that of listening to two-hour sermons. Surely we have been abridged into a race of pigmies. For, truly, in those of the old discourses yet subsisting to us in print, the endless spinal column of divisions and subdivisions can be likened to nothing so exactly as to the vertebræ of the saurians, whence the theorist may conjecture a race of Anakim proportionate to the withstanding of these other monsters. I say Anakim rather than Nephelim, because there seem reasons for supposing that the race of those whose heads (though no giants) are constantly enveloped in clouds (which that name imports) will never become extinct. The attempt to vanquish the innumerable heads of one of those aforementioned discourses may supply us with a plausible interpretation of the second labor of Hercules, and his successful experiment with fire affords us a useful precedent.

But while I lament the degeneracy of the age in this regard, I cannot refuse to succumb to its influence. Looking out through my study-window, I see Mr. Biglow at a distance busy in gathering his Baldwins, of which, to judge by the number of barrels lying about under the trees, his crop is more abundant than my own,-by which sight I am admonished to turn to those orchards of the mind wherein my labors may be more prospered, and apply myself diligently to the preparation of my next Sabbath's discourse.-H. W.]

GLOSSARY.

Convention, a place where | Darn, euphemism for damn. people are imposed on; Darsn't, used indiscrimina juggler's show. Coons, a cant term for a now defunct party; derived, perhaps, from the fact of their being commonly up a tree.

Coot, a bird deemed unwise.
Cornwallis, a sort of muster

in masquerade, supposed to
have had its origin soon
after the Revolution, and to
commemorate the surrender
of Lord Cornwallis. It took
the place of the old Guy
Fawkes procession.
Cos, cause, because.
Critter (creature), a wife, a
negro, a domestic animal.
Crooked stick, a perverse,
froward person.

Cunnle, a colonel.

ately, either in singular or plural number, for dare not, dares not, and dared not. Deacon off, to give the cue to; derived from a custom, once universal, but now extinct, in our New England Congregational churches. An important part of the office of deacon was to read aloud the hymns given out by the minister, one line at a time, the congregation singing each line as soon as read.

Demmercrat, leadin', one in
favor of extending slavery:
a free-trade lecturer main-
tained in the custom-house.
Desput, desperate.
Dolls, dollars.

Cus, a curse; also, a pitiful Doos, does.

fellow.

Cute, acute.

D.

[Day and Martin, Day and
Martin, the eminent Lon-
don blacking merchants. It
is amusing to know that
this firm is a symbol in the
United States for punctua-
lity and solidity; "always
on hand, like Day and
Martin's blacking," is a
common simile.]
Dander, temper, passion.
Darkie, negro.

Dough, in allusion to the
doughfaces of the North.
Doughfaces, a contemptuous
nickname applied to the
Northern favorers and
abettors of negro slavery,
pliable politicians that can
be bought or sold.
Dror, draw.
Du, do.

Dunno, dno, do not or does not

know. Dut, dirt.

E.

E'en a'most, almost.

Eend, the New England pro- | Go, to advocate or profess;

Ferfle, ferful, fearful; also an Grit, spirit, energy, pluck.