nod from her. In proportion as business lessened, she, thinking the portion she brought inexhaustible, increased her expenses. She figured in the streets of Cedarville, in dresses which would have attracted notice for their expensive quality, in Washington Street or Broadway. Clouds of the family connexions, and the family connexions' connexions of the Ingots, settled on Smith to rusticate, devouring his substance like a swarm of loAnd every city carriage which rolled to his door, rolled away the patronage of some villager who preferred purchasing sugar of Old Pimento, to being hurriedly served by the now exclusive and genteel Mr Smith.

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As Pimento was spelling out the Cedarville Advertiser, for, since the editor had returned to his allegiance, he had again subscribed,—he chuckled over the following notice :-"All persons indebted to John Smith are notified that his books and accounts are assigned to Croesus Ingot, to whom immediate payment must be made. Creditors may become parties, by signing the assignment." "Holloa! neighbor," he shouted to a passer-by, who had been one of the new store party, why can't you tell me how Smith & Wife sell London and French Prints!" "Smith & Wife's Store" had become the cant term.

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Years had passed. Two persons accidentally met on 'Change. There was a look of uncertain recognition. "Brown?"

A hearty shaking of hands followed.

"How is your lady, Brown?"

"Well. She is now acquainted with Mr Waverley."

"And mine has forgotten her hysterics."

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The four met at the city residence of Mr Brown, who had, by industry, become possessed of a handsome property. Smith, also, taught wisdom by his reverses, had retrieved his pecuniary affairs. The husbands came from the library together.

"Ladies," said Smith, "we have again entered into copartnership. Matilda, do you think you can now invite that hateful Mrs Brown to our house?"

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Mary," said Brown, are you now afraid of Mrs

Smith?"

It is unnecessary to say that explanations had taken place. Mrs Smith was not naturally vain, nor was Mrs Brown ever dowdy, though once ignorant. Both were

placed, by marriage, in situations for which they were unfit, and each had learned to adapt herself to her situation. Mrs Smith learned the thrift and pleasant manners of Mary Brown-and if the latter did not acquire all the shining accomplishments of Mrs Smith, she at least became deeply read enough to make her an agreeable companion for her husband, and to place her above the danger of appearing to ridiculous disadvantage. Of the two, Mrs Smith had, in her education, cost her husband the most. One partner married above, the other below, his station in life.

In the last connexion in business, the sleeping partners have proved such valuable auxiliaries, that their husbands' paper is quite as good as that of any Ingot on 'Change. Old Pimento buys his goods of the importing house of Smith & Brown, who advertise to country traders in the columns of the Cedarville Universal Advertiser; and the editor of that respectable paper carries his head higher than ever.

DEGREES OF DRUNKENNESS.

"First, Fresh; second, Emphatic; third, Glorious; fourth, Uproarious; lastly, Insensible."-FROLICS OF PUCK.

The crowd each others' steps embarrass;

So one word o'er another trips,

Upon the emphatic bibber's lips;

Though pressed, not half ex-pressed, in vain

You strive his meaning to attain ;
His words but put himself in pain,
And serve the listener to harrass ;-
Forthwith he rises to the squall-ics,
As if each word were in italics;

With gestures odd, and upraised hand,
He emphasizes if and and ;-
Till to all present, 'tis notorious,
That he has reached the order

GLORIOUS.

As difficulties but incite

Th' impetuous mind to farther daring,-
His swollen tongue though oft he bite,
Yet will he still continue swearing ;—
While deeper his potations grow,
His patriotism 'gins to flow ;-

He damns the fool who does not think

A man to drunkenness should drink ;-
In politics, the op'site party

Is visited with curses hearty ;

Till his noise shews he has from glorious,
Gone a step farther, to

UPROARIOUS.

Wake snakes! Huzza! waste and confusion, By-words, and shouts, and noisy revel,— Wassail and wine in sad profusion

Have with his senses played the devil! Windows are smashed, and glasses broken; Too drunk to speak, no longer spoken,

His oaths are bellowed, such a rate on

As to astonish even Satan,

Until, with liquor gorged full,

He drops him down

INSENSIBLE.

Here, Bacchi plenus, full of wine,
Behold the human form divine!
Like leathern bag of ages back,
His hide is but a liquor sack!

A WINTER IN CEDARVILLE,

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"Is he handsome?" "Old?" "Young?" "Married?" "Single?" "Is he a Collegian?" A Doctor?" 66 Lawyer?" "A Student of Divinity?" "Is he tall?" "Short? "Stout-built?" "Slender?" "Genteel?" "Is he "

Here the querists talked so fast and so confusedly, that it is impossible to transfer their questions to paper. Mr Pimento, who had just stalked into the room, in all the dignity or perhaps we should say, in all the dignities, of Chairman of the Selectmen, Chairman of the School-Committee, of the Board of Health, of the Overseers of the Poor, and of the Assessors, was dumbfounded. Ever since the Roman matrons bored the senate of the city of the seven hills, women have been curious upon the proceedings of deliberative assemblies. We say ever since-not that women were not curious before Romulus killed Remus for jumping over a mud wall, but because the instance above cited is one of the first authentic ones on record. It was known in the quiet village of Cedarville, that a committee meeting was to be held on the afternoon of the 25th of October, 18-, for the selection and engagement of a schoolmaster. On the same afternoon, the fates so ordered it, that Mrs Pimento invited some score of her female friends, married and unmarried, to make way with her husband's Young Hyson. When that Caleb Quotem came from the meeting, he was assailed, as we have seen, by the women, who, whatever be their usual developement of