Chapter XVII: Introduction (5)

Bâton Rouge, 443
strange peculiarities of laborers at, _ib._

Baxter, R., a saying of, 406.

Bay, Mattysqumscot, 450.

Bay State, singular effect produced on military officers by leaving
it, 399.

Beast in Apocalypse, a loadstone for whom, 431.

Beelzebub, his rigadoon, 419.

Behmen, his letters not letters, 427.

Bellevs, a saloon-keeper, 446
inhumanly refuses credit to a presidential candidate, _ib._

Biglow, Ezekiel, his letter to Hon. J. T. Buckingham, 388
never heard of any one named Mundishes, _ib._
nearly fourscore years old, _ib._
his aunt Keziah, a notable saying of, 389.

Biglow, Hosea, excited by composition, 388
a poem by, 389, 422
his opinion of war, 390
wanted at home by Nancy, 391
recommends a forcible enlistment of warlike editors, _ib._
would not wonder, if generally agreed with, _ib._
versifies letter of Mr. Sawin, 393
a letter from, 394, 417
his opinion of Mr. Sawin, 394
does not deny fun at Cornwallis, 395, _note_
his idea of militia glory, 396, _note_
a pun of, 397, _note_
is uncertain in regard to people of Boston, _ib._
had never heard of Mr. John P. Robinson, 401
_aliquid sufflaminandus_, 402
his poems attributed to a Mr. Lowell, 405
is unskilled in Latin, 405
his poetry maligned by some, _ib._
his disinterestedness, _ib._
his deep share in commonweal, 405
his claim to the presidency, _ib._
his mowing, _ib._
resents being called Whig, 406
opposed to tariff, _ib._
obstinate, _ib._
infected with peculiar notions, _ib._
reports a speech, 408
emulates historians of antiquity, _ib._
his character sketched from a hostile point of view, 415
a request of his complied with, 421
appointed at a public meeting in Jaalam, 428
confesses ignorance, in one minute particular, of propriety, _ib._
his opinion of cocked hats, _ib._
letter to, _ib._
called "Dear Sir," by a general, _ib._
probably receives same compliment from two hundred and nine, _ib._
picks his apples, 454
his crop of Baldwins conjecturally large, _ib._

Billings, Dea. Cephas, 395.

Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages, 441.

Bird of our country sings hosanna, 396.

Blind, to go it, 439.

Blitz, pulls ribbons from his mouth, 396.

Bluenose potatoes, smell of, eagerly desired, 396.

Bobtail obtains a cardinal's hat, 401.

Bolles, Mr. Secondary, author of prize peace essay, 396
presents sword to Lieutenant Colonel, _ib._
a fluent orator, _ib._
found to be in error, 397.

Bonaparte, N., a usurper, 431.

Boot-trees, productive, where, 441.

Boston, people of, supposed educated, 397, _note_.

Brahmins, navel-contemplating, 427.

Bread-trees, 440.

Brigadier Generals in militia, devotion of, 407.

Brown, Mr., engages in an unequal contest, 421.

Browne, Sir T., a pious and wise sentiment of, cited and commended, 394.

Buckingham, Hon. J. T., editor of the Boston Courier, letters to, 388,
394, 402, 417
not afraid, 394.

Buffalo, a plan hatched there, 448
plaster, a prophecy in regard to, _ib._

Buncombe, in the other world supposed, 408.

Bung, the eternal, thought to be loose, 391.

Bungtown Fencibles, dinner of, 401.

Butter in Irish bogs, 440.

C.

C., General, commended for parts, 402
for ubiquity, _ib._
for consistency, _ib._
for fidelity, _ib._
is in favor of war, _ib._
his curious valuation of principle, _ib._

Cæsar, tribute to, 424
his _veni, vidi, vici_, censured for undue prolixity, 432.

Cainites, sect of, supposed still extant, 393.

Caleb, a monopoly of his denied, 395
curious notions of, as to meaning of "shelter," 398
his definition of Anglo-Saxon, _ib._ charges Mexicans (not with
bayonets but) with improprieties, _ib._

Calhoun, Hon. J. C., his cow-bell curfew, light of the nineteenth
century to be extinguished at sound of, 416
cannot let go apron-string of the Past, 417
his unsuccessful tilt at Spirit of the Age, _ib._
the Sir Kay of modern chivalry, _ib._
his anchor made of a crooked pin, 417
mentioned, 417-420.

Cambridge Platform, use discovered for, 400.

Canary Islands, 441.

Candidate, presidential, letter from, 428
smells a rat, _ib._
against a bank, 429
takes a revolving position, _ib._
opinion of pledges, _ib._
is a periwig, 430
fronts south by north, _ib._
qualifications of, lessening, 432
wooden leg (and head) useful to, 439.

Cape Cod clergymen, what, 400
Sabbath-breakers, perhaps, reproved by, _ib._

Carpini, Father John de Plano, among the Tartars, 453.

Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of, 453.

Cass, General, 418
clearness of his merit, 419
limited popularity at "Bellers's," 446.

Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in, 442.

Cato, letters of, so-called, suspended _naso adunco_, 427.

C. D., friends of, can hear of him, 427.

Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of, 427.

Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost, 421.

Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English royalty, 414.

Chesterfield, no letter-writer, 427.

Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by, 400.

Children naturally speak Hebrew, 394.

China-tree, 441.

Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder before the Christian era
_not_ considered, 401.

Choate, hired, 447.

Christ shuffled into Apocrypha, 401
conjectured to disapprove of slaughter and pillage, 403
condemns a certain piece of barbarism, 421.

Christianity, profession of, plebeian, whether, 393.

Christian soldiers, perhaps inconsistent, whether, 407.

Cicero, an opinion of, disputed, 432.

Cilley, Ensign, author of nefarious sentiment, 401.

_Cimex lectularius_, 397.

Cincinnatus, a stock character in modern comedy, 443.

Civilization, progress of, an _alias_, 422
rides upon a powder-cart, 429.

Clergymen, their ill husbandry, 421
their place in processions, 443
some, cruelly banished for the soundness of their lungs, 453.

Cocked-hat, advantages of being knocked into, 428.

College of Cardinals, a strange one, 401.

Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anecdote of, 407.

Colored folks, curious national diversion of kicking, 398.

Colquitt, a remark of, 419
acquainted with some principles of aerostation, _ib._

Columbia, District of, its peculiar climatic effects, 410
not certain that Martin is for abolishing it, 448.

Columbus, a Paul Pry of genius, 427.

Columby, 445.

Complete Letter-Writer, fatal gift of, 431.

Compostella, St. James of, seen, 399.

Congress, singular consequence of getting into, 410.

Congressional debates, found instructive, 416.

Constituents, useful for what, 411.

Constitution trampled on, 417
to stand upon, what, 429.

Convention, what, 410.

Convention, Springfield, 410.

Coon, old, pleasure in skinning, 418.

Coppers, _caste_ in picking up of, 437.

Copres, a monk, his excellent method of arguing, 416.

Cornwallis, a, 395
acknowledged entertaining, _ib._, _note_.

Cotton Mather, summoned as witness, 400.

Country lawyers, sent providentially, 404.

Country, our, its boundaries more exactly defined, 404
right or wrong, nonsense about exposed, _ib._

Courier, The Boston, an unsafe print, 415.

Court, General, farmers sometimes attain seats in, 444.

Cowper, W., his letters commended, 427.

Creed, a safe kind of, 439.

Crusade, first American, 400.

Cuneiform script recommended, 432.

Curiosity distinguishes man from brutes, 426.

D.

Davis, Mr., of Mississippi, a remark of his, 418.

Day and Martin, proverbially "on hand," 388.

Death, rings down curtain, 426.

Delphi, oracle of, surpassed, 414, _note_
alluded to, 431.

Destiny, her account, 413.

Devil, the, unskilled in certain Indian tongues, 400
letters to and from, 428.

Dey of Tripoli, 416.

Didymus, a somewhat voluminous grammarian, 431.

Dighton rock character might be usefully employed in some
emergencies, 432.

Dimitry Bruisgins, fresh supply of, 426.

Diogenes, his zeal for propagating certain variety of olive, 441.

Dioscuri, imps of the pit, 400.

District-Attorney, contemptible conduct of one, 416.

Ditchwater on brain, a too common ailing, 416.

Doctor, the, a proverbial saying of, 399.

Doughface, yeast-proof, 424.

Drayton, a martyr, 416
north star, culpable for aiding, whether, 420.

D. Y., letter of, 427.

E.

Earth, Dame, a peep at her housekeeping, 417.

Eating words, habit of, convenient in time of famine, 413.

Eavesdroppers, 427.

Echetlæus, 400.

Editor, his position, 421
commanding pulpit of, 422
large congregation of, _ib._
name derived from what, _ib._
fondness for mutton, _ib._
a pious one, his creed, _ib._
a showman, 425
in danger of sudden arrest, without bail, 426.

Editors, certain ones who crow like cockerels, 391.

Egyptian darkness, phial of, use for, 432.

Eldorado, Mr. Sawin sets sail for, 440.

Elizabeth, Queen, mistake of her ambassador, 408.

Empedocles, 427.

Employment, regular, a good thing, 436.

Epaulets, perhaps no badge of saintship, 403.

Episcopius, his marvellous oratory, 453.

Eric, king of Sweden, his cap, 441.

Evangelists, iron ones, 400.

Eyelids, a divine shield against authors, 416.

Ezekiel, text taken from, 421.

F.

Factory-girls, expected rebellion of, 419.

Family-trees, fruit of jejune, 441.

Faneuil Hall, a place where persons tap themselves for a species of
hydrocephalus, 416
a bill of fare mendaciously advertised in, 440.

Father of country, his shoes, 444.

Female Papists, cut off in midst of idolatry, 442.

Fire, we all like to play with it, 417.

Fish, emblematic, but disregarded, where, 416.

Flam, President, untrustworthy, 411.

Fly-leaves, providential increase of, 416.

Foote, Mr., his taste for field-sports, 418.

Fourier, a squinting toward, 415.

Fourth of Julys, boiling, 409.

France, a strange dance begun in, 419.

Fuller, Dr. Thomas, a wise saying of, 402.

Funnel, Old, hurraing in, 396.

G.

Gawain, Sir, his amusements, 417.

Gay, S. H., Esquire, editor of National Antislavery Standard, letter
to, 426.

Getting up early, 390, 398.

Ghosts, some, presumed fidgetty (but see Stilling's Pneumatology), 427.

Giants formerly stupid, 417.

Gift of tongues, distressing case of, 415.

Globe Theatre, cheap season ticket to, 426.

Glory, a perquisite of officers, 437
her account with B. Sawin, Esq., 440.

Goatsnose, the celebrated, interview with, 432.

Gomara, has a vision, 399
his relationship to the Scarlet Woman, _ib._

Gray's letters _are_ letters, 427.

Great horn spoon, sworn by, 418.

Greeks, ancient, whether they questioned candidates, 432.

Green Man, sign of, 406.

H.

Ham, sandwich, an orthodox (but peculiar) one, 420.

Hamlets, machine for making, 433.

Hammon, 414, _note_, 431.

Hannegan, Mr., something said by, 419.

Harrison, General, how preserved, 431.

Hat-trees, in full bearing, 441.

Hawkins, Sir John, stout, something he saw, 440.

Henry the Fourth of England, a Parliament of, how named, 408.

Hercules, his second labor probably what, 454.

Herodotus, story from, 394.

Hesperides, an inference from, 441.

Holden, Mr. Shearjashub, Preceptor of Jaalam Academy, 431
his knowledge of Greek limited, _ib._
a heresy of his, _ib._
leaves a fund to propagate it, 432.

Hollis, Ezra, goes to a Cornwallis, 395.

Hollow, why men providentially so constructed, 409.

Homer, a phrase of, cited, 422.

Horners, democratic ones, plums left for, 411.

Howell, James, Esq., story told by, 408
letters of, commended, 427.

Human rights out of order on the floor of Congress, 418.

Humbug, ascription of praise to, 425
generally believed in, _ib._

Husbandry, instance of bad, 402.

I.

Icarius, Penelope's father, 404.

Infants, prattlings of, curious observation concerning, 393.

Information wanted (universally, but especially at page) 427.

J.

Jaalam Centre, Anglo-Saxons unjustly suspected by the young ladies
there, 399
"Independent Blunderbuss," strange conduct of editor of, 421
public meeting at, 428
meeting-house ornamented with imaginary clock, 441.

Jaalam Point, light-house on, charge of prospectively offered to
Mr. H. Biglow, 430.

Jakes, Captain, 450
reproved for avarice, _ib._

James the Fourth of Scots, experiment by, 394.

Jarnegin, Mr., his opinion of the completeness of Northern
education, 419.

Jerome, Saint, his list of sacred writers, 427.

Job, Book of, 393
Chappelow on, 421.

Johnson, Mr., communicates some intelligence, 419.

Jonah, the inevitable destiny of, 420
probably studied internal economy of the cetacea, 427.

Jortin, Dr., cited, 407, 414, _note_.

Judea, everything not known there, 404.

Juvenal, a saying of, 413, _note_.

K.

Kay, Sir, the, of modern chivalry who, 417.

Key, brazen one, 416.

Keziah, Aunt, profound observation of, 389.

Kinderhook, 443.

Kingdom Come, march to, easy, 434.

Königsmark, Count, 393.

L.

Lacedæmonians, banish a great talker, 416.

Lamb, Charles, his epistolary excellence, 427.

Latimer, Bishop, episcopizes Satan, 393.

Latin tongue, curious information concerning, 405.

Launcelot, Sir, a trusser of giants formerly, perhaps would find less
sport therein now, 417.

Letters classed, 427
their shape, 428
of candidates, 431
often fatal, _ib._

Lewis, Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 414
commiserated (though not deserving it), _ib._, _note_.

Liberator, a newspaper, condemned by implication, 406.

Liberty, unwholesome for men of certain complexions, 422.

Lignum vitæ, a gift of this valuable wood proposed, 399.

Longinus recommends swearing, 394, _note_ (Fuseli did same thing).

Long sweetening recommended, 435.

Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list of, 453.

Louis the Eleventh of France, some odd trees of his, 441.

Lowell, Mr. J. R., unaccountable silence of, 405.

Luther, Martin, his first appearance as Europa, 399.

Lyttelton, Lord, his letters an imposition, 427.

M.

Macrobii, their diplomacy, 432.

Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, 422.

Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 400.

Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, 418.

Manichæan, excellently confuted, 416.

Man-trees, grew where, 441.

Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent, 427.

Marshfield, 443, 447.

Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him, 448.

Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, 418.

Mass, the, its duty defined, 418.

Massachusetts on her knees, 392
something mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of
tailors, 410
citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (_nefandum!_), 438.

Masses, the, used as butter by some, 411.

M. C., an invertebrate animal, 413.

Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, 433.

Mentor, letters of, dreary, 427.

Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 420.

Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth, 442.

Mexican polka, 400.

Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, 398
kind feelings beaten into them, 425.

Mexico, no glory in overcoming, 410.

Military glory spoken disrespectfully of, 396, _note_
militia treated still worse, _ib._

Milk-trees, growing still, 440.

Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, 415.

Milton, an unconscious plagiary, 409, _note_
a Latin verse of, cited, 422.

Missions, a profitable kind of, 423.

Monarch, a pagan, probably not favored in philosophical
experiments, 394.

Money-trees desirable, 441
that they once existed shown to be variously probable, _ib._

Montaigne, a communicative old Gascon, 427.

Monterey, battle of, its singular chromatic effect on a species of
two-headed eagle, 414.

Moses held up vainly as an example, 422
construed by Joe Smith, _ib._

Myths, how to interpret readily, 432.

N.

Naboths, Popish ones, how distinguished, 401.

Nation, rights of, proportionate to size, 398.

National pudding, its effect on the organs of speech, a curious
physiological fact, 401.

Nephelim, not yet extinct, 453.

New England overpoweringly honored, 412
wants no more speakers, _ib._
done brown by whom, _ib._
her experience in beans beyond Cicero's, 432.

Newspaper, the, wonderful, 425
a strolling theatre, _ib._
thoughts suggested by tearing wrapper of, 426
a vacant sheet, _ib._
a sheet in which a vision was let down, _ib._
wrapper to a bar of soap, _ib._
a cheap impromptu platter, _ib._

New York, letters from, commended, 427.

Next life, what, 421.

Niggers, 390
area of abusing, extended, 410
Mr. Sawin's opinions of, 449.

Ninepence a day low for murder, 395.

No, a monosyllable, 401
hard to utter, _ib._

Noah, enclosed letter in bottle, probably, 427.

Nornas, Lapland, what, 441.

North, has no business, 419
bristling, crowded off roost, 430.

North Bend, geese inhumanly treated at, 431
mentioned, 443.

North star, a proposition to indict, 420.

O.

Off ox, 429.

Officers, miraculous transformation in character of, 399
Anglo-Saxon, come very near being anathematized, _ib._

O'Phace, Increase D., Esq., speech of, 408.

Oracle of Fools, still respectfully consulted, 408.

Orion, becomes commonplace, 426.

Orrery, Lord, his letters (lord!), 427.

Ostracism, curious species of, 408.

P.

Palestine, 399.

Palfrey, Hon. J. G., 408, 412, 413 (a worthy representative of
Massachusetts).

Pantagruel recommends a popular oracle, 408.

Panurge, his interview with Goatsnose, 432.

Papists, female, slain by zealous Protestant bomb-shell, 442.

Paralipomenon, a man suspected of being, 431.

Paris, liberal principles safe as far away as, 422.

_Parliamentum Indoctorum_ sitting in permanence, 408.

Past, the, a good nurse, 417.

Patience, sister, quoted, 396.

Paynims, their throats propagandistically cut, 400.

Penelope, her wise choice, 404.

People, soft enough, 423
want correct ideas, 439.

Pepin, King, 428.

Periwig, 430.

Persius, a pithy saying of, 411, _note_.

Pescara, Marquis, saying of, 393.

Peter, Saint, a letter of (_post-mortem_), 428.

Pharisees, opprobriously referred to, 422.

Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket, 425.

Phlegyas, quoted, 421.

Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, 394.

Pilgrims, the, 410.

Pillows, constitutional, 413.

Pinto, Mr., some letters of his commended, 428.

Pisgah, an impromptu one, 441.

Platform, party, a convenient one, 439.

Plato, supped with, 427
his man, 431.

Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed, 426.

Pliny, his letters not admired, 427.

Plotinus, a story of, 417.

Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention wrecked on, 410.

Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked on, 440.

Poles, exile, whether crop of beans depends on, 397, _note_.

Polk, President, synonymous with our country, 403
censured, 410
in danger of being crushed, 411.

Polka, Mexican, 400.

Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 450
hypocritically groans like white man, _ib._
blind to Christian privileges, _ib._
his society valued at fifty dollars, _ib._
his treachery, 451
takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, 452
cruelly makes him work, _ib._
puts himself illegally under his tuition, _ib._
dismisses him with contumelious epithets, _ib._

Pontifical bull, a tamed one, 399.

Pope, his verse excellent, 393.

Pork, refractory in boiling, 399.

Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 453.

Post, Boston, 174 shaken visibly, 405
bad guide-post, _ib._
too swift, _ib._
edited by a colonel, _ib._
who is presumed officially in Mexico, _ib._
referred to, 415.

Pot-hooks, death in, 432.

Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 421
a breeder of dogmas, _ib._
earnestness of, important, 453.

Present, considered as an annalist, 422
not long wonderful, 426.

President, slaveholding natural to, 424
must be a Southern resident, 439
must own a nigger, _ib._

Principle, exposure spoils it, 409.

Principles, bad, when less harmful, 401.

Prophecy, a notable one, 414.

Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 429.

Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, 436.

Psammeticus, an experiment of, 394.

Public opinion, a blind and drunken guide, 401
nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, _ib._
ticklers of, 411.

Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 432.

Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 416.

Q.

Quixote, Don, 417.

R.

Rag, one of sacred college, 401.

Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 396
pious reason for not enlisting, _ib._

Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, 393.

Representatives' Chamber, 416.

Rhinothism, society for promoting, 427.

Rhyme, whether natural _not_ considered, 393.

Rib, an infrangible one, 435.

Richard the First of England, his Christian fervor, 399.

Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, 420.

Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, 402-404.

Rocks, pocket full of, 436.

Rough and Ready, 446 a wig, 447 a kind of scratch, _ib._

Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, 414.

S.

Sabbath, breach of, 400.

Sabellianism, one accused of, 431.

Saltillo, unfavorable view of, 396.

Salt-river, in Mexican, what, 396.

Samuel, Uncle, riotous, 414
yet has qualities demanding reverence, 423
a good provider for his family, _ib._
an exorbitant bill of, 442.

Sansculottes, draw their wine before drinking, 419.

Santa Anna, his expensive leg, 438.

Satan, never wants attorneys, 400
an expert talker by signs, _ib._
a successful fisherman with little or no bait, _ib._
cunning fetch of, 402
dislikes ridicule, 405
ought not to have credit of ancient oracles, 414, _note_.

Satirist, incident to certain dangers, 401.

Savages, Canadian, chance of redemption offered to, 453.

Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter not written in verse, 393
a native of Jaalam, 394
not regular attendant on Rev. Mr. Wilbur's preaching, _ib._
a fool, _ib._
his statements trustworthy, _ib._
his ornithological tastes, _ib._
letter from, _ib._, 433, 443
his curious discovery in regard to bayonets, 395, 396
displays proper family pride, 395
modestly confesses himself less wise than the Queen of Sheba, 398
the old Adam in, peeps out, 399
a _miles emeritus_, 433
is made text for a sermon, _ib._
loses a leg, 434
an eye, _ib._
left hand, _ib._
four fingers of right hand, _ib._
has six or more ribs broken, _ib._
a rib. of his infrangible, _ib._
allows a certain amount of preterite greenness in himself, 435, 436
his share of spoil limited, 436
his opinion of Mexican climate, _ib._
acquires property of a certain sort, _ib._
his experience of glory, 437
stands sentry, and puns thereupon, 438
undergoes martyrdom in some of its most painful forms, _ib._
enters the candidating business, _ib._
modestly states the (avail) abilities which qualify him for high
political station, 438-440
has no principles, 438
a peace man, _ib._
unpledged, _ib._
has no objections to owning _peculiar_ property, but would not like
to monopolize the truth, 439
his account with glory, 440
a selfish motive hinted in, _ib._
sails for Eldorado, _ib._
shipwrecked on a metaphorical promontory, _ib._
parallel between, and Rev. Mr. Wilbur (not Plutarchian), 442
conjectured to have bathed in river Selemnus, 443
loves plough wisely, but not too well, _ib._
a foreign mission probably expected by, 444
unanimously nominated for presidency, _ib._
his country's father-in-law, _ib._
nobly emulates Cincinnatus, 445
is not a crooked stick, _ib._
advises his adherents, _ib._
views of, on present state of politics, 445-449
popular enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its disagreeable
consequences, 446
inhuman treatment of, by Bellers, _ib._
his opinion of the two parties, 447
agrees with Mr. Webster, 448
his antislavery zeal, _ib._
his proper self-respect, _ib._
his unaffected piety, _ib._
his not intemperate temperance, 449
a thrilling adventure of, 449-452
his prudence and economy, 450
bound to Captain Jakes, but regains his freedom, _ib._
is taken prisoner, 451, 452
ignominiously treated, 452
his consequent resolution, _ib._

Sayres, a martyr, 416.

Scaliger, saying of, 402.

_Scarabæus pilularius_, 397.

Scott, General, his claims to the presidency, 405, 407.

Scythians, their diplomacy commended, 432.

Seamen, colored, sold, 392.

Selemnus, a sort of Lethean river, 443.

Senate, debate in, made readable, 416.

Seneca, saying of, 401
another, 414, _note_
overrated by a saint (but see Lord Bolingbroke's opinion of, in a
letter to Dean Swift), 427
his letters not commended, _ib._
a son of Rev. Mr. Wilbur, 442.

Serbonian bog of literature, 416.

Sextons, demand for, 396 heroic official devotion of one, 453.

Shaking fever, considered as an employer, 436.

Shakspeare, a good reporter, 408.

Sham, President, honest, 411.

Sheba, Queen of, 398.

Sheep, none of Rev. Mr. Wilbur's turned wolves, 394.

Shem, Scriptural curse of, 452.

Show, natural to love it, 396, _note_.

Silver spoon born in Democracy's mouth, what, 411.

Sinai, suffers outrages, 422.

Sin, wilderness of, modern, what, 422.

Skin, hole in, strange taste of some for, 437.

Slaughter, whether God strengthen us for, 400.

Slaughterers and soldiers compared, 443.

Slaughtering nowadays is slaughtering, 443.

Slavery, of no color, 391
cornerstone of liberty, 415
also keystone, 418
last crumb of Eden, 420
a Jonah, _ib._ an institution, 431
a private State concern, 450.

Smith, Joe, used as a translation, 422.

Smith, John, an interesting character, 426.

Smith, Mr., fears entertained for, 421
dined with, 427.

Smith, N. B., his magnanimity, 425.

Soandso, Mr., the great, defines his position, 425.

Sol the fisherman, 397
soundness of respiratory organs hypothetically attributed to, _ib._

Solon, a saying of, 401.

South Carolina, futile attempt to anchor, 417.

Spanish, to walk, what, 398.

Speech-making, an abuse of gift of speech, 415.

Star, north, subject to indictment, whether, 420.

Store, cheap cash, a wicked fraud, 441.

Strong, Governor Caleb, a patriot, 404.

Swearing commended as a figure of speech, 394, _note_.

Swift, Dean, threadbare saying of, 405.

T.

Tag, elevated to the Cardinalate, 401.

Taxes, direct, advantages of, 442.

Taylor zeal, its origin, 446
General, greased by Mr. Choate, 448.

Tesephone, banished for long-windedness, 416.

Thanks, get lodged, 437.

Thaumaturgus, St. Gregory, letter of, to the Devil, 428.

Thirty-nine articles might be made serviceable, 400.

Thor, a foolish attempt of, 417.

Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable member of society, 413.

Thunder, supposed in easy circumstances, 435.

Thynne, Mr., murdered, 393.

Time, an innocent personage to swear by, 394
a scene-shifter 426.

Toms, Peeping, 426.

Trees, various kinds of extraordinary ones, 440, 441.

Trowbridge, William, mariner, adventure of, 400.

Truth and falsehood start from same point, 402
truth invulnerable to satire, _ib._
compared to a river, 408
of fiction sometimes truer than fact, _ib._
told plainly, _passim_.

Tuileries, exciting scene at, 414.

Tully, a saying of, 409, _note_.

Tweedledee, gospel according to, 422.

Tweedledum, great principles of, 422.

U.

Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 404 borrows money, 441.
(For full particulars of, see Homer and Dante.)

University, triennial catalogue of, 406.

V.

Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's confidence, 448
his son John reproved, _ib._

Van, Old, plan to set up, 449.

Venetians, invented something once, 441.

Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of, 401.

Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, 414.

Virgin, the, letter of, to Magistrates of Messina, 428.

Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian, singular views of, 393.

W.

Walpole, Horace, classed, 427
his letters praised, _ib._

Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at, 395.

Walton, punctilious in his intercourse with fishes, 400.

War, abstract, horrid, 429
its hoppers, grist of, what, 437.

Warton, Thomas, a story of, 407.

Washington, charge brought against, 445.

Washington, city of, climatic influence of, on coats, 410
mentioned, 416
grand jury of, 420.

Washingtons, two hatched at a time by improved machine, 444.

Water, Taunton, proverbially weak, 449.

Water-trees, 440.

Webster, some sentiments of, commended by Mr. Sawin, 447, 448.

Westcott, Mr., his horror, 420.

Whig party, has a large throat, 406
but query as to swallowing spurs, 448.

White-house, 430.

Wife-trees, 441.

Wilbur, Rev. Homer, A. M., consulted, 388
his instructions to his flock, 394
a proposition of his for Protestant bomb-shells, 400
his elbow nudged, 401
his notions of satire, _ib._
some opinions of his quoted with apparent approval by Mr. Biglow, 403
geographical speculations of, 404
a justice of the peace, _ib._
a letter of, _ib._
a Latin pun of, 405
runs against a post without injury, _ib._
does not seek notoriety (whatever some malignants may affirm), 406
fits youths for college, _ib._
a chaplain during late war with England, 407
a shrewd observation of, 408
some curious speculations of, 415-416
his martillo-tower, 415
forgets he is not in pulpit, 420, 433
extracts from sermon of, 421, 425
interested in John Smith, 426
his iews concerning present state of letters, 426-428
a stratagem of, 431
ventures two hundred and fourth interpretation of Beast in
Apocalypse, 431
christens Hon. B. Sawin, then an infant, 433
an addition to our _sylva_ proposed by, 441
curious and instructive adventure of, 441-442
his account with an unnatural uncle, 442
his uncomfortable imagination, 443
speculations concerning Cincinnatus, _ib._
confesses digressive tendency of mind, 453
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 debtor of his,
calling him in his will, and thus holding him up to posterity, as
"John Peterson, |The Bore|"), 454.

Wilbur, Mrs., an invariable rule of, 406
her profile, 407.

Wildbore, a vernacular one, how to escape, 415.

Wind, the, a good Samaritan, 433.

Wooden leg, remarkable for sobriety, 434
never eats pudding, 435.

Wright, Colonel, providentially rescued, 397.

Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose, 411.

Z.

Zack, Old, 446.

THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT.

1850.

THE UNHAPPY LOT OF MR. KNOTT.