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bends yon bni&b, ii will terte tne1
for n bow. This Htnb, how beautiful?
ho# straight! t will Hive it for a handle
Ho my t| ear. He then, utterly regardless
of too Injury he inflicts, severs them from
lay boljjr, and so recompenses me for the
oorviee I nave done Mm. I am thinking
how I can best afford shelter, while -he is
enedHating upon the readiest way to tear
Stta up by the very roots,"
There now,' exclaimed the serpent,
" re the two witnesses yeu required; prepare
instantly to meet your fate.*
Life,* answered the youth, 'in dear to
all ?give me one chance more, and if you'
1... . W ?.:n !-. I
ffi i'iiukc jrei mi (finer wnnt'w? * win resist
no longer, but will then submit to the
will of God.*
It happened that a fox was standing
near, and was listening with great attention
to their dispute*
Wc will ask the fox,* said the serpent;
'and when he prnnotinres judgment
against thee, I will delay no linger.
Before the young man could put hia
question the fox shouted, 'Man always re* I
turns evil for good; but pray sir, what service
do you pretend to have rendered the
snake,. that > ou should have made yourself
obn 'xions to punishment?* The y-mth
related all that had passed. 'You appear
an intelligent peison,* answered the fox,
'why therefore, do you state what is so
contrary tu reason and common ocnnp??
You know it ill becomes a wisse man to
advance any thing that is opposed to truth
and justice.*
The snake assured the fox that the
words of the young man were true, and
directed his Ltlcntion to the hag hanging
at the saddle how; hy mean* of which he
hod been drawn out of the flumes. 'Now,'
said the fox, *1 know that thou spenkest
falsef for how could a serpent of thv
great size be contained in so small a compass?'
The deluded serpent bent on the destruction
of the youth, was anxious
prove ?o the fox the truth of his assertion,
nn/1 ^ ? .1! ? - - 1- - ? ?
umu uiii iru tu I'uiivillVt) IIIIII IIV >1(11111)
placing himself within the bag. The fox
said that indeed if h<^ should witness it
with his own eyes, he could no longer
doubt; and would then fairly and impartially
decide between them.*
Upon this the young man stretched open
the mouth of the bag, and the serpent deceived
by the words of the wily fox, coiled
himself up in it as before.
The fox instantly called " O youth,
thou hast now thy enemy in thy power;
give him no quarter; he is in thy hand,
spare him not." I
The youth with, all speed closed the '
mouth of the bag, and dashing it with '
violence to the ground, preserved him- 1
self and -the rest of mankind from the '
fangs of the ungrateful serpent.
The wise eay, dimly indeed must burn
the lamp of that man's understanding,
who suffers himself to be cajoled by his
enemy.
J ON A TIIANS.
"You arc rather a crooked character
Mr. Jones."
"Rather, sir; but not quite so crooked
as a tree I once knew, ft was the tallest
butternut I ever saw. Standing near to <
it one day in a thunder storm, I saw a i
-e.x
oijutiici i>u uuc oi tne topmast oranclies.
The lightning struck the same branch,
about three feet above him, anil the squirrel
started. The lightning had to follow
the grain, of course, and the squirrel
"went strait down. So confounded crooked
was that tree, sir, that the squirrel,
by my watch, got to the bottom precisely
three minutes before the lightning."
"That's a lie, I swear!" exclaimed the
landlord.
41A lie! true sir, true ns ever a story
WAS. X n florilMl r/lc cnt? ilio? .1 ~..?
?. _ ?,.?wa ff Mf no ou * mav II I'U nil I |I9 W II
and made into rails for a hog pasture.
The hogs would crnwl through twenty
times in a day ; and so thunderin' crook*
ed were them ere rails, that every time
the hogs got out, they found themselves
back in the pasture again !"
Old Oak Tree.?In Windsor Forest
there are several celebrated oaks. One
of these the King O.ik, is said to have 1
been a favorite tree of William the Conqueror,
who made this a royal forest, and
enacted laws for its preservation. This
oakt which stands near the enclosure of
Cranbourn, is 26 feel in circumference at
three from the ground. It is supposed to
be the largesj and oldest oak in Windsor
Forest, being above a thousand years old.
It is quite hollow; the space within is
from seven to eight feet in diameter, and
the entrance is about four feet and a half!
high, two feet wide. " We launched in
it," says Professor Burnet, " September ,
2, 1829. It would accommodate at least
twenty persons with standing room, and
ten or twelve might sit down comfortably
to dinner. I think at Willis' and in Guildhall
1 have danced a quadrille in a smaller
space."
Wivbs Wanted.?A Yankee who has
wandered into Indiana, and squatted
down upon a piece of land that is growing
in value every hour, writes home to a
friend to send on a hundred girls?he j
wants one, and will find husbands fori
"the other ninety and nine."
Now this is one of the coolest pieces
of impudence that we have seen for a
long time. "Bring on your potatoes,"
said the laborer to the minister, ''anil I
will dig them for you." "Bring on your
girls," ?ays the Yankee Hnimier, "and i
will marry them." And this to the fastidious
girls of New England, that
Must be wooed,
And not unsought be won."
But that is not all?he must, '* the
tfabaryte," choW out of ?'
the 'poor njteM^ Hnd limes end
emigration may Mig ibe New England <
girls to change i5m of their manneis,1
but they have ns| come to that yet.,?
The) are not goiMjio lusk oat for custom-,
ers at a disuncejjnd s?y with the city
advertiser, dgIS from the country greatfully
received "j-aN.-Y. Gaz.
#
In a forest, aetrthp line dividing Sum
ter and Kershaw Districts, an old Wood*
man and Vis sort, {names not mentioned)
were in the wood hewing timber* when
the cloidt began to thicken and whirl in
the element, in a abort time, the tempest
arose to the highest pitch, the sun was
shht in b? hind the sooty cloud, and the
(see of the earth looked desolate and
dreary, the clouds bursted, and the rain
fell in torents, when the father and son
sought shelter beside two trees, which
stood a few paces apart, when a stroke of
lightning (lashed down the tree whore the
boy was standing and felled him to the
ground. The old .Woodman, in a feubounds
reached the spot, and found his
hoy lifeless. He now became somewhat
exasperated?and uri- d out in a loud
voice, ,4Njw try me," he drew his cap1
from his head, und then to k his stand
the lightning (he said) took nine fair
strokes on his naked head and did not
break the skin !
The old man tells this for a feet, and we
of course, douhi it not.
cllnncous*
i ? ..
Table. ? An aged roaring lion who had
reigned scvnnl yearn king of the quadrupeds
and hideds, and crowned not for
any regal qualifications which he possesM").
hot to serve the purposes of the
wolves, foxes and jackals, vho know
they could use the old heas? in any way
that might suit host, to put a streak of fat
oil their own ribs.
After wearing the crown a considerable
ti.ne, whether from the fatigues of govern
' cm, ?>r that he saw certain prepa alion*
that u well bred dog is supposed to understand,
he called the Fox to him and
addressed him thus : 44 I am growing old.
I am in had health. I am going to abdicate
the throne and appoint you my successor.
But mind. You must trend exactly
in my footsteps, or by the eternal, I
will soon have your tail in a trap.** The
Fox whisked round his tail, and was in
high glee. 44 Stop whisking your tail,**
oiid the aged munnuh, 44 and listen to
what I have to say. 1 have he?*n feared i
and revered by all the animals of the for- I
est, particularly by the Asses. But there
is one Monster roatning in my domains,
who has given me more trouble than all
the beasts of the field. In my waking
hours I have thought of nothing hut him.?
When-sleeping I have dreamed of nothing
hut the Monster. I commenced laying |
trans for him as soon ?? I oninoil it?<?
. ? - H "?!'
trc. I set my wolves, 'logs and jackaws
on him. I succeeded in kilting him. He
would not stay killed. I tried every experiment
it* get rid of him. I made him
rariy burdens from one end of the country
to the ??ther. 1 gave him a bad nime
I spit! he was lame, and wind-broken, not
safe to be trusted ; and drove bim from
the imperial cribs. He flirted his tail in
my face, and said, that for you !
*'I then took into tavor a large number
of smaller monsters, which I have made
perfect pets of. I have fed them with
pap until they are as sleek as a mole.
They agreed to bark and kick at the big
Monster, and do all they could to slay
him. 1 farther ordered my Jackals to
place all the property in their hands for
safe keeping?so that you and I may divide
it at our leisure. 1 had some trouble
with the Frogs, but I showed my b elli,
and they gave in.
4 1 have only one thing farther to say,
and that is of more importance than nil
the rest. Go on nod kill t t Monster!"
This said, the old Lion departed to his
lair in the western woods. The Fox,
clothed with tlie imperial purple, called a
council of the Wolves and the Jackals
which he had left behind lo devise the besti
nlan to (Ipsirov tl?? Mnn?tn? i''-~ '*'
r j ...~ mjousk . nr rrsuill
of their deliberations was to dig a pit inj
the path they knew the Monster would
tread. '1 he work was completed. The
pit was dog. The Monster was caught,
llut unfor'tunntely, all the little pet monsters
had to travel the same road, and
the\ all tiiojhlrd polle-melle into the same
well, aith all the old Lion's plunder on
their barks.
Here was an elegant pot of chowder. |
nri i ?
i ne r?x could not touch a hair of (lie
old Monster's tail without killing gon:e of
the little pet monsters. The Fox wag in
a complete dilemma. The old Lion has
heard of it. He leaps round and round
his den. and roars like all nature: lie
swear- that the li tie pels are a set ol fools,
and swindlers, ami rascals for daring :<
fall into tiie pit He insists upon it thai
the Fox shall slaughter the whole ot
them, so thai he, and ihe Wolves and the
Jackals may have a blow out over their
care .sses.
Moral.? Recollect when you do a had
action to injure your neighbor, it is ten to
otic .hit it reacts, and fulls on your own
head.?Patriot.? N. Y. Ghz.
Almost a I'haokdy.?A singular exhi
bilion of frantic passion took place r< centI
, in the Superior 1'oUi t ol Yaucy count),
Nortn Carolina, the partic ulars of which,
and the history of its origin are thus relaud
in the Ruih< rford Gazette.
About two years since, a man by the
flam* of John VtiUon, marrfed Elisabeth
Rey jif thai counts. Thgy liV?4rlocllber
bout seveo wetlii, when tome disturbance
tojk place, which caused tl*ir separation.
Sis 'months ago tho husband
jiled a petition for divorce, setting: forth
various causes, declaring that he was
young and .!no*porienced when he married
her and was .not acquainted with her
true characterthat her. conduct, during
the time they tired together, was insupportable,
and by him could not be endupcd.
She answered that they were raised
in tlies'ime neighborhood, and had known
each other from Wieir infancy up: that he
knew her character atod circumstances in
life perfectly well, when he married her,
and had taken her with his eyes open to
all Iter frailties; she positively denied ever
having been guilty of any misconduct during
the time they lived together, but that
she acted towards him the part of an affectionate
wife. She further-asserted that
when lie was about to leave her, he made
I . a i . . 1.
no marges against ner, nut gave as ms
[reason for separation, that lie did not, nor
!had he ever loved her; that his friends
hod induced him to ruarry her merely for
her property, and that he had ascertained
he could not enjoy life with a woman he
did not love.
At the last Court an issue was made up
ami submitted to n jury. The petition
ami answer having been read, evidence
was then introduced, which proved decidedly
in favor of the petitioner. On the
part of the plaintiff, the cause was submitted
without any argument; but the
counsel for the defendant resisted the divorce,
by a long ami feeling speech, in
which lie alluded to the solemnity of the
marriage vow, the mutual duties it imposed
on the parties, and the want of sufficient
cause, in that case, to dissolve the
bonds of matrimony.
During this investigation the parties
w?*re both in court. The husband was ap
pnrently young and simple, and in fact, a
mere boy, and there was nothing in the
least prepossessing in his appearance.?
The wife seemed somewhat and altogether
the superior. She is a fine looking woman,
willi dark hair, black eyes, and very
expressive face. She manifested great
interest in the trial.
The Jury, after retiring a few minutes,
r< turned a verdict for the plaintiff. The
parties were still in their seats behind the
liar some six or eight feet distant from
each other ; the wile asked a gentleman
by whom she was sitting, for Jus knife, as
il to trim her finger nails ; she felt of the
edge, rose to her feet, paused a moment,
turned pale, her eyes flashed fire, and tlien
suddenly sprang forward with the drawn
knife, and aimed at her husband a deadlyblow.
But fortunately, a lady, wko was
standing by, saw her gel the knife, and
perceived fri?m bor countenance that she
was meditating something of a desperate
character, watched her until she saw the
blow aimed at the throat of her unsuspecting
husband, and instantly seized the
artn of the infuriated wife, and diverted
. 1 - - -
me weapon rr<?ni the object at which it
was aimed; but determined on her hellish
purpose, she threw the knife with great
violence at her husband, and turning,
made a furious attack on her whose hand
had arrested the blow, and thwarted the
wicked design. The court ordered her
into custody ; she was arrested and borne
out of court, making the most wild and
frantic exclamations?calling on Iter busband
in the most tender and passionate
language, and seemed to be entirely deran
ged.
Iler conduct was strange and unaccountable,
but all who witnessed the scene agree
that she must have loved her husband.
She bad listened attentively to the investigation
of the whole matter, heard the
pathetic speech of her counsel, and then
the verdict of the jury.- pronouncing their
final separation ; she felt that she loved
him above all others, and the.idea that he
was then at liberty to marry again (for
that was said to be his object,) was more
than she could endure. Iler heart was
devoted to. him, and sooner than see him
pledged to another, she would see him
die. and that, too, by her own band, in
the presence of the court, and the multitude
that surrounded her. Of the consequences
to herself she nevei thought, nor
for them cared ; they could not have been
greater than death, and no dotiht she felt,
at that moment, that she would gladlv
take refuge in the arms of death. She remained
in i!? i I linlSI tVia :
? ... jtvii until nic iirAI lilt Tiling,
when she was brought before the court,
and after being severely reprimanded, was
sentenced to five days' imprisonment, for
contempt of the couit, and required to
give bond and security for her good behavior
for the next twelve months.
The Love-Letter?a fragment?The
beautiful Uerogenia was reclining in her
gorgeous arm-chair, her head rested softly
on the velvet palm of her left hand, her
feet were adjusted carelessly on the rounds
of a neighboring chair?a splendid mil
n?r whs suspended opposite her sent, and
while her long snowy lingers played thro*
the jet black ringlets of her hair, she surveyed
herself in the glass, and smiled at
(lie proud consciousness of her own
beauty.
1 Ah !* said she, smiling prettily, and
forcing one happy peal of laughter : * 'Tis
thus I've often done, hut of what avail,
of what avail! Surely he must have a
heart of steel. I've tried all a woman's
ways; and yet he is the same. 'Tis true,
he is kind and generous and courteous
and obliging, hut yet, he loves me not!
A ould that I told him to-leave me and?.'
But the emotions of her heart checked
the utterance of her words, and site sob
bed end moored,for a wltfle. 'No.
said 8b?,^lM^jCAM^iire fot a moment:
I will not r peak wflftp that. Oh Frank!
would to heaven you knew how 1 love
you?my brain it on fifo when you are
away?niy nights are sleepless, and my
day sjumbers are peopled with your forhi
forever! Oh God, it it not a sin that woman
should love.so truly; so deeply; and;
and, not hay# the virtuous passion of her
soul requited? But it will teach me how
to lore agaih!'
And deep with emotion, the troubled
Herogenia rose hastily from her Weal and
paCed her room to and fto. 'Alas! why
do 1 love? And cannot my charms; my
beauty, captivate his coid heart? "An
Frank!* said Herogenia, as she seated herI
self again, you are a cruel, cruel, lover!
Here Betty,' said ahe, calling to her ser
vani maia. wiio was in ihe room: 'Here,
take ihese keys, unlock that escritoire,
and bring me those letters within* Let
me look at it again. Yes, yes?this is
the one 1 first received frt?m him?the one
that first elicited the pure affections of
my heart for that poor and despised hoy
?who, after having wnh the heart hie besetted,
is now laying it was>e! Yes?this
is thedetter which b-eathed of hope, of
love and .of constancy. Oh delusive
scrawl! perfidious Frank-?May your sorrows
cq.ial mine?and may the pangs
which now rend my heart, be no stranger
to yours!*'
"And why should I talk thus?" said
Herogenia, after a pause. "Did he ever
harm me! Did he ever show aught of unki
ml ties toward me? Did he ever displense
me? No: no:" said she desponding, never!
And yet, I let the frail utterance of
speech, belie the emotions of my heart.
Shame upon my fickle nature. But I'll
be still in future. And though Frank*
cruel conduct dims these weary eyes ot
"mine, and breaks thiR forlorn heart, yet,
never will I say alight against bint! I love
him, and he knows it, and I pray to heaven
that he may not coldly pass niV affec
lions by! Oh Frank! Frank!*' cried she
in an impassioned strain, "you are breaking
this poor heart of mine! But let it be:
'twill tell of woman's unalterable love!"
A soft tap was now heard at her room
door: she flew from hei seat, adjusted
her hair?said-it was Frank, and ordered
Betty to open the door. She did so, but
no person appeared. The night was dark
and boisterous, and Herogenia thought
she might have been deceived by the rattling
wind. Thc'door was shot, and she
again threw herself in her arm-chair.?
" Again am I deceived! No Frank yet.?
Oh what a delusion aro I laboring under.
II ow long will it last? There Betty, fcike I
that cursed letter from my sight! Lei no
, never see it more. It has caused me ail
1 my nnhappinessl But it shall cause me no
more!" and the beattlifi.1 llerogenia resigned
herself to tears and sobs, and buried
her face in her lap.
A soft s.ep was heard at the door?the
brass knob quickly turned, and Frank
rushed in the room, and knelt at the feet
of his mistress. lie picked the ft agmeutof
his love-letter front the floor, and
while he looked up sorrowfully in the
face of his beloved, said; '(Vase your repining*,
my dear, and let the contents of
these fragments, never trouble you more!
Dry up your tears and listen to me. He
rogenia/ said lie, rising from his posture
ami standing crert?4I am sorry that I have
ever rauseil you one painful feeling. I
aim the same Frank you knew me at first:
what I have done I deemed to he right:
and one day you'll acknowledge it. I
prize yon above earth! 1 have tried your
constancy, and find you true! What more
do I want?hut?but?your hand, llerogeniu.'
*Is that all, Frank/ said the beautiful
girl, brushing away her tresses and
smiling through her tears, while she looked
the look of" innocence itself: 'Is that
all, Frank! then yon shall have it, and
?,?i *
nt..?.Miir iuu. rraiiK clasped her to his 1
heart, and in the outpouring of their voting '
hearts, they both mutually breathed oaths
of eternal fidelity. And in one month after,
they were joined in the closest of
bonds.
'Oh these men?these men!' said the
beautiful IJcrogenia, one day after marriage?'they
tease us.poor creatures nearly
to death?and yet, we love them still!'
Thus cuds the adventure of the 'Loveletrer,'
LF.BAsr.
The Native Amirican Silk Worm?New
plan Jar the Worms to wind the Co1
10OUS.
I
Mr. Editor?
Since the receipt of your paper yesterday
I received the Raninckfi Inquirer of
15th inst. in which Mr. Jenks asks for
further intelligence in relation to the articles
on the !"ilk Worm, published in the
Star of the 3d inst. As the words 41 six
dilierent plans for the worm to wind the
cocoon," were verbatim n? 1 I
them in conversation with you, the call
seems to require s??me explanation on my
part. I will give it briefly, thus : " It is
so many contrivances to accommodate the
insect in its preparation for "winding up."
or so many different contrivances on which
(not round which) the lavrre may suspend
and wind the cocoon. One of the plans
may be described thus: nine laths 1-4 i
inch thick, 114 inch wide and 40 inches i
long, placed on edge, horizontal, paralel i
to each other, and 1 inch a part in the'l
clear : these are connected by laths, 11 1-4 I
inches long, fastened across the ends ; the
whole forming a grate of 9 bars 11 1 4 by i
40 inches. Five of these grates, placed i
parallel to and above euch other, 3-4 inch i
apart in the clear, connected by a single i
/ nail at each corner, with laths 9 1-4 inches', i
long, standing vertically on end, forms t
one plan, fchilh is probably tbq beat of
the six, and in the opinion of sdme good
judges is superior to all other plans (not
excepting the European plan of bushes
and branches of trees) for economy, both
in the space which it occupies to accom*
modate an equal number of worms, and
the expense of construction. The 46
laths required for its construction are
worth y cents/nnd can be made with the
labor of one hour, worth 12 cents?ma*
king in all 16 cents. The worm winds
the cocoons between the bars and between
the grates, when by removing the 4 vertical
laths Ji?4he corners the cocoori can be
cleared natio a few minntes, certainly in
Irss time, and in better condition, than
the same number can be removed from
ft III OIIII llllcllAa anil
..K vmuuva aiiiu iPtiCBi
The native American Silk Worm feeds
on elder, which is its prjqciftajHood, and
from it spins a cocoon of gWOlW rtrong
soft and lustrous, though coarser than tnat
of the Asiatic worm. The smallest cocoon
in my possession, from the native
American worm; is 70 per cent heavier
than the heaviest of the Asiatic. A fair
average of the native cocoons are nearly
300 per tent heavier than most of the
I iuj lirks.l "
?v % i^ncu ?\#-nojr Q lUir QVCFB^Q
of the native American cocoons with 4
different kinds of Asiatic, from my own
raising this year?the weights show the
quantity of sitk? without the chrysalis, as
follows :
Grains:
Native American Cocoon, 17
Asiatic large white Cocoon, 6
44 bright white Cocoon, 4
44 Montidi Brian2a, a pale yellow 3
44 Golden yellow, 2
/The ova of the two last named were
imported by Mr. Tinelli the prcsent.'yean
I'hey' are much cultivated in Italy and
Spain, and produce the finest silks in Europe,
The Montidi Brianzi is particularly
lamed for receiving and retaining the
intuit beautiful dye. By the above you
will perceive that the Native American
furnishes 850 per cent more silk than the
Golden Yellow Asiatic.
A description of the Native American
Silk Worm may enable Mr. Jenks to recognize
an old and familiar acquaintance,
w.hich he has often frighted from its resting
place with the exclamation "Oh! what
a beautiful butterfly," pronounced in a
tone too loud und too hursh for such sensitive
antennae.
It ranks in I.innc's System of Nature
in the Aniruul Kimrdom. Class R
^ ? x- aiiObWIO
Order III. Lepidop icra, Genus, Phalaena.
The inuoth of perfect i.iscct is without
proboscis, and therefore cannot eat; it has
Antennae 2 pectinate and black, head
white, eyes 2 black, thorax red, abdomen
entirely surrounded with alternate red and
white bands. ?vin>:8 4 brownish grey, lighter
in the male, interior of 2 upper wing
red, with one large ocellate spot near each
exterior and 2 smaller and less distinct in
the margin; from the interior to the posterior
is a hand of 2 distinct white and
red lines, between this band and the interior
is a large white lunate macula surrounded?
with red and black ; the last dc?cribed
hand and lunate macula arc the
same in lower wings ; across the exterior
and margin is a band of 4 distinct lines
ashy gray, black, cream, and ashy gray;
lower wings the same. The Larva? is
greenish, without hair except a few on 2
protuberances, and feeds mostly on elder.
'I lie ova is ereum color rlnnil??t ...tin ?
. null l?Udish
mini, with which they ore fastened to
the lea or bark. The Pupa or Cnrysalis
is dark brown enclosed in a cocoon of
strong,soft and lustrous silk. It is a native
of the Norih American States, and is
found in no other country. 1 have eleven
of the coccfona in my possession, four of
which I f ?und on manhattun Island, near
llarlem, N. Y.' and s?ven in the forest of
Bergen county, N. J.
I intend this summer to manufacture
some sewing silk Irom the native American
Cocoons, and hereby promise to send Mr.
Jenks one skein of it, provided he will
* contrive" some better nnoic than 'contrivance"
for the plan of lath described in'
this communication
Yours, <fcc.
C. F. DURANT.
Jersey City, 1837.
From the N Y
" He fired at ducks and sifoT a Plover.?
The tiger which has for a long timo
been playing the dense w ith the sheep and
chickens of the people about Sandwich,
Mass. has at last been shot by a teamster,
who me* him on the road and happening
to have n loaded gun with him, stopped
the rascal's career of mischief on the spot.
It so happened, however, he was no more
a tiger than the dnm that bore him ; but
a wolf, nnd as the Sandwich boys themselves
say, no great shakes, neither; for
he only weighed seventy-five pounds.
The teamster made a capital " hit" however,
for he is entitled to receive a bounty
from the Slate and town, of one hundred
dollars; besides which he sold the carcass
to a speculator for $20
Definition of Si ckers.?The term
Sucker, in the West, menns nothing more
nor less than an inhabitant of Illinois, and
arose from the circumstance of the hunters
and travellers carrying a hollow reed*
and when in want of water, on the prairies,
they had nothing to do but seek the
burrowing hole of the land crab, at the
bottom of which there is always water.
Into this hole the reed is thrust, and the
thirsty traveller, applying his inouth to
the end of the tube, sucks up a present
supply of the indispensable element-?
S' metimes neither clear nor savory, but
always welcome. In our good old Pennsylvania,
sucker is a different species of