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t to you," said the old gentleman. "Well, let's hear it." im steadily in the 12. "Dear George I have your kind, reasonable, and gen. Well, letlemanly note of yesterday, in reply to my harsh, unreasonable, nent." Why I and ungentlemanly one 2 of the day before. We have both been and the lawyer playing the fool; but you are ahead of me in becoming 3 sane. Interest shall be have examined more carefully, since I got your note, the "Yes, certains tenor of your proposition for a settlement, and it meets my ueman, Mr. Wiews precisely. My foolish anger kept me from seeing 3 it before. Let our mutual friend, Mr. Trueman, arrange the matletter t En cringing ter according to the plan mentioned, and I shall most heartily 2 M. assure you, acquiesce. Yours 1, &c."

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13. "He never wrote that letter in the world!" exclaimed you not ? Singleton, starting 3 to his feet. "You know his writing, I preOf c prepared for you, sume?" said Mr. Trueman, handing 3 him the letter. "It is Thomas thim the same Williams' own hand, as I live!" ejaculated Singleton, on glanof proposingcing 3 at the letter, "my old friend Thomas Williams, the besteem to please natured fellow in the world!" he continued, his feelings underited to state b going a sudden and entire revolution. "What a fool I've || been!"- "And what a fool I have been," said Williams, adnvinced by vancing 3 from an adjoining room, at the same time extending 3 what your own way his hand to Singleton. "Heaven bless you, my old friend!" exoung man, su claimed Singleton, grasping 3 his hand, "Why, what has been sud assing 3 the matter with us both § ?" se he'll thinks

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14. "My good friends," said old Mr. Trueman, "I have t he's mis known you long, and have always esteemed you both. This tell him the pleasant meeting and reconciliation, you perceive, is of my arman smiled as rangement. Now let me give you a precept that will both make you friends, and keep you friends. It has been my motto 1 the lawyer, through life, and I don't ¶ know that I have an enemy in the

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world. It is this "A soft answer turneth away wrath, but

1. Who has not heard of the rattle-snake or copper-head? An unexpected sight of either of these reptiles, will make even the lords of creation recoil; but there is a species of worm, found in various parts of the country, which conveys a poison of a nature so deadly, that, compared * with it, even the venom of the rattle-snake is harmless. To guard our readers against this foe of human kind, is the object of this lesson.

2. This worm varies much in size. It is frequently an inch in diameter, but, as it is rarely seen, except when coiled, its length can hardly be conjectured. It is of a dull leaden color, and generally lives near a spring or small stream of water, and bites the unfortunate people, who are in the habit of going † there to drink. The brute creation it never molests. They avoid it with the same instinct that teaches the animals of Peru to shun the deadly coys.

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3. Many of these reptiles have long infested our land, to the misery and destruction of many of our fellow citizens. I have, therefore, had frequent opportunities of being the melancholy spectator of the effects, produced by the subtle poison which this worm infuses.

4. The symptoms of its bite are terrible. The eyes of the patient become red and fiery, his tongue swells to an immod. erate size, and obstructs his utterance; and delirium, of the most horrid character, quickly follows. Sometimes, in his madness, he attempts the destruction of his nearest friends.

5. If the sufferer has a family, his weeping wife and helpless infants are not unfrequently the objects of his frantic fury. In

a word, he exhibits, to the life, all the detestable passions that rankle in the bosom of a savage; and, such is the spell in which his senses are locked, that, no sooner has the unhappy patient recovered from the paroxysm of insanity, occasioned by the bite, than he seeks out the destroyer, for the sole purpose

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6. I have seen a good old father, his locks as white as snow, his steps slow and trembling, beg in vain of his only son to quit the lurking place of the worm. My heart bled when he turned away; for I knew the fond hope, that his son would be the "staff of his declining years,' had supported him through many a sorrow. Youth of America, would you know the name of this reptile? It is called the Worm of the Still.

*Sobald der unglückliche Patient sich erholt, sucht.

+ Cleopatra, die berühmte Königin Egyptens, foll durch den Biß einer Espe ums Leben gekommen sein.

More fatal than the whole. That stings the body and the m Yea, it devours the soul.

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1. MR. PRESIDent, It is natural for man to the illusions of hope. We 2 are apt to shut1 our a painful truth, and listen to the song of that sir transforms us 2 into beasts. Is this the part of wis gaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? disposed to be of the number of those 3, who 3, hav

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see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which 2 so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my 3 part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

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2. I have but one lamp by which 2 my 3 feet are guided; and that 2 is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging 1 of the future, but 6 by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know 5 what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify 5 those hopes, with which gentlemen have been pleased so solace themselves" and the house? Is it that insidious smile, with which our pe tition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your 3 feet.

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3. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition, comports with those warlike preparations, which cover our waters, and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we 3 shown ourselves 8 so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our 3 love? Let us 3 not deceive ourselves 8. These are the implements of war and subjugation-the last arguments to which 2 kings resort.

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4. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any 10 other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none ". They are meant for us: they can be meant for no 11 other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which 2 the British ministry have been so long forging.

5. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.

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