Palestine, 165.

P.

Palfrey, Hon. J. G., 183, 188,
190, (a worthy representative
of Massachusetts.)
Pantagruel recommends a pop-
ular oracle, 182.

Panurge, his interview with
Goatsnose, 224.

Papists, female, slain by zealous
Protestant bomb-shell, 241.
Paralipomenon, a man suspect-
ed of being, 222.

Paris, liberal principles safe as
far away as, 207.
Parliamentum Indoctorum sit-
ting in permanence, 182.
Past, the, a good nurse, 197.
Patience, sister, quoted, 160.
Paynims, their throats propa-
gandistically cut, 165.
Penelope, her wise choice, 174.
People, soft enough, 208-want
correct ideas, 235.
Pepin, King, 217.
Periwig, 220.

Persius, a pithy saying of, 187,

note.

Pescara, Marquis, saying of,
154.

Peter, Saint, a letter of (post-
mortem,) 217.
Pharisees, opprobriously refer-
red to, 207.

Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket,
211.

Phrygian language. whether
Adam spoke it, 156.

Pilgrims, the, 185.

Pillows, constitutional, 189.
Pinto, Mr.. some letters of his
commended, 216.

Pisgah, an impromptu one,
239.

Platform, party, a convenient
one, 235.

Plato, supped with, 215-his
man, 221.

Pleiades, the, not enough es-
teemed, 213.

Pliny, his letters not admired,
216.

Plotinus, a story of, 197.
Plymouth Rock, Old, a Con-

vention wrecked on, 185.
Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin
wrecked on, 237.

Poles, exile, whether crop of
beans depends on, 162, note.
Polk, President, synonymous
with our country, 172-cen-
sured, 185-in danger of
being crushed, 187.
Polka, Mexican, 167.
Pomp, a runaway slave, his
nest, 253-hypocritically
groans like white man, ib.-
blind to Christian privileges,
254 his society valued at
fifty dollars, ib.-his treach-
ery,
255-takes Mr. Sawin
prisoner, 256-cruelly makes
him work, ib.-puts himself
illegally under his tuition,
ib.-dismisses him with con-
tumelious epithets, ib.
Pontifical bull, a tamed one,

165.

Pope, his verse excellent, 155.
Pork, refractory in boiling, 164.
Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth
of, a monster, 258.
Post, Boston, 174-shaken visi-
bly, 176-bad guide-post, ib.
-too swift, ib.-edited by a
colonel, ib.-who is presumed

officially in Mexico, ib.-re-
ferred to, 192.
Pot-hooks, death in, 224.
Preacher, an ornamental sym-
bol, 206-a breeder of dog-
mas, ib.-earnestness of, im-
portant, 258.

Present, considered as an an-
nalist, 206-not long wonder-
ful, 213.

President, slaveholding natural
to, 210-must be a Southern
resident, 235-must own a
nigger, ib.

Principle, exposure spoils it,
183.

Principles, bad, when less
harmful, 169.

Prophecy, a notable one, 191.
Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 219.
Prudence, sister, her idiosyn-
cratic teapot, 230.
Psammeticus, an experiment
of, 156.

Public opinion, a blind and
drunken guide, 168-nudges
Mr. Wilbur's elbow, ib.-
ticklers of, 186.

Pythagoras a bean-hater, why,
223.
Pythagoreans, fish reverenced
by, why, 194.

Quixote, Don, 198.

R.

Rag, one of sacred college, 168.
Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 159
-pious reason for not enlist-
ing, ib.

Recruiting sergeant, Devil sup-
posed the first, 154.
Representatives' Chamber, 194.
Rhinothism, society for promot-
ing, 215.

Rhyme, whether natural not
considered, 155.

Rib, an infrangible one, 228.
Richard the First of England,
his Christian fervor, 165.
Riches conjectured to have legs
as well as wings, 202.
Robinson, Mr. John P., his
opinions fully stated, 171-
173.

Rocks, pocket full of, 230.
Rough and Ready, 247-a wig,
249-a kind of scratch, ib.
Russian eagle turns Prussian
blue, 190.

S.

Sabbath, breach of, 166.
Sabellianism, one accused of,
221.

Saltillo, unfavorable view of,
161.

Salt-river, in Mexican, what,
161.

Samuel, Uncle, riotous, 190-
yet has qualities demanding
reverence, 207-a good pro-
vider for his family, 208-an
exorbitant bill of, 241.
Sansculottes, draw their wine
before drinking, 201.
Santa Anna, his expensive leg,
234.
Satan, never wants attorneys,
165-an expert talker by
signs, ib.-a successful fish-
erman with little or no bait,
ib.-cunning fetch of, 169-
dislikes ridicule, 175-ought
not to have credit of ancient
oracles, 191, note.
Satirist, incident to certain dan-
gers, 169.

Savages, Canadian, chance of
redemption offered to, 257.
Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter
not written in verse, 155-a
native of Jaalam, 156-not
regular attendant on Rev.
Mr. Wilbur's preaching, ib.-
a fool, ib.-his statements

trustworthy, 157-his orni-
thological tastes, ib.-letter
from, ib., 225, 243-his curi-
ous discovery in regard to
bayonets, 158, 159-displays
proper family pride, 159-
modestly confesses himself
less wise than the Queen of
Sheba, 162-the old Adam
in, peeps out, 164-a miles
emeritus, 225-is made text
for a sermon, ib.-loses a leg,
227-an eye, 228-left hand,
ib.-four fingers of right
hand, ib.-has six or more
ribs broken, ib.-a rib of his
infrangible, ib.-allows a cer-
tain amount of preterite
greenness in himself, 229, 230

his share of spoil limited,
230-his opinion of Mexican
climate, ib.-acquires prop-
erty of a certain sort, 231-
his experience of glory, 232-
stands sentry. and puns
thereupon, 233-undergoes
martyrdom in some of its
most painful forms, ib.-en-
ters the candidating busi-
ness, ib.-modestly states the
(avail) abilities which qualify
him for high political station,
234-236-has no principles,
234-a peaceman, ib.-un-
pledged, ib.-has no objec-
tions to owning peculiar
property, but would not like
to monopolize the truth, 235
-his account with glory, 236,
237-a selfish motive hinted
in, 237-sails for Eldorado,
ib.-shipwrecked on a meta-
phorical promontory, ib.-
parallel between, and Rev.
Mr. Wilbur (not Plutarch-
ian), 239-conjectured

to

have bathed in river Selem-
nus, 243-loves plough wise-
ly, but not too well, b.-a
foreign mission probably ex-
pected by, 244-unanimously

nominated for presidency,
245-his country's father-in-
law, ib.-nobly emulates Cin-
cinnatus, 246-is not a
crooked stick, ib.-advises
his adherents, 247-views of,
on present state of politics,
247-252-popular enthusiasm
for, at Bellers's, and its disa-
greeable consequences, 248-
inhuman treatment of, by
Bellers, ib.-his opinion of
the two parties, 249-agrees
with Mr. Webster, 250-his
antislavery zeal, 251-his
proper self-respect, ib.-his
unaffected piety, ib.-his not
intemperate temperance, 252
-a thrilling adventure of,
252-257-his prudence and
economy, 253-bound to Cap-
tain Jakes, but regains his
freedom, 254-is taken pris-
oner, 255, 256-ignominious-
ly treated, 256-his conse-
quent resolution, 257.
Sayres, a martyr, 196.
Scaliger, saying of, 170.
Scarabaeus pilularius, 161.
Scott, General, his claims to
the presidency, 176, 179.
Scythians, their diplomacy

commended, 224.
Seamen, colored, sold, 153.
Selemnus, a sort of Lethean
river, 243.

Senate, debate in, made read-
able, 196.
Seneca, saying of, 169-anoth-
er, 191, note-overrated by a
saint (but see Lord Boling-
broke's opinion of, in a letter
to Dean Swift,) 216-his let-
ters not commended, ib.-a
son of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, 239.
Serbonian bog of literature, 194.
Sextons, demand for, 160-
heroic official devotion of one,
257.

Shaking fever, considered as an
employer, 231.

whether God
strengthen us for, 166.

Slaughterers and soldiers com-
pared, 242.

nowadays

is

Slaughtering
slaughtering, 242.
Slavery, of no color, 151-cor-
nerstone of liberty, 192-also
keystone, 199-last crumb of
Eden, 202-a Jonah, ib.-an
institution, 220-a private
State concern, 253.
Smith, Joe, used as a transla-
tion, 207.

Smith, John, an interesting
character, 214.

Smith, Mr., fears entertained
for, 204-dined with, 215.
Smith, N. B., his magnanimity,
211.

Soandso, Mr., the great, defines

his position, 211.
Sol, the fisherman, 162-sound-
ness of respiratory organs
hypothetically attributed to,

Store, cheap cash, a wicked
fraud, 239.

Strong, Governor Caleb, a pa-
triot, 173.

Swearing, commended as a fig-
ure of speech, 157, note.
Swift, Dean, threadbare saying
of, 176.

T.

Tag, elevated to the Cardinal-
ate, 168.

Taxes, direct, advantages of,
240.

Taylor zeal, its origin, 248-
General, greased by Mr.
Choate, 250.

Tesephone, banished for long-
windedness, 194.
Thanks, get lodged, 231.
Thaumaturgus, St. Gregory,
letter of, to the Devil, 217.
Thirty-nine articles might be
made serviceable, 167.
Thor, a foolish attempt of, 197.
Thumb, General Thomas, a
valuable member of society,
189.

Thunder, supposed in easy cir-
cumstances, 229.

Thynne, Mr., murdered, 154.
Time, an innocent personage to
swear by, 157-a scene-shift-
er, 212.

Toms, Peeping, 214.
Trees, various kinds of extra-
ordinary ones, 237, 238.
Trowbridge, William, mariner,
adventure of, 166.
Truth and falsehood start from
same point, 170-truth in-
vulnerable to satire, ib.-
compared to a river, 181-of
fiction sometimes truer than
fact, ib.-told plainly, pas-

sim.

Tuileries, exciting scene at,
191.

Tully, a saying of, 184, note.

Tweedledee, gospel according
to, 207.

Tweedledum, great principles
of, 207.

U.

Ulysses, husband of Penelope,
174-borrows money, 239.
(For full particulars of, see
Homer and Dante.)
University, triennial catalogue
of, 178.

V.

Van Buren fails of gaining Mr.
Sawin's confidence, 251-his
son John reproved, ib.
Van, Old, plan to set up, 251.
Venetians, invented something
once, 239.

Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave
of, 168.

Victoria, Queen, her natural
terror, 190.

Virgin, the, letter of, to Magis-
trates of Messina, 217.
Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian,
singular views of, 154.

W.

Walpole, Horace, classed, 215-

his letters praised, 216.
Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at,
158.

Walton, punctilious in his in-

tercourse with fishes, 167.
War, abstract, horrid, 219-its

hoppers, grist of, what, 232.
Warton, Thomas, a story of,
180.

Washington, charge brought
against, 246.

Washington, city of, climatic
influence of, on coats, 185-
mentioned, 196-grand jury
of, 202.

Water, Taunton, proverbially
weak, 252.
Water-trees, 237.

Webster, some sentiments of,
commended by Mr. Sawin,
249, 250.

Westcott, Mr., his horror, 201.
Whig party, has a large throat,
177-but query as to swal-
lowing spurs, 250.
White-house, 220.
Wife-trees, 237.

Wilbur, Rev. Homer, A. M.,
consulted, 148-his instruc-
tions to his flock, 158-a prop-
osition of his for Protestant
bomb-shells, 167-his elbow
nudged, 168-his notions of
satire, 169-some opinions of
his quoted with apparent ap-
proval by Mr. Biglow, 172-
geographical speculations of,
173-a justice of the peace,
ib.-a letter of, 174-a Latin
pun of, 175-runs against a
post without injury, 176-
does not seek notoriety (what-
ever some malignants may
affirm), 177-fits youths for
college, 178-a chaplain dur-
ing late war with England,
180-a shrewd observation
of, 182-some curious specu-
lations of, 192-195-his mar-
tello-tower, 193-forgets he
is not in pulpit, 202, 225-227
-extracts from sermon of,
205, 210-interested in John
Smith, 214-his views con-
cerning present state of let-
ters, 214-217-a stratagem of,
221-ventures two hundred
and fourth interpretation of
Beast in Apocalypse, 222-
christens Hon. B. Sawin,
then an infant, 225-an ad-
dition to our sylva proposed
by, 238-curious and instruc-