Vol. g.] "GO AHEAD!!" TWo. 3.
THE CROCKETT ALMANAC
1841.
Tuasel with a Bear. See page 9.
Containing Adventures, Exploits, Sprees
& Scrapes in the West, &
Life and Manners in the Backwoods.
Nashville, Tennessee. Published by Ben Harding'.
INTRODUCTION by Ben Harding.
Having Ueered that my friend the Kur¬
nill is alive, I hav sot up the AlFitvyuaelt for
another veer, and thar » a plenty ot right-
ingu on hand, that haint heen printed yet,
and I intend to show a leg from yeer to
yeer, and get out the allmyknack in onor of
Kurnil! Crockett. A depputaahun of Ken¬
tucky chaps whose names is Oak Wing,
Brush Grimier, Steven Horn, Price Beef,
and Mortal Brown, all tickler friends ot
Crockett's, has cleared out for the mines,
and expects to overhall the Kurnill, and re-
: store him to his individdle rites in old Kain-
luck, for they has been noboddy fit to go
to Kongress sot up for candy-dates cents
: he war grappled by the cussed heathens
tit Texias. When the Kurnill gets back,
i we will hav a plenty of his udventurs and
scrapes among the Spaniards, and he wiK
giv us the reeding of his log book eetits
he has been in the mines. Them as has
seen Crocket, sea that he war very uneasy
about how his allmyknack was gifting on in his ab-
sensebut when he heered that I had hoisted it aboard,
he looks as pleezed as a sea-gull swallowing a little fish;
and he whacked his spade into the ground, and sez he,
" I hope I may he shot, if I aint glad to heer it, for I
noes that my friend Harding will lishiate better as no
other man except myself." So I was glad to hear that
my friend, the Kurnill, had dun so much to author-eyes
me to stand as cheef cook and bottle-washer in this
bizziness, and I meen to crack on all I no, under a full
press of canvass, till I giv the bografy of every wild cre-
tor in these landings, and make the whole world laugh
and dance for joy.
As to myself, 1 am getting to be along in years, tlio I
feel as spry as a young man, except that I am lade up
with the ruemytiz and haz a wood leg and one hip outer-
jint. 1 spose according to the best kalkulashuns, I am
drawing near to the eend of my voige, but if I only live
to shake a fist with my old friend the Kurnill once more,
I'll be content to run off the reel; but I'll keep up the
allmyknack till I've drunk my last bottle, and then when death snuffs my candle, and puts
my pipe out, 1 spose my job will be awl over at last.
ECLXPSBS.
There will be four Eclipses of the Sun, and two of the Moon. The first \irlil be of the Sun—a small, partial eclipse, on
January 22d, at the time of New Moon—visible only in the Southern extrenyfly of the Southern Ocean. The second will be
a total eclipse of the Moon, on February 5th—visible in the Western Continent and Pacific Ocean; commencing at G 14
P. M., and ending at II 39 P. M. The third will be a partial eclipse of the Sun, on February 21st, early in the morning—
visible only in the North Atlantic Ocean, Iceland, and East Greenland. The fourth will be a partial eclipse of the Sun, in
July, but invisible except in Baffin's Bay, Greenland, Iceland, Northern Ocean, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, Finland,
Russia in Europe, Prussia, Italy, Germany, Scotland, and north of France. The fiflh wili be a total eclipse of the Moon,
August 2d—partially visible in this country. The sixth will be a small eclipse of the Suu, August 16th, P. M., invisible.
Morning1 and Evening Stars.
Tho Planet Venus will be Evening Star till May 14th, thence Morning Star through the year. Jupiter will be Morning
Star till June 5th, thence Evening Star till December 22d, and then again MorniigStar. Mara will also be Morning Star
(ill April 17th, thence Evening Star to the end of the year. Saturn, likewise, will be Morning Star till June 2!st, tbancs
Eveoiog Star till December 27th, when he will again be Morning Star.
Common Notes for 1841.
Solar Cycle, 2.—Epact, 7.—Lunar Cycle, 18.—Julian Period, 6554.—Dominical Letter, C.—No. of Direction, 21.—
Roman Inaction, M.—Dion; sian Period, 170.
1841.
JANUARY.
31 Days.
These calculations are on ai
new plan, whereby much
space is saved and all their
usefulness retained. They
will serve for all the United
States, the Canadas, &c-
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Moon Rises and Sets.
PHASES OF THE MOON.
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O Full 7th, 9 55 M.
<( L. Q. 14th, 7 26 M.
9 New 22d, 11 58 M.
D F.O. 30th, 5 50 M.
ASPECTS, &c.
0 21© Perigee. About
1 25 this time, woollen, mit-
2 24\tens in demand.
3 37l Loafers huddle around
4 46ithe stone. Hot
5 55 Epiphany. whiskey
I ises 9 Perigee. punch
6 40 Very high tides.
7 47 drank.
8 57 Attractive theatre bills.
9 59 White thin pants un-
10 57 com fortable in the cve-
II 54 Hi"g. Icicles
nt on the eaves of houses.
0 52 Low tides.
1 46 Large fires, supposed
2 43 to be the work
3 38 of an
4 32 5 Apogee.
5 20 incendiary
6 5 Vigorous skalcing
sets. © Eclipsed, invis.
6 26 High Tides.
7 19 near Boston.
8 13 Hot dinners.
9 9 Sundry Tailors
10 4 cheated,
U 2 about these times.
m
0 9\Cold frosty weather.
1 16,Low Tides.
" Sam, Why did -you bring that stupid ass, here.' He knows nothing about his business,
nnd has got «ae into two or three deuced scrapes by carrying billets to the wrong lady, and
eomporting himself without due .circumspection on some very delicate occasions."
" Please ver honor, you told me to bring one here to act as a gentleman's gentleman."
"So I did, Sam, and 1 told you to bring somebody who had been in the world."
" Exactly so, your honor, and my brother PheliiM is exactly that same. For he was em¬
ployed by Mr. Spadem, these sax years in claneing out wells, yer honor ; and didn't he spend
half bis time down in the world yer honor, where neither yon nor I has been."'
" That is well, Sam, but not at all to my purpose ; I would liave a man that has seen some¬
thing of shifts, and turnings and revolutions, and knows how to accommodate his movements
to the revolving tceues of life."
' Ah, ver honor, then Tom Se.rewtiip would be just the boy, for he has been in the tread¬
mill forty times, to my sartiri knowledge."
4 Latest from the Mines.
The other day I war playin the soger in the door of ray shantee, setting with my ;
old cheer, arcd^srnokin my pipe, when a Ion?-.«tded feller recched me the loHeiinff letter, arxri Km w-
ecl the hand rstjngr at wonst, so 1 riz rKc up and sin 3 cheers, and then red
MEXIKAN MINES—THE FORTH DAY JULY 1840-
Bengimrnxn ffardinz, Escuire: . , % T _
DeerCir—This is the grForus^ay we font and sraned onr Mhberties, and hear I am amongst pesfcy
Spaniards a diaain for the r.rations mettles. I hope yon keen up the Awlroynock, and put in ine
peeces that you find in my old coonskin trunk in the garret. They ar awl true*and may be jyea on*
and I think they will keep np my fame, for I ar very fond of post humorous ftime, out whv don f you
send sum won to git me out of these infamal green-skinned varmints" hands, for it s very uinrnni
from beirr£in Kongress I Whar's Mike Greenin, Toby Whrg, and Fifl SaFthead? V\ by don t tney
do sum thing to dig me out of this cussed burrow, for I don't like ft at awl; and now tney ar got a
big chain around my leg, and it is wound around my middle, which makes it very onptesant, ana
I'll tell you the wreizon that they put this chnne on to me. . ,
You must no that arter bein hear so long I got dissatisfrde and oneasy about my awhnynecK
wanted to see old Kaintock wonst more, and hear the crack of my rrfef and the hark of my itog,
and if it war no more thon the yell of a painter, I thort ft wood kynder sorter make a fudikkerous
expression on my vitawls,and so sez I to myself, '* what is the good for Davy Krockett to he treed
in this pesky hole awl his days, whpn it war allowed all about our dijrtrin that. her could'squat row¬
er, skieem lewder, and run faster than any other feller there or in Kongress ither. Logs isjeirs
awl over the kreeatrony tho I most donrt hardly bfeere this belongs Jo the Lorrrs kreeafmrir l°r
looks no more like Kauituck than it looks 'ike ft dnm fcfock." So f mtermind I woodn't cot brown
beens and" buflock's hech? no longer, and won day when wewargointo our dinner awlin droves
like o.vesrand aheeps, f let my sugar-Iofc hat fall off, bekase thar war a hi wind, and it Mowed a
a smart chanse from,the plaice, and I run arter it, and the.more t tried to ketch it. the more 1
roodn't, bekase T happened to fall down when I got most to it, and so hefur 1 cood git it I war be
hind a sorter hill, and the gards thort I war cummin back,, hut that wood he ridikulus, and so 1 giv
my legs an almity strechin jfst about that time. Prftty sune when I riz a hilh I seed the gards war
arter me, and hefour long sum war cumin on hosses with a sltppen-noose kinder strfne: that they
calls a lassy. When sum on "em cum neer me 1 squatted behint a stump an--maid myself little. In
this way T went till i cum to a sort of hay on theC shoarrand my hart jumpt for joy when I <?eeua mg
bote thar, about a qnarter of a mild from the shoar. i jest dove intotne drink, and rieveF swum
so lite in my life, for it seemed as rf the wafer helped me. I got to this big bote and the men let rae
mm in, and when I felled 'em my name war Krockett, they gin 3 cheers and nxed me down iiitn a
little snller in the hinder eend of the bote, whar war all sorts o' likker. Then f went up agin on
the ruff. The bote had three pesky grate logs stuck up on it as hi as a pine treerand all sorts of
big Mack strings like a fish nett. So the sayTors begun totoik to me, and I war tellm em about my
baseband- how I war never kilt, when awl at wonst I seed a passe) of them unsarenmsised Span-
yards gatherrn round the shore and pinting off to the bote. So I tolled the Ginerawlwhat had
kommand of the bote, and he telled mef had better go and hide. Put T seed no hushes nor no where
to go, only down into won of the suJlers; faxed the Gineraw! if them logs war holler that stuck
up perpendikklerrand based mi; so T run down sutler, and then the pesky sogers nun nito the bote.
I heered'em jabbering like a passe! of erows ovver a karkassr and pritty soon they cum jumpin
flown sutler, and as soon as they seed me, they drawed their sords, and telled me to surrender, f
lookt around for sum weppun but 1 seed none only a trumpet, nnd they seezed me rite off I fit till
[ split my thum nale in the middle and tore my trowsis hafToff; but it war r.o kinder use, and they
snaked me up to the ruff of the bote, and the ginerawl didn't dast to say a word. They fotch me
hack and hear I ar with a chune on, and diggin for gold ! Now I leeve it to you, Penjintmin, if this
aint wusser than rassling with a nigger greeced, and as 1 place grate dependance on your judgment
do you think it ar rite for a member of Kongress to stay in these digging. Do say sumthing about
it in the awlmyneck^for my sittyvation is getting to be onplesaaL
Yourn to sarve. DAVY CROCKETT.
Hare Economy.
When 7 war a voting feller thar war nothing 1 despised like 1 did a Yankee ; speshally if he war
a pedlar, and I sum think I'd never have got over it to this day if T htidn't gone among them in
their own cleerings and seed wot sort of tracks they make. Cause Why? Didn't one on 'em sell
me a famous match for my black switch tail horse at Vickhurg? and didn't I find out as soon as I ,
got home that the pestiferous,nefarioos, outdacious,egg-sucking, worse-than-a-methody-missibner
had been in my pastor fnst, and then travelled clear to Vicksbtirg to sell me my own "Streak o'
Litening ?"—and as if that war not aggravations enuff, the sarpint had put ofT an old wooden clock
that woodn't neither stand nor go, on my wife. Arter that it wood be superogatioos to tell about
the twenty pounds of sausages stuffed with salt pork and green baze—that war as much Judy's
bbime as hisr.—she'd ought to hav knew better.
That's not all about it neither, nor haff nor quarter. I hated the Yankees for heing sich a d d
stingy horsetentacious boat's crew as every body noes they he. Thar war won Adonijah Allsaint,
wot made an improvement in Skunk's Cuhbage Swamp, the same feller wot war carieht picking his
own pocket in his sleep. When he cum among us he war an emancipationer and tried to persuade
all the nayherhood that niggers war human kritters and had soles like white men. Bv all the var-
. tuns of lead and gunpowder, he hadn't been a year among us afore he tied three of his sarvents
naked in a swamp ail night,and they war all stung to death by gallynippers.jist because he had
too much yewmanrtee.he said, to whip 'em. Then he was all for saving, saving: list as if money
war not made to spend and vittles to eat, He always used to have a wooden bacon ham on his din¬
ner table,list for a shew, and painted so navteral it wood make yoar mouth water to 7ook at it.—
He said he did this to larn the vartue of self-denial.—AH the Yankees what cum nigh ns had jtst the
same smelt of the woodpecker's nest they war hatched in. Adoni;iah died at last, and the Devil
got his due—if he didn't I don t no what fire and hrimstun are made for. The methodizecs put these
lines over him: .t .
" Here lies a Christian, Parent, Friend—
A brother in the Lord ;
A firm believer to the end,
lu every saving word."
As true as my shooting machine at a hundred yards,. I've seen- worse lines on a tombstone than
that. For all that, l d seen so much of Adontjan s cajolery that I hated the very name of savin?,
and spent my money, when I had any, asTast as whiskey could melt it,or afiddle cood ko* of a race
hoss cood runaway wtth it. You may presume, then, stranger, how mad I war to lie called a Yan-
kee by an onmvdized Ingm. savage, what need no more of the world or of good manners than if
he'd lived a thousand yeers in the hart of a limestone quarry, d n his piekter. lna"
You see, stranger, i wa r out on the tniiI of a C herokee wur pa rty, what had been ^eilheine awav
pur hosses and cavorting among our wimmen with their tomahawks and skalpers", a.5d steh iikJ
innocent amusements.as corns naterat to 'em, ami we cum np to 'em jist as tbev had crossed Red
Warrior Creek whar it ar all of a quarter of a mile wide, and we eoodn't getuerossat'emno wav
we cood fix it. So they cum down to the edge of their convenient namesake and dared us tS com
Rare Economy—Continued from page 4,
over and hav our hair cut, which made us hugaceou.-dy mad, as who woodn't be, to beer himaolf
abused when his hands war tied ? Thar war won devil's kitchen thob that maritime more suvagcr-
ous than all the rest, for he .trot into a pcecan tree,and shewed us his posterum, )J it ar not ondccent
to say so, and very politely asked us to kiss it. Now I've known of many such invites being' given,
hut 1 never knowod noboddy accept none on 'em. Howsever 1 felt atnazen wolfy at what he SH1(|
and done, and took a blizzard at him. it war a long shot and all depended on luck, and i had my
ovvn share on it and another man's too. The screeching varmint, tumbled out ot t he tree and never
stirred agin, and his brother rogues ran away, arter they had a comfortable how! over him. W hen
we crossed over we found that the login's hide war not broke and not a drop of blood had cum from
bim. # .
Sum time arter, when peace war made with 'cm, I war at the council, and one of the painted
pagans talked the skimmage over. One of the beloved men, said that, he hail always heercd the
Yankees war a transcendental saving people; but he never knowed how stingy they war till he
seen one on'em shoot his brother Cockahoop Zigzacker across the Red Warrior wit bout spuing
his skin. He'd seen the ants and the bens lay up corn and honey for the winter, be sod, ' but be a
kind o1 thort thar war no kritter but a Yankee that wood hav been soparticklar about bis leather."
The brute thort I meant to tan his brother's skin or sell it, as ho had seen the Yankees do by all
other skins. Now, .stranger, I'll leave it to you if sieh ignorant wretches ort to he suffered to live.
Insult to Kentucky.
About eight year ago. thar war a feller from
Down East, or sum other town in them parts,
that cum into the cleering to religionize. He
1)rot about 50 of his hooks with him, and set np
his shanty for to convart the heethin. He giv
the ingins an invite, and when they went to
see him, lie lent 'etn books to reed jest as he
wood to a sivilized cretur, hut they took the
leeves to lite their pipes with. So when he
found he coudn't do nothin with the cussed
red skins, he gin out that he would convart
the nal> ves of Old Kentuck at halF a dollar a
head. We war hugeonsly mad whejn we
heered that, hekase he had gin the red skinned
y.wsrti viriiwi. wwagn
Rare Economy—See page 4.
These calculations are on|H'ghWiU"
a new plan, whereby much'
space is saved, and all their]
usefulness retained. They
will serve for all the United
States, the Canadas, &c.
oun ouu —• Sun \ Mon
D- ^ 'liscs Set". l>ec. Slow.Uoutti
M-W-Ih.M H. M U. M. M. S. H. M
1 M 7" 1 4~59 m 13 58 S Ol 7 301
2 T 7 0 5 0 16 46 14 .5 9 5 8 57
3 W 6 69 5 1 16 29 14 12|10 10,10
4 T 6 53 5 2 16 111
5 F 6 57,5 3 15 53
6 S 6 56)5 4 15 34
7 S 654-6 6 15 16
8 M 6 5316 7 14 57
9 T 652 5 8 14 37
10 W« 5115 914 18
11 T 6 50|5 1013 58
12l F 6 49 5 11 13 39
6 471.5 13; 13 18 14 321
6 46 5 14|12 58 14 30
6 45 5 1512 33 14 27
6 44l5 16 12 17 13 23]
6 43l5 17.115614 19
6 415 19 1135,14 14) 9 55
T '6 34 5 26 9 46
VV 6 335 27; 9 24
T 6 32!5 28| 9 2jl3 21 3 6
F 6 3015 30: 8 40 13 11, 3 57
S 6 29)5 31) 8 17 13 0 4 53
[6 2815 32 7 54112 49 5 521
io Full 5th, 8 55 E.
A L. tl. 13th, I 27 M.
4) New 21st, 6 11 M.
D F. Q. 28th, 2 54 E.
■ ASPECTS. &r
2 31 2 22 Demand for clam soup,
3 38 3 26 Cold nights—several
4 40 4 27 conspicuous old maids
5 35 5 24, j) Perigee, enter the
rises ]) Ecli. vis. and total.
6 22)state if double blessed-
7 28jVery high Tides.
8 29j„ess.
I 9 S3, Large noses look red.
|l 0 35, Horses stamp in the
II 32 nigr/it. Mosquitoes
m |very scarce.
0 29; Shiver-de-freeie.
1 24 Low Tides.
2 22) Great talk of spring.
3 13] D Apogee.
4 1 Ire creams very dull.
4 44 Shoemaker's wazfreei-
5 18) rs. A great deal of
, 5 -iS rA'frr drank.
jsets.lfD Eclipsed, invis.
7 OHigh Tides. Much
8 OShrove Tuesday.
8 57 Ash Wednesday.
9 58 lull; about finishing
11 .4 B. H. Monument.
m Cold meat her.
0 13 1st Sund. in I.ent^
28)8)6 2815 32 7 34MZ 00 o
Perhaps the reader may not he aware of the source from whence arose metal heels to fash¬
ionable hoots and shoes. The following veritable historv will illustrate the matter • One
Thomas Overdone, had been much pestered with boot-jacks, none of which appeared ca.culat
ed to suit his purpose. Having been much vexed with one of these useful articles one eve
ning, he threw it into the fire, and swore that he would abandon the use of the instrument
henceforth and forever. '
When the next evening came, he was driven to his wits end ; for the thought of sleenim.
in his hoots, however endurable to himself was violently opposed bv his better half Jh,, h«5
the horror of barked shins before her eyes. Accordingly he had recourse io a manScience
The latter advised him to nail to his boots a piece of steel, and procure a powerful magnet'
which last was firmly attached to a post. Placing his heels near this magnet, the hooTs were
drawn ofT in a trice, feince that time metal heels have been worn, and although they ha™
made much noise, yet few knew their origin. ° y na^re
u t think I have heard of you before, sir." « Very probable, sir.
:: yh b,esa your Sou., yes. Pve heard of fifty of you."
My mnme is Brown
Insult to Kentucky—Continued from page 6. 9
varmints the fust chance to git to heaven;
wich war a thing never heered on in our dig¬
gins befour, as them and the niggers always
had to wate till thar betters war sarved. Be¬
sides, he war sent out to convart the heethin,
and it war kinder oncivil to call white fokes
by that name. Only think of it, deer reeder,
to call a member of kongress a heethin ! Thar
war sum tork of lynching him ; but we thort
it war best to katekise him fust, to see if he
wood poiigize, and if he was found out to be
true game, and wiiiin to do what war write,
we would accept of his tarms, only he must
convart the children for half price. I bleve
this war rite, for seein as religun is a verry
good thing in its place, we wanted to be sivil
with the cretur, and not go for to play possum
with the word of God, wich would be ridicu¬
lous. So we chose a committe of won to call
and see him, and that war Mike Cunningham
the teemster, who had been dark to a lawyer
in his young days, and so he war the only won
in the cleering who knowd how to expostalize
on the scriptur.
Mike went rite ofl^ and took his little boy
with him so as the feller mite try his hand on
him fust, and se how he made out, for he
knowd if he didn't circumbobolate the boy, he
couldn't do nothin with groan fokes. As soon
as Mike went in, the religionizer axed him his
bizness, and Mike telled him he had cum to
see if he wood do rite, or else he must be
lynched. Then the feller war verry perlile,
and axed Mike to take a cheer, but he
wouldn't. Then the felier sed he didn't meen
no insult to the white fokes, but he only offur-
ed to convart the ingins fust, bekase he thort
they needed it most, as they worshipt idles
and jiggerknots, and the widders burnt them¬
selves up with thar hushands. Then Mike
noed he lyed, bekase thar are no sich doins,
and it war skandeiiferous to lye about the red
skins that are bad enoufT when the truth is
told. So Mike telled him rite off'that he war
a skunk and no gentleman. The feller got
mad then as a hot gridiron, and he sed he wood
hav Mike parsecuted for reffbrmation of karak-
tnr. Then Mike crooked his thum, and be¬
gun to squint most awfully at the feller's rite
eye. So he cooled down in a minnit, and cum
to tarms, and sed he would do whatever Mike
sed war rite.
" Very well"—sez Mike—" then you must
convart the children for hafT price."
■ Mav I be crucified if I do !" sez he—" for
I made up my mind 3 year ago not to tantri-
vate with sucklings at awl; bekase sum of
them are the very devil. They ar like a young
tode that is full of venom. I took a young
won to do for about 5 year ago, and licked him
with a bunch of birches till the skin was all
off" his back, but I couldn't git the grace o'God
into his natur anny more than you can noku-
late a feller that's had the small pocks. No,
raiily sir, 1 can't make a livin at it, I assure
ye "
Mike felt as cross as 2 crooked gate posts,
and he shook bis head like a bull when you
rting a rope round his neck. Then the re
ligionizer sed he would split the diff'runce
and convart the groan fokes by the pound.
He sed he knnwed thar war a plenty of un-
sarcumsized sinners in our diggins, but he
bieeved thar war a good menny that hadn't
bowed the nees to a varmint he called Bale.
Mike telled him thar war no sich cretur as
that in our diggins, that he had seen painters,]
and wolves, and bares, and wild cuts, and had
got a jint of a mammouth at home; and so
when he seed the feller war green in the for
rest, and didn't no nothin, he telled him he
wood let him off with ain't of a prayer, and
wood give him a levenpenny hit for it. So
when he seed Mike put his hand In his pockit
for the munny, he got down on his nees, and
begun to put on the steem. When he got
warm in his prayer, he said sumthing about
the wicked Kentuckians, and Mike took hold
of his eer and pinched it till he made him take
it back, and sware that they were all fine fel¬
lers. Finally, Mike reported that the religion
izer want fit for his bizziness, and we held a
meetin, and 1 war put in the cheer, wich war
a pine stump, and we decided that thar war
no need of any more religion in Old Kaintuck,
and that it war too expensive to think of byin
any more ; and that this new man shood hav
the privilege to tar and fether himself. On
the next day, we sent Mike with a bag of
fethers and a kittle of tar, and he took 'em
into the religionizer's room, and set 'em down,
and sez he, " we ar concluded that you ort to
be lynched, but we give you the privilege to
do It awl yourself. So I will cum back to-
morro about this time, to see that you hav
dun it according to order."
When Mike went back, the nixt day, he
found the feller war gone with awl his plunder
and hadn't used the tar and fethers at awl
Tussle with a Bear.
I sailed out from hum, one rainy arternoon,
to go down to Rattle-snake Swamp to git a
squint at a turkey-buzzard, for thar war a
smart chance of them down that way, and I
had hered how thar war to be a Methodist
parson at my house on the next day, and my
wife wanted me to git sumthing nice for his
tooth. She said it would help out his sar-
ment almighty much. So I took my dog and
rifle and sallied out rite away. I had got down
about as fur as where the wood opens at the
Big Gap, when I seed it war so dark and mu¬
cilaginous that I coodn't hardly see at all. I
went on, howsever, and intarmined in my
own mind, to keep on, tho I shood run afoul
of an earthquake, for thar is no more give back
to me than thar is to a flying bullet when a
painter stares it rite in the face. I war going
ahead like the devi! on a gambler's trail, when,
all at once, or I might say, all at twice, for it
war done in double quick time, I felt sum-
thing ketch me around the middle, and it
squeezed me like it war an old acquaintance.
So I looked up and seed pretty quick it war
no relation of mine. It was a great bear that
war hugging me like a brother, and sticking
as close to me as a turcle to his shell. So he'
squeezed an idee into my hed that if I got him
asded as common, and his hide off of his peskvl
body, he would do as well for the parson as
any thing else. So I felt pretty well satisfied
when I cum to think I had my Sunday's dinner
so close to me. But when he raiily seemed
to be curning closer and closer, I telled him to
be patient for he wood git into me arter he
war cooked ; but he didn't seem to lake a hint,
and to tell the truth, I begun to think that al¬
though there war to be won dinner made oui
between us, it war amazing uncertain which
of us would be the dinner and which would be
the eater. So I seed I ought to hav ben think¬
ing about other matters. I coodn't get my
10
A Sailor's Yarn.
knife out, and my rifle had dropped down. He
put up won of his hind claws agin my side,
and I seed it war cuming to the scratch amaz¬
ing sudden. So I called to my dog, and he
cum up pretty slow till he seed what war the
matter, and then he jumped a rod rite towards
the bear. The bear got a notion that the dog
was unfriendly to him, before he felt his teeth
in his throat, and when Rough begun to gnaw
his windpipe, the varmint ment there should he
no love lost. But the bear had no notion of
loosening his grip on me. He shoved his teeth
so near my nose that I tried to cock it up out
of his way, and then he drew his tongue across
rny throat to mark out the place where he
should put in his teeth. All this showed that
he had no regard for my feelings. He shook
off the dog three or four times, like nothing at
all, and once he trod on his head ; but Rough
stood up to his lick log and bit at him, but the
varmint's hairs set his teeth on edge. All this
passed in quicker time than a blind hoss can
run agin a post, when he can't see whar to
find it. The varmint made a lounge and
caught hold of my rite ear, and so I made a
grpb at his ear too, and caught it between my
teeth. So we held on to each others' ears, till
my teeth met through Ms ear. Then I trip¬
ped him down with one leg, and the cretur s
hack fell acrost a log, and I war on top of him.
He lay so oncomforlahle that he rolled off the
log, and loosened his grip so much that X had
a chance to get hold of my nife, and Rough
dove into him at the same time. Seeing thar
war two of us, he thought he would use one
paw for each one. The varmint cocked one
eve at me as much as to ax me stay whar I
war till he could let go of me with one paw,
and finish the dog. No man can say I am of
a contrary disposition, though it come so han¬
dy for me to feel the haft of my big butcher, as
soon as my rite hand war at liberty, that I
pulled it out. The way it went into the bow¬
els of the varmint war nothing to nobody. It
astonished him most mightily.. He looked as
if he thought it war a mean caper, and he
turned pale. If he didn't die in short time ar-
terwards, then the Methodist parson eat him
alive, that's all- When I cum to strip, arter
the affair war over, the marks of the bear's
claws war up and down on my hide to such a
rate that I might have been hung out for an
American flag. The stripes showed most
beautiful.
A Sailor's Yarn.
I always put grate dependence in my frend Ben Harding:, and he never telled me any tuff yarn that
warn't true; for I have seen as big wunders in the forrest, as he ever seed on the water. So pUt
that to that, as the cat said when she stuck her tung into the kreem pot, and it proves 'em both
true. Ben's last yarn war sumthirig like this:—
I had a shipmate by the name of Bill Bunker. Bill was a queer chap, and was up to as many
moves as a minnit watch that strikes every second. He want content to get threw the world with
a reg'lar breeze and a moderate sea ; but war always for having sum shine or another. He wood
sooner clime over a coach than turn out for it; and whenever he Fell down, he wood make bleeve he
war drunk jist to raze a row with the watchmen.
Bill went won seeling voige in a little skooner called the Blackbird. I never telled you, Kurnill,
how they knock them fellers over the nose; hut that's neither here nor thar—Bill's scrape war on
an ileand. Arter they had got pretty neer Full oF skins and sea-raaramouth ile—sum calls 'em sea-
illifants, hut I spose when I tork to a Kongressman I must use high-floun lingo—they then steered
away For home. They expected to make the land the nixt morning : bat they seed nothing but an
ileand. It war an outlandish place enuff, so Full oF scraggy trees and rocks that it luoked as iF you
cood not find room to set down without scratching your Fundaments to pieces. The Cappen con¬
cluded to lay under the ileand a Few days, and so they cum to ankur. While they layed there they
tarred down the rigging, painted the black streek on the vessel's side, korked the decks, and mend¬
ed sales. But they didn't go ashore, as the Cappen had seen sum awFul looking Ingens that war so
ondecent as to ware very Few close. Bill sed he wood be sworn thar warn't a tailor in the ileand
that knowed how to make a pare of christian breeches.
So it war won fine sunny day when they war intending to be off the nixt morning, and they had
the sales loosed to dry, when Bill, all at once, axed the Cappen to let him go ashore and have a
kriiiee. This wai a poser for the Cappen, as Bill was the only able seeman he had aboard, and he
felt sartin that if he went ashore, he wood lose the number ofhis mess ; For he wood hav his frolic
out, and wood dance a jig if he war hanging on a gallus. He cood dance on a coffin or play kards
on a tomb-stone. Bill woodn't take no for an ansur, and so the Cappen let him hav the boat. He
skulled her ashore, and then walked into tire intereur of the ileand. He found it looked better, as
lie went on. Thar war a plenty of green grass, and good water, and the birds war so thick, he
wood hav thort he had been in the woods, if their wings had only been branches, instead of Feath¬
ers. But he coodn't find no grog-shop, and so the water war almost as good as none, for every body
knows that water without sumtbing strong in it, is like a hansum bird that don't no how to sing.
Howsumever, when he got tired of walking about and seeing noboddy, he worked down towards
the shore; and now he detarmined to leeve his ennishawls on a big rok, befour he went aboard. So
he got an old korking iron out of the bote, and begun to kut the fust letters of his name. Whilst he
war at work, lie seed out of won korner of his i, that thar war a little critter behind a tree—and
then he watched slyly till he got a glimpse of its eyes. So he flung down his things and run thar.
It war a Ingin gal, and Bill swears she war hansum. She tried to run, but Bill got up to her so
quick she coodn't. Then she sunk back agin a tree, with her eyes on the ground, and looked as
bashful as a monkey with his hack broke. That struck Bill all aback, and ne coodn't makr up his
mind rightly how he shood hail her, but he ranged up along side, and war going to mince up his
mouth to speak lier fair, when he sum how stuck the end of his queu into her eye. He didn't do it
a proppus, hut she jumped hack, and thort he war going to board her in the smoke. He begun to
make his polly-gees, and axed her pardun, and all that, but she woodn't trust him for a good while
She chattered away in hor own lingo, and every once in a while she wood ketch hold ofhis queu
and give it a twitch, and I spose she war sneering about it ill her own language.
At last she got kinder kooled down, and then she let him take hold of her hand, while she led him
to the place whar she lived—though she kept a lookout for the queu all the time, as she warafrade
it wood he playing its tricks with her agin. She took him to a hut whar war about twenty sava-
gers, and they all got up and run towards them making as big a noise as if the imps of the infarnul
reguns had jist got a half holiday on a Saturday arternoon. Bill soon found out that this war the
king's dawter, and while she telled 'em about the queu, they listened with their eyei and mouth
wide open. As soon as she had done, they seized on Bill and tied him, hand and foot. Then they
bro't out a log of wood, and a ax that war made of flint, and sharp as need be. Bill begun to he
skared ; and then they took and laid him down with his hed on the log, and won grum looking fel¬
ler caut up the ax. Bill thort his time war cum. His neck felt queer enuff. So he hurried and sed
a short prayer and whistled won or two sam t unes for the good of his sole. Then the big savager
lifted the ax over his hed, and down it cum—not on Bill's neck but on the queu, which it took off
smack smooth close to his hed. The eral caught it up, and as soon as Bill war loosed, he didn't stop
to see what she did with it, but cut dirt for the bote and got safe aboard the skooner.
1841.
MARCH.
31 Days.
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PHASES OF THE MOON.
ASPECTS, &c.
Windy weather. Cool
nights and mornings.
Money scarce.
D Perigee. Oyster
suppers. Weather
beginning to grow
2d Sunday in Lent. .
High Tides, warmer.
Dry Good dealers very
polite. JVo news in
the papers. Fiddlers
in demand. Grocers
refase to trust stran-
3d Sunday in Lent.
gers. Seoeral persons
D Apo. Low Tides.
St. Patrick, take cold.
Daring this month or
the succeeding one, a
Vernal Equinox.
4th Sunday in Lent
thaw may be expected.
Meailes prevalent.
High Tides. Consid-
Annuncia.or holyday.
enable talk o f finishing
Banker Hill Monu-
5 th Sunday in Lent.
meat.
Rather low Tides.
5 Perigee.
A Jonny Raw, from Squantum, applied to a noted Surgeon, and announced his intention of
learning (he art and mystery of dissection. He boasted much of his steady hand, having
signed the temperance pledge early in life: and thought he could practice upon the defunct
human body with great tact and precision. The surgeon was surprised at the singular taste
of the youth ; but told him that he must not expect to arrive at the top of the profession in
one leap. "Go first, my lad," said he, " and begin at the bottom of the ladder. Try the ru¬
diments of the art first."
The young man departed ; and sometime afterward the surgeon met him in the street, but
in a guise not well adapted to a professional character.
" Ah ! my lad," cried he—" you have given up the idea of dissecting human bodies, I pre
sume."
" Not at all, sir," answered the enthusiast—" I have commenced as you advised me, at the
bottom of the ladder, and am now employed in opening oysters, in Mr, Brown's victualing
cellar."
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13
lietter from Ben Harding' to Col. Crockett.
Galliant Kurnill.—I haint hadnoansur
to my last tetter, and so I taik my penn in
hand to inform you that I am well, eccepting
that I hav got a hard tutch of the rumatiz, and
hope these few lions will find you engoving
the same blessing. As you wanted me to cum
up hear to the hed of Squaw River to drumm
up voturs for you at the nixt eleckshun I have
dun the best I cood, and hope to grapple a
good menny more. I hav ben to Little Pucker
Pond, Grin Island, Bear's Tail Inlet, Squaw's
Foot village, and Salt River Tint. When I
fust waved ankur from your house, I kruced
rite thro the hart of Gum-tree woods and
didn't heave in site of a human craft for hafT
the day, tho I raised five or sicks foxen, and
one wolf, and about fifty skool of Burds, and
then I sot down to black Betly and whet up
with sumthing like a pint. It never lasted
a horn with me, for as the wise man sez in
scripter, a friend's face sharpens iron. Wile
I wos doing my duty over the white face, there
hove in site 2 fellers and I bleeve they were
duchmun, by their lingo. I ofTured them a
drop and then I axed em to vote for Kurnill
Krockett. They sed they had ben in this cun-
try ony 2 yeer and want sivilized yet, so they
couldn't vote, but they give me their hands
upon it that they wood vote for you as soon
they got their tickets where they belong, up
in the state of New York. I made sale front
there, and the nixt place that brot me up war
Red Hill Swamp, close aboard of Great Swal¬
low Muddy. I twigged a villijge close by, and
so I hauled my wind, and went up to it, and
axod for the tavern. As soon as I had put
sumthing warm under my skin, I telled the
men there, sez I, "Shipmates, good even,—
better, and I only wishl you was thar to take I'm cum from Krockett with a roring com.
14 Love in
misshun to git votes, and I spose there's none
here that will say black is the white of his
eye. Any man that sez a word agin Davy
Crockett, is a swab and a soger, and a big
eater, and his messmates don't like him."—
With that a long slab-sided feller told me to
stand ottt for a bend, that he was Krookett's
rifle, and had been put up for Kongress agin
liirn. Sez he, "I've got more votes in won
town than he's got all over the cuntrv," and
he wanted to fite it out, and telled 'em to hold
him hekase he was afeared he should kill me.
He telled 'etn to jist sprinkle a handful of salt
on my hed, and he would take me down his
infarnn] long throte jest as I stood. Sez I,
" J.nok hear, mister, do you think I am a green
hand or a fresh water lobster ? I've ben on
the levyy at New I.eens when there war a
dozen sich tellers as you gutted out clear from
stem to stnrn. Pull off your breeches before
you begin upon me, so that your hares may
have sumthing left 'em, for I wont ieeve a
peace of you big enutf to bild a grave stone
over it." With that the long-gutted soger got
his grapplings on my (J, and sed he'd larn me
to try to keep him out ofKongress. I fetched
him a wipe with my left hand acrost the nose
and stunted him, so that he feil down. Then
the crowd all hollered "hurra for Krockett. !"
and they give me their hands on it that they
would vote for the Kurnill.
Next morning I maid a raft to kross over to
tother side of Salt River. I got to about the
middle of the river, and was going under a
bridge when I seed a man and a boy on the
bridge ketching fish. I haled the man and
hollered out to him to vote for Krockett, and
he and the boy war so skeered when they see
a Chest.
me—the fresh water lubbers—that the boy let
his basket of fish fall overboard, and the man
giv his line sich a jirk that he broke'it off and
his fish fell back into the water. Then they
run off to the cieering on tother side, and told
such n yarn about me that an infartiul lug mob
cum runnin down to the landjng to see it I war
a maremade or a shark. Sez I to em, «■
spose you don't know me, but I m arter voles,
and if anv of you wants to no my name, it is
Ben Harding, the messmate of Davy Krockett,
and mv name's in the allm> knack !" When
1 sed that, the Justass of the peace cum rite
up to me, and took off his hat and axed me to
his house, and he intradttred me to awl his
family, and telled 'em I wos a extinguished
ortlutr. 1 axed for sumthing to do onor to
my frend with, and I took the biggest horn of
whi>key that has gone into my cataplasm for
a week.
I expect to get awl the votes tip this way,
and I'm pickin 'em up all round the cumpass,
for I meen to git you into Kngrcss, if I lose
my jacket. Between yon and me, Kurnill,
I've been thinking whether I couldn't do sum-
thing for myself too. Sunt on 'ein thinks 1
ort to be up for a nfiiss of that kind, and I'm
sure I deserves sumthing of my country seein
as I hav sarved as bosun's mate, captin of the
foretop and quarter master aboard the friggit.
They has sum fellers in Kongress that can't
hand, reef, and stear, and sum that don't know
a juei block from the cook's coppers. I ex-
neck you will try your baud for me one of
these days, for I'm gitting old and lame, and I
must git a burth in Kongress or the alms
house pretty quick. Yourn till death.
B. H.
- Love in
"They tell me, Mr. Harding, that a savior
has a wife in every place whar he goes. Now
I don't mean to insinnivate enny thing, but as
you noes, Ben, praps you could tell how that
is."
" Blow my timbers, Kurnill ! hut that is
a hard word, to say it to a seaman too. But
never mind, I don't get mad at trifles. You
landsmen who has so many women to ex¬
pose of—wlty you don't vally a petticoat; you
don't know how to feel for 'em. But a saylor
always twigs one of 'em when he can. My
mother was a woman, Kurnill."
"So you told me before, Ben—but I would'nt
hav heieeved it the fust time I seed you flout¬
ing down the Massissippi, for you hadn't the
appernnce of ennything that war ever born of
woman."
Ben roiled up his eyes and turned over his
cud with his tung, and after he had settled it
to please his mind, he sez, " Then Kern ill,
praps you wont bleeve that I've ever been in
love, sense you think so hard of my looks."
" I've nothin to say agin that," sez I—" for
every critter has his mate. Every thing cums
to sum useful purposs, and your face wich is
so ruff mite sarve for a gall to scratch her back
aginst when it itched. I've no doubt that if
you ever war in love, Ben, you loved very
hard, hekase you ar a very hard favored man."
"That I did Kurnill!" sez Ben—"I loved
so hard that my hart seemed to be skinned
and my throte and bowels war all raw. My
eyes 1 I thort I war going to shake to peaces
from stem to stum, hekase my insides kept up
such a comhoholation. You see the way of
it was this, that Goverment wanted a draft of
men to go to the lakes, when we had the last I
a Chest.
kick up with John Bull, I got captured among
the rest, and was ordered to march into the
inferior, and go on the lakes, and you see I'm
no fresh water fish, and I felt as savage as a
struck porpuss, when arter sarvin a rpg'lar
prenticeship on salt water, I was transmogra-
fied into a fresh water lubber. So when we
formed into a company and vyar put into march¬
ing shape, we lookt like a pack of sogers going
thro the country, and I got a conceit into my
head that I woodn't go fur. So won day when
we was turned into a barn to sleep, I jest
squeezed off won of the hordes, and my name
war o-p-h off. I warked about five mile that
nite, and didn't noe whar I war enny more
than a codfish off soundins. Towards morning
I lade down to sleep, and I hadn't slept long
before I war waked tip by the sun shining on
my eyes : and then I heered the voice of our
lefftennent, and I thort my name war Dennis,
for they war close aboard of the place where
I had cum to an ankur. But 1 war down in
the long grass, and there war sum rocks there¬
away, and their peepers warnt sharp enuff to
twig dungarven. As soon as all war still, I
got up and lookt around me; but jest at the
minnit an infernal little reefer, who happened
to be nstarn of the rest, fixt his eyes on me,
and he cum runnin towards me and yelping
for help. I knowed it was time to drop my
courses and set my skysails. and I put one foot
before the other as if i was measuring land by
the job. I didn't see which way 1 went, but
they war all arter me, like a whole fleet of
frigates In chase of a 74, I run about a mile,
' and as I hadn't got my land legs on I was
' tired a little, and then I seed a small house
I and a fence, " Any pnft >n a storm," sea 1,
1841. APRIL. 30 Days.
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These calculations are on
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3
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6 19
5 22
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10 26
10 16
7 46
4 15
4 14
4 13
4 12
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grow warmer. Jlluddy
4
S
5 40
6 20
5 44
3 3
11 13
10 53
8 23
4 37
4 37
4 37
4 37
4 37
4 37
Palm Sunday, streets
5
M
5 39
621
6 7
2 46
1159
11 29
8 59
rises
rises
rises
rises
rises
rises
—several ladies lose
6
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5 37
6 23
6 30
2 28
m
a
9 35
7 41
7 37
7 33
7 29
7 16
7 9
their slippers in the
7
W
5 36
6 24
6 52
2 10
0 48
0 40
1010
8 52
8 47
8 42
8 37
8 21
8 12
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8
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5 35
6 25
7 15
1 53
1 37
1 19
10 49
10 1
9 55
9 49
9 44
9 24
9 13
Maundy-Thursday.
9
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5.33
6 27
7 37
1 36
2 27
2 2
11 32
11 5
10 59
10 53
10 47
10 28
10 14
Good Friday. Boot-
10
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5 32)6 28
8 0
1 20
3 30
2 47
a 17
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11 56
1149
11 42
1120
11 8
Macks curse and swear
11
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5 30 6 30
8 22
1 3
4 12
3 39
1 9
0 3
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m
m
in
11 56
Easter, terribly. The
12
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5 29 6 31
8 44
0 47
5 4
4 34
2 4
0 52
0 45
0 38
0 31
0 8
m
p Apogee. Legisla¬
13
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5 28|6 32
5 27j6 33
9 5
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5 54
5 36
3 6
1 32
1 26
120
1 14
0 55
0 44
ture make long speeches
14
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9 27
016
6 43
6 45
4 15
2 5
2 0
1 55
1 50
134
125
—Molasses candy scarce
IS
T
5 25 6 35
9 49:3. 1
7 28
7 49
5 19
2 32
228
2 24
2 20
2 8
2 0
Low Tides. and in
16
F
5 24.6 36ji0 10
F. 14
8 11
8 48
618
2 55
2 52
2 49
2 46
2 37
231
great demand. Fresh
17
S
5 23 6 37 10 31
0 28
8 54
9 34
7 4
316
3 14
3 12
3 10
3 4
3 0
Halibut. Umbrellas in
18
p
5 226 38 10 52
0 42
9 37
10 17
7 47
3 37
3 36
3 35
3 34
3 31
3 29
Low Sunday, demand.
19
M
5 21JG 39 11 13
05C
10 21
10 52
8 22
3 56
3 57
3 58
3 59
4 2
4 2
Potatoes 1very poor—
20
T 15 19 6 41
11 33
1 9;I1 8
1127
8 57
4 18
4 20
4 22
4 24
4 30
4 34
many of them rotten.
21
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11 54
122:1157
m
9 38
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
Violent hail storm.
22
T
5 17 6 43
12 14
134
a 51
0 8
10 20
8 43
8 38
8 33
8 28
8 12
8 3
High Tides. Talk of
23
F
5 16 6 44
12 34
1 46
1 50
0 50
11 4
10 1
9 55
9 49
9 43
9 24
9 12
finishing Bunker Hill
24
S
5 14
6 46
12 54
1 57
2 53
1 34
1159
11 11
11 4
10 57
10 50
10 27
10 17
Monument.
25
fi
5 13
6 47
13 14
2 8
8 57
2 30
m
m
m
11 5811 52
1132
1122
2d Sund. af. E. ]> Per.
26
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5 12
6 48
13 331
2 is
5 0
3 22
0 52
0 10
0 4
m
m
m
m
Jin Editor gets his nose
27
T
5 11
6 49
13 52
2 28
5 58
4 30
2 0
0 58
0 53
0 48
0 44
0 27
0 20
pulled. A ghost seen
28
W
i 10
6 50
14 11
2 38
6 52
5 55
3 25
133
1 29
1 25
121
1 11
1 3
in School street.
29
T
5 8
6 52
14 30
14 48
2 47
741
7 3
4 33
2 3|
2 0
1 57:
1 54
1 46
1 40
Low Tides.
30
F
5 7
6 53
2 55
8 29
8 14
5 44
2 27:
2 25
2 23
2 21
2 15
2 11
Weather grows warm.
Young Lady's Diary.— Arose at It A. M. Was dressed at twelve. Dropped in at Miss
William's and learned the name of Margaret Flury's beau. At 2 stopped in at Jones's, and
looked at several pieces of goods, together with ribbons without number. Threatened to call
again. Shopkeeper very polite. Saw a handsome young man behind the counter. He look¬
ed like Sandy Jenkins. At 4 o'clock had a call from Mr. Fitz; he was very agreeahle, and
gave a full account of the ball at M 's. Thought he should come again. At 6 prepared
to go to the theatre. Went with our party, and was first bored with a tedious play written
by that dull fellow, Shakspeare. After that came a new farce—I forget the name, but it was
delightful, especially when one of the characters fell into a basket of crockery. Got my feet
wet on the way home ; but Mr. Brown, our beau, was very kind. He lent me his India-rub¬
bers. They were too large for me, but as it was dark, no one could sec the size of my feet.
Got safe home, and went to bed. Lay awake till two o'clock, engaged in reading a sweet
novel, by the dear, delightful Bulwer. Went to sleep at last, and dreamed Mr. Fitz wanted to
propose, and just as he was on the point, I was called to breakfast by Kitty. I will get ma'
to turn off the impudent creature.
16 Cobbing t
and I bounced rite thro the gale into a kind of
a garden, and thar war a fine plump looking
gal there all alone. She was jest pickin a
pare off a young tree ; and she turned her head
the tninnit she heered me cum thro the gate.
I telled her not to be fritened, and she stood
still. Then I took off my hat, and made about
a dozen low bows to her, and telled that I am
chased by sum rascals who wanted to make
a soger of me, and I put on the soft soap so
thick, that she telled me to cum into the house,
and it's well she did, for I seed the bosun's
head pop up over the fence jest as she shut the
door. She took me up garret and put me into
a big chist. There I laid as snug as a ground
beef butt, and the offlssers was soon afoul of
the gal, for they swore they seed me dodge
into that gate. She told 'em it war a foolish
story of theirn, for she hadn't seen no man till
they cum, and she wished 'they would cleer
out all of 'em, as it would be agin her karak-
tur to have 'em there when her father and
brothers war away from home. At last, ihev
hauled off grumbling, and then the gal let me
tie Cook.
out of the chist. So I thanked her kindly, and
she smiled and she tuuked, and used such dic¬
tionary words that 1 perseeved she was high
larnt. 1 begun to feel strange when I seed
her hansum shape, and her plump catheads,
and all that sort-o-thing, and at last I got in
love. In two hours her fokes got home, and 1
telled 'em how she had slipt off the sharks,
and they said she was true bine. I staid there
four or five days, and all that time I was in
love, and I thorl they all liked for the gal to
be a sailor's wife; but all of a sudden, they
got to drinkin with me, and got me drunk one
day, and when I cum to myself, I was about
two hundred miles from the place, ami never
could get the latitude and longitude of it sense
I spose they carred me off so that I needn't
marrv the gal, and they didn't want to hurt
my thelitis bv refusing : so they transferred
me. So seeiti I couldn't ever find the gal agin,
I took a good cruse ou the strength of it, and
had a fortnite's drunk, and that cured my
love but it was tremendous while it lasted.
CoMiing-
You axed me to tell you what I meant by
cobbing the cook. Now, Kurnill, you don't
have any sich doins up in this latitude, but
aboard of a ship, the feller what cooks the vit-
tles has all the slush for his parquisit; and so to
make up for that, he must be cobbed when he
don't do his duty. When a ship's company
hangs together, and carrys on every thing
reg'lar, the cobbing of the cook is always done
hansumly and without any trubble, but sum
times there is ruff ally fellers aboard, who will
stick up for the cook in hopes of gitting the
windurd side of him. He will give them a
peace of soft tack, or let them have a gob of
slush to eat on their bread; and then when
the cook is brought to the windlass and the
handsaw laid agin his starn, they will grumble,
the lubbers, and try to stand up for him.
We war wonst saling in the gulf streem in
the old ship Susannah—a very good craft, but
rather wet on the fourcastle—when we found
the cook was growing keerless about our vit-
tles. We stood it as well as we cood, till
won day we hauled a biled rat out of the been
soop, and then we swore the cook should be
cobbed if it cost us six months' wages. I went
up to the cabuse, and sez I, "Cum out here,
you black scorpion, and stand by to be cob¬
bed !" He rolled up the whites of his eyes
like a duck in a thunder storm, and he ketch-
ed up the tormentors, which, you must noe, is
a grate iron fork, and he sed he wouldn't stur
tack nor sheet. Then I put my grapplings
rite into blackey's wool, and bowsed away.
He made a jab at me with his tormentors, and
Hill Davis pulled 'em out of his hand. He (but
and bit and stttnk, all under won. '■ Cum
along, you d d soger !" sez I, " and take
your pilotage for steerin a dead rat into our
kid." 1 got him as fur as the windlass, while
Bill Davis bored holes in a barrel stave, for to
spank his backside with ; but jist as I was
hollering for spunyarn to seize him down to the
windlass, I felt a wipe on the side of my head
that almost knocked me on my beem eends.
I turned round and seed a lubber of a marine
that we had shipped in Cuba, and noed rite off
what it ment; for he war always laying off
and on the cook's galley, to git sumthing good
to put into his hred basket. I kicked up be-
the Cook.
hind and planted my heel in the marine's
bowels, and he grunted like a struck porpuss.
By this time, every won war up for a row.
Sum on 'em stuck up for the cook, and sum
on 'em war for lending me a hand to bring the
cussed nigger to justice. Now it war the
devil to pay and no pitch hot. In a minnit,
two or three war down in the lee skiippers.
Some on 'em had black eyes, and the claret
war running like a reg'lar naval action.—
Hugh Jones found abottle of ruin in the cook's
galley, and he swigged upon that in the midst
of the fite. As for me, Kurnill Crockett, I
don't strike my flag to any craft that wears
purser's shirts ; but I war raked by a pare on
'em ; for the cook took me in front, and the
infarnal marine cum up agin in my wake.
The d d nigger got me by won leg and was
going to throw me overboard, and then the
marine got hold of my cue with his teeth.
But I shet up my corn grinders and got black¬
ey's hand between my teeth, when he let go
of me, and I follered him with a handspike
till he run clear over the ship's side. I never
seed him agin, and its no hard work to giss
what becum of him, for the sharks has a nat'ral
puncheon for nig's meat. The fite was kept
up till it got to be a rai'l mutiny ; for they
broke open the Cappin's liquor case, and the
way the square bottles flew about the decks
war nixt to a white squall. The Cappin seed
every thing going to rack, and he didn't no
now to carry sale in sich a sqall. He begged
the men to be easy, but it was no use, for he
got a dab in his own chops. But the second
mate was as cunning a young devil as ever
pulled out a weather eering, and when he saw
how 'twas, he went aloft, and pretty soon he
bellowed out from the cross-trees, " Call the
Cappin quick, for I see a British tnan-o-war
in the horizon." The hands on deck soon un¬
derstood his lingo, and there was a scamper¬
ing and clawing off, like a harpoon thrown
into a pod of fish. Every won run down be¬
low and kept as quiet as a louse in a clean
shirt, for they war so a-feared of getting pres¬
sed that they wood have let a rum cask leak
out without ketching a drop sooner than to
show their profiles on deck.
[See page 19.]
Portrait of the Girl
Who secreted Ben Harding in a Chest, while the crew were in pursuit of
him. See the story of Love in a Chest, page 14.
These calculations are on a
new plan, whereby much
space is saved and all their
usefulness retained. They
will serve for all the United
States, the Canadas, &c.
24' M
25 T
26: W
27j T
23 F
29, S 14
30j S 4
31 M !4
PHASES OF THE MOON !
O Full 5th, 9 13 M
c L.Q.. 13th, 11 29 M.
o New 20th, 6 52 E.
5 F. Q. 27th, 10 16 M.
ASPECTS, Sic.
Lads and lasses ridin
3d Sunday after E.
nut j girls talk aniif
laugh very loud.
ChaLe will overseti
High Tides. about
this time, earner of Jinn
and Blaclistune streets.
4th Sund. aft. Easter.
D Apogee. Snow
melts fast. Weather
grows warmer .
0 42j 0 37^i/ie weather for dig-
1 Si 1 5'X.ow Tides. gin.
1 35i 1 33tClarn.s. Lung days*
2 2j 2 2,Rogation Sunday.
2 33| 2 36j Girls meet at the cor-
3 3i 3 S ncrs of the streets and
3 3fi| 3 43 giggle mush.
sets. sets. lAscen. I). Holy Th ,
8 14j 3 liLoafers begin to thaw\
9 19; 9 6; D Per. Very H.Tides
10 I8jl0 S^unday after Aseen.
11 2 10 54.0ut, arid sun themselves
11 34:0/* the Common. About
m this time a gveat robbery
0 14 will be perpetrated in
0 44 Low Tides, the upper
1 '21 part of Washington
150,Pentecost. Whit S.
2 21lWhit Mond. street,
All the world has heard of Mr. Nobody. Every one knows he is more mischievous than
J 7 ' 0-" ~ * W ~ ~ M.WVIIIVI WICIC IO II
you see a broken window, a molasses stopple left out, or a demijohn overset, you run no risk
of being deceived with regard to the author of the calamity. It was Mr. Nobody, without
doubt. There are occasions, however, when yon may be certain Mr. Nobody will be absent
and his piace will be supplied by solid flesh and blood. These are such cases as the followin"
When the bell rings for dinner, when pay day arrives, when your taxes are due, when a lec¬
ture is to be delivered gratis, when money has been found and advertised, and when a vacant
sinecure requires filling. In short Mr. Nobodv is a verv modest gentleman, and never occu¬
pies a station which any other person is desirous of filling- Having committed crimes innu¬
merable, he ever escapes punishment: his infamous character destroys not his influence!
every prude affects his company, and the chastest maiden thinks it no disparagement to seek
hnn constantly.
■'i-Mil IT I«IW -T-ISI jaBKBBaaWIHh -'"TTygsr*-.^
1841.
JUNE.
30 Days.
These calculations are on High Water,
a new plan, whereby much
space is saved, and all their
usefulness retained. They
will serve for all the United
States, the Canadaff, See.
261 S
27 Pf
2slM
29|T
30) W
1 H. M
5 7 22
5 7 22
17 23
1 7 23
5 7 24,
5 7 24)22 41
5 7 24 22 47
5 7 25)22 52
4 35 7 25)22 57
4 35,7 25:23 2
4 34^7 26|23 6
4 34 7 26 23 10
4 347 26 23 14'
4 337 27 23 17
4 33,7 27 23 20'S. 3
4 33)7 27 23 22 0 16, . . ...
4 33 7 27 23 24 0 28 10 lS'lO 57
4 33,7 27 23 26 0 4111 19)1148
0 55 a 26
1 8 132
121 2 33
134) 3 28
1 47 4 18
2 01 5 5
2 12' 5 52
2 25 6 37
2 38 7 22
2 50 8 101 7 48
3 2! 8 59j 8 54
3 141 9 50' 9 47
phases of the moon.
o Full 3d, 10 48 E.
(I L. a. 12th, 1 3 M.
• New 19th, 2 18 M.
? F. Q. 25th, 5 39 E.
ASPECTS, fee.
Whit Tuesday.
Great talk about the
next President.
Rather High Tides.
Politico run high, and
Trinity Sunday.
D A pogee. many
triumphs of principle,
both on the whig and
democratic sides.
Ji pair of white pants
seen in Tremont street,
1st Sun. aft. Trinity.
Low Tides. the first
this season.
Foreign news very in-
3 2\teresting. Fight
3 58 hi Cornhill between two
sets.)loafers Jug of Molas-
8 461 p Perigee, sea broken
9 30,Very High Tides.
10 9 «t the comer of Con-
10 45licress street—molusses
11 15 St. John Baptist.
totally lost. Talk
Low Tides, of finish-
3tf\Sun. after Trinity.
ing Bunker Hilt Mon¬
ument.
Fishing party.
How to find out a M\n of Sense.—If you would find out whether a man is possessed
of a first rate intellect or not, you have but to inquire whether he agrees with >ou in opinion
or not. If he does, he is, of course, a man of sense : but if he has not come to the same con¬
clusions with yourself, it is very plain that he is an ignorant fellow, who is wholly unfit to
manage his own business. You would risk little in pronouncing him an idiot. But it is not
only in matters of religion, taste, and philosophy that this rule applies. If you are fond of
mutton-chop, and your neighbor prefers a roasted duck; if you drink wine and he drinks beer ;
or if you prefer land travel and he takes the steamboat, you have a right to set him down an
ass. But if you change ) our opinions, or your taste, and subsequently come over to his
ground, then, of course, he becomes a wise man. Your change of sentiment must he imputed
to him for wisdom, for although he does not think as you once did, yet he thinks as you do
now. There are some exceptions to this rule. If he takes a fancy to the same maiden that
you love, or is a candidate for the otfice to which you aspire. He is then, of course, a most
.worthless fellow; and any opprobrious name that you think fit to apply to him, will be, to
the last degree, apropos.
A Hide.
Thar -war a little «Titty that happent the fust
time I war sot up for Kongress, that I never
tellcd noboddy nothing about*, partly bekase
every buddy knowed it, and partly bekase 1
war intermitted to keep it a secret. Davy
Crocket never duzany thing he is ashamed on,
this E dad not do myself, for I tried not to do
at. E war going to election and had my rifle
wjth trie, with my dog Tiger, with two bottles
of white face in my pockets. When 1 got
about 5 way thar, and war in the forrest, I
seed a cattyinount up in a tree, and E clum up
to git a fare shot at the cretur, and told tiger
to be on hatul if he wur wanted. I war got on
to the nixt branch to the won that the varmint
war on, when he jumped down on to the limb
and Jit close to my elbow with his mouth to
ray ear, as if tie war going to whisper sumthin
mity priyate. 1 thort I war a gone sucker,
butjistai that mipnit the limb cracked and
snapped off. I didn't stop to see what becum
of ibe cattymount, but I went down, and
wood ha' gone into the mud, only thar war a
big elk under the tree, and E lit upon his hind
parts, and he giv a rankantankerous jump
which slid me down betwixt his horns like a
gal in a sighed saddle, and then he put in all he
knew. E like to ha' got my branes nocked out
by the branches, and the way he went thro
the forrest war like a driving snow storm
All the trees and rocks seemed to be running
the tother way ; and Tiger couldn't keep up
with us, and his pesky noise only maid the
erelur ram faster. E held on upon my rifle,
and E couldn't help thinking of Kurnill Ton-
son's mounted riflemen only E shood ha' found
it hard work to taik aim, bekase the cretur
woodn't give me a chauee. Howsever he soon
begun to git out of the forrest, and then E war
terribly ashamed for feer sum human wood
22
Col. Crockett and the -Honey Bees.
see me, but I coodn't see them as every thing
looked streeked as if the American flag war
spred over all natur. We went ahed this way
till all at wonst Iseed thar war sum thing befour
u», but 1 tfidn't have time to xamine it as we
war jumping on like chain Iitenrng when it
skips down the Missis-tippy. I soon found
what it war, for we dove thro the door of a
house, and when the door flew ofT its hinges,
it went agin the wall so hard it stuck thair.—
Then the elk pitched agin the door opposite,
and iho it war locked, yet that flew into the
middle of the flore, and upset a eat, and a ta¬
ble, and a candle that bau been used to melt
seeling wax. A young feller and a gal that
war kerting thar jumped up haff skeered to
deth.
I raiHy thort this war the eend of my travels,
but the pesky varmint wheeled about, and
went hed fourmost out the door agin, and shot
ahead on- the jump, four mile further, till he
cum to the little eend of the Little Fork of
Great Skunk's Liv^r River. We went rite
thro the mob for the poles war held ther, and
every boddy pulled off their hats and gin 3
cheers for Krockett, and that made me wrathy,
and graniverous as a parched corn; bekase
they didn't try to stop the varmint at aVK But
they all hurried out of the way, and bauled—
Hurrah for Crockett! Won feller from down
East sed he sposed that war the way that our
candydates war ran/or JToiwfress. 1 sposethe
elk war so skeered that hte didn't no whnt he
war about. But it helped my lection, for they
afl thort it war on invention of my own, for
to gratify the public. The1 elk had only gone
a small peace further when we post by a
store whar I war in dett a few dollars, ond it
war kepp by a Yankee, and be lhort I war
running away from my creditors. So be raxed
a hue and cry arter me, and in a nrrnnit the
hide village of Apple Toddy Creek war raxed.
They skeered the elk fust, won way and then
the (other, and he swung about ami jostled nie
so that it skraped »!T the ski® off my hinder
eend, ami I begun to frer if I got a seet in Kon-
gress it wouldn't be of no use to me. Hows-
ever the court war set litv at the time, and the
peeple skeered the cretnr so that it run that
way, and as the court house door was open, it
run rite in. As soon as the judge seed nie,
sex he, "Tliar's Crockett now ! We war jist
wanting ver for a wittitss in this ere kase of
the Wiilder Slrnpup. You've cum in the Hick
of lime."
The lawyer that war pleeding agin the
widder stared open his eyes, and sezr He, " 1
hleeve it is the N.iclt o'time, for the devil must
ha' brot him to spite my kase.'r
I jumped rite off the elk, and gin my evi¬
dence, and that saved- the widiler's property j. so
she took the elk under her protexion, and arter
he war broke, she used to ride htm to meetin.
Colonel Crockett and the Honey Bees.
It must be allowed that bees ate curous ereturs, speshatly for making- honey. That's but two
things more curovtser, and that ar a Yankee and an Itisher. The Yankee may lie all his life mak¬
ing honey, or money, and that's all the same thing in Dutch, but you never ketch him eating any
on it himself which shews he haint got so much sense as a bee, with all his mdost riousttess ami
ingenuity. Not he—none ofhis honey is of no. use to nobody till grim death has smoked hint out of
his hive.
That's this difference- between- a Yankee and an Trtsher—a Yankee always thinks before he
speaks, and an lrisher always speaks before he thinks. You have tohamiper a Yankee to a red
heat before-he strikes,and you-must hammer an Itisher dead before he is cool. A Paddy is suspic¬
ious his own country is better than enny other, and a V ankee calkilatesennv country is better- than
his own—but I expeet Pra getting to phitosopherising and that's a waste of time,and so stranger,
if you please, well jist take a dust of grog.
Onst I hired an Irisher to help-me logrolling and house-raising, and a fine fellow he war when
he war sober, which happened as-often as twice a week; but when he war a little exffunctified.the
Lord forgive me for a liar if he war not the most consummated braggadocio u« I overseen or heern
tell on. Ilia name war Teddy O'Rourke.and he used to-swear that m bis country the moon war as
big as four of owrn,and the thunder four times as loud. Be st umped allKaintuek. and Tennes¬
see, too,and said he could ride-rusty on-enny man born this side of tho big water.xceptnig Cotbnel
Crockett. He had more sense than not to leave me out.tho he war a blundering bull of the bogs.
But he licked Jimmy Twiggs and Rill Broadhorn, and cum off first best from Sam Scrowger with
very little damage, lor he only lost one eye and a small bit of his nose, and thar ar few chaps that
can git away from Sam so easy. But what made hrm prouder than a dog with two tails was, kill¬
ing a bare by cutting him- on the nozzle with a hoe, and arter thut he eenamost grow out of bis
breeches,and swore he could link any wild beast of American growth,
I didn't mnrethan hafflike this, and as-f hail a>sort, ofkktder kyindhess for Teddy,.! rewmynat-
ed like-a cow on a stale cud,about the best way to take the vanity and consate out on him. 1 did
think of rowing him a mile or two up Salt River myself; but I didn't very well like to hurt his feel¬
ings, and besides 1 never skulp a man that's not my match. I shood have been obleeged to excori¬
ate him for all that,if I hadn't hail a piece of good luck won day—tierbaps I mooght say two pieces.
~ I war sneaking along the edge of Big Bear's Grass Bluff arter a buck, when 1 eum spontanatious-
ly on a bee's neest in the grass.and at first 1 war going to kilt the varmints ami take the honey—1
a kinder thought 1 wood, and then I kinder thought I woodn't, and finally 1 felt a kinder woodn'ter.
"No, no." says I, "those ere wilrl bastes of American growth ,as Teddy calls fem, wiH jhst sarvc
his turn for a fito." And presently,in less than no time, the Lord war uncommon good to me agin,
for I lit on a- hornet's neest hanging to the branch of a persimmon bush before 1 noed it. I hturcd tt
tree close by to no the place agtn, and at nito 1 cum buck ami stopped up the bole with a plug,and
took the neest down. I met a wolf and twoeatamounts on my way back burn-; but t war in too
gooda humorat what I had done to hav the hart to hurt 'em—so I jist kicked 'cm out of the track,
and told 'est I war Cot. Davy Crockett. When they heeled that they powdered awuy with their
tail's between their legs, thanking me for their fives.
Wo had a corn husking at my clearing that nite and sum of the most savageroas fellers,and the
prettiest, rosiest,bo.esomest corn-fed gals war tharthatevergoaged out an eye, or war brushed by
a beard. Arter work war done, the water of life jug went round and Tedily war in his glory. He
swore he cood drive any man. that up to bis neck intothe floor like a nail, with one stroke of bis
five blessed bones, and that he cood pull the rainbow out of the sky and tie both eends in a l>ow
knot. Now sum of the company were skeered at Teddy,and others didn't want to hurt him, and so
nobody offered to stop his moderate headway till he most impudaeiously boasted that he could whip
twice his weight of any wild meat west of the mountains, and then 1 took it up. 1 offered lo bet
him the liquor all round, that I wood find htm fifty little Kaintuckians the next day, that could
make him say enuff, and the way he took me up war beautiful to bear.
Next morning I started Jem Ffatfoot into the bush to git the neest, alEdrcst and painted up like a
Pottowottomv Ingtn, and then folterud arter with the boys and Teddy, all itching for a fite, On
the way 1 led Teddy slam bang into the hses' neest, and I suspect you never seen a man shew so
much rale grit. The bees out and at htm like small shot on a blue winged teal, and at fust he war
A Scienterifical Courtship. 23
as much astonificd as if he'd tumbled into a mare's neest. He didn't offer to cut dirt. tW- hut
stood and danced on the neest like a feller named Potter, what I seen cut a pigeon win* amone
eggsin New Vork.siniring.out-och, I'm kih.and murdhered and spilt intfreiyl Oeafe miUm
ma,de more noise than a hundred saw mills., May be he didn't stamp the gweetSners
all to death, and when he d got through and his physog looked more like a punkin than a gentle-
mane mug, X war obliged to gi ve in that he'd fair/y whipped the varmints. But he had a little
smarter chance of work afore him.
When we cum to the persimmon bush there stood Jimmy Flatfoot with the yaller jackets' neest
in his band. Hallo, Sackarup!" says I, here's the animanl what will show you the bear hug."
. Humble bumble kixawtx tomensodle foodie foo!" says Jimmy.—"What's that the spalpeen is be-
ingarter saying, sez Teddy. Hesaxmme," sezI, " if you ar the little boy that ar to fite him,
and he wants to no.how many more you've bro't to begin to help you." " Mr. Ingin," sez Teddy,
you and I will soon be better acquainted, plase God, as the thief said to the halter." And then he
made a dip rite at Jimmy, looking not at all like a quaker, hut jist as if he ment to use him up from
the eena of his snout to the tip of hia tale; but J ltn didn't stop for him. He pulled the plug: out of
the neest and give it a shake, and pulled foot like & whitehead, abusing Teddy in a most onchristian
tashun all the way. 1 hat made Pat streak it harder arter him ; but lie might as well have chased
a streak or forked lightning, for Jim conlu run down a buck. Now you must no, if you didn't no it
l** u ifc bee nor a yaller jacket can fly so fast as a man can run, and as Jim gallivanted
thro Uie bush he shook the beasts out of the neest and as theycoodn't catch him, they naterally
new rite into teddy's tace, for he war close behind, so mad that he didn't feel the stings no more
than it they war drops of Cologne water. So that they had it'hip and thigh more than two miles,
MSreecMJig and hollering- like Henry A. Wise on the floor of Kongress, wiien he's mad: till poor
I eddy dropt down and tatntedawaj*; for it was not in natur to stand it. Then I carried him hum
and give him half a gallon of Tally Valley Cord tocumfort his atummuck, and he made nothing of
it in less than an hour. I've heern tell that Irishers haint got no souls, and if that artrue the devil
war very nigh sitting another apple to roast that time, for the ignorant cretur cum so near dying,
thar war no fun in it; but it war the best taste of sport I ever had in my life.
Teddy never bragged arter that of what he coold do, hut always affirmated that if the thing had
happened in Ireland he wood have been crusified without benefit of clargy, for he said that the yal¬
ler jackets thar war as large as a turkey gobbler, and carried grindstones under their wings, to
sharpen their bills on; but whether that ar true or no I leave to them what hav travelled in forrin
Parta- [See last page.3
A Scienterifi
No doubt the reeder has heern of Wicket 1
Finney ; and if he hasn't heern of him, of
Meg Wadlow. At any rate, between 'em
both, he must hav heern of one or tother of
'em. Wicket considered himself inticingly
wonderful whar thar war a gal to be treed,
and ail the female kyiud of our diggins war
voracious to git him and his plunder. When¬
ever Wicket axed a gal to set up with him
she war rite off as tender as a oak tree with
the bark off, and played possum to every
feller, for six months arterward. But Wicket
didn't take any of 'em for life, bekase why ?
It war so easy to git 'em, jist as when I war
in a whole herd of buffaloes, I didn't draw
trigger bekase I war in no hurry. Now Meg
Wadlow hadn't cum to them parts then, for
she war gone to live with her ant up in
Queen's Creek Village, close to the Blue
Notch, and her ant had sent her to hording
skool for to finish her eddicaiion. So the tork
war all about our parts that she war coming
home, and her fokes war in a dreadful fixin
about it. Her mother was skeered £ out of
her wits, bekase she new that Meg wood
xpect to see every thing in the perliterest
fashion. She maid her husband wrence out
his cap in cold waler, and scour up his rifle
as bright as two niggers' eyes; and she died
her bare-skin peltycoat yaller, and bort two
new woodden boles of a peddler for to put into
the best room. At last Meg cum in good ar-
nest, and when she got down upon the ground
from the karridge, she held up her gound with
won hand, jist as if Kaintucky ground war too
mean for her to tred upon. Her father stood
in the door, and held his breth, for he war so
terriflcaciously frightened when he seed her
skoojeriferous perliteness and all her other
vississitudes, that he had rather a] faced a
painter on the cleerins without his rifle. Her
mother run and got behind a fence till the dan¬
ger war over and peaked at Meg thro a not-hole.
I don't no what past arter she got into the
house : but in a few days, her father sent to
town for a plane, bekase Meg wood hav won;
and he went about the diggins forking about
northing but the wonderful accompiifications
and corruptions of his darter.
eal Courtship.
Wick Finny heered of all this and it sot his
dander rite up. All the other fellers fout
shy, and never dast to speek to Meg arter she
got home any more than fhey wood look into
Davy Crockett's rifle when his finger war on
the trigger. But Wick war not the man to
hang fire whar thar war anything of the she
kind. He went up into Wolfhead Clearings
and got him a soot-o-close that war bran new,
and he made the shop keeper show him how
to put 'em on. He went home with 'em, and
felt so tnity odd in his new close that he
conldn't hardly turn his hed and lift up his legs,
but he noed he war all in the hiter-fashion,
and Meg wood have to own it, when she seed
him. He war afeered to take his close off for
fear he couldn't git 'em on agin, as he had for¬
got how it war done, and so he slept in 'em all
that night.
On the nixt day jist as the sun had begun to
squat, be blaeked up his boots with a gob of
bare's greece, filed sum of the rust off his
teeth, and courled his hare with a peace of a
broken rake. Then he sot out for Meg's house.
He went rile in, and axed for Meg. Her moth¬
er didn't no him in his new close, and she
curched so hard that she spraint her ankle.
She showed him into the room war Meg was,
and true enuff she war playing on her piane.
He sot down on a kynd of a bench they coli a
sophy, and then Meg lookt rite at him. He
felt queer enuff when he seed her perlitenes
and all that are kynd of personification. But
he sez, sez he, " I spose it is a good while
sense you hav ben up in these diggins be 4."
" I beg your pardon, sir," sez she, " I war
jistsittin down to my piny forty."
" You needn't beg my pardon, I'm not a go¬
ing to lick ye," sez he. " But should kindly
thank ye jist to play upon that mashine a lit¬
tle ; what do ye call it!"
She telled him it war a piny forty, and then
she begun to make it tork whilst she sung a
song that she called Scots wee hay.
He sed it war the prettiest thing he had ever
heered since his sister broke the conch shell
by blowing so hard that she split it in two.
When Wick sed that, she held up both of her
little white hands, and declared she didn't no
24 A Duel—Related by Ben Harding. |
what a conch shell war. When Wick heered agin. I'll let him no that when I'm on trail
that, be pulled won out of his pocket, and put and their's a gal to be font for, I'm all brnn-
it to his mouth and blew aich a winder that stone from my toes upwards."
she put both her hands on her ears, and jump- When the gal seed that Wick war in arnest,
ed ap, and hollered rite out; for Wick had as and war going to fite for her, she looked down
much wind as a race-hoss, and when he blow- and blushed up like a red cabbidce. Then
ed on the shell, it shook the hole house and Wick sidled up to her, and giv her a smack
made the wooden dishes rattle. When she that might he heered as far as a painter's
sot down agin on the sophy, Wick see, "Miss squall. Then she noed Wick war trne pluck,
Mag'ret I spose you knows that I've cum to and she begun to feel worser and worser, and
to try to—you know what," and then he she sez, "A/as I my tender heart must vieid,
winked so affectificaciously that she seed trap sense yon will resist that I be your bride," and
in a minnit. so she gin her consent.
"Oh, sir!" sez she, "my trough is in- "I'm glad to hear that," sez Wick, "I'll
vocably plagued to another," and then she enm and see you sum times, but you is quite
taied her hand right on her stumark, and sed too fast when you eposes I am for yokiug on
" Oh sir. my hart is deceptible to your honors with you. So good bye to ye and he jump-
in axing for my hand, but thar is another won ed up and sallied off whistling thro the forrest.
as I is defianced to." So when Meg seed he didn't want her arter ail
When Wick heered that, he jumpt right up the fuss, she went into the high sterricks and
and crowed 3 times, and he sez, "Tell me who the rumytiz, and the fainting fits, and all that
the varmint is, right off, and I'll bring ye his sort o'thing, wich she had larut at the board-
two eyes in my pocket before you can wink 1 ing skools.
A Duel—Related by Ben Harding'.
Talking of catching whales, Kurnitl, puts me in mind of a scrape I wonee seed around on tot her
side the Horn, so if your gal will jist sit alone and give me room I'll tell ye the story. You must
no the whalers puts in at a place they call Cokrmber, very often. Won day, when I war thar, 1
war tired of cruising about town, and stepped into a shantee and sot down. Thar war two Nan¬
tucket Cappens there,and their ships laid off in the harbor. They war drinking auguadenty, and
felt pretty lively. So when they seed me cum in, they jist tint me the wink, and won of'em, sez lie,
"you look dry, Jack ; walk up and squeeze brown Betty." "Thank ye, kindly," sez I,and I went
up to the little table wiiar they sot, and poured out a horn—you no, Kurnill, that I aint in the Jiabit
ot stunting myself j and jist as I war swailering it down, who shood heave in site but two officers
from a British sloop of war off in the harbor, with a lobster back between 'em. The lobster lookt
at me with all his eyes, and sez he to the other officers, " here is imspunsihle company, I think, let
us go wliar we can find gentlemen to eat and drink with." With that, won of the Nantucket Cap-
pens grinned and sot his teeth as if he war biting a copper spike in 2, and sez he, " thar war none
but gentlemen here be 4 you cum in. But if you ar in sarch of sogers like yourself, you'll find gray-
backs enuff up in the knlibuse." With that the lobster war roaring mad, and he clapped his paw
upon his cheese-knife that he wore in his belt, and sez he," if you war a gentleman I woodn't stand
this no how, hut as you ar a blubber-hunter, 1 took on ye with contempt." Then he turned around
and war going to hoist sail for another port ; but the sailer officers who war in his eumpany wood
not st ur a step, and won of'em whispured in h's eer, and arter they had torked awhile, the lobster
walked up to the tahle, and sez he, "My sbip-mateB hete, say, that bekase you ar a Capped, 1 ort
to giv you the satisfaktion of a gentleman. I can't stop long to tork to won of your calling, but
you'll neer from me shortly,"—so he put his fingers on his nose as if he smelt whale iie,and hauled
his wind. I set as still as the stump of a mast, but arter red fish had showed his tale, the Cappens
told mo to help myself to hiskel and jerked beef, and so J rpneed it down as 1 ett it, with thejuse
of the bottle. We hadn't sot long he 4 one of the sailer officers what war with the lobster, cum
in,and maid a low bow tike a mainsail be 4 the wind, and handed the Nantucket Cappen a hilly-
duce. So he opened it and redd it, and then the English officer axed him for an ansur. So sez he,
"five o'clock to-morro morning, and my weppons will be only a harpoon." The Englishman held
up his hands and seZ he, " who ever heered of such a unsareumsized weppon as that to fite a gentle¬
man with. You no, sir, that my principles isn't fish I"
" What's a lobster but a fish r" sez the Cappen, and I hope I may be blown into rihbins, if the
Englishman didn't laff rite out, for you must no, Kurnill, that thar never war a blu-jarket who war
not fond of heering the marines quizzed. So he went off, and shortly artcrward the Cappens
hauled their wind and went aboard their crafts.
A rely nixt morning I hauled my corpse out of my hammock, and went ashore to see the fite. The
two sea-officers war thar, and the lobster too. The Nantucketman had his coat off and his sleeves
rolled up, and he stood leaning on a devilish grate harpoon that war scoured up like silver, so you
mite hav seed your face in it. Pritty soon the peeple begun to bundle out and dropdown to the battle
ground, for the news on it had got wind alt over the town. The Nantucketman soon spied me,
and sez he, " Jack, do you cum here, and hold on upon this line." So I took the ktle in my hand ;
and pretty soon the ground war marked out. The lobster held up his head, and looked as grum
as a shark with his teeth pulled out. He cocked his shooting iron and snapped it. The ball whiz¬
zed by my ear, between me and the Nantucketman.
Then the Nantucketer, sez he, "now it's my turn." and then he jist lifted his harpoon,and put
one hand over the but eend of it, and steadied the shank with the other. Then he stretched him¬
self out wittli a widespread, like a man that war used to the trade. He took a good aim, right
between the two eyes of the red-coat, and the feller looked astonished a minnit—then his hps be¬
gun to quiver like a ship's fore-top-mast-stay-sail when she's going in stays. lie begun to perseve
the Nantucketer war in downright airnest, and lie expected that before night his fat wood he
peeled off his bones and biled out into ile. He looked as white about ti e gills as a biled skip-jack
and he dropped his weppon and run as if the devil sent him on eond. Away he went over the hills,
and you coodn't see his backside for dust. Then his second blushed like a rooster's comb, and
lookt as mad as a red-hot cannon shot. The two officers swore be had disgraced the whole ship's
eumpany, and they run arter the lobster and ketchcd him and brought him back. So when he war
brought back, lie walked rito up to the Nantucketer, and sez he,—" My shipmates tells me 1 ort to
pologize, and I spose it wont be nothin agin my honor, seein that what I sea to you yesterday wus
oniy a lav-seus-linger. I own you to lie a gentleman and a clever feller."
The Nantucketer didn't like that at all, for sez he, "You've had one good shot at me, and you
mint let me have one dart at you, be 4 I can be apolligized."
Then the lobster was reddy to bust, he war so mad and so fritened, and he sez, " I'll see you in
tofit tiefnur I'll ever stand up to lie speered like a whale, by a d d scrapisland blubber hnnter,"
and heturned about and run like a pirate off Castle Moro, and he war never haern on arterwards,
from that day to this.
1841.
JULY.
31 Days.
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Sets.
Dec.
SInw.
South.
'£
03
ASPECTS, Ac.
H. M
H. M
:>. M.
M. S.
H. M.
CQ
Z
23
£
£
£
O
z
"I
T
4~34
726
23 81 3 26
1042
10 32
8 2
2 3
2 10
2 17
2 24
2 47
3 0
© Apogee.
Great alteration in the
2
F
4 34
7 26
23 3
3 37
11 33
11 10
8 40
2 52
2 59
3 6
3 13
■3 36
3 48
3
s
4 34
7 2b
22 59
3 48
rn
1146
9 16
rises
rises
rises
rises
rises
rises
weather in the space of
4
S
4 35
7 25
22 54
3 59
0 22
a 23
9 53
8 32
8 27
8 22
8 17
8 2
7 52
4th S. Aft. Tr. 5 Ap.
5
M
4 35
7 25
22 48
4 9
1 10
0 56
10 26
8 58
8 54
8 50
8 46
8 33
8 26
Rather High Tides.
6
T
4 36
7 24
22 42
4 19
1 55
1 29
10 59
921
9 18
9 15
9 12
9 2
8 57
the last three months.
7
W
4 36
7 24
22 36
4 29
2 37
159
11 29
9 42
9 40
9 38
9 36
9 29
9 26
Many soldiers in the
8
T
4 37
7 23
22 30
439
3 18
2 32
a 2
10 0
9 59
9 58
9 57
9 54
9 52
streets.
F
4 37
7 23
22 23
4 48
3 58
3 13
0 43
10 18
10 19
10 20
1021
10 24
10 24
Dogs plenty.
10
s
4 38
7 22
22 15
4 57
4 39
3 54
1 24
10 38
10 40
10 42
10 44
10 5!
10 54
Apples rot fast.
11
s
4 38
7 22
22 7
5 5
5 22
4 43
2 13
11 1
11 4
11 7
11 10
11 20
1121
5th Sun. aft. Trinity.
12
M
4 39
7 21
21 59
5 13
6 7
551
321
11 26
1131
11 36
1141
1158
m
Low Tides.
13
T
4 39
7 21
2151
5 20
6 57
721
451
m
m
m
m
m
0 4
Fat folks quite uncom¬
14
W
4 40
7 20
21 42
5 27
7 53
8 47
6 17
0 0
0 6
0 12
0 18
0 38
0 48
fortable. Hard times.
15
T
4 41
7 19
21 33
5 34
8 54
9 50
7 20
0 43
0 50
0 57
1 4
1 27
1 40
Several dandies obliged
16
F
4 41
7 19
21 23
5 40
9 59
10 47
8 17
I 40
147
154
2 1
2 24
2 37
to go to work.
17
S
4 42
7 18
21 13
5 45
11 6
1137
9 7
2 52
2 59
3 6
3 13
3 36
3 48
Talk of finishing B. H.
18
3
4 43
7 17
21 2
550
a 9
m
9 48
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
D Per. © Eel. invis.
19
M
4 43|7 17
2152
5 55
1 8
0 18
10 27
8 24
8 21
8 18
8 15
8 5
8 0
Very High Tides.
20
T
4 44
7 16
20 41
5 59
2 3
0 57
11
8 51
8 49
8 47
8 45
8 38
8 35
monument.
21
W
4 45
7 15
20 29
6 2
2 54
134
1142
9 13
9 13
9 13
9 13
9 11
9 10
Horses complain of
22
T
4 46
7 14
20 17
6 5
3 41
2 12
:n
9 34
9 35
9 36
9 37
9 40
9 42ifiies. Long tails in
23
F
4 47
7 13
20 5
6 7
4 29
2 57
0 27
9 57
10 0
10 3
10 6 10 16
10 21
demand.
24
S
4 48
7 12
19 53
6 9
5 16
3 45
1 15
10 21
10 25; 10 29
10 3310 46
10 5-3
A great deal of sweat-
25
'4
4 48
7 12
19 40
6 10
6 4
4 40
2 10
10 48
10 53 10 58
11 3
11 20
1123
7th Sun. aft. Trinity.
26
M
4 49
7 11
19 27
6 10
6 53
5 49
3 9
11 20
11 26:11 32
1138
1158
m
Low Tides. ing.
27
T
4 50|7 10
19 13
6 10
7 43
7 8
4 38
1159
m
m
m
m
0 8
Bathing recommended
28
W
4 5117 9
19 0
6 9
8 35
3 24
5 54
m
0 6
0 13
0 20
0 43
0 56
hp the papers.
29
T |4 52|7 8
18 46
6 8
9 27
9 24
6 54
0 46
0 53
1 0
1 7
130
1 43
Look out for rain be¬
30
F;4 53;7 7
1831
6 6I10J7
10 13
7 43
1 39
1 46
153
2 0
2 23
2 36
tween now and the end
31
S 4 54 7 6
IS 17
6 3 11 5
11-50
8 20
2 40
2 46
2 52
2 58
3 14
3 28
of next month.
The following are the titles of sundry sacred hooks which came from the press shortly
after the Protestant Reformation " A Rusty Saw for the Throat of the Pope and his Car¬
dinals." " The only true Interpretation of Holy Scripture, according to the gift of John
Bragg, now put forth for the first time, for the Life of the World, by the Author—price three
shillings." " A Slice of Bread and Piece of Meat, spiritually administered, for the Nourish¬
ment of Hungry Souls, By Greely BoatruflT." " A Sharp Knife for Ripping Open the Pillows
which have been put under the Armholes of Sinners, by the Damnable Blasphemies of Papis¬
tical Absolution—for the first time whetted and ground on the Grindstone of the Holy Evan¬
gelists by Peter Bulflnch." " A New Wheelbarrow for wheeling away the burden of Cor¬
ruption from the Church, by Ezekiel Gwyptn." u A Rushlight to assist the True Believer in
understanding the Fifth Verse of the Ninth Chapter, of the Gospel of Saint Luke, by Benjamin
Carver & William Godwin." " A handful of Moss gathered from the Stone which the Build¬
ers Rejected, by Ohed Sweeting." " A Telescope by looking through which the Humble
Christian mav peer over the Battlements of Heaven, by Abel Buzzard, one of the humblest of
the Lord's Servants."
1841.
AUGUST.
31 Days.
These calculations are on a
new plan, whereby much
space is saved and all their
usefulness retained. They
will serve for all the United
States, the Canadas, &c.
D.
M. W
Sun Sun Sun's
rises. Sets. Dec.
H.M H.MD. M.
4 56
4 57
4 58
4 59
5 0
1
2
3
5
6
5
5 10
5 12
5 13
5 14
5 15
5 16
5 18
5 19
5 20
5 21
5 23
5 24
5 25
5 26
5 28
5 29
5 30l6
Sun Moon
Slow. South
M. S. H. M.
18 2
17 46
17 31
17 15
16 59
16 42
16 26
16 9
15 52
15 34
15 16
14 59
14 40
14 22
14 3
13 44
13 25
13 6
12 46
12 27
12 7
1147
1126
11
10 45
10 24
10 3
9 42
9 21
8 59
8 38
6 0
5 56
5 52
5 46
5 41
5 34
5 28
5 20
5 12
5 4
4 55
4 45
4 35
4 24
4 13
4 1
3 49
3 36
3 23
3
2 55
2 40
2 25
2 9
1 53
1 37
1 20
1 3
0 45
0 27
0 9
1151
m
0 34
1 16
1 57
2 38
3 20
4 4
4 52
5 44
6 40
7 42
8 46
9 51
10 52
11 48
a 41
1 32
2 22
3 10
3 59
4 49
5 41
6 33
7 25
8 16
9 6
9 54
10 38
11 21
m
High Water.
11 23
11 56
a 27
0 57
1 28
2 1
2 38
3 20
4 16
5 27
7 4
8 36
9 42
10 36
11 18
11 59
m
0 36
£
a
IB
8 53
9 26
9 57
10 27
10 58
11 31
a 8
0 50
1 46
2 57
4 34
6 6
7 12
8 6
8 48
9 29
10
10 42
1 1211 18
1 48
2 29,
3 17
4 15
5 22
6 38
7 57
9 2
9 52
10 29
11 2
11 32
0 0
0 47
1 45
2 52
4
5 27
6 32
7 22
7 59
8 32
9 2
Moon Rises and Sets.
3 44
3 49
rises rises
7 46j 7 44
8 6
8 5
8 25
8 25
8 45
8 46
9 4
9 7
9 291 9 33
10 010 5
10 3710 43
11261133
m
m
0 28
0 35
144
150
3 6
3 11
sets.
7 15
sets.
7 14
7 39
7 39
8 1
8 3
8 25
8 28
8 52
8 56
9 24
9 29
10 0
10 6
10 44
10 51
1136
1143
m
m
0 36
0 42
140
1 45
2 51
2 50
3 49
3 52
rises
rises
c
M
o
o
(X
S
s
1
V
SB
£
3 54
3 59
lises
rises
7 42
7 40
8 4
8 3
8 25
8 26
8 47
8 48
9 10
9 13
9 37
9 41
10 10
10 15
10 49
10 55
11 40
1147
m
m
0 42
0 49
1 .56
2 2
3 16
3 21
sets.
sels.
7 13
7 12
7 39
7 39
8 5
8 7
8 31
8 34
9 0
9 4
9 34
9 39
10 12
1018
10 58
11 5
11 .50
1157
m
m
0 48
0 54
1 50
155
2 54
2 58
3 55
358
rises
rises
O
4 16
O
a
4 24
O Full 2d, 5 0 M.
d L. ft. 10th, 1 17 M
0 New 16th, 4 33 E.
J) F. ft. 23d, 4 12 E.
o Full 31st, 8 38 E.
rises rises
7 33 1
8 0
8 27
8 51
9 23
7 58
8 27
8 53
9 27
9 5410 1
10 321040
11 1511 25
m m
010 0 22
1 12 1 24
2 22, 2 32
3 38 3 46
sets.sets.
7 9 7 7
7 41 7 42
814 817
8 44| 8 49
917, 9 24
9 56 10 4
10 3810 48
11281141
m m
0 20 0 34
i
PHASES OF THE MOON
ASPECTS, fee.
8th S. aft. Tr. J) Ap
D Eel. total, part, vis
High Tides.
Grasshoppers dance
briskly.
Girls cross.
Warm weather.
9th Sun. aft. Trinity.
Thunder, at this time
will be accompanied by
Low Tides, lightning.
Several horses sold very
cheap.
Striped Pig in demand.
D Perigee.
0 Eclipsed invisible.
Great talk of finishing
High Tides. Bunker
Httl Monument.
Pig run over in Water
street.
11th S. after Trinity.
A gentleman fiogged by
his wife.
Low Tides.
_ _ _j Old maids very talka
1 14j 1 23'diue. Mosquitoes
2 12, 2 20 D Apo. bite sharp,
311 3 18 12th S. af. T. and very
4 8 4 13/noisy with their wings.
rises Irises I
Paying in kind.—A young fellow, numbered among his acquaintances one youth by no
means famous for his generosity. This youth thought proper to cut the acquaintance of our
hero on the plea of a thread-bare coat which the latter found himself obliged to wear. Very
soon, however, the death of a relation placed him in opulent circumstances, and then the gen¬
tleman who had entertained so much dread of the thread-hare coat, sent him b letter filled
with exalted esteem, and reminding him of the friendship which had so long subsisted be¬
tween them. Our hero answered his letter, and sent at the same time a large square box.
He opened the letter in which the former acknowledged his obligations for so much good will,
and such warmth of friendship, and stated that he thought some return was justly due. The
gentleman then turned to the box, with glistening eyes, and doubting whether it contained
Spanish dollars or costly apparel. What was his astonishment to find, upon taking off the
top, that it was filled with a quantity of soft soap, together with the remnants of the
identical thread-bare coat which had occasioned the breach between them.
These calculations are on
High Water.
Moon Ki-e
and Sets.
PHASES OK Til6 MOON.
a new plan, whereby much
.
<[ L. Q. 8th, 9 19 M.
space is saved, and all
their
usefulness retained. They
si
<0
ii
g
@ New 15th, 1 11 M.
will serve for all the United
3
bO
a
p F. Q- 22d, 8 43 M.
State
s, the Canadas, &c
£
a!
c
is
£
s
O
O Fall 30th, 11 32 M.
n.
i\l.
I).
W.
Sun
sun
Sim'.-
Sun
Mnon
2
>
"§
"g
S
H?M
U. M
Due.
D. M.
Fast.
M. S.
South.
H. M.
0
JH
<t>
2
'3
3
a
IS
2
I
J3
O
a
Z
ASPECTS, &C.
~1
W
532
628
8 16
0 10
0 2
a 2
9 32
6 36
6 36
6 36
6 36
6 36
6 36
Sevtrnl rrallons of rum
2
T
5 33
6 27
7 54
0 29
0 43
0 32
10 2
6 54
6 55
6 56
6 57
7 0
7 2
High Tides.
3
F
535
6 25
7 32
0 48
123
1 6
10 36
7 15
7 18
7 21
7 24
7 34
7 39
purchased and sent
4
S
5 36
6 24
7 10
1 8
2 9
141
11 11
7 40
7 44
7 48
7 52
8 5
8 12
home in oil jugs.
5
3
5 37
6 23
€48
127
2 5b
2 20
1150
8 7
8 12
8 17
8 22
8 39
8 47
13th Sun. aft. Trinity.
6
M
5 38
6 22
6 26
147
3 46
3 13
a 4-3
8 42
8 48
8 54
9 0
9 20
9 30
Days grow shorter.
7
T
5 39
6 21
6 3
2 7
4 40
4 9
5 28
139
9 27
9 34
9 51
9 48'10 11
10 24
Ladies put on their In¬
8
W
5 41
6 19
541
2 28
5 39
2 58
10 24
1031
10 38
10 45
11 8
11 21
dia-Robbers.
9
T
5 42
6 18
5 18
2 48
641
7 5
4 35
11 32
1138
1154
11 50
til
lit
Low Tides. Pigeon
10
F
5 43
6 17
4 55
3 9
7 43
8 33
6 3
in
nt
m
m
0 10
0 20
pics very wholesome at
11
S
5 44
6 16
4 32
3 29
8 44
9.3-3
7 3
0 50
0 55
1 0
1 5
1 22
129
this season of the year.
12
s
5 46
6 14
4 9
3 50
9 41
10 24
7 54
2 10
2 14
2 18
2 22
2 35
2 42
14th S. aft. Trinity.
13
M
5 47
6 13
3 46
4 11
10 36
11 4
8 34
3 32
3 35
3 38
3 41
3 51
3 56
D Perigee. Horse
14
T
5 43
6 12
32.3
4 32
U 27
11 42
9 12
4 51
4 53
4 55
4 57
5 4
5 7
shoes found very ser-
15
W
5 50
6 10
3 0
4 5.3
a 17
m
9 48
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.
sets.]iiicrai'e in keeping off
16
T
5 5116 9
2 37
5 .14
1 b
0 18
10 25
6 34
6 36
6 38
6 40
6 45
6 50 High Tides, witches
17
F
5 52:6 3
2 14
5 35
157
0 55
11 2
7 0
7 4
7 8
7 12
7 25
7 32| Much talk of finishing
18
S
551
6 6
151
5 56
2 47
132
1144
7 30
7 35
7 40
7 45
8 2
8 10:/{. H. Monument.
19
S
5 55,6 5
127
6 17
3 39
2 14
m
8 3
8 9
8 15
8 21
8 41
8 51il5th S. aft. Trinity.
20
M
5 56 6 4
1 4
6 38
4 83
3 6
0 36
8 48
8 55
9 2
9 9
9 32
9 45 Much sneezing in
21
T
5 57 6 3
0 41
6 59
5 27
4 2
1 32
9 38
9 45
9 52 9 59
10 22
10 35.St.«0; Street.
22
VV
5 59:6 1
N" 17
7 20
6 19
5 4
2.34
10 35
20 42
10 49,10 56
11 19
11 32\Cabbagc plenty.
23
T
6 0
6 0
S. 6
7 41
7 10
6 16
3 46
1138
1144
11 50|ll 56
m
m
Very L. Tid. Aut. Eq.
24
F
6 15 59
0 30
8 1
7 58
7 32
5 2
m
m
tn
m
0 16
0 27] D Apogee.
25
S
6 2 5 58
0 53
8 22
3 44
8 37
6 7
0 42
0 47
0 52' 0 57
1 14
1 22j F.vcnintrs grorv cooler.
26! *!
6 415 56
1 17
3 42
.9 26
9 23
6 53
1 47
1 51
1 55\ 1 59
2 12
2 19l]Gth Sun. aft. Trinity.
27 M
6 5
5 55
1 40
9 2
10 8
10 4
7 34
2 50
2 53
2 56: 2 59
3 9
3 14 C/tanire in the fashion
23 T 6 715 53
2 3
9 22
10 50'10 33
8 8
3 53
3 55
3 57
3 59
4 6
4 9 of Ladies bonnets.
29i WjB 8
5 52
2 27
9 42
11 Sill 9
8 39
4 59
4 59
4 59 4 59
4 59
5 2St. Mich.; Mich. Day.
301 T ;6 10'5 50
2 50
10 2
m
11 41
9 11
rises
rise"
rises
rises
rises
rises! Pedlars'toalk briskly.
A couple of young gentlemen having resolved to blow each other's brains out, according
to the rules of etiquette in such cases provided, took care to haw; word conveyed to an officer
of the peace on the preceding evening in order to prevent any disastrous consequences. It so
happened that the officer was taken ill during the night, and neglected to depute some person
in his place. The seconds and others in attendance were, therefore, much mystified when
upon arriving 011 the ground the heroes kept constantly looking about them, as if expecting
some other person to be present. As the fatal moment drew near, the anxieties of the prin¬
cipals increased to that degree that one of the seconds asked his gentleman whether anything
was wanting before they fell foul. At mention of the approaching crisis, and already bursting
with disappointment, the hero broke forth in a rage with " DevU take that infernal justice,
I'll have him broke !" The seconds blushed and left the field to the combatants, who slunk
off" verv lovingly together, swearing that there ought to be a reformation in the judicial de¬
partment of the country.
An old hachelor having died of an affection of the heart, a young lady declared she did not
wonder that lie died when such a circumstance took place with hi" heart.
1841.
OCTOBER.
31 Days.
These calculations are on a
new plan, whereby much
space is saved and all their
usefulness retained. They
will serve for all the United
States, the Canadas, &c.
PHASES OF THE MOON.
a L. Q,. 7th, 4 97 E.
© New 14th, 11 44 M.
D F. Q. 22d, 4 20 M.
O Full 30th, 1 17 M.
ASPECTS, &c.
High Tides.
Frogs complain of the
17th Sun. aft. Trin.
cold. Lodgers on
Boston Common talk
strongly of withdraw-
g their patronage.
Low Tides. Look
for tain in all this
18th S. af. Tr. » Per.
month. Strong talk
about finishing Bun¬
ker Hill Monument
Lobsters plenty.
High Tides.
Complaint of hard
7 29 7 41119th S. aft. Trinity.
8 24 8 37 times, and scarcity of
9 17| 9 30\money.
10 11110 2}.Rats very shy.
11 Cjll 17 S-rrral poets starve
D Apogee, to death.
0 6! 0 13jVery Low Tides.
1 4J 1 9 20th S. aft. Trinity.
Boots with tassels, and
hoop petticoats seldom
een in the shops—go¬
ing out of fashion.
Much doggrel poetry
appears in the papers.
High Tides.
An old lady said her husband was very fond of peaches, and that was his only fault.
" Fault, madam !:' said one, "how can you call that a fault ?"
" Why, because there are different ways of eating them, sir. My husband takes them in his
brandy"—meaning that he was in the habit of swigging peach brandy.
Those who drink spirits for sickness have this advantage, that they never will be well, and
can, therefore, always have a sufficient excuse for taking a swig at the black bottle.
The times are so bad that honest men can't live—as thefellow said when he stole a Beefs
Liver.
I love cleanliness—as the fellow said when he washed his shirt entirely away, and went to
bed naked.
Never fear me, I'll keep your secret—as the felon promised Jack Ketch, when on the point
of being turned off.
A Rail Herowine.
Speeking of human natur, thar's more of it I
to be seen aboard of a broad horn than enny
Iwhar else except in Kongress; tho I think
thar's much resemblance between 'em, only '
the won that steers the broad horn is called a
skipper, and him as steers the Kongress is
called a speeker. Ruel Gwynn took a broad
horn for won seezon, and I used to like to go
down the Mississippi with him, tho I didn't
let the peeple aboard noe that I war Kurnell
Crockett, or I should a had no piece nor
elbow room, as thar is alwise a squirminiver-
ous jam to get site of me when I'm vissuble.
I war standing on the shore won day, and I
seed Ruel's broad horn poking down the river,
and I hollered out for him to stop. So he laid
as slil as he could while I swum off to him.
As soon as I got in the bote, thar war a passle
(of fellers cum round me ; for they had heered
how my name was Crockett, and they stared i
at me as if I war a mammouth from forty Ieag
beyond the head of Salt River. Won feller
cum up rite be 4 me, and leened on his rifle,
and gaped at me with his mouth wide open, as
if he war going to swailer me up like an arth-
quake taking down a meetin house. " Mister,"
sez I, " I take it people are scarse in your
diggins."
" How so ?" sez he, and then he shuved his
nose up to me as sassy as a hungry wolf.
" Why," sez I, "you is so free with your
squintifications that I ar thankful your eyes
aint a gimblet, or I should ha' been bored
threw be 4 long."
" I take it you ar a public man," sez he
" and the peeple has a rite to xamine thar re¬
presentatives."
Howsever I telled him he needn't xamine
me as a Yankee jokky xamities a hoss, for thar
war won way to inspeck bosses and niggers,
32 Mrs. Cuttle and the Catamount.
; and another way to inspeck white humans.
,That war like putting a butt behind his ear,
■ and he lookt as mad as a cat up to her neck in
; a snow-bank. Fust he turned red. then he
i turned white, and then he looked blue, and
arter that he pushed his hand into his hare.
, I lookt rite at him, and felt hungry. Thar war
a nawing at mv stumark like when I feel
sharkish arter a day's hunt.
I " Stranger,'' sell, " do ye meen enny insin-
l nivations f"
| Sez he, " I'll see you agin at the 'lection
| whar I nan hav fare play, and I'll chaw you—
i I'll dabble you down, and screw yon into the
shape of a cork screw—I'll persuade you I'm
pluck and grit united in won individdle."
"Don't tantavrillize me" sez I. "If you
arn't reddv to fite now, jest, obsquattilate—
stand cleer, 1 tell ye, for I'm rising inwardly.
Thar's a hot place in my gizzard, and my gall
is ready to bust, and besides all this my feelius
is hurt."
He nodded his head, and stepped hack, and
sed, " 1 tell you Kernill Crockett, Fl) see yon
agin about this." So he strutted off like a tree
standing perperendicnlar with the branches
i lopped off. I sorter kynder got an idee that
: the feller warnt true grit, but I never judges a
stranger, only I meat to give him a chance to
' meet tne agin, for I took it that it war a fare
challenge. They called his name Willikins,,
Mrs. Cuttle and
One day I fell in with Jo Cuttle. Jo war
an honest rufl-and tumble sort of a chap, and
arter we had jogged on a little way, sez he
" Kernel, thar war a pesky queer scrape onet
happened to me in these diggins. It war ar¬
ter this sort: It war late one arternoon when
my wife war cuming home from a tea-squall.
She war passing rite thro' the forrest, and had
forgot to bring her rifle with her. But she
never war aleard of any thing less than a bull
mammoth, and so she jogged along as merry
and contented as a she bear. She cum to a
deep hollow whar war a large pond of water,
and she saw a big log lying near, and she rolled
il in. As soon as the log war afloat, she got
on one eend of it with her face towards the
opposite shore, and begun to paddle across.
When she got about haff way over, she hap¬
pened to hear a low growl, and when she
looked behind she saw that a great catamount
sot on the cither eend of the log. He had took
passage with her when she fust started, but
she did not see him then. As my wife war
sitfing straddle, it took sum time for her to
turn round, and face the catamount. He
showed his teeth and grouled because she had
| left off" paddling; so she concluded that he
meant to behave civil, if she wood only carry
hint safe across; but she had an idee that ar¬
ter they war fairly landed, he would try to
make a breakfast of her. So she would not
paddie another stroke. He kept growling, as
mnch as to say, " Row away you infarmil
jade !" That made her mad, for she cood un¬
derstand his language jist as well as if she had
been born to it; so she dashed water on him
with her paddle. This made him wink a lit-
I tie, and he showed his tee'h. When she seed
he war going to spring rite at her, she jist cant-
led the log and he tumbled into the drink, but
i he put his paws up to get hold of the log agin,
and kepi trying to gain a foothold on it, w hich
kept it turning round and round like a grind-
and I got Rue! to rite it down on the seat of
my trowseis with a peace of chork so that 1
needn't forgit it.
The bole had gone on a smart distance fur¬
ther when we turned Great Puddle Point, and
thar won of the fellers seed a painter squeezing
in among the hushes. So we stopt the bote
and a passle of us what had rifles went ashore.
Tills Willikins went ashore with the rest of
us, bekase he had a rifle. We went up a
smart peace, but didn't see nothin of the pain¬
ter, and wile we war going back to the bole
that pesky Willikins thnrt he seed a white
burd jest over the bushes, and he drew a lead
upon it ; but it war an old woman's cap that
he fired dt, and if he had fired strait, he would
hav put haff"an invnse of lead under her hare,
hut he mist her bed, and hit a bran new shift
fhat she had on the line. She riz rife tip. for
she load been leaning down over her close
basket, and when she seed the feller enming
in look for his hnrd. she picked up a club, and
went at him. Now it's no lye that Fm tcHin
on, deer reeder, hut it's a sartin truth, that he
showed this old woman the tale of bis cote,
and run as if a hole tribe of wild injuns war on
his trale, and he bawled for help, bill our
fellers stood and laft at him ; and as for me, 1
war so mad to think I hail been challenged by
sich a funk that 1 giil my teeth till they struck
lire.
the Catamount-
stone, till my wife's legs war chafed most ri¬
diculous At last she found she must get upon
her feet, and then she war forced to keep hop¬
ping up and down all the time—she danced
while the catamount fiddled upon the log.—
She then stomped on his paws, but he minded
no more about that than a flea bite. So she
watched a chance and gave a jump rite on the
feller's hack, and caught hold of both of his
ears. When ever he tried to bite her, she
wood howse his head under and haff" drown
him. Then beset out to swim for the shore,
and she kept upon his back, and guided him
by pulling his right or left ear, jist as she
wanted he shood go. Well, he got safe ashore
with her, and she didn't dare let go of his ears,
or to get off", lor fear he wood be into her like
a buck-shot.
Now I happened to be out hunting, with one
Kit Weatherhlow. at this time, and Kit cum
running to me, and told me he saw the strang¬
est crettir going through the woods that he
ever seed in his life before. He said it war a
wild varmint in petticoats. 1 told Kit to go
with me to hunt it up, for 1 had seen every
cretur in the forrest, and this must be a stran¬
ger. We soon cutn in sight of it, hut I new
my wife's petticoat as soon as I got a glimpse
at it, and then I seed her head a little while
arterward. So sez I to Kit, sing dumb, and
let me get a blizzard at the ohstropoloua var¬
mint, for he's rutting off" with my wife. I
lifted my rifle and put a hole rite through his
gizzard : but 1 shot away one of my wife's
cap-strings at the same time, which war made
of buffalo sinew. The varmint tumbled
amongst the leaves pretty quick, and my wile
picked herself off" the ground in less than no
time. When I seed she want hurt, I felt a
little mad, and lelled her never ngin to clasp
around the neck of any living thing but her
own lawful husband.
1841.
NOVEMBER.
30 Bays.
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PHASES OF THE MOON.
d L. Q. 5th, 11 31 E.
9 New 13th, 0 49 M.
D F. d. 21st, 1 28 M.
O Full 28th, 1 54 E.
ASPECTS,
Parsnips plenty.
Much talk of finishing
Banker Hill Monument.
D Perigee.
Much visiting during
the, evening.
0 53 22d Sun. aft. Trinity.
1 54 Cool weather.
2 52 Turtle soup at Tom
3 55 Burr's Pantaloon
5 0 straps in great demand.
6 0 Urizzly rain Scotch
sets, mist with wind at S. W.
6 26 23d Sun. aft. Trinity.
7 18 High Tides. Very
8 10 wet under foot and mud-
9. 4 dy over head.
10 IA pig with five legs
10 55 5 Apogee. born in
11 48 the Empire state.
24th Sun. aft. Trinity.
0 42 Low Tides.
1 35 A toad with two tails
2 28]will be exhibited in
3 26 Queen's county in Mas-
4 27 sachusetts.
5 32 Asses freeze the, tips of
rises Advent Sunday.
6 6 their enrs.
1 8 Very High Tides.
" Reasoning from analogy, you must be a great dunce,"—said a man to his neighbor.
" How do you make that out ?" returned the other.
" Because you keep an ass in your barn, which disturbs my family o'nights by his braying."
"Then, reasoning from analogy," said the other, " I should say you were borx to be hung."
" How do you make that out !" was the question.
" Because there is a pine tree growing on your land as high as Ilaman's Gallows."
" 1 hear Jim has reformed," said one loafer to another.
" Indeed, you may well say that," was the reply—" for he used to get his liquor at the dram
shop, where they sell the real slop stuff, and now he buys none hut the pure spirit."
" Ah ! well," returned the other, " it's an easy thing for a man to lead a vartuous life when
he can afford it. I had an uncle that was rich, and he never got drunk till after dark when he
could tumble upon his bed like a gentleman and get up a sober man in the morning."
Cure for Love.—Visit the damsel to whom you are attached, on washing day.
1841.
DECEMBER.
31 Days-
These calculations are on a
new plan, whereby much
space is saved and all their
usefulness retained. They
will serve for all the United
States, the Canad-as, <fcc.
Moon Rises and Sets,
xj | Sun j Suii I Sun's
"w rises. Sets Dec.
'IH. M|H. M l). M.
Wl'TiTl^ '39 21 51
7 22 4 I
22 0
22 9
22 17
22 25
M. S,
7 22 4 38
7 23!4 37
7 23|4 37
7 24 4 3b|22 32
7 24 4 3622 39
7 25 4 3522 45
7 25 4 35
7 2614 34
7 26 4 34
7 26
7 27
7 27
7 27
7 27
7 27
7 2
7 28
7 23
7 28
7 28
7 28
22 51
22 57
23
23
23 11
23 15
23 18
23 21
23 23
23 25
4 34
4 33
4 33
4 33
4 33
4 33
4 32,
4 32'23 26
4 32:23 27
23 28
23 28
23 27
23 26
23 25
4 32
4 32
4 32
4 32
7 2S|4 32
7 27,4 33 23 23
7 27 4 33,23 20
7 27 4 33 23 18
Wj7 27 4 332314
30, T 7 27 4 33 23 10
31; F 17 26 4 3423 6
10 42
10 19
9 55
9 31
9 6
8 41
8 15
7 49
7 22
6 54
6 27
5 58
5 30
5
4 32
4 3
3 33
3 3
2 33
2 3
1 33
1 3
0 33
F. 3
S. 26
0 56 10 53110 38
1 2611 57|ll 27
1 55 rn I a 12: 9 4
2 25 1 0 0 54 10 24|
2 54] 1 59 1 34 11 4\
3 221 2 54' 2 14 11 44l
041 041
1 49' 1 41
2 57 2 47
4 4 351
5 12 4 55
6 15: 5 56
sets, sets
5 19 5 42
6 18 6 38
7 18, 7 35
8 13 8 31
9 17 9 27
10 17 10 24
11 13 11 13,11 15
m | n
0 12' 0
1 15| 1
2 19 2 9
3 25, 3 11
4 35: 4 15
5 44 521
6 47, 6 24
rises rises
6 36 6 53
7 49| 7 53 8 6
9 61 9 8 9 17
PHASES OF THE MOON.
a L. a. 5th, 7 29 M.
@ New 12th, 4 46 E.
D F. U. 20th, 9 54 E.
O Full 28th, 1 37 M.
ASPECTS, tec.
0
5
01
3 P i) J'erigee. Weather
9 30feels like winter.
10 39 Appearances of snow
11 40 in this month.
m |2d Sund. in Advent,
0 40,Lo\v Tides. Cuusid-
1 40jcra6/c talk about Jhirh-
2 42futr B. H. Monument.
3 44\Boys break through
4 47'the ice in several places
5 46|i?fd baas freeze up.
sets.|3d Sund. in Advent.
5 40 Ice freezes two feet
6 48,High Tides. thick,
7 44 accompanied by cold
8 38 weather. Pigs stjueel
9 32 I) Apogee. much in
10 27 the night. Change
11 164th Sund. in advent,
m \in the fashion of ladies'
0 6,Winter Solstice.
1 4 Low Tides. bonnets.
2 4. Sausages begin to
3 2 grow ripe. Cold water
4 4,Christmas, discovered
5 8 to be a valuable anti-
OW ylote to thirst.
rises \S"veral gigantic fleas
7 2 5 Perigee. captured
8 12 Very 11. Tides tg) Per.
9 20 and put to death.
One poet, not remarkable for his originality, having stolen the idea of another, and made the
most of it in a poem of three cantos,.claimed the right to consider it his own, to which the
other replied, " would you claim my son as your own, because you had dressed him up in a
new coat ?" i
To lie with address and propriety, to adhere consistently to a lie once told, and to act, on
every point, as if-the said lie was neither more nor less than the truth, is an accomplishment
which few people can boast of. A bungling, awkward lie is worse than none; and a person
who contradicts himself, falters, and retracts, when he tells a lie, had better always stick to
the truth than thus to disgrace himself. All respectable liars are careful to avoid suspicion.
An itinerant schoolmaster in search of a situation, being examined before the school com¬
mittee of a town in the interior, called Squagville, exhibited his budget of learned lore in vain
until he enumerated Squagville among the principal cities of the East, when he was taken into
employment immediately.