Shakspeare, a good reporter,
181.

Sham, President, honest, 186.
Sheba, Queen of, 162.

Sheep, none of Rev. Mr. Wil-
bur's turned wolves, 156.
Shem, Scriptural
Scriptural curse of,
256.

Show, natural to love it, 160,

note.

Silver spoon born in Democra-

cy's mouth, what, 187.
Sinai, suffers outrages, 206.
Sin, wilderness of, modern,
what, 206.

is

Skin, hole in, strange taste of
some for, 232.
Slaughter, whether God
strengthen us for, 166.
Slaughterers and soldiers com-
pared, 242.
Slaughtering nowadays
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,

ib.

Solon, a saying of, 168.
South Carolina, futile attempt
to anchor, 198.
Spanish, to walk, what, 163.
Speech-making, an abuse of
gift of speech, 193.
Star, north, subject to indict-
ment, whether, 202.

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.

Washingtons, two hatched at a
time by improved machine,
245.

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-

tive adventure of, 239-240-
his account with an unnat-
ural uncle, 241-his uncom-
fortable imagination, 242-
speculations concerning Cin-
cinnatus, 243, 244-confesses
digressive tendency of mind.
257-goes to work on sermon
(not without fear that his
readers will dub him with a
reproachful epithet like that
with which Isaac Allerton, a
Mayflower man, revenges
himself on a delinquent debt-
or of his, calling him in his
will, and thus holding him
up to posterity, as "John
Peterson, THE BORE,") 259.