bell," sez I to the man, and then he kinder puck ered up his mouth and looked as if he was a going to larf right out. "You seem to be a stranger in the city," sez he, a trying to bite in, for spose be seen that my dander was a gettin up. "Yes," sez I, "I am, and what o' that 7" "Oh, nothing," sez he, "a hauling in his burns quite a considerable. "Jilt pull that little silver knob there, and I rather think you can make them hear." With that went up the steps agin, and give the knob, as ije called it, an almighty jerk, for I telt a little tiled about being larfed at, It war'nt half a jiffy afore the door openeti, and a great strapping nigger stood inside a staring at me as ic i he meant to wailer me hull without se rp. "Wal," sez I, "you snowball you, what are you staring at ? Wby don't you git out of the way, and lot me in 1" "What do you want 7" sez ha, without so much as moving an inch—the impudent varment." "What's that to you, 5 ou darn'd lump of a charooal r sez I—"jist mind your own business, and get out of the door.". With that 1 gave him a shove, and went into the entry way. When the nigger had picked himbelf up agin. I told him to go and tell Miss Bebee that her cousin, Jonathan Slick, from Weathersfield, Connecticut, wanted to see her. I wish you could a seen how the feller showed the whites of his eyes when I said this. I could'nt keep from larfin to see him a bowing and a scraping to me. "Jest step into the drawing room," sez he, a opening a door, "I will tell Miss Bebee that you are here." By the living holcey, I never stopped my foot in such a room as that in all my born days. I raly thought my boot was a sink ing into the floor, the carpet was so thick and soft. It seemed jist like walking over the onion patches, when they've jist been raked and planted in the spring time. The winder curtains were all yeller, with a groat heap of•blue tossels hanging round the edg es, and there was no eend to the little square beaches about as big as marm's milking stool, all covered over with lambs and rab bits a sleeping among lota of flowers as na• tral as life. The backs of the chairs were solid mahogany or cherry-tree wood, or something like it, and they were kinder rounded off, and curled in like a butter scoop turned handle downward. Then there were two chairs, all stuffed and covered with whiney black cloth, with a great long rocker a poking out behind, and on the man tle shelf was something that I could'nt make out the use on—it was a heap of stuff that looked like gold, with a woman all cov ered over with something that made her shine like a gilt button, lying on the top.— I wanted to finger it awfully, but there was a glass thing put over it and I could'nt ; but I had'nt peeped about long afore I found out that it was one of these new fashioned clocks that we've heard about ; but it's no more like them clocks that our Samuel ped dles than chalk is like cheese. There were two other things kinder like the clock on both sends of the mantle shelf, but they warnt nigh so big, and had no pointers nor no woman on the top, and instead of a glass kiver, there was long chunks o' glass hang ing down them like icicles round the nose of the pump in the winter time. I give one on em a little lift just to find out what it was, but the glasses begun to jingle so that it scared me out of a year's growth, and I sot it down agin mighty quick, II can tell you. Wel, arter a while 1 begun to grow fidgetty so I sot down on a setee all cover ed over with shiney cloth like the chairs, but I guess I hopped up spa spry enough never saw any thing giv as the seat did, I thought at first that I was sinking clear through the floor clothes and all. It makes me fidgety to be shut up in a room alone— so I begun to fix a little, but all I could do them new cassirnere pantaloons that Judy White made for me would keep a slipping up eenmost to the top of my boots. I don't see how on atilt the chaps in New-York keep their trowser legs down so slick, one would think they had been dipped into 'em as marm makes her tallow candles, they fit so. Wal, arter I'd worked long enough on the tarnal things, I went up to a whapper of a looking glass,reaching eenmost from the top to the bottom o' the room, and jist took a peep at a chap about my size on tether side. I tell you what it is, the feller there warnt to be sneezed at on a rainy day, if he did come from the country, though for a six footer he looked mighty small in that big looking-glass. I guess you'd a laughed to a seen him trying to coax his dickey to curl over the edge of that plaguey stiff bombazine stock•that marm made, and to a seen him a pulling down them narrer situ t risbands, so .as to make them stick out under his cuff, and a slicking down his hair on each side of his face with both hands; but it would'nt stay though. Nothing on arth tout a hog is so contrary as a teller's hair, when it once gets to sticking up, I do think. I'd fixed up perty smart considering, and was jist stick ing my breast pin a little more in sight, when the door opened, and cousin Mary come in. 11l hadn't known it was her I'm Bailin I sbould'nt a known her no more than nothing, she was so puckered. She had on a silk frock ruffled round the bottom, and her hair hung in great long black curls down her neck, eenmost to her bosom, and she had a gold chain wound all round her head, besides one a hang ing about her neck, and her waist warnt no bigger round than a pint cup. I never was so stuck up in my life, as I was to see her. Instead of coming up and giving me a good shako o' the hand' or a buss—there wouldn't a ben any harm in't as we were cousins—she put one foot bored a little and drew t'otherback kind o' cater cornering, and then she sort o' wriggled her shoulders, and bent Pored and made a cur chy city fashion. Sez Ito myself, "If that's what you're up to I'll jest show you that we've had a dancing school in Weathersfield since you left it, Miss Bebee." So I put out my right foot, and drew it up inti the holler of tother foot, and let my arms drop down a sort a perpendicular and bent for. 'ard.---jist as a man shuts a jack knife when he's afeared of cutting his fingers—and keeping my eyes fixed on her face, though I did have to roll 'em up a loetle, I reckon I her a a purty respectable sample of a Weathersfield bow to match her York curdles. "Pray be seated Mr. Slick," sez she, a screwing her mouth up into a sort of a smile; but when I saw how she was stuck up I want a going to be behinclipi p with her, so I puckered up my mon , though it was awful hard work, and sez I, "after you is manners for me, Miss lobes. With this sho sat down in one of the rocking chairs, and stuck her elbow on the arm, and left her head drop into her hand as if she warnt more than hall alive, mid sez she, "Take an ottoman, Mr. Slick." I guess I turned red enough, for I had'nt no idea what she meat, but 1 sot down on one of the footstools at a venter, and then she said, How do Mr. and Mrs. Slick do ? I hope they're well." I felt my ebenezer a gating up to hear her call her husband's uncle and aunt such stuck up names, and sez I. Your uncle and aunt are pretty qmart,so as to be jogging about, thank you, Miss 80. bee." I had'nt but jist got the words out of my mouth, when there was a bell rung so as to make me jump up, and in a minute artor cousin John came in. (The dinner to Mr. Slick.) "Wal, L see you've found the way, cousin Slick," sea he. "Mary, my dear, is dinner ready 1" She had'nt time to speak before two great doors slid into the partition, and there was another room jist as much like the one we was in, as two peas in a pod. A A table was sot in the middle of the room, all covered with rale china dishes, and first rate glass tumblers, and a silver thing to set the pepper box in—you han't no idea how atilish it was. But as true as you live, there stood that eternal nigger close by the table as large as life. I did'nt know what to make on it, but sez I to myself, if cousin John's got to be an abolitionist and expects me to eat with a nigger, he'll find himself mistaken, Pll be darned to darnation if he don't ! But 1 need'nt a got so wrathy, the critter didn't offer to set down, he only stood there to get any thing that we %vented. "Do you take vermicilly, Mr. Slick 7" sea Miss Bebee, biting off her words as if she was afraid they'd burn her. With that she took the kiver off dill° dishes, and be gun to ladle out some soup with a great sil ver dipper, as bright as a new fifty cent piece. "No, thank you," sez I, "but I'll take some of that ere soup instead, if you've no objection." The critter was just beginning to pucker up her mouth again, as if she'd found out something to poke fun at, but cou. sin John looked at her so eternal cross that she was glad to choke in. I suppose cou sin John seen that I felt dreadful uneasy, so he said, kind o' coaxing, she meant vermin silly soup, cousin Slick. Let her help you you to some, I'm sartin you'll like it. "Wal," sea I, "I dont care it I do." So I took a queer looking spoon that lay by my plate, and tried to eat, but all I could do the soup would, keep a running through the spoon into tlic dish again. I tried and tried to get one good mouthful, but I might as well have determined to dip up the Connec ticut river with a sive, and the most I could git was three spangles of white things that I stirred up from the bottom of the plate, that did'nt taste bad, but to save my lite 1 could'nt make out what they are made oat of. Arter I'd been a fishing and diving ov er so long, a trying to git one good spoonful, so that I could tell what it was;l looked up, and there was that tarnal nigger showing his teeth, and rolling about his eyes, like a black cat in the dark. It made me wrathy, for I surmized that Ito was larfin to see me a working to git a mouthful of something to eat. I could'ut hold ally longer, so I jumped up and flung down the spoon on the floor, as spiteful as could be, and sez Ito the nigger, sez I, "What do you stand a grinning at there, wooly head, go and git a spoon that ha'nt got no slits in it, I'd as lief eat with a rake as that are thing ?" "Ha, ha, haw !" larted out the eternal black varmint, "I thought you would not make the fork hold !" With that Miss Flebee giggled right out, and cousin John looked as if he would burst to keep from turfing too. "Stop your noise, sir !" sez he to the nig ger, "pick up the fork, and give Mr. Slick a spoon." I begun to feel nwful streaked, I can tell you, but I sot down ngin and took up the G. JII• PHILLIPS, Editors. [WHOLE NO. 504: real spoon, which lay on a kind of towel folded up by my plate, and . I begun to eat, without saying a word, though r d a given a silver dollar if they would a hit me got up and licked the nigger. Wal, arter I'd gout good mouthful of the soup,[ could'nt make out what was made of. for I could't remember of ever seeing the name Miss Bebe° called it by, in the dic tionary. May be its Litin, says Ito myself, and then I tried to think over vt hat it clitild mean, and if nobody had told me what the definition was in the Latin school which you sent me to there in Weatherfield. Vermin silly! Verrninsillyl Verininsilly! kept a run ning through my head all the tin*. I knew what silly meant well enough, and then it popped into my head, all at once, that ver min comes from the latin word yentas, which means worms. Worm soup! my gracious! the very idea of it made me feel awful bad at the stomach. But I might have know'd it by the looks, and 1 should if I'd ever heard of such a thing, for the little slim critters were swimming roand in tho little angle-worms biled down white as could be. A rter I found out what it was mado out of, I rather guess they did'nt catch me eating any more of their vermissitly soup— so I pushed it away half across the table, and wiped my mouth " piny- considerably with my pocket handkerchief. The nig ger took the whole on't away, and 1 declare I was glad enough to get rid of it. " 4.1 V hat on earth have they put this towel here for!" says I to . myselfi and then 1 stole a sly look over to cousin Bebee,to' gee if he'd got one, or if they only gave towels to com pany. Cousin John had ono list like mine, but he'd spread in out on his lap,, so I jist took up mine and covered over my castmeres with it too. Considering there was no onions on tho table, I made out a purty fair dinner. 1 was a beginning to think about moving when the nigger brought a lot of blue glass bowls about half full of water, and sot one down by each of us. What they could be for, I had'nt the least notion, but I kept a bright look out to see what cousin John did, and when I saw him dip his angers into the bowl and wipe em on a sort of red towel which the nigger brought along with the bowls, I jest went over the same manawre as natural as life. Wel, while we were talking about the banks and general Jackson's dying &Teo, that coot of a nigger cleared the table right off; so slick as a wiliest° and afore I hardly knew what the fellow was up to he come along and set down a set of decanters, and two Cider bottles with the necks all covered over with sheet lead and . then he brought two basket made out of silver, one on em was chuck full of ripe oranges and tether was heaped up with groat purple grapes, do declare it 'enamost made my mouth wa ter to see the great bunches a hanging over the edge of the basket. I'd just put a whop. per of a bunch on the little china plate which the feller set for me and Was considering whether it would be genteel to cut the grape in two with the cunning little silver knife which was put to my plate, when all at once pop went something 'onamost ns loud as a pistol close by me. I jumped up about the quickest I can tell you, but it was only this . Nigger opening one of tho cider bottles; be poured some out for me in a great long glass with a spindle neck and I drunk it all at a couple of swallows without stopping to draw breath. By jingo! it was capital cider; ar ter I'd drunk one glass I begun to feel as spry as a cricket t. "Here snowball," says I, "give us another: these glasees are awful small now, I like to drink cider out of a pint,' mug." ' "Take care," says cusin Bsbee I'm afraid you'll find the cider, as you call it, rather apt to get into your head." "Not a bit of it," says I, "I stand a quart any day. Here, cousin Mary, take another glass, you !mint forgot old times have you? though I spose they don't have applecuts and quiltings here in York do they." I don't remember what she said, hut 1 know this, my oyes began to grow alfired bright, and afore I got up to go home, that nigger must have put more than twenty bas kets of grapes on the table, and the oranges seemed to grow bigger and bigger every minit and I know thero wur more than three times as many glasses, and decanters on the table as there was at first. I rather think it was purty nigh tea time when I got up to go back to the sloop agin, 1 insisted on giv ing cousin Mary a buss afore I went; and I wont be sartin, but I kinder seem to remem ber shaking hands with the nigger consarn, jilt afore I went down the steps, I don't feel very bright this morning, and I begin to think that maybe I shall come back to Woatherfield arter all. The York cider don't seem to agree with Me. I shall send this letter to the new Express, that I was telling of, and if the editors don't think I can make a living out of writing letters, I shall come home agin in the sloop. Your loving son, JONATHA SLICK. Conevnient Criticism.—Sberidan had a very Convenient formula as a reply to the new publications that were constantly sent to him, viz:—'Dear sir, I have received your exquisite work, and I have no doubt I shall be highly delighted tiller I have read it." . young lady at an examination in gram mer, was asked why the noun bachelor was, sinl!ularl She replied, immediately, au& with much naive , le, "because it is very an gul a r that they do'nt get married." Beautiful.—A deafenddumb persons be ing asked what wa: his idea of forgiveness, took the pencil and wroto--oit is the odor which flowers yield when trampled ttron."
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